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Medicine Trivia Quiz
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Medicine Trivia Quiz
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1. In December 2020, FDA issued its first emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer in partnership with what German company?

2. What two colors are prominently featured on the flag of the city of Philadelphia? These colors were chosen in commemoration of the city's prior Swedish governance.

3. Winning a total of three championships, what was the name of Philadelphia's Arena Football League team, which operated from 2004-2008 and again from 2011-2019?

4. PM is the term broadly used to reference the customization of healthcare with treatments and products tailored to a subgroup of patients rather than a 'one-drug-fits-all' approach. Unsurprisingly, the 'M' stands for medicine. What does the 'P' stand for?

5. The five categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded are Peace, Chemistry, Literature, Physiology/Medicine, and what? Note that the Noble Memorial Prize in Economics does not count because it is technically a different reward.

6. Thrombocytopenia, which may cause symptoms such as easy bruising or bleeding gums, is an abnormally low level of what specific component of blood?

7. Which term describes treatments that kill immature heartworms in the blood?

8. What Philadelphian R&B group spent over 50 cumulative weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 charts with their iconic style of emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies? The band was named after a New Edition song title.

9. What condition is typically diagnosed with the Ishihara test, which shows numbers within fields of dots?

10. According to the 2020 rankings from US News & World Report, what university is home to the best Medical School that is not on the eastern seaboard of the US?

11. Within 5 years, when did California become the first U.S. state to legalize medical marijuana usage?

12. What animal based service, founded in 2013 in San Diego, CA, allows for Vets and patients to connect directly through their app? Their first law is to improv the lives of any 'Pet' as much as possible.

13. What is the medical term for a sideways curvature of the spine which most commonly occurs in young adults during a growth spurt?

14. In 1899 Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark, to produce what drug?

15. Medical sonography is a diagnostic imaging technique most often associated with what 'U' auditory word?

16. What ancient man wrote a work of political philosophy titled simply 'Politics'? Admittedly that's a translated title. The work is divided into eight books and ranges from discussing the instability of tyrannies to pontificating on marriage and children.

17. In anatomy, what six-letter H-word is the medical term for a person's big toe?

18. What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes into spasms?

19. Also known by its generic name of pembrolizumab, what Merck immunotherapy, used to treat many types of cancer, is projected to become the world's top-selling drug by 2025?

20. What Greek physician is considered the 'father of modern medicine?'

21. When a surgeon speaks of an MVR, they likely mean the replacement of what valve in a patient's heart?

22. Dating back to 3600 BCE in Persia, water-filled 'bladder' mattresses were made from an oft-discarded organ of a particular domesticated animal. What is this animal?

23. Known in French as 'la rage', what is the name of the viral disease that is derived from the Latin for 'madness'? This disease features in a Disney movie of 1957 starring Tommy Kirk.

24. What 'G' drug is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory used to treat Osteoarthritis in dogs? The drug is manufactured by Elanco.

25. What P-word means both an infantry formation in ancient Greece, and any one of the bones in your fingers and toes?