Under the Microscope
Who dun it?
Germs on the Big Screen
Don't Let the News Bug You!
I'm feeling lucky!!
100
Caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis, one to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu like symptoms develop. Swollen and painful lymph nodes occur in the area closest to where the bacteria entered the skin. Swept through Asia, Europe, and Africa in the 14th century and killed an estimated 50 million people.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
Nineteenth century French chemist and microbiologist - known for introducing the pasteurization process.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
A fictitious but lethal virus, spread through a single bite, is turning healthy people into something vicious, unthinking and forcing people to scale the Jerusalem wall.
What is World War Z?
(100 extra if you can name a vampire movie starring the lead actor)
100
The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with state and local officials were investigating two separate outbreaks of E. coli infections that have been linked to food served at this restaurant in 2016.
What is the Chipotle?
(Extra 100 if you say the entire name of the organism)
100
Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth
Who is WALL-E?
200
A common cause of food-borne disease outbreaks, this bacteria caused a multi-state wide outbreak in 2015, causing a reported 21 hospitalizations and was linked to Chipotle restaurants.
What is E.coli (or STEC)?
200
This Scottish physician/scientist received the Nobel Prize in 1945 and was one of the scientists credited with discovering penicillin.
Who is Alexander Flemming?
200
Scientist wanders alone through New York City, calling out for other possible survivors, and works on finding a cure for the plague using his own immune blood.
What is I am Legend?
200
This upscale Mediterranean-style restaurant was blamed for confirmed cases of salmonella poisoning in Washington, DC and New York from 2015 to 2016.
What is Fig and Olive?
200
Magyars are residents of this country.
What is Hungry?
300
These lack metabolic machinery of their own to generate energy or to synthesize proteins, so they depend on host cells to carry out these vital functions.
Viruses
300
Born in the United Kingdom in the 1800s, this physician who studied the Cholera outbreak of 1854, is considered one of the first Epidemiologists. Currently, the king in the North.
Who is John Snow?
300
This Broadway musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
What is RENT?
300
Found on letters in 2001, this select agent, was used for bioterrorism leading to five deaths and 17 infections.
What is Bacillus anthracis.
300
1. Sterilize the inoculating loop 2. Remove inoculum from test tube 3. Pass lip of culture tube through flame tip 4. Remove small amount of inoculum 5. Pass lip of culture tube through flame tip 6. Transfer sample to new culture tube 7.Sterilize the inoculating loop
What is Aseptic Technique?
400
This bacteria can sometimes be found in produce and dairy products and caused a multi-state outbreak in 2011 that was linked to cantaloupes.
What is Listeria monocytogenes.
400
Born in 1914, this physician/medical researcher developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
Who is Jonas Salk?
400
Starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas and the HIV Virus.
What is Philadelphia?
400
A common bacterial infection, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever, lead to a multistate outbreak of this genus that was linked to contact with cute and cuddly puppies from Petland stores starting January 12, 2016.
What is campylobacter?
400
Identification of a victim through dental records
What is Odontology?
500
This organisms gives Blue Stilton cheese it's blue-green mold veins.
Penicillium roqueforti
500
This English doctor's controversial experiment, involving inoculating a young boy with pus from pustule, led to the development of a vaccine for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
500
What is 28 Days Later?
500
These two agencies work closely together to identify and track food-borne outbreaks in the US.
What are the CDC and FDA?
500
Although he was shot, stabbed, strangled, and thrown into a river, this caused the death of Rasputin!
What is hypothermia?