Under the Microscope
Who dun it?
Movie Mania
Breaking News
I'm feeling lucky!!
100
Caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis, one to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu like symptoms develop. Swollen and painful lymph nodes occur in the area closest to where the bacteria entered the skin. Swept through Asia, Europe, and Africa in the 14th century and killed an estimated 50 million people.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
Nineteenth century French chemist and microbiologist - known for introducing the pasteurization process.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
A fictitious but lethal virus, spread through a single bite, is turning healthy people into something vicious, unthinking and forcing people to scale the Jerusalem wall.
What is World War Z?
(100 extra if you can name a vampire movie starring the lead actor)
100
The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with state and local officials were investigating two separate outbreaks of E. coli infections that have been linked to food served at this restaurant in 2016.
What is the Chipotle?
(Extra 100 if you say the entire name of the organism)
100
Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth
Who is WALL-E?
200
This Scottish physician/scientist received the Nobel Prize in 1945 and was one of the scientists credited with discovering penicillin.
Who is Alexander Flemming?
200
Scientist wanders alone through New York City, calling out for other possible survivors, and works on finding a cure for the plague using his own immune blood.
What is I am Legend?
200
This microscopic life makes beautiful glass houses of silica.
Diatoms
300
These lack metabolic machinery of their own to generate energy or to synthesize proteins, so they depend on host cells to carry out these vital functions.
Viruses
300
Born in the United Kingdom in the 1800s, this physician who studied the Cholera outbreak of 1854, is considered one of the first Epidemiologists. Currently, the king in the North.
Who is John Snow?
300
This Broadway musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
What is RENT?
400
Starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas and the HIV Virus.
What is Philadelphia?
500
This organisms gives Blue Stilton cheese it's blue-green mold veins.
Penicillium roqueforti