Q 01/05

Dan O'Bannon's experience of Crohn's disease inspired the chest-bursting scene in which science-fiction film he wrote?

A) Alien

B) The Thing

C) Scanners

D) The Fly

Answer · why

A) Alien

Alien turned the gut pain O'Bannon lived with into a creature that erupts from a crewman's chest. He died from complications of Crohn's in 2009.

Q 02/05

Which US president had Crohn's disease surgery for a blocked bowel months before his 1956 re-election?

A) Harry S. Truman

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Dwight D. Eisenhower

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer · why

C) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower's operation set reporters phoning Burrill Crohn for three days straight. The doctor assured them the president would heal quickly...

Q 03/05

Which YouTube star, born Jimmy Donaldson, quit sports as a teenager after a Crohn's disease diagnosis?

A) Markiplier

B) MrBeast

C) Logan Paul

D) PewDiePie

Answer · why

B) MrBeast

MrBeast calls himself an introvert, a trait his mother has linked partly to his ongoing experience of Crohn's.

Q 04/05

Which Saturday Night Live comedian from Staten Island was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in his late teens?

A) Colin Jost

B) Kenan Thompson

C) Bill Hader

D) Pete Davidson

Answer · why

D) Pete Davidson

Pete Davidson was diagnosed at 17 or 18 and receives intravenous biologic therapy for it. He later co-wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical f...

Q 05/05

Which Anglo-Saxon king's lifelong painful illness do modern doctors suspect was Crohn's disease?

A) Edward the Confessor

B) Alfred the Great

C) Æthelred the Unready

D) Harold Godwinson

Answer · why

B) Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great's symptoms were described in detail by his biographer Asser, letting doctors offer Crohn's as a possible diagnosis. His grandson King...