Which difficult genome regions include centromeres and telomeres?
Answer
heterochromatic regions
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which genome regions were the original HGP plans mainly designed to sequence?
Answer
euchromatic regions
What Moroccan condiment is made by curing lemons in salt and their own juice?
Answer
Preserved lemon
Bakoula is a Moroccan salad of cooked greens such as what leaves?
Answer
Mallow leaves
Which water aromatizes the almond paste in gazelle ankles?
Answer
Orange blossom water
Moroccan amlu is associated with which region?
Answer
Souss
The Arabic word for tagine is derived from which ancient language?
Answer
Ancient Greek
Fleming described his penicillin discovery to which club on 13 February 1929?
Answer
Medical Research Club
Which U.S. wartime board put penicillin under an allocation system in July 1943?
Answer
War Production Board
Fleming noted penicillin's usefulness for isolating which influenza-linked bacillus?
Answer
Pfeiffer's bacillus
Which Irish botanist first identified Fleming's mould specimen as Penicillium rubrum?
Answer
C. J. La Touche
What is the current scientific name of Fleming's original penicillin-producing mould?
Answer
Penicillium rubens
Who experimented with deep-submergence penicillin production at NRRL?
Answer
Kenneth Bryan Raper
Which Oxford doctor volunteered to find human trial cases for penicillin?
Answer
Charles Fletcher
Which base was added in Heatley's reverse-extraction method for penicillin?
Answer
sodium hydroxide
Which less flammable solvent did Chain suggest as an alternative to ether?
Answer
amyl acetate
Which acid was added during the Oxford team's penicillin extraction process?
Answer
phosphoric acid
What acid was added to make strain Q-176 produce the highly potent penicillin G?
Answer
phenylacetic acid
Which woman recovered after receiving penicillin at Yale New Haven Hospital in March 1942?
Answer
Anne Sheafe Miller
Which New York hospital treated the first U.S. penicillin patients in 1940?
Answer
Presbyterian Hospital
What disease did the first two U.S. patients treated with penicillin have?
Answer
bacterial endocarditis
Which Oxford researcher developed a penicillin assay using agar nutrient plates?
Answer
Norman Heatley
At which Oxford school did Florey's team begin penicillin research in 1939?
Answer
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Which journal published Fleming's 1929 paper on Penicillium cultures?
Answer
British Journal of Experimental Pathology
Which former research student examined Fleming's culture plates with him in September 1928?
Answer
Daniel Merlin Pryce
What was South Korea's first instant ramen brand, launched on 15 September 1963?
Answer
Samyang Ramen
On what exact date did Chikin Ramen first go on sale?
Answer
August 25, 1958
Which director wrote and directed the 1985 ramen comedy film Tampopo?
Answer
Juzo Itami
Who founded the first specialized ramen shop, Rairaiken?
Answer
Kan'ichi Ozaki
What was the first specialized ramen shop, opened in Tokyo in 1910?
Answer
Rairaiken
Sūrātanmen is the ramen version of which Sichuan-style soup?
Answer
Hot and sour soup
Tantan-men is the Japanese version of which Sichuan noodle dish?
Answer
Dan dan noodles