Q 01/05

The face of CPR manikin Resusci Anne came from the death mask of a young woman reputedly drowned in which river?

A) The Seine

B) The Thames

C) The Danube

D) The Rhine

Answer · why

A) The Seine

The Seine gave the unidentified woman her nickname, the Unknown Woman of the Seine. A Norwegian toymaker picked a female face because he thought male ...

Q 02/05

Which businesses ran many early American ambulance services because their vehicles could carry a patient lying down?

A) Moving companies

B) Dairy farms

C) Funeral homes

D) Flower shops

Answer · why

C) Funeral homes

Funeral homes owned hearses, long the only vehicles that could carry a person flat. They stayed among America's most common ambulance providers until ...

Q 03/05

Which Bee Gees disco hit, at about 103 beats per minute, is used to teach the right pace for CPR chest compressions?

A) Night Fever

B) Stayin' Alive

C) Jive Talkin'

D) You Should Be Dancing

Answer · why

B) Stayin' Alive

Stayin' Alive sits inside the 100 to 120 compressions a minute that rescuers aim for. The American Heart Association built a whole CPR campaign around...

Q 04/05

When the word paramedic first appeared in the 1950s, it described a military medic who reached the wounded by what?

A) Helicopter

B) Motorcycle

C) Lifeboat

D) Parachute

Answer · why

D) Parachute

Parachute plus medic gave the first paramedics their name in 1951. The modern meaning, a medical technician, only arrived around 1970 as a shortening ...

Q 05/05

The yellow-and-green chequered Battenburg markings on British ambulances are named after what kind of food?

A) A cake

B) A cheese

C) A sausage

D) A biscuit

Answer · why

A) A cake

A cake called Battenberg shows the same squares when it is sliced. The lighter squares are fluorescent, so the vehicle stands out in daylight, at dusk...