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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Science - How the Earth Was Made
> 2. This Victorian scientist proposed that the Earth was once a ball
> of liquid rock at 8,000?. He used the laws of thermodynamics
> to model the cooling of Earth to propose a new age, between
> 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Name him.
Kelvin
> 3. Although his theory was sound, 's figure was a colossal
> underestimate because he was unaware of a key source of heat
> in the Earth's core. What was this heat source?
radioactivity
> 5. Within 300,000,000 years, how old did finally
> determine the Earth is?
4.5x10^9 years
> 7. For over 1,000,000,000 years, much of the oxygen produced by the
> stromatolites went to oxidizing this substance in the
> primordial oceans, turning our early seas from green to blue.
> The quantities of the resulting compound were so huge that
> bands of sediment are found throughout the world, and are the
> major source of this substance globally. What is this element?
cobalt
> 8. 4,000,000,000 lrnef ntb, vapernfrq ibypnavp npgvivgl senpgherq
> gur Rnegu'f pehfg nyybjvat ynetr nzbhagf bs jngre gb zvk jvgu gur
> pber'f zntzn. Guvf zvkgher bs onfnygvp ebpx naq jngre sbezrq ebpxf
> juvpu jrer zhpu yvtugre naq fgebatre guna ibypnavp ebpx, naq jbhyq
> riraghnyyl sbez gur pbagvaragny znffrf. Jung ner gurfr ebpxf pnyyrq?
metamorphic
> * Game 10, Round 8 - Canadiana Entertainment - Character Actors
> 1. Victor Garber achieved such widespread recognition playing
> Jennifer Garner's shady father on "Alias" that the "Hey! It's
> That Guy" web site """describes""" him as "That Strangely Refined
> CIA Black-Ops Agent!" But he made his film debut in "Godspell",
> """has""" appeared in numerous Sondheim musicals on Broadway,
> played the title character in "Liberace", and went down with the
> "Titanic" as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews.
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> 2. Colm Feore has played Pierre Trudeau and Glenn Gould, and
> Marcus Andronicus opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Titus".
> His fine Shakespearean training """is""" harder to detect as
> the doctor with the innovative technique in facial transplants
> in "Face/Off"; Lord Marshal in "The Chronicles of Riddick",
> and Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, in "Thor".
5; 13
> 3. Saul Rubinek """has played""" various nebbishy characters,
> including accountants, unscrupulous doctors, and journalists.
> In Canada he played the best friend of a cult victim, in "Ticket
> to Heaven", and Howard Engel's popular detective Benny Cooperman.
> In Hollywood he played Henry Kissinger in "Dick" and lily-livered
> writer W.W. Beauchamp in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". You can
> """currently""" see him in the sci-fi series "Warehouse 13".
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> 4. According to the "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site, Michael
> Ironside """specializes""" in "Super-Intense, Homicidal Brutes."
> His credits """include""" the glowering killer in "Total
> Recall", the coldhearted boat owner in "The Perfect Storm",
> and the chilling assassin in David Cronenberg's "Scanners".
1; 6
> 5. John Kapelos's specialty """is""" "All-Seeing Janitors and
> Other Jumpsuited Fellows with Five o'Clock Shadow." He appeared
> in three John Hughes movies, most notably as Carl the janitor
> in "The Breakfast Club". In Canada he is fondly remembered as
> Detective Schanke in the vampire series "Forever Knight".
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> 6. Matt Craven's specialty """is""" "jumpy, possibly treacherous
> army officers and morally suspect cops." He """has"""
> a recurring role as the Secretary of the Navy in "NCIS".
> """He's been""" in movies since the days of "Meatballs", but
> made his biggest impact as twitchy and treacherous Lt. Zimmer
> in the submarine classic "Crimson Tide".
14; 5
> 7. It seems like you'll see Roger Cross in virtually every TV
> series filmed in Canada. He had a leading role in the sci-fi
> series "The First Wave" and also appeared as DJ and transvestite
> Sunset Boulevard / Sonny Benson in "The L Word". You may
> remember him from "24" as Curtis Manning, a CTU colleague of
> Jack Bauer's until Jack had to shoot him.
10; 2
> 8. Don Francks """is""" an actor/singer who made his movie debut as
> the leading man in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie,
> "Finian's Rainbow" -- a musical that Coppola tends to omit
> from his resume. Over the years Francks """has graduated""" to
> character roles, most notably as Walter in the late 1990s series
> "La Femme Nikita". """Just last week""" he was a guest star on
> "Saving Hope", a Canadian import showing on NBC.
7; 12
> 9. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """describes""" Bruce
> Greenwood as an "Untrustworthy, Two-Timing, Boo-Hiss Husband!"
> In Hollywood he """tends""" to play skunks, such as Ashley Judd's evil
> husband in "Double Jeopardy" and a corporate crook in "I, Robot".
> But he """has also played""" John F. Kennedy in "Thirteen Days",
> and Capt. Christopher Pike in the """latest""" "Star Trek"
> movie, and appeared in several films directed by Atom Egoyan.
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> 10. The "Hey! It's That Guy!" web site """says""" Henry Czerny's
> specialty """is""" dicks, but in fact he """has played"""
> a wide range of vile characters, including Brother Lavin in
> "The Boys of St. Vincent", the Duke of Norfolk in "The Tudors",
> and the treacherous CEO Conrad Grayson in the current ABC series
> "Revenge".
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