Activities in Quarantine
This whipped coffee is a beverage originating in South Korea, containing only three ingredients—instant coffee, sugar, and hot water—with a fluffy, aerated texture, and it’s all over young people’s social media feeds.
What is Dalgona Coffee
These family members of an S&A staff member were recently featured in the Seattle Times urban sketcher column.
Dylan and Eva, for their work on CARE-19
Hawaii's Kalaupapa island is a colony of people who were exiled in the 1860s because they had this condition.
Leprosy
This ingredient adds CO2 to your loaf before it goes in the oven.
Yeast
S&A's main office is located in this zip code and sits empty as staff work remotely
98121
This 1918 pandemic also goes by this other name.
Spanish flu/Spanish influenza
This app was always popular, but its popularity has gone through the roof as people stuck at home are looking for outlets to connect with each other by busting a move and posting their latest dance routine.
Tik Tok
This S&A staffer doesn't like cats--but she has three.
Shelley
The Public Health Service Act of 1944 provided this federal agency with the responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This is the standard width of an average cotton quilting fabric.
44 inches
This S&A staffer has been perfecting her pottery skills during the quarantine.
Lynn
In the 14th Century, the Black Death was caused by this kind of microbe.
Bonus (100 points): What carried this germ?
A bacteria (Yersinia pestis)
Bonus: the bacteria was likely carried on fleas that were carried on black rats that boarded European ships. (Rats or fleas will be accepted.)
Everyone’s rediscovered these vintage games together, explaining their unexpected viral rise to trend-status. They let you challenge your mind (but not too much) and accomplish something tangible, a welcome diversion from the news.
What are puzzles
This S&A family has been dipping more than their toes in Lake Washington.
The Stephersons
A flag with this plain color has historically been used to symbolize disease in both ships and ports, as well as marking houses with infection.
Yellow
This was the most popular documentary series of 2020 until it was surpassed earlier this month.
Bonus (100 points): What documentary surpassed it in popularity?
Tiger King
Bonus: The Last Dance
This S&A staffer has been listening to a lot of jazz during the quarantine and added "Tea for Two" (Beverly Kenney) to the S&A in Quarantine Spotify Playlist.
Anneka
What year did the movie Pandemic spring onto the scene?
2016
Kale is part of this family of hardy plants.
Brassicaceae (Cruciferae or Brassica both accepted)
At the last S&A monthly team meeting, Holly announced that this percentage of submissions to the QA/QC queue are same-day requests.
Bonus (100 points): How many requests total were completed since mid-February? (Both accepted within 3 points)
35% (accepted within 3 points)
Bonus: 147 requests (accepted within 3 points)
This practice, called quarantine, was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, which means?
40 days.
Sales of bird feeders, bird food and bird treats were up by ____% in April.
(Need to be within 15% and closest team wins)
91%
S&A has this number of active contracts in Ajera (within 5 points)
57
This book about a pandemic was published in 1947.
The Plague, Albert Camus