From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:04:07 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2013-03-11,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written   
   > by members of the Night Owls, but have been reformatted and may   
   > have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the correct   
   > answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > For further information, including an explanation of the """   
   > notation that may appear in these rounds, see my 2022-09-09   
   > companion posting on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian   
   > Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
      
   nicholas nickleby   
      
   > 6. Edward Murdstone.   
      
   david copperfield   
      
   > 7. Thomas Gradgrind.   
      
   hard times   
      
   > 8. Estella Havisham.   
      
   great expectations   
      
   > 9. Augustus Snodgrass.   
      
   the pickwick papers   
      
   > 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.   
      
   dick ;-)   
      
   > 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 [home of olduvai university per larson]   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 4. There were/are tensions between the Leakeys and the discoverers   
   > of  over naming of the species, where it resides in   
   > our evolutionary past, and who should be able to dig where.   
   > Scientists hissing and scratching!! Name either of the   
   > paleoanthropologists who headed the dig where    
   > was found.   
      
   johnson ; africa   
      
   > 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?   
      
   able   
      
   > 6. What important fossils did Mary Leakey discover at the Laetoli   
   > site in Tanzania in 1978? These 3,600,000-year-old fossils   
   > lend proof to early bipedalism.   
      
   footprints?   
      
   > 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 [clearly an early programmer]   
      
   > 8. Name *either* the South African who found this specimen in 1924   
   > *or* the nickname of the specimen itself. It was the first   
   > Australopithecine found, Australopithecus africanus, and has   
   > nicks on the skull that look like they might have come from   
   > an eagle's bill. The nickname refers to the region in South   
   > Africa where it was found.   
      
   bob ; sun city   
      
   > 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?   
      
   30000   
      
   > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens   
   > neanderthalensis. What, then, is our own official name?   
      
   homo sapiens sapiens [well, the rest of you maybe.  I am homo sapiens superior]   
      
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   > Mark Brader | "...it's always easier to see the mud when it's   
   > Toronto | coming toward your side rather than from your side."   
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   >   
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