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History Quiz: Disease and Medicine - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 216 times
- The average score is 7 of 15
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the 19th-century physician John Snow famous for? | Curtailing a cholera outbreak | 85%
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| What does trepanation, an ancient surgical practice, involve? | Drilling or scraping a hole into the skull | 75%
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| Inca surgeons were able to perform successful skull surgery. | True | 70%
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| Hippocrates believed that, ultimately, the gods were responsible for diseases. | False | 57%
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| During the Black Death, plague was reportedly introduced into Europe via Genoese traders fleeing the disease when it struck the city of Kaffa. What did the Mongols who had previously been attacking the city do in an effort to infect the inhabitants? | Catapult infected corpses into the city | 55%
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| Which physician, in 1847, proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions while working at Vienna General Hospital? | Ignaz Semmelweis | 47%
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| Who produced the first accurate diagram of the human spine? | Leonardo da Vinci | 42%
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| In which two modern countries did Ebola first appear? | Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan | 40%
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| Which of these texts contains no information about medicine? | The Book of Healing | 40%
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| Which of these people didn't die of influenza or a complication of influenza during the Spanish flu pandemic? | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 32%
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| Which of these was invented in Australia? | Electronic Pacemaker | 30%
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| What was the first pandemic of the disease plague? | Plague of Justinian | 30%
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| What is the ancient Chinese physician Hua Tuo known for? | Being the first person in China to use anaesthesia during surgery | 28%
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| Which disease caused an epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793? | Yellow fever | 26%
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| The earliest known prosthesis, dating as far back as 950 BC, was a replacement for which body part? | Toe | 15%
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