From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 1:39:06 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Astronomy    
   >    
   > 1. What is the brightest star in the night sky?    
      
   Sirius   
       
   > 2. This American astronomer was a strong proponent of the idea    
   > of the existence of canals on Mars and built an observatory to    
   > pursue this. He also initiated the search that led in 1930,    
   > 14 years after his death, to the discovery of Pluto. Who was he?    
      
   Lowell   
      
   > 3. A professor of astronomy at Cornell University, he wrote a    
   > science-fiction novel called "Contact" that was made into    
   > a movie starring Jodie Foster. Who?    
      
   Sagan   
       
   > 5. Who was the first man to complete an orbit of the Earth in    
   > space, in 1961?    
      
   Gagarin   
      
   > 6. What was the name of the first mammal to orbit the Earth    
   > in space?    
      
   Laika   
      
   > 7. What point on the celestial sphere is directly opposite the    
   > nadir?    
      
   zenith   
      
   > 9. Our Milky Way Galaxy has a number of satellite galaxies, such as    
   > the Magellanic Clouds. What, however, is the closest independent    
   > galaxy to the Milky Way, at a distance of 2,500,000 light years?    
      
   Andromeda   
      
   > 10. What famous British pop star completed his Ph.D. thesis in    
   > astrophysics -- "A survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal    
   > Dust Cloud" -- in October 2007, 30 years after he commenced it?    
      
   Brian May   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 3 - Entertainment - Bee All That You Can Bee    
   >    
   > Here are pictures of bees and bee products in popular culture,    
   > real or fictional. Please remember that there are different uses    
   > of the word "bee".    
   >    
   > See the 2-page handout at: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/6-3/bee.pdf    
   >    
   > 1. (decoy) Name the movie.    
      
   "Akeelah and the Bee"   
      
   > 2. Name the band. Hint: look at the man in the center of the photo.    
      
   The Bee Gees;    
   or an imitation thereof   
      
   > 3. Name the character from "The Simpsons".    
      
   Bumblebee Man   
      
   > 4. (decoy) Name the song.    
      
   "No Rain"   
       
   > 6. (decoy) Name the movie.    
      
   "Ulee's Gold"   
      
   > 7. Name the movie, partly based on the book "Queen Bees and    
   > Wannabes".   
      
   "Mean Girls"   
       
   > 8. Name the movie.   
      
   "Bee Movie"   
       
   > 9. Name the movie, adapted from a book of the same title.    
      
   "The Secret Life of Bees"   
      
   > 10. (decoy) Name the mammal.   
      
   honey badger   
       
   > 11. (decoy) Name the man in the center.    
      
   John Belushi   
      
   > 12. Name the cereal.    
      
   Honey Nut Cheerios   
      
   > 13. Name the movie.   
      
   "Invasion of the Bee Girls"   
        
   > 16. Name the movie.    
      
   "The Wicker Man"   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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