From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/22/2025 12:44 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 7 - Entertainment - Scots Films   
   >   
   > In honor -- oh, all right, in honour -- of Robert Burns, the poet   
   > who was born 1759-01-25, and is celebrated the world over, we will   
   > celebrate cinema that focuses on his home country of Scotland.   
   > In each case, name the film.   
   >   
   > 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"   
      
   > 5. 1980, directed by Bill Forsyth.  Starring John Gordon Sinclair,   
   >     Dee Hepburn, and Clare Grogan.  A coming-of-age romantic film   
   >     about a young man who plays on his school's football (soccer)   
   >     team, and his attempts to find a girlfriend, with varying   
   >     degrees of success.   
      
   "Gregory's Girl"   
      
   > 7. 1949, directed by Alexander Mackendrick.  Starring Basil Radford,   
   >     Bruce Seaton, Joan Greenwood, and Gordon Jackson.  The story   
   >     of a shipwreck off a Scottish island, and the islanders who   
   >     salvage the ship's large cargo of cases of alcohol.   
      
   "Whisky Galore"   
   > 8. 1983, directed by Bill Forsyth.  Starring Burt Lancaster and   
   >     Peter Riegert.  The film explores the conflict between a Texas   
   >     oil company and the residents of a Scottish fishing village   
   >     whose land is needed for the company's North Sea oil base.   
   "Local Hero"   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   > 6. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared which infectious   
   >     disease to be eradicated?   
      
   smallpox   
   > 8. Who introduced an inactivated polio vaccine in 1953?   
      
   Sabin; Salk   
   > 10. There were two viral-vector vaccines that were approved   
   >     in Canada for use with COVID-19.  Both of these vaccines   
   >     were withdrawn from the market in 2023 by the pharmaceutical   
   >     companies involved.  In either case, name *either* the vaccine   
   >     itself or the pharmaceutical company involved.   
      
   Johnson & Johnson; Moderna   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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