Surviving the Impossible
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Just Like the Plague: Medical History Back Again
Grab Bag
Movie Time
200
Nurse Violet Constance Jessop survived two ocean liner sinkings, the Britannic and the what?
What is the Titanic?
200
A popular way to knead out stress, try making this delicious staple at home.
What is bread?
200
What creepy Philadelphia institution has a wall of skulls and slides of Einstein’s brain?
What is the Mutter Museum?
200
What is Oregon Trail?
200
This book turned movie featured Brad Pitt running from unrealistically fast zombies.
What is World War Z?
400
In a construction accident, Phineas Gage was impaled by a metal rod through this part of his body, surviving with an altered personality.
What is his brain/left frontal lobe?
400
Netflix show with an insane rivalry between Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic.
What is the Tiger King?
400
This British doctor, known as the father of modern surgery, pioneered the use of antiseptic.
Who is Joseph Lister?
400
SNL was hosted virtually last week by America’s dad and coronavirus champ….
Who is Tom Hanks?
400
This 1990s movie chronicles an airborne disease brought over from Africa by a smuggled monkey and affects a California town.
What is Outbreak?
400
What petite monarch survived 8 assassination attempts and was not amused?
Who is Queen Victoria?
400
This museum challenged visitors at home to recreate famous works of art.
What is the Getty?
400
Recruits in the Civil War were required to have enough of this body part to rip open powder cartridges.
What are teeth?
400
The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, this man has been in the national spotlight providing much needed factual information.
Who is Dr. Anthony Fauci?
400
This post-apocalyptic film based on a book by the same name, follows the last man on Earth, and his dog, researching a cure for a global virus.
What is I Am Legend?
600
This mystic ingested cyanide, was poisoned and shot, escaped capture, and was shot again before finally dying.
Who is Rasputin?
600
This organizing guru helps people clear their clutter and only keep what sparks joy.
Who is Marie Kondo?
600
Blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm are the 4 what?
What are humours?
600
Name at least 2 non-virus meanings for corona.
Beer, solar, crown/nmaahc, plant part, type of cigar, Tangled kingdom.
600
After waking from a coma in an abandoned London hospital, Jim struggles to survive a horrific rage-inducing epidemic in this film.
What is 28 Days Later?
1000
This man’s improbable survival story inspired a movie starring James Franco.
Who is Aron Ralston?
1000
Considered a social faux pas, we can now do this at home since we don’t drive and can sleep it off.
What is day drinking?
1000
This man solved the 1850s London cholera epidemic...or was he brooding in the Night's Watch?
Who is John Snow?
1000
In 2005, this online game accidentally unleashed a Corrupted Blood infection which could not be cured, ended up in a full reboot, and now serves as an outbreak model for epidemiologists.
What is World of Warcraft?
1000
This movie predicted what would happen if too much fresh water from the ice caps melted and mixed with the salty ocean water which causes cataclysmic reactions.
What is The Day After Tomorrow?