From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
   > 2. Bob Cratchit.   
      
   A Christmas Story   
      
   > 3. John Jarndyce.   
   > 4. Sydney Carton.   
      
   A Tale of Two Cities   
      
   > 5. Wackford Squeers.   
   > 6. Edward Murdstone.   
   > 7. Thomas Gradgrind.   
   > 8. Estella Havisham.   
   > 9. Augustus Snodgrass.   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Lucy   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 10. The Neanderthals are officially called Homo sapiens   
   >     neanderthalensis.  What, then, is our own official name?   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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