Science & tech
The “The history of medicine” quiz — Science & tech. It has 25 questions in five categories: Outbreak Detectives, Vaccines Take Hold, The Operating Room, Care and Compassion, Clues and Cures. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
What disease swept medieval Europe under the grim nickname “Black Death”?
Ships once waited offshore for forty days before entering a port. What do we call this isolation measure?
In 1854, deaths clustered…
In the gameWhich Hungarian doctor insisted…
In the gameIn 1882, who identified…
In the gameWhich disease did the World Health Organization declare eradicated in 1980?
In 1796, which English doctor tested cowpox material, taken from a milkmaid, as protection against smallpox?
After a dog bite…
In the gameWhose oral polio vaccine…
In the gameWhich British traveller championed…
In the gameWhat nineteenth-century breakthrough let patients sleep through surgery without feeling pain?
Boston’s famous 1846 surgery used which inhaled substance to put the patient under?
Which surgeon used carbolic…
In the gameWho wrote a 1543…
In the gameWhich English physician argued…
In the gameWhich ancient Greek physician lends his name to medicine’s best-known oath?
Which nurse earned the name “Lady with the Lamp” for her night rounds during the Crimean War?
After witnessing the wounded…
In the gameWho became the first…
In the gameWhose Canon of Medicine…
In the game
What is the pictured listening instrument whose first versions were wooden tubes for hearing the heart and lungs?
Which rays, discovered by Röntgen in 1895, made an image like this one of a hand’s bones possible?
A mould stopped bacteria…
In the gameResearchers in Toronto turned…
In the gameWhich scientist’s discovery of…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.