From: tool@panix.com
Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment - Movies
> 2. 1974, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Richard Dreyfuss.
> A brash young Jewish Montrealer embarks on a string of
> get-rich-quick schemes in a bid to gain respect.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
> 3. 1983, directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods,
> Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto in the early
> 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station
> who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff movies. As he
> attempts to uncover its source, he has increasingly intense
> hallucinations that cause him to lose his grasp on reality.
Brainstorm
> 10. 2010, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Michael Cera.
> A romantic action-comedy movie about a slacker musician who
> is trying to win a competition to get a record deal, while
> also battling the seven evil exes of his new girlfriend Ramona
> Flowers.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
> * Game 10, Round 8 = Science - Serendipity in Science
> 1. In 1945 Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon, was standing
> in front of an active radar set when he noticed the candy bar
> he had in his pocket had melted. Name the device that was
> developed after this serendipitous event.
microwave oven
> 2. In 1839 while working in his makeshift lab, Charles Goodyear
> accidently spilled a vial of raw rubber, sulfur, and lead on
> a hot stove. What did he discover?
vulcanized rubber
> 3. In the 1950s, an encounter with cockleburs led the Swiss engineer
> George de Mestral to invent this fastener. Name it.
Velcro
> 4. In the late 1980s, scientists at the Pfizer European Research
> Centre were working with a new drug they thought might be
> a treatment for high blood pressure and angina. The drug,
> code-named UK-92480, was found to be ineffective and Pfizer was
> on the verge of abandoning it. It was only when the researchers
> started reading the trial volunteer comments when they found many
> of them reported experiencing an unusual, but not unwelcome,
> side-effect. UK-92480 went on to become one of Pfizer's most
> profitable drugs of all time -- know as what?
Viagra
> 5. Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman was working with a compound derived
> from ergot (a mold found on rye) when he unknowingly absorbed
> some through his fingertips and discovered its powerful effects.
> What had he discovered?
LSD
> 6. Talk about boring dreams! Chemist Friedrich Kekul? dreamt
> about the ring structure of this petroleum distillate chemical
> with formula C6H6. What is it?
benzene
> 7. DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett was working on a new refrigerant
> in 1938. Testing different chemical reactions, he accidentally
> discovered a new polymer called polytetrafluoroethylene.
> What is this polymer better known as today?
nylon
> 9. In the 1870's, Ira Remsen and C. Fahlberg were experimenting
> with coal-tar derivatives. One night, Fahlberg returned
> home and found that the dinner rolls were curiously sweet.
> Earlier that day he'd spilled an experimental compound on his
> hands and they were covered in with a mystery chemical that
> made everything taste sweet. Name the substance.
saccharin
> 10. Sir Alexander Fleming was experimenting with staphylococcus
> bacteria in 1928 when he left for a 2-week vacation. He returned
> to find that a mold had contaminated his cultures. But more
> importantly, he found that the bacteria was unable to grow
> anywhere near where the blob of mold was growing. What had
> he discovered?
penicillin
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