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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Entertainment - Scots Films   
      
   > 1. 1935, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Starring Robert Donat and   
   >    Madeleine Carroll.  Loosely based on a 1915 novel by John Buchan.   
   >    A Canadian civilian in London gets caught up with spies and   
   >    military secrets, and goes on the run to Scotland.   
      
   The 39 Steps   
      
   > 3. 2012, animated, directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman.   
   >    Starring Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Robbie   
   >    Coltrane, and Craig Ferguson.  The story of Princess Merida,   
   >    who defies age-old customs of several Highland clans, and has   
   >    to undo a curse that has turned her mother into a bear.   
      
   Brave   
      
   > 4. 1954, directed by Vincent Minnelli.  Starring Gene Kelly,   
   >    Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse.  Based on a 1947 Broadway musical.   
   >    The story of an American who happens upon a village in the   
   >    Scottish Highlands that appears out of the mists every hundred   
   >    years for only a day.   
      
   Brigadoon   
      
   > 9. 1996, directed by Danny Boyle.  Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert   
   >    Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller, and Ewan Bremner.  Based on a book   
   >    by Irvine Walsh, the film is a modern classic which depicts   
   >    the reality of drug addiction.   
      
   Trainspotting   
      
   > 10. 1997, directed by John Madden.  Starring Billy Connolly and Judy   
   >    Dench.  This film dives into the rumoured relationship between   
   >    Queen Victoria and her late husband's servant, at her estate   
   >    at Balmoral.   
      
   Mrs. Brown   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 8 - Science - Vaccines   
      
   > 1. In 2023, over 100 member states of the World Health Organization   
   >    provided this vaccine in their national immunization schedule,   
   >    targeting girls age 9-14 years old.  This vaccine targets   
   >    what infection?   
      
   HPV   
      
   > 2. Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for three infectious diseases.   
   >    Name *any one* of them.   
      
   rabies   
      
   > 3. The MMR vaccine is a combination of vaccines against three   
   >    diseases.   Name *any one* of them.   
      
   measles   
      
   > 4. The DTaP vaccine is also a combination; name *any one* of the   
   >    diseases targeted.   
      
   diphtheria   
      
   > 5. The first combination vaccine licensed in the US, in 1945,   
   >    targeted multiple strains of one infectious disease rather than   
   >    multiple infectious diseases.  What one disease?   
      
   influenza   
      
   > 6. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared which infectious   
   >    disease to be eradicated?   
      
   smallpox   
      
   > 7. What is the major difference between the mRNA vaccines and the   
   >    traditional vaccines, in terms of the content of the vaccines?   
      
   the mRNA vaccines contain material that tells the body how to make   
   antibodies instead of material that causes a reaction which creates   
   the antibodies   
      
   > 8. Who introduced an inactivated polio vaccine in 1953?   
      
   Salk   
      
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