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   Dan Blum to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 1, Rounds 4,6: space    
   12 Sep 24 22:05:38   
   
   From: tool@panix.com   
      
   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Science - Space Exploration   
      
   > 2. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is planned to launch the   
   >    crew for the upcoming return to the moon.  What is the name of   
   >    this program?   
      
   Artemis   
      
   > 3. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to make a powered controlled   
   >    flight on another planet.  Which Mars rover carried Ingenuity?   
      
   Pathfinder   
      
   > 6. The Cassini mission spent 13 years in orbit around Saturn   
   >    before being crashed into the planet in its "grand finale".   
   >    Cassini also carried a probe that successfully landed on the   
   >    moon Titan.  Name *that* probe.   
      
   Huygens   
      
   > 9. Between 1990 and 2003, NASA launched four "Great Observatories".   
   >    The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope   
   >    are no longer in operation, leaving only the Hubble Telescope   
   >    and... which X-ray observatory?   
      
   Chandra   
      
      
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - History - Disasters   
      
   > 1. We'll start in Boston in 1919.  A large storage tank burst at   
   >    a distillery, sending a dense liquid rushing through the streets.   
   >    The spill killed 21 people and injured 150.  Name the spilled   
   >    liquid, which can be fermented to produce ethanol.   
      
   molasses   
      
   > 4. Name the city in India where more than 3,800 people were killed   
   >    by a gas leak from a pesticide plant in 1984.   
      
   Bhopal   
      
   > 5. That plant in Bhopal was owned by a subsidiary of which American   
   >    chemical company?   
      
   American Carbide   
      
   > 8. The deadliest industrial disaster in New York City took place   
   >    in 1911.  A factory fire in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment   
   >    workers -- thanks in part to the doors and exits being locked,   
   >    and there being no sprinklers in the building.  What was the   
   >    name of the company?   
      
   Triangle Shirtwaist   
      
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   Dan Blum					         tool@panix.com	   
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