Holiday Movies
In the 1988 Christmas classic Die Hard, John McClane alerts LAPD Sergeant Al Powell to the fact that the Nakatomi Plaza has been taken over by terrorists by doing this.
What is dropping a body onto his patrol car?
The first Winter Olympics took place in this year.
Ebola virus was named after this.
What is the Ebola River?
This animal's eyes change color in winter to improve low-light vision.
What is the reindeer?
There are this many quarantine rooms in the National Quarantine Unit in the Davis Global Center.
What is 20?
In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, how much money does Uncle Billy lose in Mr. Potter's office?
What is $8,000?
This state has the most ski resorts of any in the U.S.
What is New York?
This international treaty bans countries from researching, developing, stockpiling, and using microorganisms for warfare.
What is the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)?
In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Abominable Snowman is also called this.
What is Bumble?
This is the month and year that the Global Center for Health Security was officially approved by the Board of Regents.
What is August 2017?
Heat Miser and Snow Miser are characters in this 1974 television special.
What is The Year Without Santa Claus?
This winter event in 1980 was dubbed the "Miracle on Ice."
What is the U.S. hockey teams' victory over the Soviet Union at the Olympics?
In most depictions of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, "Pestilence" or "Plague" rides a horse of this color.
What is white?
This is the most common type of penguin.
What is a macaroni penguin?
The first four GCHS co-directors were John Lowe, Shelly Schwedhelm, Chris Kratochvil, and this person.
Who is Ken Bayles?
After their family Hanukkah celebration is interrupted by marauding Cossack cats, Fievel Mousekowitz leaves Ukraine and sets out for New York City, in search of a mythical "Land Without Cats," in this 1986 animated film from executive producer Steven Spielberg.
What is An American Tail?
Luge is the event where a person rides feet first on a small sled. This is the name of the event where a person rides head first.
What is skeleton?
One of three major influenza pandemics of the 20th Century, this pandemic ranked second behind the 1918 and ahead of the 1957 pandemics in terms of global fatalities. It is commonly referred to by year and name of the city where it was first detected.
What is the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic?
Pagophilic animals live or depend primarily on this.
What is sea ice?
In late 2018, the NBU/NQU team admitted a person to the 6th floor University Tower for quarantine who was exposed to Ebola virus disease working as a medical missionary in this country.
What is Democratic Republic of the Congo?
The 2023 film The Holdover scored for her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress?
Who is Da'Vine Joy Randolph?
The last stone delivered in an end in curling is called this.
What is the hammer?
The WHO recommended destruction of all known sample of variola virus (the cause of smallpox) in 1986, yet two institutions officially retain specimens of variola virus: the US CDC and this institute.
What is VECTOR Institute, Russia?
Polar bear hairs are this color.
What is transparent (or clear)?
The maritime signal flag "L" or "Lima" bears a large black and yellow checkered pattern and signals a ship under quarantine. It provided the color scheme for the cover of this 2019 GCHS publication.
What is the Nebraska Isolation and Quarantine Manual?