From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 9, Round 9 - Science - Women in Science   
   > 8. What did you say?  This wasn't supposed to be a Canadiana round?   
   >    Okay, then... Engineer Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman   
   >    to do what?   
      
   Travel in space   
      
   > 10. Katalin Karikó's work enabled one of the most effective   
   >    responses to COVID-19.  She was a co-winner of this year's Nobel   
   >    Prize in Physiology or Medicine -- for what work?   
      
   Development of mRNA vaccines   
      
   >    B2. What strategy do cuckoos employ to minimize the energy they   
   >        spend incubating eggs?   
      
   They place their eggs in some other bird's nest, often squeezing out   
   the original eggs.   
      
   >    C2. On April 1, 2023, which company announced the launch of   
   >        a meatball vending machine, with plant-and-veggie Huvudroll   
   >        also available?   
      
   IKEA   
      
   >    E2. This 1996 song (re-released in 1997) by Swedish rock band   
   >        the Cardigans is a catchy disco-pop hit in which the singer,   
   >        aware that her lover no longer cares for her, begs him to   
   >        lie to her and say that he loves her, so she can continue   
   >        living in blissful ignorance.  Name the song.   
      
   I guess I'm supposed to know this, but I only have their first album,   
   and I never cared to check out their latter works.   
      
   >   
   > * F. They Fooled Us   
   >   
   >    F1. An Italian immigrant to the US in the early 1900s, this   
   >        swindler created an investment company ostensibly to profit   
   >        from postage coupon arbitrage, but really just to pass   
   >        new investors' initial contributions to older investors to   
   >        pump up the reputation of the fund and gain more investors.   
   >        Today these types of scams are named for him.  Who was he?   
      
   Ponzi   
      
   >    F2. Victor Lustig passed himself off to a group of scrap-metal   
   >        dealers as a French government official who needed to arrange   
   >        the demolition of a large metal structure and the disposal   
   >        of a large amount of iron.  He took bids and collected a   
   >        fortune, by fraudulently selling iron from -- what, exactly?   
   >   
      
   Eiffel tower   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)