Doctor's Orders Trivia Quiz

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This Doctor's Orders Trivia Quiz has 196 questions: 69 easy, 78 medium and 49 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.

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20 of the 196 Medicine questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.

1. The red-and-white barber's pole goes back to when barbers did which medical job, cutting patients to let blood out?

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   Bloodletting

   Physicians weren't allowed to shed blood, so the local barber, already handy with a razor, often did the cutting.

2. Which German company, which started out making dyes, launched aspirin in 1899?

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   Bayer

   The same company also gave the world the brand name Heroin, at first sold as a cough medicine.

3. When your blood pressure shoots up only at the doctor's clinic, doctors call it what-colour 'coat' syndrome?

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   White

   The nerves of a clinic visit can raise blood pressure, so doctors may check it at home too.

4. When you cut yourself, which tiny blood cells clump together to help plug the wound?

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   Platelets

   They're made in your bone marrow. Their scientific name comes from the Greek word for 'clot'.

5. Which British actor, also TV's Sherlock, plays Marvel's surgeon-turned-sorcerer Doctor Strange?

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   Benedict Cumberbatch

   He first played the arrogant neurosurgeon in Marvel's 2016 film, directed by Scott Derrickson.

6. Because of a damaged leg, what does Dr. House always carry, sometimes hooking people with it?

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   Cane

   His thigh muscle was damaged after a missed diagnosis. The pain is behind his Vicodin habit.

7. Before writing Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle worked in which job?

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   Doctor

   Holmes was inspired by his Edinburgh teacher, surgeon Joseph Bell, who could read patients' lives at a glance.

8. During COVID-19, which clip-on finger gadget that measures blood oxygen became a must-have at home?

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   Pulse oximeter

   COVID could drop oxygen levels without people feeling it, called 'silent hypoxia'. The gadget cost about £20 in the UK.

9. In ER's first season, Noah Wyle's John Carter wasn't a doctor yet. What was he?

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   Medical student

   He was first written as comic relief, but grew into the show's main doctor and later ran the ER.

10. Which Argentine revolutionary, whose face is on countless T-shirts, qualified as a doctor in 1953?

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    Che Guevara

    He got his medical degree in June 1953 after travelling South America by motorbike, then met Fidel Castro in Mexico.

11. As a nod to Sherlock Holmes, which apartment number does Dr. House live at?

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    221B

    It's Holmes's Baker Street address. Even House's name is meant as a quiet homage to Holmes.

12. Médecins Sans Frontières won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. What is it called in English?

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    Doctors Without Borders

    It was founded in 1971 after the Biafran famine and sends medical teams to war zones and disasters.

13. Morphine, named after the Greek god of dreams, was first extracted from which flower?

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    Opium poppy

    Friedrich Sertürner extracted it in the early 1800s and named it after Morpheus because it makes people sleepy.

14. A modern version of the Hippocratic Oath, used in many medical schools, was written in 1964 by a dean whose surname is also an Italian dish. What is it?

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    Lasagna

    Louis Lasagna was academic dean at Tufts University's medical school. His version drops the Greek gods.

15. More than half of your blood is a yellowish liquid, not cells. What is it called?

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    Plasma

    It's mostly water with salts and proteins. Red cells, white cells and platelets float in it.

16. In House, who is the hospital's Dean of Medicine, the boss always trying to rein House in?

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    Lisa Cuddy

    Lisa Edelstein played her until the season 7 finale, after which Cuddy left the hospital.

17. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister and a former princess, introduced the bill in 1956 that created which famous Delhi hospital?

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    AIIMS

    She brought the bill to the Lok Sabha on 18 February 1956, reportedly without a prepared speech.

18. Those sudden 'hic' sounds start with a jerk of which big muscle under your lungs?

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    Diaphragm

    It's your main breathing muscle. Each hic is that muscle twitching on its own.

19. Which single entrance exam, taken by over 20 lakh students in 2023, decides who gets MBBS seats in India?

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    NEET

    NEET-UG's 2023 registrations set an all-time record. The maximum score is 720.

20. The modern doctors' pledge adopted by the World Medical Association in 1948 is named after which Swiss city?

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    Geneva

    It was written after WWII as an updated Hippocratic Oath and has been amended several times, most recently in 2017.

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