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Pop culture Medicine
100
This former cardiothoracic surgeon recently ran for a senate seat in Pennsylvania.
Who is Dr. Mehemet Oz?
100
This colorless, odorless gas is the result of decaying radioactive material found in soil & rocks & is thought to cause cancer in humans.
What is Radon?
100
This machine developed in the 19th century uses radioactive particles to look inside the human body.
What is an X-ray machine?
100
A fear or prejudice of peoples from other countries is known as this.
What is Xenophobia?
100
A deadly influenza pandemic that may have killed up to 50 million from the years 1918 to 1920 was commonly called this.
What is The Spanish Flu?
100
John Travolta injected this medicine directly into Uma Thurmans heart in Pulp Fiction.
What is Adrenaline?
200
Alan Alda portrayed this wisecracking, gin sipping trauma surgeon on the hit TV show MASH.
Who is Dr. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce?
200
The CIA unsuccessfully tested psychoactive compounds such as psilocybin & LSD on subjects in this unsucessful mind control project in the 1950's & 1960's.
What is Operation MK-Ultra?
200
Alprazolam is the generic name for this anti anxiety medication.
What is Xanax?
200
If you fear climbing a up ladder or being on top of tall buildings you may suffer from this phobia.
What is Acrophobia?
200
Mary Mallon may have infected over 100 people with this deadly bacteria in the late 1800's.
What is Thyphoid?
200
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins sung that a Spoonful of this "helps the medicine go down".
What is sugar?
300
Actress Jane Seymour played a rough & tumble frontier doctor working in the Colorado Springs area on this hit TV western show.
What is "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman"?
300
This canine hero led a team of sled dogs carrying Diphtheria serum across the frozen Alaskan tundra to Nome during an outbreak of the disease in 1925.
Who is Balto?
300
The giant chest bursting endoparasitoids from the James Cameron "Alien" films were coloquially referred to as these.
What are Xenomorphs?
300
If this image fills you with dread you may suffer from this phobia.
What is Coulrophobia?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
What is The Black Plague? The Black Death? The Bubonic Plague? The Pestilence?
300
Morpheus told Neo "Take the red pill & see how far the rabbit hole goes" but warned if he took this pill he would remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix.
What is the blue pill?
400
Dermatologist Sandra Lee has this popular TLC & YouTube channel show featuring videos of her reducing skin blemishes from her patients.
What is Dr. Pimple Popper?
400
Named after a city in Sweden, this condition sometimes occurs when hostages develop a sympathetic emotional bond with their captors.
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
400
The small cartilaginous extension of the inferior sternum is known as this.
What is the Xiphoid process?
400
I wouldn't recommend becoming a firefighter if you suffered from this phobia.
What is pyrophobia?
400
Controlling the mosquitos who were responsible for malaria outbreaks was essential to the construction of this early 1900's water way project in South America.
What is The Panama Canal?
400
Star Trek physicians can be seen using this small handheld medical scanner that can instantaneously relay a patients bio readings.
What is a tricorder?
500
This British physician & scientist pioneered the concept of vaccines & as such has earned the title "the father of immunology".
Who is Dr. Edward Jenner?
500
This metalloid, atomic number 33, often used in lead alloys for car batteries, ammunition, herbicides & pesticides is toxic to humans & can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea & vomiting muscle cramping & death.
What is Arsenic?
500
This naturally occurring substance often found in plants is a suitable sugar free sweetener substitute found in tings like chewing gum & soda. Watch out though, this chemical is deadly to pets!
What is Xylitol?
500
Being diagnosed with this phobia may prevent you from swimming, bathing or sometimes even drinking water.
What is Aquaphobia?
500
Richard Preston wrote a book called "The Hot Zone" about a 1989 outbreak of this deadly virus in Reston Virginia.
What is Ebola?
500
After being attacked by the Wampa Beast, Luke Skywalker can be seen floating in a cylindrical tank full of this bio regenerative fluid in The Empire Strikes Back.
What is Bacta?