From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/18/25 23:44, 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   The Star Lost   
      
   >   
   > 2. 1988, Jerry O'Connell.  A 14-year-old named Andrew Clements,   
   >     while looking one day for his friend, Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoate,   
   >     trips and is hit by a photon beam, causing him to develop   
   >     superpowers.  He uses these abilities to fight crime, to solve   
   >     personal problems, and to help others.  The show is set in the   
   >     fictional suburb of Briarwood.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 4. 1994, Greg Evigan.  Set in the year 2044, the series follows   
   >     Jake Cardigan, a former police officer who lost his badge after   
   >     being framed for dealing in an illicit narcotic-like substance   
   >     and murdering his fellow officers on a bust.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 6. 2000, Kevin Sorbo.  The series follows Captain Dylan Hunt   
   >     of the Systems Commonwealth, an intergalactic government   
   >     that presided over an extended period of peace and prosperity   
   >     until its destruction from a rebellion led by the warmongering   
   >     Nietzcheans and parasitic Magog.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 8. 2004, Peter Outerbridge.  The series revolves around the   
   >     scientists of NorBAC (North American Biotechnology Advisory   
   >     Commission), a fictional organization with a lab based   
   >     in Toronto.  The organization investigates problems of a   
   >     scientific nature, such as bioterrorism, mysterious diseases,   
   >     or radical changes in the environment throughout North America.   
   >   
   > 9. 2016, Eric McCormack.  In a post-apocalyptic future, thousands   
   >     of special operatives are tasked with preventing the collapse   
   >     of society.  These operatives, have their consciousnesses sent   
   >     back in time and transferred into the "host" body of present-day   
   >     individuals who are about to die.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > * 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.   
   >   
   > 3. Born in 1920 in England.  Did research on X-ray diffraction which   
   >     helped other scientists to determine the chemical structure   
   >     of DNA.   
      
   Rosalind 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.   
   >   
   > 6. Born in 1922 in Beaufort West, South Africa.  Performed the   
   >     first human heart transplant in 1967.   
   >   
   > 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   
      
   >   
   > 10. Born in 1891 in Alliston, Ontario.  Discovered a technique   
   >     for isolating the hormone insulin, making possible the treatment   
   >     of diabetes.   
      
   Banting   
      
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