Q 01/05

Which cartoon aired a 1997 episode whose flashing red and blue lights sent hundreds of Japanese children to hospital?

A) Sailor Moon

B) Dragon Ball Z

C) Pokémon

D) Digimon

Answer · why

C) Pokémon

Pokémon never broadcast the episode again after more than 600 viewers were taken to hospital. Only about 3% of people with epilepsy are sensitive to f...

Q 02/05

Which saint, martyred in third-century Rome, is a patron of people with epilepsy as well as of beekeepers?

A) Valentine

B) Sebastian

C) Nicholas

D) Patrick

Answer · why

A) Valentine

Saint Valentine was so closely tied to the condition that epilepsy was traditionally known in northern Italy as his malady.

Q 03/05

In ancient Rome, the blood of which wounded men was drunk in the belief that it could cure epilepsy?

A) Charioteers

B) Legionaries

C) Senators

D) Gladiators

Answer · why

D) Gladiators

Gladiators gave the remedy a long afterlife: for centuries Europeans prized the fresh blood of executed criminals for the same supposed healing power.

Q 04/05

Which colour do supporters wear each 26 March for an epilepsy awareness day begun by a nine-year-old Canadian girl?

A) Orange

B) Purple

C) Teal

D) Yellow

Answer · why

B) Purple

Purple is the international colour for epilepsy, and Cassidy Megan's idea spread fast: a year after her first event, more than 100,000 students took p...

Q 05/05

Which eating plan, later a weight-loss fashion, was first tried at the Mayo Clinic in 1921 to control epilepsy?

A) Paleo diet

B) Mediterranean diet

C) Ketogenic diet

D) Raw food diet

Answer · why

C) Ketogenic diet

The ketogenic diet was built to copy the effects of fasting, an older epilepsy treatment, with meals rich in fat and almost free of carbohydrate.