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Medical Jeopardy
Sterile Procedures
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These type of bacteria are unable to
grow in the presence of oxygen
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What are anaerobic bacteria?
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Lysol is an example of one
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What is a disinfectant?
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It is a machine that uses vibrations to
remove bloody debris but does not
disinfect or sterilize at all
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What is an ultrasonic cleaner? (same
as a jewelry cleaner)
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It is the number of layers of wrap that
every pack for the autoclave must
have
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What is two? (outer one is for the non
sterile nurse to open for the sterile
nurse to then open for the surgeon)
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Tuberculosis and tetanus have this in
common
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What are bacilli?
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The two modalities (physical forces)
that are at work in the autoclave to kill
microorganisms
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What are high temperature and high
pressure?
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The time required to a proper surgical
scrub
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What is ten minutes? (for both the
surgeon’s hands and the patient’s
skin)
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It is an inanimate surface that may
carry microorganisms
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What is a fomite?
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It means a “hospital infection”
generated by healthcare workers
transmitted to patients
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What is a “nosocomial” infection?
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It is a type of bacterium that generally
causes abscess formation and
purulence (pus)
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(Pus is dead bacteria and the white
blood cells that killed them)
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What is staphylococcus?
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It is an example of a disease caused
by a spirochete
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What is syphilis ( also cholera?)
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It is a group of diseases generally
carried by insects
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What are Rickettsia? (Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever and typhus both carried
by insects)
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It is a dish commonly used to culture
bacteria for identification
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What is a Petri dish?
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It is a machine used to keep bacteria
growing overnight at body temperature
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What is an incubator? (98.6 degree
Fahrenheit and 37 degrees on the
Celsius (centigrade) scale; i.e. normal
human body temperature)
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It is the name of the growth medium
used in Petri dishes to grow bacteria
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What is agar? (carbohydrate and some
protein)
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It is the seed-form of fungi that helps
them survive inhospitable
environments
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What are spores? (even boiling water
and Clorox cannot kill spores!)
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It is the single most important method
of breaking the chain of infection cycle
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What is hand washing?
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He is credited with creating the germ
theory of disease
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Who was Louis Pasteur?
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He is credited with developing most of
the culturing techniques we use in
microbiology labs
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Who was Robert Koch?
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It is a chemical which literally means,
“against life”
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What is an “anti-biotic?” (in this case,
the life is not yours but that of a
bacterium)
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It is a chemical which literally means
“against dirt”
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What is an anti-septic? (septic=filth,
like a septic tank for poop)
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The type of bacteria that only infects
people who’s resistance is low or have
a gaping wound which could be
infected by even non-pathogens
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What is an “opportunistic bacterium?”
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Any bacteria, pathogenic or otherwise,
can contaminate a wound if left
untreated and this means they are
opportunistic, not necessarily
pathogenic by themselves
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This disease is anaerobic and
associated with puncture wounds only
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What is tetanus?
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Mr. Clean and Pine sol are examples
of these
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What are “disinfectants?”
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It is an example of the most feared
nosocomial infection
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What is MRSA or methicillin resistant
staphylococcus aureus?
(“Superbugs!”)
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The science that deals with the study
and culturing organisms in order to
understand disease better
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What is microbiology(invented by Dr.
Robert Koch)?
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This type of chemical solution is used
for cold sterilization?
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What is a detergent? (ex. The blue
stuff in the barber’s jar for combs)
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It is the place in the hospital where
patients with airborne bacteria are kept
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What is “isolation”?
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The nose, the eyes, the rectum and
skin are all potential parts of this link in
the chain of infection
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What are “portals of entry”?
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What HIPAA stands for
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What is “Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act”? i.e. HIPAA
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If mosquitos hatch their eggs in your
pond water outside your house, which
carry a rickettsia later to a host by a
portal of entry, then the pond with the
infected mosquito eggs becomes this
in the chain of infection cycles
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What is a reservoir?(anywhere
bacteria can live until they infect us)
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Another reservoir could be an abscess
hiding somewhere in your body to one
day open up and spread all over you
like in your urinary bladder, tooth
decay site, etc.
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It is the serous lining of the abdominal
cavity
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What is the peritoneum?
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It means a bulging of one’s abdominal
wall
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What is a hernia?
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It means an interruption in the
continuity of the skin
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What is an ulcer?
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The state in which Fort Stockton, Fort
Davis and the McDonald Observatory
are all found
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Texas
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Of the following, syphilis, gonorrhea
and Chlamydia, the one that is most
common STD in the U.S.
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Chlamydia by far (common in college
age kids) and far less of concern than
syphilis and gonorrhea. Causes bad
odors and is often confused with a
yeast infection in girls that won’t go
away, because it’s a bacteria not a
yeast; different meds needed)
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This type of microorganism is the only
one that makes beer, wine, cheese
and yoghurt
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What is yeast?
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Five routes for administering a
medication
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Orally, Intravenously, intramuscularly,
trans dermally, sublingually, rectally,
subcutaneously, by inhalation
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The parasympathetic nervous system
relies on this as its unique
neurotransmitter
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What is acetylcholine?
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These two fibrils comprise the muscle
fiber
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What are actin and myosin?
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The Nodes of Ranvier assure this
rapid type of neural conduction
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What is “saltatory conduction”?
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The father of middle eastern medicine
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Rhazi al Razi
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The first craniotomy was probably
done by him
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Imhotep
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Because of his work we have penicillin
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Who was Sir Alexander Fleming ?
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It means the “inner portion” of any
organ
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What is the medulla?
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It is the type of cartilage found on the
epiphyses of long bones for
articulation
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What is hyaline cartilage?
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It is a type of fx associated with many
small fragments of bone left behind
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What is a comminuted fx?
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One tab prn hs means this
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Take one as needed at bedtime
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Three elements of a contract
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Offer, acceptance and consideration
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This specialist does biopsies and
autopsies
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What is a pathologist?
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To be DNR you’ll need this legal
document
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What is a living will?
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Petit mal and grand mal are the two
types of this
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What are epileptic seizures?
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Coordination, posture and balance are
derived from this site in the brain
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What is the cerebellum?
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A strep or staph infection on the skin of
a young child is commonly known as
this
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What is impetigo?
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The feared side effect of delayed tx of
children with streptococcal infections
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What is rheumatic fever (may lead to
heart valve damage and a murmur
requiring heart sx)
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Four signs of inflammation/infection
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Erythema, hyperthermia, edema, dolor
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The two cranial bones which anchor
the teeth
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What are the mandible and maxilla?
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Two cranial bones with sinus’
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Frontal and maxillary
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The kind of tooth #8 is
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What is an incisor? Your two front
teeth
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The type of structures one finds
smooth muscle in
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What are body organs?
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Three classes of all mental disorders
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Neuroses (nervous disorders like bad
habits)
Psychoses (delusional disorders like
schizophrenia)
Personality disorders (schizoid,
paranoid, compulsive types)
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The organization that has set the
guidelines for “standard/universal
precautions” in hospitals and medical
offices
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What is the center for disease control?
(CDC in Atlanta)? Best way to prevent
the spread of Superbugs like MRSA’s
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The type of organism that cannot live
outside a host’s body and alters it’s
host’s DNA when it infects them
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What is a virus?
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The procedure for treating a boil or
abscess surgically
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What is an incision and drainage?
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In order to determine which antibiotic
to use on a patient to treat an infection,
you’ll need to do this lab test first
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What is a culture and sensitivity?
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The sensitivity tests the bacterium’s
vulnerability to our disks of antibiotic in
the Petri dish)
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The doctor who utilized the first
antiseptic for surgeons prior to
operating
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Who was Dr. Joseph Lister?
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He wrote “The Circle’s Corner” and
“The Caves of Norman Island”
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Dr. Ricken
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She sang the song “At Last” at the
inauguration of Obama to which he
and the first lady danced the first
dance together as the first couple
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Beyonce
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UConn won the NCAA championship.
What Ivy League university is nearby
and in Connecticut as well?
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Yale U.
Their mascot is BOKO the Bobcat
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Texas State University in San Marcos
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The game played by the lead
character in the hit film Slumdog
Millionaire in which he won all his
money
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“So you want to be a millionaire”
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Opening today in theatres, Kevin
Costner’s new film involves what event
that goes on nationally this month
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The NFL draft
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What Keanu Reaves and Barack
Obama have in common
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Both are Hawaiians
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The minimum section of brain you
would need to maintain vital signs
even if you are in a coma although it’s
a vegetative coma
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What is the medulla oblongata?
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The instrument you need to surgically
implant a band around a patient’s
esophagus in order to restrict their
eating
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What is a laparoscope? (“Lapar” is the
Greek word for “abdomen”) so the
procedure is a “Lap-banding”
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Complete this run; George, Paul, John
and -------
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Ringo (the Beatles)
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The space between the surgeon and
the patient during sterile surgery is
called this
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The “golden area”.
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The definition of a calorie
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The amount of heat from burning a
food sample that can raise the
temperature of one liter of water, one
degree centigrade
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The outer portion of an organ
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The cortex
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Three side effects of cortisone
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Water retention, fat accumulation, less
resistance to disease, hypertension,
blanching of skin, elevated blood sugar
2 answers/2 points!
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We give a dose of attenuated
(weakened) germs to prevent disease;
it’s a procedure called this and who
invented this procedure?
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A vaccine and Louis Pasteur
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What the origin of the word “trivia” is?
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In old Rome, where three roads or
“Via’s cross and folks exchanged
gossip of trivial information with each
other so it’s a Tri-via
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The most common emetic
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ipecac
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It’s a university located directly
between Austin and San Antonio
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Texas State U.
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I hate flying airplanes: The “terminal”
sounds so final and deadly because
the word “terminal” also means
this……
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The END!