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Ultimate Health and the People Quiz
Ultimate Health and the People Quiz
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1
In what year was Pasteur's Germ Theory published?
1865
1761
1861
1965
2
What was John Snow famous for?
For discovering there is life after death
Discovering that cholera was a water-borne disease
Discovering that white walkers are extremely dangerous
Discovering that tuberculosis was a water-borne disease
3
Used in herbal remedies, honey has the ability to do what?
Reduce pain
Kill infections
Mend a broken arm
Attract bees
4
Who developed the theory of the Four Humours?
Chadwick
Galen
Vesalius
Hippocrates
5
What were the Liberal Reforms?
Policies to encourage freedom of speech
Policies to help keep politicians well fed
Policies to improve health and welfare
Policies to increase the population
6
Why did the Flagellants whip their bodies?
The inflict unnecessary pain
To prevent them catching cholera
To kill mosquitos
To prevent themselves getting the Black Death
7
What is an example of regression in public health from the Roman period to the Middle Ages?
Sewers needed rain water
Reservoirs could flood
Cesspits often leaked into water supplies
Public Baths were only cleaned once a week
8
What is 'miasma'?
Bad water
Heavenly air
Bad air
Air from Hell
9
In which year was the second Public Health Act passed?
1857
1865
1876
1875
10
What is an antiseptic?
Something that prevents a wound from becoming infected
Something that cures infection
Something that stops blood loss
A substance that puts a patient to sleep
11
Who designed the underground sewerage system for London?
Bazalgette
Balguette
Basilget
Baguette
12
Who published the book 'The Fabric of the Human Body'?
Harvey
Galen
Vesalius
Chadwick
13
What disease caused a problem during the Middle Ages?
Tuberculosis
Bubunic Plague
Cholera
Bubonic Plague
14
What disease was the first vaccine designed to prevent?
Smallpox
Typhoid
Cowpox
Cholera
15
What plant was used as a deterrent during the Great Plague?
Marijuana
Ipecacuanha
Ivy
Tobacco
16
47% of hospitals in the Middle Ages provided what?
Care for lepers
Care for the sick
Shelter to the poor travellers and pilgrims
Housed the poor and elderly
17
Who discovered x ray technology?
Wilhelm Roentgen
Harold Gillies
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie
18
Which of these anaesthetics was discovered first?
Laughing gas
Ether
Chloroform
19
Who discovered penicillin?
Vesalius
Galen
Fleming
Harvey
20
What was the name of Chadwick's report?
The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population
Life and Labour of the People in London
The unnecessarily long titled report on public health
The Sanitary report on the working conditions in London
21
Who discovered that carbolic acid could be used to help prevent infection?
James Simpson
Edward Jenner
Gerhard Domagk
Joseph Lister
22
What are Crick and Watson famous for?
Discovering DNA means did not 'appen
Solving murders
Discovering vaccinations
Discovering the structure of DNA
23
In which war did Florence Nightingale serve as a nurse?
Second World War
Boer War
First World War
Crimean War
24
What does Laissez-Faire mean?
Determination and motivation
a lazy fairy
Not get involved in something
Lazy politicians
25
What were the three main problems in surgery throughout time?
Infection, bleeding, screaming patients
Pus, pain, blood loss
Blood loss, pain, infection
26
What would physicians use in the Middle Ages to diagnose and treat illness?
urine charts and astrology
Saliva chart and astrology
faeces plate and philosophy
Urine chart and psychology
27
Who did Florey and Chain get money from to develop Penicillin?
Britain
Churchill
Fleming
USA
28
What was invented in 1816 that doctors still use today?
Ether
Antibiotics
Stethoscope
Sick bowl
29
Which animals did Galen dissect?
Pigs and Apes
Pigs and chickens
Guinea pigs and hamsters
Rabbits and chicken
30
What was the name of the first hospital to be founded in London in 1123?
St Bartholemew's
St Matthew's
St Peter's
St George's
31
Why was William Harvey important to medicine?
He discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body
He discovered how the lungs worked
He proved Galen wrong
He discovered that blood came in different groups
32
Which part of the body should not be treated when the moon is in Pisces?
The hands
The torso
The feet
The head
33
What did Paul Ehrlich discover?
Ibuprofen
Paracetemol
Salvarsan 606
Prontosil
34
How much money did Parliament give Jenner to develop his vaccine?
£30,000
£5,000
£400,000
£120,000
35
Who discovered that there were different blood groups?
James Simpson
Joseph Lister
Karl Landsteiner
Ignaz Semmelweis
36
There were no public health laws in the middle ages
False
True
37
What was the name given to an untrained healer in the Renaissance?
A tweet
A moo
A woof
A quack
38
In what year was the NHS set up?
1848
1942
1958
1948
39
In which year were vaccines made compulsory (not enforced)?
1852
1842
1862
1872
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What was the name of the important chemical inside 'Magic Bullets'?
Sulonamide
Sulphuric Acid
Sulphoxamide
Sulphonamide
