From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 11:04:07 PM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 7 - Literature - Dickens Characters   
   >   
   > We'll give you the name of a Dickens character; you tell us which   
   > work they're from.   
   >   
   > 1. Nell Trent.   
      
   "The Old Curiosity Shop"   
      
   > 2. Bob Cratchit.   
      
   "A Christmas Carol"   
      
   > 3. John Jarndyce.   
      
   "Bleak House"   
      
   > 4. Sydney Carton.   
      
   "A Tale of Two Cities"   
      
   > 5. Wackford Squeers.   
      
   "David Copperfield"   
      
   > 6. Edward Murdstone.   
      
   "Nicholas Nickleby"; "Martin Chuzzlewit"   
      
   > 7. Thomas Gradgrind.   
      
   "Nicholas Nickleby"; "Martin Chuzzlewit"   
      
   > 8. Estella Havisham.   
      
   "Great Expectations"   
      
   > 9. Augustus Snodgrass.   
      
   "Nicholas Nickleby"; "Martin Chuzzlewit"   
      
   > 10. Bill Sikes or Sykes.   
      
   "Oliver Twist"   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Hominids   
   >   
   > This is a round about hominids and their fossil-hunters.   
   >   
   > 1. The Leakey family are famous paleoanthropologists. Who """is"""   
   > the son of Mary and Louis Leakey? He """is""" a noted hominid   
   > hunter himself, as well as the former chair of the National   
   > Museums of Kenya and head of the Kenya wildlife services.   
   > We need his first name.   
      
   Richard Leakey   
      
   > 2. What is the name of the gorge on the southern edge of the   
   > Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, where Mary and Louis Leakey worked   
   > for over 30 years searching for ancient hominids?   
      
   Olduvai Gorge   
      
   > 3. What is the *nickname* of the 40% complete, 1 m tall fossil   
   > skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis found in the Hadar region   
   > of Ethiopia in 1974?   
      
   Lucy   
      
   > 5. In 1964, Louis Leakey discovered Homo habilis. Although there is   
   > debate about what specimens belong to the species and the actual   
   > name (to some it goes by Australopithecus rather than Homo),   
   > what does "habilis" mean for this species?   
      
   handy   
      
   > 7. In 1890, Eugene Dubois discovered and named Pithecanthropus   
   > erectus (later renamed Homo erectus) in the Dutch East Indies.   
   > What is the *nickname* of his find?   
      
   Java man   
      
   > 9. There has been a """recent""" dating of a Neanderthal specimen   
   > from Zafarraya in Southern Spain. Knowing that exact dating is   
   > a science with rough edges, we'll allow you 3,000 years' leeway   
   > either way. How old, within that margin, is this Neanderthal?   
      
   200,009 years old; 300,009 years old   
      
   > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens   
   > neanderthalensis. What, then, is our own official name?   
      
   Homo sapiens sapiens   
      
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   Joshua Kreitzer   
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