Q 01/05

Grimault's Indian Cigarettes, advertised in 1907 as an asthma remedy, contained belladonna and which other plant drug?

A) Opium

B) Coca leaf

C) Cannabis

D) Peyote

Answer · why

C) Cannabis

Cannabis and belladonna were smoked because herbal smoke was long thought to relieve asthmatics. The habit waned once asthma was understood as an infl...

Q 02/05

Which kind of weather event overwhelmed Melbourne's ambulances with asthma emergencies on one evening in November 2016?

A) A thunderstorm

B) A sudden heatwave

C) A sandstorm

D) A thick fog

Answer · why

A) A thunderstorm

A thunderstorm is thought to burst pollen grains into fragments small enough to reach the lungs. Melbourne's 2016 outbreak, the most severe on record,...

Q 03/05

Which future US president was a sickly child whose debilitating asthma attacks terrified him and his parents?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) William Howard Taft

D) Andrew Jackson

Answer · why

B) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt fought his frailty with a regime of vigorous exercise that he called the strenuous life. Hiking in the Alps as a boy showed him tha...

Q 04/05

Research found that about 70 percent of Britain's elite squad in which Olympic sport had some form of asthma?

A) Rowing

B) Gymnastics

C) Fencing

D) Swimming

Answer · why

D) Swimming

Swimming topped sports scientist John Dickinson's survey, far above the national asthma rate of eight to ten percent. A third of Team Sky's cyclists h...

Q 05/05

The metering valve in the first asthma puffer inhalers of the 1950s was originally designed to dispense which product?

A) Whipped cream

B) Perfume

C) Insecticide

D) Shaving foam

Answer · why

B) Perfume

Perfume was what the metering valve was first built to dispense. Riker Laboratories paired it with a propellant in 1955 to create the first metered-do...