From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 11:28:03 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Canadiana Literature - Quebec Literature   
   >   
   > Given the work or works and year of publication, and in some cases   
   > additional information, name the writer. All are Quebec writers,   
   > in any language; but they may have been born elsewhere.   
   >   
   > 5. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", 1959.   
      
   Richler   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Famous Chemists   
   >   
   > In each case, name the famous chemist (or ancient philosopher).   
   >   
   > 1. Italian who developed the concept of molecules, then in 1811   
   > discovered a law of gases: equal volumes of all gases at the   
   > same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules.   
   > He is regarded as one of the founders of physical chemistry.   
      
   Avogadro   
      
   > 2. Russian who devised the periodic table and wrote "Elements of   
   > Chemistry" in 1868.   
      
   Mendeleev   
      
   > 3. English scientist who discovered the properties of hydrogen in   
   > 1766 (describing it as "inflammable air"), and showed that   
   > water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.   
      
   Priestley   
      
   > 4. Greek who declared that there were four elements: earth, air,   
   > fire, and water.   
      
   Aristotle   
      
   > 5. French father of modern chemistry; he discovered oxygen's role   
   > in combustion and respiration, and gave it its name.   
      
   Lavoisier   
      
   > 6. Greek who developed a theory that the world consisted of tiny,   
   > indivisible particles he called atoms.   
      
   Democrites   
      
   > 7. Polish-French discoverer of radium and polonium, winner of   
   > Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry.   
      
   Marie Curie   
      
   > 8. English scientist who discovered the chemical elements sodium,   
   > potassium, magnesium, barium, calcium, and strontium in the   
   > early 19th century.   
      
   Davy   
      
   > 9. English scientist who discovered nitrogen, sulfur dioxide,   
   > and other gases; co-discoverer of oxygen in 1774 with Carl   
   > William Scheele.   
      
   Priestley   
      
   > 10. Irish "Father of Chemistry" who developed his law of gases,   
   > by which the volume of a gas varies inversely with pressure at   
   > a constant temperature.   
      
   Boyle   
      
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