Plants
This painkiller originally came from the bark of a willow tree
What is Aspirin?
She stars in Abbott Elementary and was the 2023 Rutgers Commencement speaker
Who is Sheryl Lee Ralph?
The word "blood" appears are least once in every play by this author.
Who is Shakespeare?
What is the x-ray?
In the late 19th century, physicians believed that a transfusion of this beverage helped regenerate white blood cells.
What is milk?
Tears from cutting onions are caused by this chemical.
What is sulfuric acid?
A 1963 graduate, this person later became the commissioner of the National Basketball Association.
Who is David Stern?
This tropical beverage has been used as a substitute for blood plasma.
What is coconut water?
This device, invented in 1815 was orginally a trumpet shaped wooden tube.
What is the stethoscope?
In the 19th century, Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup was a remedy for babies experiencing anything from diarrhea to teething it contained alcohol and this drug.
What is morphine?
(It was eventually dubbed the "baby killer")
This is the fastest growing woody plant in the world.
What is Bamboo?
This 1932 graduate who founded the New York Jets and was president and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation has a gym at Rutgers named for him.
Who is Sonny Werblin?
Human blood contains about 0.2 milligrams of this precious (and expensive) metal.
What is gold?
This company is the currently the #1 medical device company in the world.
Who is Medtronics?
Used as an anesthetic, asthma patients often overdosed from this recommended treatment.
What is the use of chloroform?
This is the original color of carrots.
What is purple?
She was a midfielder for the World cup-winning US Women’s National soccer team.
Who is Carli Lloyd?
Mosquitos prefer this blood type.
What is type O?
The oldest know prosthetic device was made in Ancient Egypt made of wood and leather for this body part.
In the late 1800s, patients with rheumatoid arthritis would lay in the rotting carcass of this giant mammal to relieve inflammation.
What is a whale?
A cluster of bananas goes by this name.
What is a hand?
Jim Backus voiced this fictional, cartoon character with failing eyesight, who was written to be a class of 1928 alumnus of Rutgers.
Who was Mr. Magoo?
This animal has over 800 blood types.
What is a cow?
David Sheridan, with only an 8th grade education and working as a floor refinisher, created this single use device.
What is a disposable catheter?
(He had over 50 patents to his name)
In 1884, an Austrian ophthalmologist, Carl Koller, discovered that a few drops of this drug put on a patient’s cornea acted as a topical anesthetic.
What is cocaine?