Q 01/05

Which blood thinner, prescribed to President Eisenhower after his heart attack, first went on sale as a rat poison?

A) Heparin

B) Warfarin

C) Aspirin

D) Clopidogrel

Answer · why

B) Warfarin

Warfarin is named after WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and grew out of research into spoiled sweet clover hay that was making cattle ...

Q 02/05

Which physicist died in 1955 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm after refusing surgery to repair it?

A) Enrico Fermi

B) Niels Bohr

C) Albert Einstein

D) Erwin Schrödinger

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein had the same aneurysm reinforced by surgeon Rudolph Nissen in 1948, a repair that held for seven years.

Q 03/05

Takotsubo, the stress-triggered broken heart syndrome, is named after a Japanese trap for which sea creature?

A) Octopus

B) Conger eel

C) Sea urchin

D) Cuttlefish

Answer · why

A) Octopus

Octopus pots have a round body and a narrow neck, the shape the heart's left ventricle balloons into during an attack. About 90% of patients are women...

Q 04/05

The World Health Organization advises adults to eat under five grams a day of which staple?

A) Sugar

B) Butter

C) Red meat

D) Salt

Answer · why

D) Salt

Salt supplies sodium, and too much of it is linked to high blood pressure, stroke and kidney disease. Five grams is just under a teaspoon.

Q 05/05

In the stroke warning acronym FAST, F is for face, A for arms and T for time; what does S stand for?

A) Sight

B) Speech

C) Swallowing

D) Smile

Answer · why

B) Speech

Speech that is slurred or hard to understand is the third warning sign. The acronym was created in the UK in 1998 to train ambulance staff.