MSF, It’s in the Name
One of MSF’s greatest current humanitarian efforts involves this Middle Eastern region, where over 90% of the population has been displaced.
What is Gaza?
Slurred speech is a common indicator of this condition, in which the brain receives insufficient oxygen.
What is a stroke?
General Chemistry: This type of reaction—seen in action when you light a candle—often involves carbon dioxide and water as byproducts.
What is a combustion reaction?
This largest ocean of our world also contains the most islands.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These two colors serve as the backbone of UNL’s palette.
What are scarlet and cream?
In addition to providing medical, nutritional, and infrastructure assistance, MSF responds to natural disasters, including this type that struck Myanmar in March 2025.
What is an earthquake?
Diabetes, which affects more than 11% of Americans, occurs when the body destroys or does not effectively use this hormone.
What is insulin?
Biology: These cellular structures, which can either be fixed to the endoplasmic reticulum or be free-floating, are the enzymes that attach to RNA to generate proteins.
What are ribosomes?
Nine out of ten of Earth’s tallest mountains (measured in meters above sea level) are located in this range.
What is the Himalaya?
This investor, known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” is an esteemed UNL graduate.
Who is Warren Buffett?
MSF intervention has escalated in response to declining public services in Mosul, the second-largest city in this nation.
What is Iraq?
One common medical myth suggests that eating this Thanksgiving food results in abnormal drowsiness.
What is turkey?
Genetics: “Frameshift” and “nonsense” are two examples of this phenomenon, in which the nucleotide sequences of DNA are altered, leading to the creation of incomplete or incorrect proteins.
What are mutations?
This city is the most populous in all of Africa.
What is Cairo, Egypt?
The University of Nebraska was the first university west of the Mississippi River to award doctoral degrees. The first was in this discipline, centered on energy transformations and properties of matter.
What is physics?
Serving “without borders,” MSF supports people irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. In 2025, it provided humanitarian assistance in this many countries.
What is 82? (to the nearest 10)
Though arthritis occurs in roughly one out of four Americans, doing this with your hands certainly will not cause it!
What is cracking your knuckles?
Anatomy: This bone, located in your ear, is the smallest bone of the human body.
What is the stapes? (or “stirrup”?)
This nation is the largest in the southern hemisphere and is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.
What is Brazil?
The University of Nebraska won its most recent national championship in football in this year.
What is 1997?
MSF is well-known for its provision of care, medicine, and clean resources to places facing disease outbreaks, including this one that has made a resurgence in Sudan, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What is cholera?
In one of the most infamous debunked medical studies, Andrew Wakefield proposed that the MMR vaccine was associated with this mental disorder.
What is autism?
Physiology: This system, which encompasses organs like the pancreas, adrenal glands, and hypothalamus, is responsible for hormone regulation.
What is the endocrine system?
These two countries are the only ones in the world that have not adopted a rectangular flag. (Challenge: Name both!)
What is Nepal (and/or Switzerland)?
Through the 2024-25 academic year, UNL put forth 373 Academic All-Americans, earning this numerical ranking out of all colleges.
What is third?