Q 01/05

Which Bee Gees disco hit, at about 103 beats per minute, is used to teach the rhythm of CPR chest compressions?

A) Night Fever

B) Stayin' Alive

C) Jive Talkin'

D) You Should Be Dancing

Answer · why

B) Stayin' Alive

Stayin' Alive sits inside the 100 to 120 compressions a minute that rescuers aim for. The American Heart Association built a public training campaign ...

Q 02/05

Which well-known pill was first developed by Pfizer as a treatment for chest pain and high blood pressure?

A) Prozac

B) Valium

C) Zantac

D) Viagra

Answer · why

D) Viagra

Viagra, or sildenafil, did little for heart patients in early trials, but the volunteers reported an unexpected side effect. Pfizer changed course and...

Q 03/05

Which Swedish industrialist was prescribed nitroglycerin, the explosive behind his fortune, for his heart?

A) Alfred Nobel

B) Ivar Kreuger

C) Lars Ericsson

D) Gustaf de Laval

Answer · why

A) Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel wrote to a friend in 1896 that it was an irony of fate to be told to swallow the stuff. In tiny doses the explosive relaxes blood vessels...

Q 04/05

Which instrument did French doctor René Laennec invent in 1816 by rolling sheets of paper into a tube?

A) The thermometer

B) The otoscope

C) The stethoscope

D) The ophthalmoscope

Answer · why

C) The stethoscope

The stethoscope began as a paper tube because Laennec felt it improper to press his ear to a young woman's chest. The tube carried her heartbeat more ...

Q 05/05

In which country did Christiaan Barnard perform the first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967?

A) South Africa

B) United States

C) New Zealand

D) Great Britain

Answer · why

A) South Africa

South Africa made headlines around the world when Barnard gave Louis Washkansky a new heart at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Washkansky lived f...