Doctor

Adults have how many teeth?

32

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is located in what city?

Boston

How many bones does the human body contain?

206

How many pints of blood are there in a human body?

8

Johns Hopkins Hospital is located in what city?

Baltimore

Kids have how many teeth?

20

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital was started by who?

Danny Thomas

The first human organ to be transplanted was what?

Kidney

The Hospital for Sick Children is located in what city?

Toronto

What form of dementia was discovered by a German neuropathologist in 1901?

Alzeheimer’s

What is average human body temperature?

98.6 degrees fahrenheit

What is the name of the hospital on the television show “House”?

Princeton-Painsboro Teaching Hospital

Which of these vaccines caused more deaths than the disease it was supposed to prevent?

Swine flu

What is the name of the tool that surgeons use to cut open bodies?

Scalpel

Which joint is called articulatio radiocarpea in Latin?

The wrist

Where in the body can you find cones and rods?

In the eyes

What is a person that is achluophobic afraid of?

Darkness

Roughly how many bones are in the human body?

206

What's it called when you're afraid of being in the same place as a lot of other people?

Agoraphobia

Which of these blood groups does not produce antibodies against any of the other blood groups?

AB

What is the function of the hormone erythropoietin?

Controls red blood cell production

What is the largest bone in a human body?

Femur

What's the name of the part of the brain often referred to as our emotional center?

The limbic system

Near which body organ can you find the thymus?

Near the heart

A "foie gras" is a kind of food made from an organ of an animal that we humans eat and enjoy. Which organ is it?

Liver

Tooth enamel is comprised mainly of...

Hydroxyapatite

A number of hospitals around the world are operated by the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. What is this organization often called?

Shriners

A person who attempts to lose weight to the point of starvation might be suffering from what?

Anorexia nervosa

How many bones does the human body contain?

206

How many ribs do men have?

How many ribs do women have?

24

In the first hippocratic oath, who did the doctor swear to?

Apollo

National Doctor's Day is celebrated in what month?

March

The hardest part of the human body is what?

Tooth enamel

The oldest mental health hospital in de world exists in what city?

London

The skin on a human body measures between 1/2 mm and how many mm thick?

6 mm

The standard Rorschach ink blot test has how many inkblots?

10

What is SAD an acronym for?

Seasonal Affective Disorder

What is the oldest hospital in the United States? 

Pennsylvania Hospital

Who was the first doctor to wear rubber gloves during surgery? 

William Halstead

Benjamin Franklin founded which of these hospitals?

Pennsylvania Hospital

What illness is named after a baseball player who played for the New York Yankees in the 20s and 30s?

ALS

Who first suggested the use of contact lenses?

Leonardo Da Vinci

How many joints are there in the human body?

360

Around how many medical devices are left inside of surgery recipients every year?

6000

Who was the recipient of the first transplanted kidney?

Ruth Tucker

Where in the body are the white blood cells formed?

In the bone marrow

What is a person that is an acrophobic afraid of?

Heights

What's the Latin name for the tongue?

Lingua

What's typical for a person suffering from borderline personality disorder?

Emotionally instable personality

The outermost layer of the skin is called the epidermis, but what is the layer that follows called?

The Dermis

What is the name of the French sociologist responsible for the "social conscience"?

Emile Durkheim

Which is neurotransmitter that can be imbalanced in a person who suffers from depression?

Serotonin

According to doctor Duncan MacDougall, a human soul weighs how many grams?

21

Where in the body can you find islets of Langerhans?

In the pancreas

How many adrenal glands does a human have?

2

What's the name of the pigment that decides the color of our eyes?

Melanin

How many permanent teeth does a human have?

32

Which of these is NOT the name of a disease?

Dave's syndrome

Which of these substances CAN'T the human body produce?

Benzodiazepine

Anorexia is a disease that can be fatal if it's not treated. What is the full name of this disease?

Anorexia nervosa

Which of the following hormones plays an essential role in food digestion?

Pepsin

What is manic depression also referred to as?

Bipolar disorder

Doctor E. Donnall Thomas is best-known for his work with what?

Bone marrow transplants

How many bones does the human body contain?

206

The Mihintale Hospital could be found in what country?

Sri-Lanka

What British doctor was the founder of antiseptic medicine?

Joseph Lister

What chromosomal disorder results in a small stature, low muscle tone and an upward slanting of the eyes?

Down Syndrome

What doctor conducted the first successful bone marrow transplant?

Georges Mathe

What doctor discovered the causes of tuberculosis and cholera?

Robert Koch

What doctor is famous for studying sexual behavior?

Alfred Kinsey

What doctor is often regarded as the father of the modern heart transplant?

Norman Shumway

What doctor specializes in treating children?

Pediatrician

What eating disorder involves periods of binging and then periods of purging?

Bulimia nervosa

What is the name of the doctor who performed the first face transplant surgery? 

Abraham Thomas

What is the name of the doctor who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?

Daniel Williams

What kind of doctor deals with matters of the heart?

Cardiologist

What mental illness is characterized by periods of mania and depression?

Bipolar disorder

What nurse is known as the "Lady with the Lamp?"

Florence Nightingale

What nurse opened the “British Hotel” during the Crimean War?

Mary Seacole

Which of these Ancient Greeks is often called the “Father of Western Medicine”?

Hippocrates

Which of these doctors helped found the Red Cross?

Louis Appia

Who established St. Christopher’s Hospice, the first hospice-only medical facility?

Dame Cicely Saunders

Who is considered the founder of field surgery?

Nikolay Pirogov

Who was the first African-American to work as a trained nurse?

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Who was the first English woman to qualify as a doctor?

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States?

Elizabeth Blackwell

Who was the founder of paediatric cardiology?

Helen Brooke Taussig

Which of these doctors was vital to the development of germ theory?

John Snow

How many "rooms" does the human heart have?

4

What African-American doctor pioneered in the field of storing blood plasma?

Charles Drew

Who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States?

Margaret Sanger

The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital can be found in what country?

South Africa

Where in the body do we find rods and cones?

The eyes

How many milk teeth does a human have?

20

What is the name of the psychologist who constructed the Hierarchy of Needs?

Abraham Maslow

If you suffer from akathisia, what is your problem?

You can't sit still

Hypergraphia is a condition that sometimes appears if you suffer from mania. What happens when you get hypergraphia?

A strong urge to write

Which of the following characters in Greek mythology has given her name to one of the psychologist Carl Jung's theories?

Electra

What are premolars, molars and incisors?

Teeth