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100

The Mississippi state flower

What is a Magnolia?

100

The Memphis Grizzlies USED to play in this iconic Memphis landmark before moving to the FedEx Forum in 2004

What is the Memphis Pyramid?

100

The location of the 2026 APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition.

What is Los Angeles? 

100

This drug is commonly referred to as "the Red Devil"

What is Doxorubicin?

100

The best-selling drug of all time.

Lipitor

200

Mississippi's capital city is named after this historical figure

Who is Andrew Jackson?

200

This Tennessee native was born with the name Destiny Hope

Who is Miley Cyrus?

200

This is the number of regions in the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).

What is 8 regions?

200

This NSAID is derived from the bark of a willow tree

What is aspirin?

200

This soda was created by a pharmacist named John Smith Pemberton

What is Coca-Cola?

300

The largest lake in Mississippi

What is Sardis lake?

300

The number of pharmacy schools in Tennessee with an APhA-ASP chapter **not including satellite campuses**

What is 6?

300

The original name of the American Pharmacists Association.

What is The American Pharmaceutical Association?

300

This drug can cause a "smurf drug effect".

What is Amiodarone?

300

The state that was the first to mandate pharmacist licenses.

What is Louisiana?

400

NASA's largest rocket engine test site 

What is John C. Stennis Space Center?

400

This city hosted the 1982 World's Fair

What is Knoxville?

400

As of February 2025, this is approximately how many members the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) had.

What is 62,000?

400

Captopril is derived from ______.

What is snake venom?

400

This ancient civilization is believed to be the origin of the prescription symbol “Rx.” 

What is Egyptian?

500

This cleaning product was developed by Henry A. Cole, a Jackson resident, and contains pine oil.

What is Pine-Sol?

500

This soda was first formulated in 1940 in Tennessee.

What is Mountain Dew?

500

APhA Headquarters is located in this city

Washington, DC

500

This drug class began being used in oncology after soldiers in WWII were found to have decreased lymphocytes after being exposed to mustard gas.

What is nitrogen mustards?

500

Founded in 1821, this was the first pharmacy school in the U.S.

What is Philadelphia College of Pharmacy?