From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 10, Round 7 - Canadiana Entertainment - Movies   
   > 5. 1997, directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley,   
   >    Maury Chaykin, and Bruce Greenwood.  The story of a school   
   >    bus accident in a small town that kills 14 children, and the   
   >    ensuing class-action lawsuit.   
      
   Day After Tomorrow   
      
   (That does not sound really right. I've seen the film, but it has a   
   title that does not really fit with the story, which makes it hard to   
   remember exactly.)   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   Vulcanisation.   
      
   > 3. In the 1950s, an encounter with cockleburs led the Swiss engineer   
   >    George de Mestral to invent this fastener.  Name it.   
      
   It must be what we in Sweden call "kardborre", but the English name   
   slips me right now.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   > 6. Talk about boring dreams!  Chemist Friedrich Kekulé 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?   
      
   Polythene   
      
   > 8. The invention of this product was partially inspired by an   
   >    accident while transporting nitroglycerin.  A can broke open and   
   >    leaked, but the liquid was absorbed by a rock mixture called   
   >    kieselguhr (no, that's not something from Ikea).  What is the   
   >    resulting product more commonly known as?   
      
   Dynamite   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Sackarin   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Penciline   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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