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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 9, Round 4 - Miscellaneous - Entertainment vs. Literature
> 1. The novel "The Sheep-Pig" by Dick King-Smith was adapted into
> what 1995 movie starring James Cromwell?
Babe
> 2. Speaking of sheep, Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream
> of Electric Sheep?" was adapted into what 1982 movie?
Blade Runner
> 3. Speaking of Philip K. Dick, name his original story that the
> movie "Total Recall" was based on. The title is 7 words long.
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
> 5. The 2013 animated movie "Frozen" was based on what story by
> Hans Christian Andersen?
The Ice Princess
> 7. The 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" starring Robert
> Redford was based on what novel by James Grady?
Six Days of the Condor
> 8. The 1995 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was based on what
> novel by Gary K. Wolf?
Who Killed Roger Rabbit?
> 9. The 2012 science-fiction movie "John Carter" was based on what
> novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs?
A Princess of Mars
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Foundational Discoveries and Theories
> 1. Although some ancient philosophers believed otherwise, until 1543
> it was generally accepted that the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets
> all moved in circles around the Earth. Then a Polish astronomer
> dared to write a book stating that the Earth and planets moved
> around the Sun. Who was he?
Copernicus
> 2. About 70 years later, Galileo helped prove the point by using
> his telescope to discover some objects that definitely orbited
> something other than the Earth. In fact he found four of them.
> What objects? Name or describe one or more of them.
moons of Jupiter
> 3. Which German astronomer worked out in 1609 that the planets orbit
> the Sun, not in circular orbits, but elliptical ones? His main
> source for this conclusion was observational data collected by
> Tycho Brahe of Denmark.
Kepler
> 4. In 1924, using a new telescope, this American astronomer
> proved the existence of what we now call galaxies. Then in 1929
> he discovered that the more distant a galaxy is, the faster it
> is moving away from us -- in other words, that the whole universe
> is in a continuous and uniform state of expansion. Name him.
Hubble
> 5. Turning now from the very big to the very small, in 1665 Robert
> Hooke used a new microscope to discover that cork is divided
> into little compartments, which other scientists then discovered
> in other living tissues. What name did Hooke give them?
cells
> 6. In 1796 some people believed that if you ever got sick with
> cowpox, that was a good thing because you became immune to
> smallpox, which was much more serious. It sounded too good
> to be true, but then this English doctor proved it *was* true
> by inoculating people with cowpox -- thus creating the first
> vaccine (a word derived from the Latin for "cow"). Name him.
Jenner
> 7. In 1752 this scientist in what is now the US proved that
> lightning is a form of electricity. Who?
Franklin
> 8. In about 1860 this Scottish scientist developed equations
> relating electricity and magnetism. Name him.
Maxwell
> 9. In the 1770s one English and one French chemist between them
> accomplished the following: They learned that air was a mixture
> of substances, they isolated oxygen from it, and they learned
> that when something burns it does not emit some substance
> already contained in it, but rather combines with oxygen.
> Name either man.
Lavoisier
> 10. In 1900 this German physicist worked out that light and other
> forms of radiation come in small units -- that is, he developed
> quantum theory. Name him.
Planck
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