From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 10/11/22 21:27, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   > * 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.   
   >   
   > 1. "Kamouraska", 1970.   
   > 2. "Beautiful Losers", 1966.   
   > 3. "Maria Chapdelaine", 1913.   
   > 4. "The Hockey Sweater", 1979.   
   > 5. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", 1959.   
   > 6. "The Tin Flute" ("Bonheur d'occasion"), 1947.   
   > 7. "Les Belles-soeurs" ("The Sisters-in-Law"), 1965.   
   > 8. "Two Solitudes", 1945.  Born in Nova Scotia, but lived and   
   >     wrote in Montreal.   
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   > 9. "My Heart is Broken and other stories", 1964.  From Montreal,   
   >     but lived in Paris.   
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   > 10. "The Luck of Ginger Coffey", 1960; "Black Robe", 1985.   
   >     From Belfast, but lived and wrote in Montreal.   
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   >   
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Famous Chemists   
   >   
   > In each case, name the famous chemist (or ancient philosopher).   
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   > 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   
      
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   > 2. Russian who devised the periodic table and wrote "Elements of   
   >     Chemistry" in 1868.   
      
   Mendeleev   
      
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   > 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.   
      
   Dalton   
      
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   > 4. Greek who declared that there were four elements: earth, air,   
   >     fire, and water.   
      
   Aristotle   
      
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   > 5. French father of modern chemistry; he discovered oxygen's role   
   >     in combustion and respiration, and gave it its name.   
      
   Lavoisier   
      
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   > 6. Greek who developed a theory that the world consisted of tiny,   
   >     indivisible particles he called atoms.   
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   > 7. Polish-French discoverer of radium and polonium, winner of   
   >     Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry.   
      
   Curie   
      
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   > 8. English scientist who discovered the chemical elements sodium,   
   >     potassium, magnesium, barium, calcium, and strontium in the   
   >     early 19th century.   
      
   Davy   
      
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   > 9. English scientist who discovered nitrogen, sulfur dioxide,   
   >     and other gases; co-discoverer of oxygen in 1774 with Carl   
   >     William Scheele.   
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   > 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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