Pharmacology
The brand-name for semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, which is a treatment for diabetes but has since been a popular weight-loss drug
What is Ozempic?
This is the leading cause of death in the world, claiming ~17.9 million lives globally every year.
What is heart disease?
This is the name of the evil lion in Lion King who overthrow the protagonist’s dad and claimed his crown.
Who is Scar?
This is the motto of UBC.
What is Tuum Est (It is Yours)?
This protagonist from Super Mario Bros was not present in Super Smash Bros.
What is Toad?
This is the European equivalent of acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol.
What is Paracetamol?
This condition is known for airway inflammation and muscle tightening and is characterized by dyspnea, cough, and wheezing.
What is asthma?
The castle in Walt Disney World Florida was built based on this Disney film.
What is Cinderella?
This is the number of Nobel laureates that UBC have.
What is 8?
This mobile game was removed from app stores by its developer because it bought him intense emotional stress as a result of the game’s popularity.
What is flappy bird?
In addition to treating pain and headaches, aspirin can be used to help prevent these cardiovascular events.
What is heart attack/ stroke/myocardial infarction
This is a group of disease that causes progressive neurodegeneration by converting normal proteins in the brain into abnormal, infectious forms.
What is prion disease?
This is the name of the world-renowned restaurant in Ratatouille, which shares a last name with the late chef who inspired the protagonist (Remy) to follow his culinary dreams.
What is Gusteau’s?
These are the 3 founding faculties of UBC when it was first accepting students in 1915.
What are LFS (initially called Agriculture), Arts, and Applied Sciences?
The creator of this video game character was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing.
What is Pac-Man?
Before synthetic insulin was available, early treatment for diabetes—sometimes triggering allergic reactions in patient— were extracted from these two animals.
Objects appearing larger/smaller than they are, an altered sense of time, and distorted body images are the unusual perceptions of this syndrome.
What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
This individual drew all of Jack’s artwork in the movie Titanic, including the iconic sketch of Rose.
Who is James Cameron?
In a university-wide poll ran by the Ubyssey in 1933, students voted for this animal, now known as the ‘Thunderbirds’, as the official mascot of UBC.
What is seagull?
This angry bird character acts as a boomerang when you touch the screen.
(Specify the colour of the angry bird)
What is the green/teal angry bird?
This psychoactive street drug is currently seeking FDA approval as an enhancement to psychotherapy.
What is MDMA (ecstasy)?
This is the irrational belief that people with anatidaephobia have that originated from a comic depicting a man being alone in his office with a certain animal lurking behind him
(In other words, what is anatidaephobia?)
What is the fear that a duck may be watching you?
Animators at DreamWorks struggled working on The Prince of Egypt were later reassigned to work on this famous movie.
What is Shrek?
The apple trees planted near UBC’s TRIUMF lab is special for this reason.
What is the direct descendants of the apple tree that inspired Newton to compose his theory of gravity?
This is the number of koopalings that Mario has to fight before encountering Bowser in Super Mario Bros.
What is 8?