Q 01/05

Louise Brown, born in Oldham in 1978, was the first baby conceived through which medical procedure?

A) In vitro fertilization

B) Artificial insemination

C) Gestational surrogacy

D) Embryo freezing

Answer · why

A) In vitro fertilization

In vitro fertilization joins egg and sperm outside the body, so the press called Brown a 'test-tube baby', though a Petri dish was used. Robert Edward...

Q 02/05

Which Frenchwoman, who said she met Vincent van Gogh as a girl, lived a verified record 122 years?

A) Lucile Randon

B) Jeanne Calment

C) Marie Brémont

D) Eugénie Blanchard

Answer · why

B) Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Calment died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days, the longest human life ever verified. She recalled the painter giving her a condescending loo...

Q 03/05

Which phrase did psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques coin in a 1965 essay about creative geniuses?

A) Writer's block

B) Impostor syndrome

C) Peter principle

D) Midlife crisis

Answer · why

D) Midlife crisis

Midlife crisis first appeared in his paper 'Death and the Midlife Crisis', published in a psychoanalysis journal. Jaques is also credited with origina...

Q 04/05

The 'Jim twins', reunited at 39 after being raised apart, were studied at which US state's university?

A) Wisconsin

B) Michigan

C) Minnesota

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) Minnesota

Minnesota psychologist Thomas Bouchard found both Jims had married a Linda and then a Betty, and each owned a dog called Toy. He noted that most separ...

Q 05/05

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 1969 book On Death and Dying set out five stages of grief, ending with which one?

A) Bargaining

B) Depression

C) Anger

D) Acceptance

Answer · why

D) Acceptance

Acceptance closes a sequence that opens with denial. Kübler-Ross drew the stages from her work with terminally ill patients, and later observed that p...