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What is the chicken pox?
This disease is very common among kids around the age of 9. The symptoms will show as red bumps. When most people were born they were vaccinated for this.
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What is Titanic?
This romantic movie tells a story about a British Passenger Liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg.
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What is a health department?
In 1799 the first this was established in Boston and Paul Revere was named the first health officer.
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What is water?
Common name for dihydrogen monoxide.
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Who is Mary Ellen Withrow?
A native of Marion, she served as the 40th Treasurer of the United States from March 1, 1994 to January 20, 2001.
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What is COVID-19?
Common name for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
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Who is Lorde?
"Royals" by this artist was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards and ended up winning.
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What is Kansas?
The Spanish Flu of 1918 actually began with the first confirmed cases in Haskell County of this US state.
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What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
One will find this geographical line encircling the world at 23.5 degrees south latitude.
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What is Whirlpool?
This Marion corporation is its largest employer with nearly 3,000 employees.
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What is cancer?
This disease has hundreds of forms such as breast, lung, and brain that are due to abnormal growth of the body cells.
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Who is Belle?
The Beauty, from Beauty and the Beast.
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What is the Quran?
“One should keep away from a leper as one keeps away from a lion,” instructed this sacred text in its guide to pandemics. “If you hear of a plague in a land, do not enter it; and if it breaks out in the land where you stay, do not leave.”
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What is Kelvin?
The lowest possible temperature equals zero on this temperature scale.
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Who is Buckeye Chuck?
Ohio's official weather-predicting and State Groundhog known for predicting the arrival of spring on Groundhog Day calls Marion home.
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What is Ebola?
This disease which was named after and found along this river in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976.
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Who is Al Pacino?
This actor is well known for playing mobsters, especially Michael Corleone in The Godfather films.
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What is smallpox?
Charles IV of Spain launched history’s first global immunization campaign. Pathogens from a diseased cow passed arm-to-arm in a human chain from the Canary Islands to the Americas and then on to the Philippines helped stop the spread of this disease.
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What is the Achilles tendon?
This tendon pins the calf muscle to the heel bone.
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What is Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative?
Tri-Rivers is home to RAMTEC, which stands for this.
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What is "And The Band Played On"?
This 1993 film stars Matthew Modine as Dr. Don Francis investigating an increased rate of death from unexplained sources in homosexual men leading to the identification of the AIDS outbreak.
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Who is Akon?
This rapper and songwriter's real name is "Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam".
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What is tuberculosis?
Called “the romantic disease,” this affliction was hailed in Victorian times as poetic inspiration. Franz Kafka, John Keats, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky all romanticized the disease. Victor Hugo had it cripple the spine of Notre Dame’s famous hunchback.
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What is Einsteinium?
This element is denoted on the Periodic Table as Es.
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Who is Brian Agler?
This previous WNBA coach of the Dallas Wings, Seattle Storm, and the Los Angeles Sparks graduated from Elgin High School in 1976.
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