| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Sep 24 05:05AM > * Game 2, Round 1 - Current Events (excerpt) > 2. Who replaced Hillary Clinton as the US secretary of state > last week? John Kerry > * Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Drugs from Plants or Animals > 1. Aspirin or ASA was originally extracted from which plant source? willow bark > of death. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish doctor > Alexander Fleming. He discovered and isolated it from a common > contaminant of his bacterial cultures. What contaminant? bread mold > 5. In the 1890s scientists at Bayer discovered and marketed > a powerful painkiller that competed with Aspirin. This drug, > extracted from a common red flower, had a trademarked name: what? morphine > the bacteria that produce this toxin. This nerve toxin has > been purified and is used routinely today in medical clinics. > What is the trademarked name of this drug? Botox > to a medicinal water to fight malaria, and combined it with a > little gin to moderate the taste -- the origin of gin-and-tonic. > This drug is still an important anti-malarial today. What is it? quinine > 10. Galantamine is a drug used to treat the early stages of > Alzheimer's disease. It was discovered in the 1950s in Bulgaria > and was produced from the bulbs of which plant family? crocus; tulip -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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