Q 01/05

The first recorded pharmacies opened in the 8th century in which Islamic Golden Age city?

A) Alexandria

B) Cordoba

C) Constantinople

D) Baghdad

Answer · why

D) Baghdad

Baghdad. Many histories date its first pharmacies to 754, but the city was only founded in 762.

Q 02/05

Which emperor's decree, issued around 1240, formally separated the professions of physician and apothecary?

A) Charlemagne

B) Justinian

C) Charles V

D) Frederick II

Answer · why

D) Frederick II

Frederick II. The Holy Roman Emperor's edict barred physicians from selling their own drugs and put both professions under official regulation.

Q 03/05

Which city's Town Hall Pharmacy has traded from the same building since at least 1422?

A) Riga

B) Dubrovnik

C) Tallinn

D) Prague

Answer · why

C) Tallinn

Tallinn. The Raeapteek has long sold more than remedies: marzipan and claret wine go over the same counter as the medicines.

Q 04/05

The pharmacy often called the world's oldest, begun by Dominican friars at Santa Maria Novella, is in which city?

A) Rome

B) Venice

C) Florence

D) Bologna

Answer · why

C) Florence

Florence. Its oldest scent, Acqua della Regina, is traditionally dated to 1533, made for Catherine de' Medici to carry to France as a bride.

Q 05/05

Which Greek physician wrote the five-volume De Materia Medica, describing some 600 medicinal plants?

A) Galen

B) Hippocrates

C) Dioscorides

D) Theophrastus

Answer · why

C) Dioscorides

Dioscorides. Travelling as a surgeon with Nero's armies let him study plants across the Roman world, and his book stayed the leading drug text for mor...