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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Entertainment - Detectives from Page to Screen   
      
   > 1. Who did Humphrey Bogart play in "The Maltese Falcon"?   
      
   Sam Spade   
      
   > 2. Name another Dashiell Hammett detective, played by William   
   >    Powell on the big screen and by Peter Lawford on TV.   
      
   Continental Op   
      
   > 5. Agatha Christie introduced this sleuth in the 1922 novel   
   >    "The Secret Adversary".  Her next appearance was in 1929's   
   >    "Partners in Crime".  She was portrayed on TV in the 1980s   
   >    by Francesca Annis.  (For this one either the first name or   
   >    surname is sufficient.)   
      
   Marple   
      
   > 7. This police detective starred in 75 novels.  He has been played   
   >    in movies by Charles Laughton and Jean Gabin -- among others --   
   >    and on television by Michael Gambon, Bruno Cremer, and Rowan   
   >    Atkinson.   
      
   Maigret   
      
   > 8. Many actors have played this fictional sleuth on big screen and   
   >    small, but Albert Finney is the only one to have earned a Best   
   >    Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal.  The year of the   
   >    movie is 1974.  Name the detective.   
      
   Sherlock Holmes   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - Science - What a Year it's Been!   
      
   > 1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen was tapped by NASA to be a part of its   
   >    mission to the moon.  What mission?  Include the sequence number   
   >    if applicable.   
      
   Artemis   
      
   > 2. For the first time, the FDA has approved a gene-editing technique   
   >    to treat what blood disorder?   
      
   hemophilia   
      
   > 5. In July, a moon lander surveyed the previously unexplored   
   >    south pole of the moon, where frozen water reservoirs are   
   >    believed to exist.  *Which country* launched this moon lander?   
      
   China   
      
   > 8. Two South Korean scientists claim to have developed a new   
   >    superconductor i.e. a material that carries electric current   
   >    with no resistance.  Superconductivity is not new, but what do   
   >    they say makes this one -- LK-99 -- special?   
      
   it works at room temperature   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
   "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."   
      
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