Quiztime Doctors Quiz

1. In times of old, why did doctors put frogs in a patient's mouth?
To cure Whooping Cough
2. What medical term is used to describe the process that imitates the work of the kidneys?
Dialysis
3. What name is given to the medical oath taken by doctors?
Hippocratic Oath
4. Which human organ produces insulin?
Pancreas
5. Which one of the gospel writers of the Bible is the patron saint of doctors?
Luke
6. What is hypertension?
High Blood Pressure
7. What type of doctor specialises in diseases of the skin?
Dermatologist
8. The excess of which acid causes Gout?
Uric
9. Rene Laennac invented which aid for doctors in 1810?
Stethoscope
10. What is the more popular name for the thyroid cartilage?
Adam’s Apple
11. What would a doctor use an Otoscope for?
Examining Ears
12. Which disease is also known as varicella?
Chicken Pox
13. In which year did the Flying Doctor service begin in Australia?
1928
14. Obstetrics is the study of what?
Childbirth
15. What name is given to a doctor who stands in for another doctor?
Locum
16. Which doctor performed the world’s first heart transplant in Cape Town?
Christian Barnard
17. If a doctor says you have ecchymosis what have you got?
A Bruise
18. If a doctor wrote the letters P.C. on a medical prescription, should your medication be taken before or after meals?
After meals – from the latin ‘port cibum’
19. According to a recent survey what is the reason for most people taking a day off work sick?
Hangover
20. The 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to two men who held neither doctorates nor MD's. One never even went to college. What did they do to get the prize?
They invented the CAT scan device. (They were Allen Cormack and Godfrey Horsfeld)

21. A report in 2003 disclosed that British doctors removed 20,000 of what during autopsies between 1970 and 1999 without obtaining families' consent, Brains, Eyes or Testicles?
Brains
22. Which part of the body is inflamed by Hepatitis?
Liver
23. Which doctors job title ranks immediately below Consultant?
Senior Registrar
24. What is the common name for the Tympanic Membrane?
Ear Drum
25. The MMR vaccine is given to prevent which 3 viral diseases in children?
Mumps, Measles and Rubella
26. Where could you find your medulla and your cortex?
Kidneys
27. Emergency contraception, better known as the morning after pill, must be taken within how many hours of having unprotected sex?
72 hours
28. Which of the five senses develops first?
Smell
29. A doctor calls it a suture, what do we call it?
A Stitch
30. Which BBC drama starrred James Bolam and Michael French as father and son doctors?
Born and Bred
31. What number is represented in a game of bingo by the catchphrase “Doctor’s Orders”?
Nine
32. By what nickname was Jack Kevorkian, the American doctor and champion of euthanasia who was jailed in April 1999, popularly known?
Doctor Death
33. If you were diagnosed as suffering from ACUTE NASOPHARYNGITIS what would you have?
A Cold
34. What would a doctor test with a plexor?
Reflexes
35. Which TV programme featured the Doctors Of Cardale?
Peak Practice
36. The first vibrator which was used in doctor’s offices to treat hysteria in women, appeared in 1869 – it was powered by what?
Steam!
37. Which Muppet doctor is assisted by Beaker?
Dr Bunsen Honeydew
38. What was named after German doctor & scientist Ernst Grafenberg?
G-Spot
39. According to doctors, people who have which kind of pets fall asleep the easiest?
Fish
40. There were five series of the “Doctor” sitcoms broadcast on TV during the 1970s. What were they called?
Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor at Sea and Doctor on the Go

Tiebreaker - In which year - Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use disinfectant during surgery?
1865