1. Pitt researchers recently found that donated platelets can be stored up to 21 days when chilled. What is their standard shelf life at room temperature?
A. 1 to 3 days
B. 5 to 7 days
C. 7 to 10 days

2. With Steelers season up and running, now is a good time to test your team knowledge. How many Pitt School of Medicine faculty members are on the team’s staff? (Bonus point if you can name the head team physician/orthopaedic surgeon.)
A. Seven
B. Three
C. Five

3. More than a century ago, on a rainy September day, steam shovels broke ground for the Cathedral of Learning. True or False: Chancellor Samuel B. McCormick dreamed it would be a place where students would find “wisdom and faith—in steel and stone, in character and thought.”

1. B
2. C (James P. Bradley is the head team physician and orthopaedic surgeon.)
3. False (It was Chancellor John G. Bowman who expressed that dream.)

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