From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 9/11/24 02:05, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Science - Space Exploration   
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   > Questions about space exploration in our solar system.   
   >   
   > 1. SpaceX has pioneered rocket reusability with its Falcon 9 and   
   >     Falcon Heavy launch systems.  On April 23, 2024, SpaceX passed   
   >     a milestone for the number of successful booster landings.   
   >     What was this number?   
      
   24   
      
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   > 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   
      
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   > 3. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to make a powered controlled   
   >     flight on another planet.  Which Mars rover carried Ingenuity?   
      
   Perseverence   
      
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   > 4. A high-profile Mars mission failure in 1999 (launched in 1998)   
   >     was blamed on a mismatch between metric units specified by   
   >     NASA and customary units used by the contractor who built the   
   >     mission payload.  What was the name of this mission?   
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   > 5. The DART mission smashed into the smaller body of a binary   
   >     asteroid system to see if it was possible to alter its orbit.   
   >     What does DART stand for?   
      
   Double Asteroid Redirection Test   
      
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   > 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   
      
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   > 7. NEAR-Shoemaker was the first spacecraft to orbit and land on   
   >     an asteroid.  Which asteroid did it land on in 2001?   
      
   433 Eros   
      
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   > 8. Osiris-Rex was a successful mission to the near-earth asteroid   
   >     Bennu.  What was the mission goal?   
      
   sample collection and return   
      
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   > 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 X-ray Observatory   
      
   >   
   > 10. 2015 saw the first fly-by of Pluto by a space probe.  Name the   
   >     mission.   
      
   New Horizons   
      
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   > * Game 1, Round 6 - History - Disasters   
   >   
   > And now for an uplifting History topic tonight -- 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   
      
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   > 2. The deadliest rockslide in Canadian history took place in 1903.   
   >     As many as 90 people died when tonnes of limestone broke off   
   >     a mountain and slid into which southern Alberta town?   
   >   
   > 3. On 2004-12-26 a magnitude 9.1 earthquake killed an estimated   
   >     227,000 people across 14 countries -- mostly through the   
   >     resulting tsunamis up to 30 m high.  The epicenter was off the   
   >     west coast of which island?   
      
   Sumatra   
      
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   > 4. Name the city in India where more than 3,800 people were killed   
   >     by a gas leak from a pesticide plant in 1984.   
      
   Bophal   
      
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   > 5. That plant in Bhopal was owned by a subsidiary of which American   
   >     chemical company?   
      
   Union Carbide   
      
   (This question has a spoiler for the previous question. Not that I   
   needed it; I answered #4 before seeing this one.)   
      
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   > 6. What was the name of the offshore drilling unit that sank in   
   >     a storm off Newfoundland in 1982, killing 84 crew members?   
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   > 7. Within 50, how many people died in the 1917 Halifax Explosion?   
      
   1900   
      
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   > 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 Factory   
      
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   > 9. The deadliest rail accident in Canada since Confederation   
   >     occurred in 2013.  47 people died when an unattended train   
   >     carrying crude oil ran away, derailed, and exploded in the   
   >     downtown area of which Quebec town?   
      
   Lac-Megantic   
      
   >   
   > 10. In 2018, a truck crashed into a bus carrying a Saskatchewan   
   >     junior hockey team killing 16 people and injuring 13.  Name the   
   >     team.   
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   Dan Tilque   
      
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