From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 5, Round 4 - Entertainment - "Billboard" Songs of the Year   
   >   
   > 10. The Beatles had, in all, 20 "Billboard" #1 Pop songs of the   
   >    week.  Of those, two achieved top Pop single of the year honors,   
   >    the first in 1964, the second in 1968.  Name either.   
      
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   > * Game 5, Round 6 - Science - Trees   
   >   
   > 1. Canada has just 234 species of native trees.  The country with   
   >    the most species boasts *37 times* that number at 8,715.   
   >    Name any of the world's top three countries by number of native   
   >    tree species.   
      
   Brazil   
      
   > 2. This quote from Richard Powers's novel "The Overstory" poses   
   >    the question you need to answer: "If you carved your name four   
   >    feet high in the bark of a beech tree, how high would it be   
   >    after half a century?"   
      
   30 metres   
      
   > 7. What autumnal behavior of the tamarack tree makes it unique   
   >    among all the coniferous trees of eastern North America?   
      
   The needles fall off in winter.   
      
   > 8. One of the most common boreal-forest species, the jack pine,   
   >    produces pine cones that drop seeds annually, and maintains   
   >    another set of cones near the top of the tree that remain tightly   
   >    closed for years.  Under what conditions do these latter cones   
   >    open and release seeds?   
      
   Forest fire.   
      
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