1. Which of these congenital disorders is characterized by an extra chromosome?

2. What causes the blood disease thalassemia?

3. What is the disease German measles also known as?

4. What is the name of a malignant tumour of the bone, most often occurring in males under age 30?

5. Which pioneering scientist received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983, when she was 81 years old, for her work on genes in the 1940s and the 1950s?

6. What is Pickwickian syndrome associated with?

7. Who discovered the major blood groups and developed the ABO system of blood typing, which made blood transfusion a routine medical practice?

8. Who was the first person to describe the blood parasite responsible for malaria and to recognize it as the cause of that disease?

9. Which of these viral diseases is also called variola?

10. What 16th-century physician wrote that “a doctor must seek out old wives, gipsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller.… Knowledge is experience.”?

11. Who was the cofounder of modern neurology who greatly influenced a student named Sigmund Freud?

12. Which hormone regulates the level of sugar in the blood and is produced in the pancreas?

13. Which of these is another name for growth hormone?

14. Which part of the human body does multiple sclerosis affect?

15. What is the name of the disorder characterized by the patchy loss of melanin pigment from the skin?

16. If you’re stranded in the Arctic, why should you avoid eating polar bear liver?

17. What determines the blood group in a person?

18. Who was the founder of modern psychosurgery?

19. Which of these scientists helped in the development of azidothymidine (AZT), the first drug used in the treatment of AIDS?

20. Which of these are produced in response to foreign substances called antigens?

21. What is the common name of acetylsalicylic acid, a compound that produces its well-known effects by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins?

22. What is vertigo?

23. Which of these conditions is also called “hardening of the arteries”?

24. What type of lung infection is tuberculosis?