From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 9/22/22 04:08, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt)   
   >   
   > Answer these 2013 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.   
   >   
   > 1. Which film won the top honor for best overall cast performance   
   >     at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards last week?   
   >   
   > 2. Who replaced Hillary Clinton as the US secretary of state   
   >     last week?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Drugs from Plants or Animals   
   >   
   > About 50% of the prescription drugs used """today""" were originally   
   > extracted from plant or animal sources.   
   >   
   > 1. Aspirin or ASA was originally extracted from which plant source?   
      
   willows   
      
   >   
   > 2. Taxol, also known by its generic name paclitaxel, is one of the   
   >     most important cancer drugs.  Discovered at the National Cancer   
   >     Institute in the US in 1962, it was launched by Bristol Myers   
   >     in 1992.  For the first 20 years of its development it could   
   >     only be obtained from the bark and leaves of which tree?   
      
   yew   
      
   >   
   > 3. Premarin is an estrogen-containing drug that that was one   
   >     of the first to treat symptoms of menopause also called hormone   
   >     replacement therapy or HRT.  When it was first introduced to   
   >     the market, it was extracted from what?   
   >   
   > 4. Penicillin was the first antibiotic and played a major role   
   >     in ending the reign of infectious diseases as the leading cause   
   >     of death.  Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish doctor   
   >     Alexander Fleming.  He discovered and isolated it from a common   
   >     contaminant of his bacterial cultures.  What contaminant?   
      
   penicillium yeast   
      
   >   
   > 5. In the 1890s scientists at Bayer discovered and marketed   
   >     a powerful painkiller that competed with Aspirin.  This drug,   
   >     extracted from a common red flower, had a trademarked name: what?   
      
   Tylenol   
      
   >   
   > 6. One of the most potent nerve toxins known to mankind has killed   
   >     millions of people who have eaten spoiled food contaminated with   
   >     the bacteria that produce this toxin.  This nerve toxin has   
   >     been purified and is used routinely today in medical clinics.   
   >     What is the trademarked name of this drug?   
      
   Botox   
      
   >   
   > 7. A chemical found in the bark of the cinchona tree was used   
   >     by Quechua Indians of Peru and Bolivia to fight infection by   
   >     the malaria parasite.  British colonials in India added it   
   >     to a medicinal water to fight malaria, and combined it with a   
   >     little gin to moderate the taste -- the origin of gin-and-tonic.   
   >     This drug is still an important anti-malarial today.  What is it?   
      
   quinine   
      
   >   
   > 8. Hockey celebrity Don Cherry """swears by""" ColdFX.  This product   
   >     was a groundbreaking over-the-counter cold medicine, since it   
   >     was the first natural health product sold in Canada to back up   
   >     its claims with proper clinical trials carried out at university   
   >     hospitals.  ColdFX is actually an extract of which plant?   
   >   
   > 9. The fertility drugs Menotropin, Menupur, and Repronex contain   
   >     follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to stimulate maturation   
   >     of eggs and ovulation in women having difficulty in becoming   
   >     pregnant.  The FSH in these drugs until relatively recently   
   >     was commercialy obtained from what source?   
   >   
   > 10. Galantamine is a drug used to treat the early stages of   
   >     Alzheimer's disease.  It was discovered in the 1950s in Bulgaria   
   >     and was produced from the bulbs of which plant family?   
      
   lily   
      
   >   
   > After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs nal fbhepr   
   > lbh zragvbarq jnf yvzvgrq gb n fcrpvsvp traqre bs cynag be navzny,   
   > lbh zhfg anzr gung traqre.  Vs nal fbhepr lbh zragvbarq vf hevar,   
   > lbh zhfg anzr gur fcrpvrf cebqhpvat vg.  Naq vs nal fbhepr lbh   
   > zragvbarq vf zbyq, lbh zhfg fnl jung xvaq.  Cyrnfr tb onpx naq   
   > svyy va gur zvffvat arprffnel qrgnvyf.   
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 2, Round 3 - Canadiana Geography - Toronto Streets   
   >   
   > This round is about Toronto streets that flow directly into   
   > another street.   
   >   
   > 1. Where does Bloor St. E. change into Danforth Av.?   
   > 2. Carlton St. changes into what street at Yonge St.?   
   > 3. Davenport Rd. changes into what street at Yonge?   
   > 4. York Mills Rd. changes into what avenue at Yonge?   
   > 5. Traveling east, Eastern Av. ends by curving to become which road?   
   > 6. Near which major cross avenue does Danforth Rd. merge into   
   >     McCowan Rd.?   
   >   
   > 7. Traveling east, Lake Shore Blvd. E. ends by curving to become   
   >     which avenue?   
   >   
   > 8. Traveling northbound on Beverly St., it changes to become what   
   >     street at College St.?   
   >   
   > 9. Traveling south on Mt. Pleasant Rd., just after crossing   
   >     Bloor St. this road merges into what street continuing south?   
   >   
   > 10. Traveling westbound on Front St. E., the street splits into two   
   >     at Church St.  Front becomes one-way eastbound, and what street   
   >     takes the westbound traffic?   
   >   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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