Q 01/05

Which newspaper's report coined Florence Nightingale's nickname 'The Lady with the Lamp'?

A) The Illustrated London News

B) The Manchester Guardian

C) The Times

D) The Daily Telegraph

Answer · why

C) The Times

Longfellow's 1857 poem 'Santa Filomena' then fixed the image in the public mind, and a lamp still appears on many nursing school pins.

Q 02/05

Nightingale's Scutari hospital, reached in 1854, lies in which modern city?

A) Athens

B) Sevastopol

C) Bucharest

D) Istanbul

Answer · why

D) Istanbul

The hospital sat on the Asian side of the Bosporus, opposite Constantinople; in her first winter there 4,077 British soldiers died, most from disease ...

Q 03/05

Nightingale's 1859 nursing classic is titled 'Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is ___'?

A) Not

B) For

C) Worth

D) About

Answer · why

A) Not

The whole book runs just 76 pages, and Nightingale insisted in the preface it was meant only to give 'hints for thought' rather than serve as a rulebo...

Q 04/05

Where did Nightingale open the first nurse training school on 9 July 1860?

A) Guy's Hospital

B) St Thomas' Hospital

C) St Bartholomew's Hospital

D) King's College Hospital

Answer · why

B) St Thomas' Hospital

The school was paid for by the Nightingale Fund, a public subscription that had raised £45,000 in gratitude for her Crimean work.

Q 05/05

What did Florence Nightingale call her compilation of polar-area charts of Crimean army deaths?

A) A rosette

B) A pinwheel

C) A coxcomb

D) A sunburst

Answer · why

C) A coxcomb

The chart is now known as a polar area diagram or Nightingale rose; the term she coined for the set was later applied to each individual chart.