Bacteria
The Department
Discoverers
Pop Culture
Fake News
100

T/F... Bacteria can only leave in soil

False

100

Who is the Microbiology Department Advisor?

Dana Hatter

100

Who first started pasteurization? 

Louis Pasteur

100

Finish this lyric... "do you ever feel, like a plastic bag..."

drifting through the wind, wanting to start again

100

Who plays Trump on SNL?

Alec Baldwin

200

Which of the following bacteria cause whooping cough?

A. Treponema pallidum

B. Pseudomonas aeruginosa

C. Bordetella pertussis

Bordetella pertussis

200

What building is the Micro department in?

LSE

200

Who discovered penicillin? 

Alexander Fleming 

200
What SNL cast member became single after ending an engagement with Ariana Grande?

Pete Davidson

200

How long was the government shut down?

35 days 

300

What is a difference between Gram+ and Gram- bacteria?

Possible responses:

Negative has OM/LPS

Peptidoglycan is thicker in gram+

Etc.

300

What is the department's therapy dog's name?

Chunk

300

Who created the four postulates for identifying bacteria? 

Robert Koch

300

What was the highest grossing film in 2018?

A. Avengers 

B. Black Panther 

C. The Grinch 

Black Panther (700 million)

300

What hurricane hit Puerto Rico in 2017?

Hurricane Maria

400

Where do bacteria store their DNA?

in the nucleoid

400

What is Dr. Lutter's favorite bacteria?

Chlamydia 

400

Father of microbiology and man who first called bacteria "wee-beasties"

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

400

This Netflix original, starring Sandra Bullock, broke the record for most watched Netflix film over the course of 7 days. 

Bird Box

400

What vegetable was recalled for suspected e. coli contamination in 2018? 

Lettuce 

500

What are the steps for gram staining?

1. heat fix to a slide

2. Stain with crystal violet, wash

3. iodide

4. ethanol wash

5. stain with safranin, wash

500

Where did Dr. Conway teach before coming to OSU?

OU

500

Who was the x-ray crystallographer that first discovered the structure of DNA?

Rosalind Franklin 

500

What music festival was set to happen in the Caribbean, never happened, and is now under fire for false advertisement and fraud

Fyre

500

What Oklahoma politician was boo'ed at an OSU football game in 2016?

Mary Fallon