Q 01/05

Hayley Arceneaux became the first PA in space as medical officer on which privately funded SpaceX mission?

A) Polaris Dawn

B) Axiom Mission 1

C) Inspiration4

D) Crew Dragon Demo-2

Answer · why

C) Inspiration4

Inspiration4 also made Hayley Arceneaux, a bone cancer survivor who treats young patients at St. Jude, the first person to launch with a prosthesis.

Q 02/05

Which former emergency medicine PA became the first member of her profession to serve in the US Congress?

A) Karen Bass

B) Lauren Underwood

C) Kim Schrier

D) Maxine Waters

Answer · why

A) Karen Bass

Karen Bass graduated from the PA program at USC's Keck School of Medicine in 1982, entered the House in 2011 and won the mayor's race in 2022.

Q 03/05

The PA profession's original name carried which punctuation mark, officially dropped by the AAPA in 1981?

A) The hyphen

B) The apostrophe

C) The parentheses

D) The comma

Answer · why

B) The apostrophe

The apostrophe made the original title 'physician's assistant', the form the first program used in 1965, until the AAPA renamed the profession 'physic...

Q 04/05

Which long-running newspaper comic strip introduced readers to PAs when its character Chipper Wallet became one?

A) Mary Worth

B) Rex Morgan, M.D.

C) Dick Tracy

D) Gasoline Alley

Answer · why

D) Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Alley cartoonist Dick Moores made Chipper Wallet a PA in 1971, when the real profession was only four years past its first graduating class.

Q 05/05

The four former military medics chosen for the first PA class in 1965 had all served in which branch?

A) The Army

B) The Navy

C) The Air Force

D) The Marine Corps

Answer · why

B) The Navy

The Navy had trained all four as hospital corpsmen, giving them considerable medical experience before they ever sat in a PA classroom.