ROUND 6: Science/Canadiana - Canadian Scientists

1. Lap Chee Tsui (QM: "Tsui" is pronounced "Choy") of the Hospital
   for Sick Children led a team that identified the gene for which
   disease in 1989?

A. Cystic fibrosis


2. This chemist's Nobel Prize winning experiment studied the light
   produced by the reaction of hydrogen with chlorine.

A. John Polanyi


3. Name the science writer and broadcaster who has hosted CBC
   Radio's program Quirks & Quarks since 1992.

A. Bob McDonald


4. This scientist, trained as a neurologist and neurobiologist, 
   had a book of her photography published in 2000.  She was
   recently appointed Chancellor of Trent University in
   Peterborough. Name her.

A. Roberta Bondar


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?

A. Geology or paleontology


6. William Ricker was a biologist who devised the Ricker Curve,
   which describes the population dynamics of what kind of animal?

A. fish (accept anything more specific)


7. Which astronomer is editor of the Canadian magazine SkyNews and
   the author of the bestseller NightWatch: A Practical Guide to
   Viewing the Universe? 

A. Terence Dickinson

 

8. Bill Reeves, who studied math at the University of Waterloo and
   computer science at the University of Toronto, is an Academy
   Award winner, and Technical Director of which northern
   California film studio?

A. Pixar


9. This 19th century amateur botanist wrote the book Canadian 
   Wild Flowers; however, she is better known for The Backwoods
   of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer.

A. Catherine Parr Traill


10. Irene Uchida researched the causes of genetic abnormalities
    including Down Syndrome, which is most often associated with a
    third copy of which number chromosome?

A. Chromosome 21