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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIFFF12 Game 10, Rounds 4,6: Can   
   31 Mar 22 02:52:30   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 4 - Canadiana Geography - Prairie Towns   
      
   > 1. Edmonton.   
      
   4; 2   
      
   > 2. Winnipeg.   
      
   7   
      
   > 3. Prince Albert.   
      
   18; 17   
      
   > 4. Medicine Hat.   
      
   16; 14   
      
   > 5. Flin Flon.   
      
   13; 14   
      
   > 6. Swift Current.   
      
   19; 23   
      
   > 7. Fort McMurray.   
      
   1; 3   
      
   > 8. Red Deer.   
      
   6; 8   
      
   > 9. Brandon.   
      
   9; 24   
      
   > 10. Lloydminster.   
      
   5; 22   
      
   > * Game 10, Round 6 - Canadiana Science - Canadian Inventions   
      
   > 1. This packaging was invented in 1911 by newspaper editor Joseph   
   >    Coyle of Smithers, BC, to solve a dispute between a local farmer   
   >    and hotel owner over the accidental breakage of a product being   
   >    delivered from the farm to the hotel.   
      
   egg carton   
      
   > 2. This variant of a popular sport (or, to some, a game) was   
   >    devised in the early 20th century by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto.   
   >    He developed it in response to customers who complained that   
   >    the more standard version of the sport was too strenuous.   
   >    This variant is still played almost exclusively in Canada.   
   >    Be sufficiently specific.   
      
   seated darts   
      
   > 3. While working for Union Carbide in the 1950s, Canadian engineer   
   >    Lewis Urry developed this invention, which improved significantly   
   >    on the zinc-carbon types (with acid electrolyte) in use at that   
   >    time.  Be sufficiently specific.   
      
   lithium batteries   
      
   > 5. Arthur Sicard of Ste-Th?r?se, QC, is generally credited as the   
   >    inventor of the first practical version of this device.  By 1927   
   >    his invention was being used to remove snow from the roadways   
   >    of the town of Outremont, now a borough of Montreal.   
      
   snowblower   
      
   > 6. This oil-producing plant is a cultivar of a naturally occurring   
   >    plant.  It was developed in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur   
   >    R. Stefansson in the early 1970s.  It contains much less acid   
   >    than its predecessor, which makes it much more palatable to   
   >    both humans and livestock.   
      
   rapeseed   
      
   > 9. This innovation by George Retzlaff of the CBC made its   
   >    debut in 1955 during a broadcast of "Hockey Night in Canada".   
      
   slow-motion replay   
      
   > 10. This computer language was created by Canada's James Gosling   
   >    in June 1991 while working for Sun Microsystems.  Its first   
   >    public implementation was in 1995.   
      
   Java   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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