From: tool@panix.com
Mark Brader wrote:
> * 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
> 4. Penicillin was the first antibiotic and played a major role
> in ending the reign of infectious diseases as the leading cause
> 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
> 6. One of the most potent nerve toxins known to mankind has killed
> millions of people who have eaten spoiled food contaminated with
> 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
> 7. A chemical found in the bark of the cinchona tree was used
> by Quechua Indians of Peru and Bolivia to fight infection by
> the malaria parasite. British colonials in India added it
> 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
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