Thursday, December 24, 2020

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tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 23 09:13PM


> * Game 5, Round 4 - Sports - Rodeo
 
> 1. Which rodeo event features women riding a short course with
> tight turns around objects?
 
slalom
 
> 3. What are the *two* types of bronco riding?
 
saddle and bareback
 
> 4. Please decode the rot13 only after you are finished with
> question #3. Va fnqqyr oebap evqvat, jvguva 1 frpbaq, ubj
> ybat zhfg n evqre fgnl ba gur ubefr va beqre gb dhnyvsl?
 
10 seconds; 15 seconds
 
> 5. Which rodeo event requires a lasso?
 
calf roping
 
> 7. Which event is generally considered the most dangerous for the
> human participants?
 
bull riding
 
> 8. In <answer 7>, whose job is it to distract the animal from a
> downed rider?
 
rodeo clown
 
> * Game 5, Round 6 - Canadiana Science - Canadian Scientists
 
> 1. Lap Chee Tsui ["Choy"] of the Hospital for Sick Children led
> a team that identified the gene for which disease in 1989?
 
cerebral palsy; cystic fibrosis
 
> 5. Alice Wilson was the first woman elected to the Royal Society
> of Canada. She performed extensive field work in the Ottawa -
> St. Lawrence Valley in which scientific discipline?
 
geology; botany
 
> 6. William Ricker was a biologist who devised the Ricker Curve,
> which describes the population dynamics of what kind of animal?
 
prey; predator
 
> and computer science at the University of Toronto, is an Academy
> Award winner, and """is""" Technical Director of which northern
> California film studio?
 
Lucasfilm
 
> 10. Irene Uchida researched the causes of genetic abnormalities
> including Down (or Down's) syndrome, which is most often
> associated with a third copy of *which number* chromosome?
 
23rd
 
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