Q 01/05

Brain freeze begins when something icy touches which part of the body, sending pain to the forehead?

A) The inner cheeks

B) The roof of the mouth

C) The back of the throat

D) The tip of the tongue

Answer · why

B) The roof of the mouth

The roof of the mouth has blood vessels that tighten and swell at the sudden chill, and the alarm is passed on as if the pain came from the head.

Q 02/05

In Greek myth, which goddess was born from the head of Zeus after he suffered an unbearable headache?

A) Athena

B) Artemis

C) Aphrodite

D) Demeter

Answer · why

A) Athena

Athena leapt out fully grown and armed, in most tellings after an axe split his skull open. Hesiod says Zeus had earlier swallowed her pregnant mother...

Q 03/05

Which painkiller did British chemist Stewart Adams, who led its discovery, try on his own hangover?

A) Naproxen

B) Codeine

C) Ibuprofen

D) Diclofenac

Answer · why

C) Ibuprofen

Ibuprofen cleared its inventor's vodka hangover before a conference speech in Moscow, after the drug had already gone on sale in Britain in 1969 as a ...

Q 04/05

A bedtime cup of which drink is a recognised treatment for hypnic headaches, which wake older adults from sleep?

A) Warm milk

B) Herbal tea

C) Tonic water

D) Coffee

Answer · why

D) Coffee

Coffee before bed sounds backwards, yet one or two cups can prevent these attacks, which tend to strike at the same hour every night.

Q 05/05

A dull headache is the most common symptom of poisoning by which invisible gas from faulty heaters and furnaces?

A) Carbon monoxide

B) Nitrogen dioxide

C) Carbon dioxide

D) Sulphur dioxide

Answer · why

A) Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide poisoning is often mistaken for flu, because the headache tends to arrive with dizziness, weakness and vomiting.