Q 01/05

The first pharmacies, or drug stores, were established in 754 in which city?

A) Alexandria

B) Cordoba

C) Constantinople

D) Baghdad

Answer · why

D) Baghdad

They arrived under the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age; Avicenna later described some 700 preparations.

Q 02/05

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

A) Charlemagne

B) Justinian

C) Henry VIII

D) Frederick II

Answer · why

D) Frederick II

The split is still the basis of the doctor-prescribes, pharmacist-dispenses model.

Q 03/05

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in its original premises, from at least 1422, is in which city?

A) Florence

B) Dubrovnik

C) Tallinn

D) Prague

Answer · why

C) Tallinn

The Town Hall Pharmacy sits on Tallinn's main square; Dubrovnik's Franciscan pharmacy dates from 1317.

Q 04/05

The pharmacy claimed as the world's oldest, set up in 1221 in Santa Maria Novella, is in which city?

A) Rome

B) Venice

C) Florence

D) Bologna

Answer · why

C) Florence

It now houses a perfume museum.

Q 05/05

Which Greek physician wrote the five-volume De Materia Medica, covering more than 600 plants?

A) Galen

B) Hippocrates

C) Dioscorides

D) Theophrastus

Answer · why

C) Dioscorides

He also coined the term materia medica.