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Fun Facts

100

Knows almost all the words to Toby Keith's song Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.  

Who is Terrence Campbell?

100

This government agency that regulates pharmaceutical/life science companies

What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?  

100

Month and Year Ontada was launched?

What is December 2020?  

100

Which types of cancers metastasize?  

What are solid tumors?  

100

What gets broken without being held?

What is a promise?

200

How many responsibilities does a PES have?  

What is 18 responsibilities per program?  

200

Who are the Top 3 Pharma companies in the world?  

  1. Eli Lilly-$578.3B- U.S. Based 

  1. Novo Nordisk-$452.8B- Denmark Based 

  1. Johnson & Johnson-$377.7B- U.S. Based 

 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/worlds-50-largest-pharmaceutical-companies/  

200

Year and State McKesson was Founded?

What is 1833 in New York?

200

Any cancer that arises from skin cells or epithelial cells that line the internal organs.

What is Carcinoma?

200

What is always in front of you, but can’t be seen?

What is the future?

300

How many LSPs were executed in 2023?  

What is 380?

300

The US makes up what % of the Worldwide Pharmaceutical Industry?  

300

Number of McKesson Employees working to improve the health of patients everywhere

What is 51,000?

300

What cancer type was the word Metastasis first used to describe metastatic tumors in 1829?

What is breast cancer?

300

I am an odd number. Take a letter away and I become even. What number am I?

What is Seven?

400

How many states remain for practice development?  

What is 25?

400

What is the first recognized pharma company?

400

What year did McKesson acquire US Oncology?  

400

A protein that acts as a kind of “brake” to keep the body’s immune responses under control.

What is PD-L1?

400

What animal 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people

500

Month and Year of our 1st LSP on Record?

What is July 2007? 


500

What was the first drug created for cancer?  

What is Cisplatin? (Created in 1844 by an Italian chemist, Michele Peyrone) 

https://cancer.msu.edu/about/history#:~:text=Cisplatin%20was%20created%20by%20an,cisplatin%20as%20a%20cancer%20therapy

500

Who founded Mckesson?

Who are John McKesson and Charles Olcott? 

https://www.mckesson.com/About-McKesson/Our-History/  

500

What is the technical name of the "#" symbol?

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