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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 7 - Literature - Dickens Characters   
      
   > 1. Nell Trent.   
      
   The Old Curiousity Shop   
      
   > 2. Bob Cratchit.   
      
   A Christmas Carol   
      
   > 3. John Jarndyce.   
      
   Bleak House; Great Expectations   
      
   > 4. Sydney Carton.   
      
   A Tale of Two Cities   
      
   > 5. Wackford Squeers.   
      
   Martin Chuzzlewit; David Copperfield   
      
   > 6. Edward Murdstone.   
      
   David Copperfield; Bleak House   
      
   > 7. Thomas Gradgrind.   
      
   Great Expectations; Martin Chuzzlewit   
      
   > 8. Estella Havisham.   
      
   Bleak House   
      
   > 9. Augustus Snodgrass.   
      
   The Mystery of Edwin Drood; David Copperfield   
      
   > 10. Bill Sikes or Sykes.   
      
   Oliver Twist   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 8 - Science - Hominids   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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?   
      
   good with its hands   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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?   
      
   15,000 years   
      
   > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens   
   >    neanderthalensis.  What, then, is our own official name?   
      
   Homo sapiens sapiens   
      
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