Q 01/05

Which Nobel Prize-winning scientist died in 1934 of aplastic anemia, likely brought on by years of radiation exposure?

A) Henri Becquerel

B) Marie Curie

C) Wilhelm Röntgen

D) Ernest Rutherford

Answer · why

B) Marie Curie

Marie Curie carried tubes of radioactive material in her pockets, and her papers from the 1890s are still considered too dangerous to handle.

Q 02/05

Which common kitchen vegetable can give dogs and cats hemolytic anemia by damaging their red blood cells?

A) Onions

B) Carrots

C) Celery

D) Pumpkin

Answer · why

A) Onions

Onions contain sulfur compounds that destroy a pet's red blood cells, and garlic and chives are toxic in the same way, whether raw, cooked or powdered...

Q 03/05

A 2022 study found that which professionals destroy red blood cells about 54% faster than normal throughout a mission?

A) Submariners

B) Fighter pilots

C) Astronauts

D) Scuba divers

Answer · why

C) Astronauts

Astronauts keep losing red blood cells at the faster rate for as long as they stay in orbit, and the effect was still measurable a year after landing.

Q 04/05

Which food, eaten raw in large amounts, became the first effective treatment for pernicious anemia in the 1920s?

A) Oysters

B) Egg yolks

C) Kidneys

D) Liver

Answer · why

D) Liver

Liver worked so well that the three Americans behind the treatment shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine for taming a disease that had always been f...

Q 05/05

Carrying a single copy of the sickle cell gene gives people partial protection against which mosquito-borne disease?

A) Malaria

B) Yellow fever

C) Dengue fever

D) Zika virus

Answer · why

A) Malaria

Malaria kills far fewer people who carry one copy of the gene, which is why the sickle cell trait is most common in regions where the disease is wides...