Q 01/05

Patricia Bath turned down the first office UCLA offered her because it was in the basement next to what?

A) The boiler room

B) The morgue

C) The lab animals

D) The laundry

Answer · why

C) The lab animals

The lab animals were to be her neighbours, so Bath told the department the space was inappropriate and won a proper office. She had just become its fi...

Q 02/05

Which invention earned Patricia Bath a patent in 1988, making her the first Black woman doctor to hold a medical one?

A) Laserphaco Probe

B) Phacoemulsifier

C) Slit-lamp biomicroscope

D) Keratoprosthesis

Answer · why

A) Laserphaco Probe

Laserphaco Probe takes the first half of its name from laser photoablative cataract surgery. Bath had the idea in 1981, but it took her nearly five ye...

Q 03/05

Which gift from her mother, a domestic worker, helped spark young Patricia Bath's lifelong love of science?

A) A microscope

B) A telescope

C) A toy doctor's kit

D) A chemistry set

Answer · why

D) A chemistry set

A chemistry set from Gladys Bath fed her daughter's curiosity, and Bath later took her first degree in the same subject. Her mother also saved her wag...

Q 04/05

Whose assassination spurred medical student Patricia Bath to organise free healthcare at a Washington protest camp?

A) Senator Robert F. Kennedy

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

C) Medgar Evers

D) President John F. Kennedy

Answer · why

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in April 1968, during Bath's final year of medical school. That summer she led fellow students staffing a clinic for...

Q 05/05

Patricia Bath's best-known invention removes cataracts, which are a clouding of which part of the eye?

A) Lens

B) Retina

C) Iris

D) Pupil

Answer · why

A) Lens

Lens removal is only half the job. Once the laser has dissolved the cloudy tissue, the device rinses the eye and lets the surgeon slip in a clear arti...