We get a daily email feed "Inside Hopkins" that includes a "Hopkins Trivia Challenge". Here's today's:
Question: What sideline did Max Brödel (1870-1941), founding director of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, pursue during the 1920s and early '30s?
Answer: During Prohibition, the German-born Brödel was given beer yeast obtained in New York by his great friend, famed newspaperman H.L. Mencken. Brödel grew and perfected it in the Hopkins bacteriological laboratory, creating a pure strain that he then used to provide Mencken and other friends with good beer throughout the Prohibition drought.
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