From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/19/2025 1:44 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment- Canadian Sci-Fi TV Shows   
   >   
   > This is a round on science-fiction television shows produced   
   > in Canada.  In each case we will give the year it debuted, the   
   > lead actor, and a description of the series.  You name the show.   
   >   
   > 3. 1992, Geraint Wyn Davies.  This is a series about an 800-year-old   
   >     vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto.   
   >     Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks   
   >     redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night   
   >     shift while struggling to find a way to become human again.   
      
   "Forever Knight"   
      
   > 5. 1997, Richard Dean Anderson.  This show is based on a 1994   
   >     movie, and picks up about a year after the events of the film,   
   >     when the US government learns that an ancient alien device   
   >     can access a network of similar devices on other planets.   
   >     The series draws upon Egyptian, Greek, and Norse mythology,   
   >     as well as the legend of King Arthur.   
      
   "Stargate SG-1"   
      
   > 7. 2000, Chris Demetral.  The show is a fictionalized telling of the   
   >     life of a famous French author, placing him into the settings of   
   >     the stories he wrote about such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues   
   >     Under the Seas" and "Around the World in Eighty Days".   
   >     Full title required.   
      
   "The Adventures of Jules Verne"   
      
   > 10. 2013, Tatiana Maslany.  The series focuses on Sarah Manning,   
   >     one of several genetically identical human clones, and later   
   >     on some of the other clones.   
      
   "Orphan Black"   
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Name that Biologist   
   >   
   > Many people -- not all professional biologists -- have contributed   
   > to the field of biology.  From the clues given, please identify   
   > the scientist.   
   >   
   > 1. Born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.  Developed the modern   
   >     theory of evolution, based largely on research done in the   
   >     Galapagos Islands.   
      
   Darwin   
   > 2. Born in 129 in Pergamum in Asia Minor.  Postulated a circulation   
   >     system in which the liver produced the natural spirit, the   
   >     heart the vital spirit, and the brain the animal spirit.   
   >     Also demonstrated that arteries carry blood, not air.   
      
   Galen   
      
   > 3. Born in 1920 in England.  Did research on X-ray diffraction which   
   >     helped other scientists to determine the chemical structure   
   >     of DNA.   
      
   Wilkins   
      
   > 4. Born in 1822 in Dole, France.  Discovered that fermentation is   
   >     caused by micro-organisms and developed the germ theory of   
   >     disease.   
      
   Pasteur   
      
   > 5. Born in 1827 in Upton, Essex.  Founder of antiseptic surgery.   
   >     Introduced dressing soaked in carbolic acid and strict rules   
   >     of hygiene to combat wound sepsis in hospitals.   
      
   Lister   
      
   > 6. Born in 1922 in Beaufort West, South Africa.  Performed the   
   >     first human heart transplant in 1967.   
      
   Barnard   
      
   > 7. Born in 1452 in Tuscany, Italy.  Among many other things,   
   >     studied the flight of birds in connection with the laws of   
   >     mechanics, and so developed prototypes of a flying machine.   
      
   Leonardo da Vinci   
      
   > 8. Born in 1707 in Smaland, Sweden.  Devised a concise and precise   
   >     system for naming plants and animals, using one Latin   
   >     (or Latinized) word to represent the genus and a second to   
   >     distinguish the species.   
      
   Linnaeus   
      
   > 10. Born in 1891 in Alliston, Ontario.  Discovered a technique   
   >     for isolating the hormone insulin, making possible the treatment   
   >     of diabetes.   
   Banting   
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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