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   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Canadiana Literature - Quebec Literature   
      
   > 5. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", 1959.   
      
   Richler   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Famous Chemists   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Priestly   
      
   > 4. Greek who declared that there were four elements: earth, air,   
   >    fire, and water.   
      
   Thales   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Democritus   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Priestly   
      
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