The most common fixative for histology
What is Neutral Buffer Formalin?
The most popular day to shop during Thanksgiving weekend
What is Black Friday?
This is how many snowballs are used to make a traditional snowman
What is three?
It pumps blood throughout the body
What is the heart?
This town is famous for its 1692 witch trials
What is Salem?
The stain H&E is the abbreviation
What is Hematoxylin and eosin?
Name of the ship that brought the pilgrims to Plymouth
What is the Mayflower?
The phrase "Winter is coming" is from this show
What is Game of Thrones?
Outer layer of the brain
What is the cortex?
Supposedly haunted train tunnel in the Berkshires nicknamed "the bloody pit"
What is the Hoosac Tunnel?
This is done to formalin to prevent formalin pigment formation in tissues
What is Buffered?
The process of soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking
Brining
This can happen when your body loses heat faster than it can produce it, leading to dangerously low body temperature
What is Hypothermia?
2nd layer of skin, under the epidermis
What is the dermis?
There's a children rhyme about this Fall River native who may have swung an axe
Who is Lizzie Borden?
Oxidizing chemicals can not be stored with it
What is flammables?
This president officially made Thanksgiving a holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The three calendar winter months in the Southern Hemisphere
What are June, July and August?
This tissue type lines, protects, covers, and secretes substances
What is Epithelial?
Massachusett's Bermuda Triangle
What is the Bridgewater Triangle?
Happens to a biopsy sample that was inadvertently placed in water instead of a fixative solution
What is the tissue will become mushy?
This U.S. Founding Father famously referred to turkeys as “a bird of courage”
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The only insect that migrates to a warmer climate each year
What are Monarch butterflies?
Adipose tissue is also known as this (in layman's terms)
What is fat tissue/body fat?
Mischievous small human-like creature from the Wampanoag people in Eastern Massachusetts
Who are the Pukwudgie?