Q 01/05

Which drug did the young Sigmund Freud champion in the 1880s as a stimulant and a cure for morphine addiction?

A) Opium

B) Cocaine

C) Cannabis

D) Ether

Answer · why

B) Cocaine

Cocaine fascinated Freud, who used it himself and narrowly missed the credit for discovering its value as an anaesthetic in eye surgery.

Q 02/05

Which word for uproar and confusion comes from the nickname of a London psychiatric hospital founded in 1247?

A) Mayhem

B) Havoc

C) Ruckus

D) Bedlam

Answer · why

D) Bedlam

Bedlam was the nickname of Bethlem Royal Hospital, whose governors once raised revenue by opening the wards to general visitors as a spectacle.

Q 03/05

Which battery metal did Australian psychiatrist John Cade discover could calm mania in the late 1940s?

A) Lithium

B) Zinc

C) Nickel

D) Cadmium

Answer · why

A) Lithium

Lithium became the first effective medication for a mental illness after Cade noticed that laboratory animals injected with it grew unusually restful.

Q 04/05

Which European capital gave its name to a syndrome after bank hostages there bonded with their captors in 1973?

A) Vienna

B) Helsinki

C) Stockholm

D) Copenhagen

Answer · why

C) Stockholm

Stockholm gave the syndrome its name after four bank employees were held in a vault for six days, though many details of the famous case are disputed.

Q 05/05

Which fictional serial killer worked as a forensic psychiatrist in Baltimore before his capture and imprisonment?

A) Norman Bates

B) Hannibal Lecter

C) Patrick Bateman

D) Dexter Morgan

Answer · why

B) Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter won Anthony Hopkins the Best Actor Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which an FBI trainee consults the jailed doctor about...