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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment- Canadian Sci-Fi TV Shows   
      
   > 1. 1973, Keir Dullea.  The show's setting is a huge generational   
   >    colony spacecraft called Earthship Ark, which has gone off course   
   >    following an unspecified accident.  Centuries after its original   
   >    launch, most of the descendants of the original crew   
   >    and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship.   
      
   Starlost   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Franklin   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 9. Born in 1744 in Bazentin, France.  Developed a theory   
   >    of evolution that was based on the idea that acquired   
   >    characteristics are inherited by the offspring, and that   
   >    organisms have an intrinsic urge to evolve into better-adapted   
   >    forms.   
      
   Lamarck   
      
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