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Drug History
Blood in TV/Film
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Before & After
100
Star of the hit 2016 Walt Disney film.
Who is Moana
100
This drug was isolated from the Madagascar periwinkle.
What is vincristine?
Also accepted: any vinca alkaloids
100
Daniel Day-Lewis mutters "I drink your milkshake" in this Oscar-winning film.
What is There Will Be Blood?
100
This Ontario-born comic starred in Ace Ventura, The Mask, and The Truman Show.
Who is Jim Carrey?
100
The blood-forming progenitor cell you transplant, meet the device buzzing in your pocket.
What is a stem cell phone?
200
He guided the first team to summit Everest.
Who is Tenzing Norgay?
200
This drug has roots in traditional Chinese medicine and was called "Ailing No. 1"
What is arsenic trioxide?
200
This HBO series set in Louisiana imagines vampires "coming out of the coffin" and drinking a synthetic beverage.
What is True Blood?
200
London, Ontario produced both this Notebook heartthrob and his co-star.
Who is Ryan Gosling? (and Rachel McAdams)
200
This Vancouver-born Deadpool star shares a surname with the aluminum foil brand you'd wrap leftovers in.
Who/what is Ryan Reynolds Wrap?
300
She is the commander of the USS Voyager.
Who is Captain Kathryn Janeway?
300
This immunosuppressant was discovered from a soil bacterium on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
What is sirolimus (rapamycin)?
300
In this 2009 film, Anna (Abigail Breslin) is conceived via IVF as a "savior sibling" — an HLA-matched donor for her older sister Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia.
What is My Sister's Keeper?
300
Born in Edmonton and raised in Burnaby, BC, this actor time-traveled as Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
300
Canada's double-double coffee chain protects a whole civilization living on a speck of dust.
What is Tim Hortons Hears a Who?
400
She guided Lewis & Clark to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Sacagawea?
400
Chemotherapy originally harvested from the bark of the Pacific yew tree.
What is paclitaxel (Taxol)?
400
This Showtime series follows a Miami forensic blood-spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer.
What is Dexter?
400
This father-daughter-free duo — Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara — reunited as the Roses in this beloved CBC sitcom.
What is Schitt's Creek?
400
Star of The Iron Lady + a common bacterial infection.
What is Meryl Streep Throat?
500
He was the first to reach the South Pole.
Who was Roald Amundsen?
500
This drug was discovered in a soil sample collected in Norway in 1969.
What is cyclosporine?
500
Mandy Moore plays a minister's daughter with leukemia in this 2002 romance.
What is A Walk to Remember?
500
This Ottawa-born actor played surgeon Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy before starring in Killing Eve.
Who is Sandra Oh?
500
The one-legged Marathon of Hope hero hits the ballroom floor for a bit of this smooth 4/4 dance.
Who/what is Terry Fox Trot?