Medical breakthroughs
What is the name of the first vaccine to be developed?
a) Polio vaccine b) Measles vaccine c) Smallpox vaccine d) Tetanus vaccine
C) Small Pox
The nares are another name for which part of your nose that leads into your nasal passages?
Nostrils
What animal (part of the cat family) has stripes on its skin as well as its fur?
Tiger
Which cocktail that originates in Puerto Rico has a name that translates as “strained pineapple?”
Pina Colada
Sea otters often drift apart from each other when they sleep.
False - they hold hands so that they do not drift apart.
Who is the Scottish doctor who discovered penicillin?
a) Robert Koch b) Edward Jenner
c) Alexander Fleming d) Louis Pasteur
c) Alexander Fleming
What joint in your arm is where the humerus, radius, and ulna bones all meet?
Elbow
Where is the only place on their body dogs have sweat glands?
The pads of their paws
What cocktail with Bacardi, Blue Curacao, pineapple juice, and coconut garnish shares its name with a two-named personification of cold weather, who “The Christmas Song” claims is “nipping at your nose?”
Jack Frost
Ketchup was used as a medicine in the 1930s.
True
What is the name of the treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer?
a) Chemotherapy b) Radiation therapy
c) Immunotherapy d) Surgery
C) Immunotherapy
The human retina contains receptor cells of two different types: rods and what tapered shapes?
Cones
What is a group of cats called?
A clowder
What future "Mission: Impossible" star plays bartender Brian Flanagan in the 1988 movie "Cocktail?"
Tom Cruise
May 29 is "Put your pillow on you fridge day."
True
What is the name of the drug that has been used to treat HIV since the 1990s?
a) Penicillin b) Aspirin c) Insulin d) AZT
D) AZT
Name at least 2 main function of the skeletal System
Support, Protection, Movement, Mineral storage and release, Lipid storage
What is a male duck called?
Drake
Red-Rum and Garden Maze are cocktails at The Overlook Lodge, a Cincinnati bar designed as a tribute to what 1980 Stanley Kubrick film?
The Shining
Avocados are good for birds.
False- Avacados are poisinous to birds.
What is the name of the breakthrough treatment that uses stem cells to replace damaged cells or tissues?
a) Gene therapy b) Cell therapy
c) Immunotherapy d) Radiation therapy
B) Cell Therapy
Bone formation is called _______ or osteogenesis
ossification
What part of the body does a snake use to taste and smell?
The roof of its mouth
If you grow it, they will drink: Rye and barley get a lot of attention in the distilling game, but a mash of what field-dwelling vegetable must legally be present if you’re making bourbon?
Corn
Every year, left handed people are killed from using right handed products.
True - about 2,500 people each year.