Q 01/05

What is the median length of the human menstrual cycle?

A) 7 days

B) 14 days

C) 28 days

D) 56 days

Answer · why

C) 28 days

28 days is the median, and the classic birth control pill pack is built around it: three weeks of hormone pills, then a week off or on blank pills.

Q 02/05

Menopause is confirmed only once a woman has gone how long without a period?

A) One month

B) Three months

C) One year

D) Five years

Answer · why

C) One year

One year without a period is the test, so menopause can only be dated in hindsight; in the United States it arrives in a woman's early fifties on aver...

Q 03/05

Roughly how long after the start of the last menstrual period does childbirth typically occur?

A) 40 weeks

B) 36 weeks

C) 38 weeks

D) 44 weeks

Answer · why

A) 40 weeks

That span is the gestational age, just over nine months, and it is divided into three trimesters of about three months each.

Q 04/05

In which country was the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilisation born, in 1978?

A) United States

B) Australia

C) England

D) Sweden

Answer · why

C) England

England: Louise Brown was born in Oldham even though Britain's Medical Research Council had refused to fund the research, which a private donation kep...

Q 05/05

Which birth control campaigner, by then in her seventies, found the backers who got the first contraceptive pill developed?

A) Marie Stopes

B) Margaret Sanger

C) Emma Goldman

D) Betty Friedan

Answer · why

B) Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger found biologist Gregory Pincus in 1951, brought in heiress Katharine McCormick to pay for his research, and lived to see the FDA appro...