Medical Trivia Quiz – 25 Questions with Answers

Medical Trivia Quiz

Questions:

1. What was the first human organ to be successfully transplanted?
2. Which famous doctor’s name is now used for a term describing an obsession with self-diagnosing online?
3. Which medical specialty is often jokingly called “the doctor’s doctor”?
4. What historical physician wrote an oath still recited in modern medical graduations?
5. Which ancient civilization practiced brain surgery known as trepanation — drilling holes in the skull?
6. What color scrubs were introduced to help surgeons reduce eye strain during long procedures?
7. Which hormone is nicknamed the “love hormone”?
8. If a doctor prescribes “placebo,” what exactly are they giving?
9. What’s the only part of the human body that can regenerate completely?
10. What common doctor’s tool was invented after a physician felt awkward placing his ear on a female patient’s chest?
11. In hospitals, the term “code blue” typically refers to what?
12. Which doctor became famous for his work with conditioned reflexes and dogs?
13. What fictional doctor can talk to animals?
14. What does the “Rx” symbol on prescriptions originally stand for?
15. Which doctor was known for his theory of psychoanalysis and dream interpretation?
16. What’s the slang term for the fatigue or burnout experienced during medical residency?
17. In a hospital, what’s the difference between an intern and a resident?
18. Which Marvel superhero is also a neurosurgeon?
19. What was the first vaccine ever developed in medical history?
20. Which part of the body does an otorhinolaryngologist specialize in?
21. In medical slang, what does it mean if someone is “circling the drain”?
22. Which famous nurse is considered the founder of modern nursing?
23. Which doctor first used antiseptic methods during surgery to prevent infection?
24. What popular TV show features a brilliant but grumpy diagnostician with a limp?
25. What’s the unofficial motto medical students often quote: “See one, do one, _____ one”?

Answers:

1. Kidney (1954 — Dr. Joseph Murray)
2. Dr. Google
3. Internal Medicine
4. Hippocrates (Hippocratic Oath)
5. The ancient Incas / pre-Columbian civilizations
6. Green (or blue)
7. Oxytocin
8. A harmless, inactive substance (often sugar pill)
9. The liver
10. Stethoscope
11. Cardiac arrest / medical emergency
12. Ivan Pavlov
13. Dr. Dolittle
14. Latin for “recipe” or “to take”
15. Sigmund Freud
16. Resident fatigue / burnout — often nicknamed “zombie mode”
17. Intern = first-year doctor; Resident = post-intern training doctor
18. Doctor Strange
19. Smallpox vaccine (by Edward Jenner)
20. Ear, nose, and throat (ENT)
21. Patient is near death
22. Florence Nightingale
23. Joseph Lister
24. House, M.D.
25. Teach one