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   On Friday, January 19, 2024 at 9:50:16 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-11-20,    
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.    
   >    
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give    
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.    
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,    
   > based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote    
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal    
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.    
   >    
   > All questions were written by members of the Usual Suspects and    
   > are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have    
   > been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of    
   > current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting    
   > of other rounds. For further information please see my 2023-05-24    
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition    
   > (QFTCI*)".    
   >    
   >    
   > I wrote both of these rounds.    
   >    
   >    
   > * 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?    
      
   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   
      
   > 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?    
      
   the madness of george iii   
      
   > 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?    
      
   atomic blonde   
      
   > 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 censored roger rabbit   
      
   > 9. The 2012 science-fiction movie "John Carter" was based on what    
   > novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs?    
      
   a princess of mars   
      
   > 10. What 1988 movie starring Bruce Willis was based on Roderick    
   > Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever"?    
      
   die hard   
      
   >    
   > * 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?    
      
   nicolaus 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.    
      
   jupiter's four largest moons   
      
   > 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.    
      
   johannes 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.    
      
   edwin 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.    
      
   edward jenner   
      
   > 7. In 1752 this scientist in what is now the US proved that    
   > lightning is a form of electricity. Who?    
      
   benjamin franklin   
      
   > 8. In about 1860 this Scottish scientist developed equations    
   > relating electricity and magnetism. Name him.    
      
   james clerk 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.    
      
   max planck   
      
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