Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
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Q 01Michael Crichton wrote the pilot for which hospital drama 20 years before it finally aired?
ER
ER. Crichton based the 1974 script on his own time as a medical student, and it finally reached NBC in 1994 with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television producing.
Q 02Which army-hospital sitcom ran eleven seasons, over three times as long as the war it depicted?
M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H. The war it depicted lasted 1,128 days, but the show ran 256 episodes, so each averaged almost four and a half days of real war.
Q 03Scrubs was shot for eight seasons inside what kind of building?
A closed real hospital
A closed real hospital, the defunct North Hollywood Medical Center, held the Sacred Heart sets, the writers' offices and the editing rooms; the show moved to a studio lot for its final season.
Q 04The Good Doctor remakes a drama from which country?
South Korea
South Korea's Good Doctor, about an autistic savant surgeon, was adapted for ABC in 2017 by Daniel Dae Kim's production company, with Freddie Highmore as Shaun Murphy.
Q 05Gregory House was modeled on which fictional detective?
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: creator David Shore gave House a drug habit, a confidant named Wilson for Watson, and apartment number 221B.
Q 06Oregon State Hospital's real superintendent played its director in which film shot on his wards?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Superintendent Dean Brooks backed the shoot and ended up playing Dr Spivey, and the hospital was also the novel's setting.
Q 07Which fictional hospital turned out to exist only inside a snow globe?
St. Eligius
St. Eligius, home of St. Elsewhere for six seasons, appeared in the 1988 finale inside a snow globe held by autistic Tommy Westphall, implying the whole series was his daydream.
Q 08The Knick's cocaine-addicted surgeon is modeled on which real pioneer?
William Halsted
William Halsted, a founding Johns Hopkins surgeon who introduced rubber gloves to the operating room while hooked on cocaine and later morphine, inspired Clive Owen's Dr. Thackery.
Q 09Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital remade a Danish series by which director?
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier's Riget (The Kingdom, 1994) supplied the haunted-hospital template; King moved it from Copenhagen to Lewiston, Maine, for ABC in 2004.
Q 10Coma novelist Robin Cook practised which medical specialty?
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology was Cook's specialty: a Harvard-trained eye doctor, he wrote Coma in 1977 on the side, and fellow physician-novelist Michael Crichton directed the 1978 film.