From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 1/19/24 06:50, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   >   
   > * Game 9, Round 4 - Miscellaneous - Entertainment vs. Literature   
   >   
   > When a movie is adapted from an existing work -- a novel, a short   
   > story, a play, or a non-fiction work -- sometimes a new title   
   > is chosen.  In this round we'll give you one title and ask you   
   > for the other.  Sometimes the two titles are similar, sometimes   
   > completely different.  Sometimes the movie title is applied to   
   > later editions of the original work, but we're talking about   
   > original titles here.   
   >   
   > 1. The novel "The Sheep-Pig" by Dick King-Smith was adapted into   
   >     what 1995 movie starring James Cromwell?   
   >   
   > 2. Speaking of sheep, Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream   
   >     of Electric Sheep?" was adapted into what 1982 movie?   
      
   Blade Runner   
      
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   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 4. The 1994 movie "The Madness of King George", starring Nigel   
   >     Hawthorne, was adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play.   
   >     The title of the play was also 5 words long, but what was it?   
   >   
   > 5. The 2013 animated movie "Frozen" was based on what story by   
   >     Hans Christian Andersen?   
      
   The Snow Queen   
      
   >   
   > 6. Speaking of cold things, the graphic novel "The Coldest City"   
   >     by Antony Johnston and illustrator Sam Hart got a hotter title   
   >     for the 2017 movie adaptation starring Charlize Theron [th as in   
   >     "thin", rhymes with "heron"].  What was that?   
   >   
   > 7. The 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" starring Robert   
   >     Redford was based on what novel by James Grady?   
   >   
   > 8. The 1995 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was based on what   
   >     novel by Gary K. Wolf?   
   >   
   > 9. The 2012 science-fiction movie "John Carter" was based on what   
   >     novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs?   
      
   John Carter on Mars   
      
   >   
   > 10. What 1988 movie starring Bruce Willis was based on Roderick   
   >     Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever"?   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
      
   The Galilean satellites 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?   
      
   cell   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Ben 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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