Explorit's Medical Quiz: Rx #1

SIX QUESTIONS:

QUESTION 1: Which Greek physician
(ca. 460-377 BC) is known as the Father of Medicine?
Plato
Hippocrates
Aristotle
Archimedes
QUESTION 2: A human adult has about 5 litres (nine pints) of blood circulating throughout his or her body. How many red blood cells (erythrocytes) are there in each cubic millimetre (microlitre) of that blood?
5,000
500,000
1 million
5 million
QUESTION 3: How much does the adult human brain weigh?
8 ozs
1.5 lbs
2.5 lbs
5 lbs
QUESTION 4: On a physician's prescription (written instructions for the pharmacist who will supply the prescribed medicine) which of the following abbreviations indicates that the medicine is to be taken "three times a day"?
qh
prn
tid
QUESTION 5: Parts of the following plants contain poisons which can be deadly depending upon the amount ingested. Which of these plants contains the alkaloid atropine?
Mistletoe
Deadly Nightshade
Liana
Death Cap
QUESTION 6 : Mary Mallon, a cook in New York City, was the cause (in about 1900) of as many as 50 cases of what disease?
Cholera
Typhoid
Legionnaires Disease

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