HOSA Trivia
HOSA stands for this.
What is "Health Occupation Students of America?"
C.P.R. stands for this.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
The event where participants compete in a spelling bee.
What is Medical Spelling?
The watery fluid that makes up more than half of blood.
What is plasma?
October is ________ ________ Awareness month.
What is Breast Cancer?
The slogan for HOSA.
What is "Future Health Professionals?"
The year when smallpox was eradicated.
What is 1979?
This event requires a case study analysis that may involve a crime scene or physical evidence.
What is Forensic Medicine?
The organ in which insulin is made.
What is the pancreas?
An octopus has ____ hearts.
What is 3?
The date for the Regional Competition.
When is February 7th, 2026?
The compressions-to-breaths ratio for Adult CPR.
What is 30:2?
A constituent of this event is a portfolio that documents the individual competitor’s specific goal(s) and efforts to practice healthier habits through exercise, nutrition, and/or avoiding risky behaviors.
What is Healthy Living?
An antibody is this type of macromolecule (Remember what a macromolecule is. Carbohydrates are an example).
What is a protein?
The letter ____ does not appear in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
HOSA was established in ____
When is 1976?
This is what you should do if a bee stings you.
What is remove the stinger with a credit card/tweezers/etc. and avoid oil or other ointment?
This competitive event encourages HOSA members to study the effects of health and disease in populations.
What is Epidemiology?
These are the four bases found in RNA.
What are Uracil, Guanine, Cytosine, and Adenine?
As the U.S. is in the winter, Australia is in the _____.
What is summer?
The colors of HOSA signify these.
What is: Navy Blue represents loyalty to the health care profession. Medical White represents purity of purpose. Maroon represents compassion of HOSA members.
The disease in which the brain is unable to develop properly, or in some cases ceases to grow at all, while the baby is still in the womb. This causes the head to be smaller than a normal infant’s head at birth. (Hint: Zika infection during pregnancy may cause this in the fetus)
What is Microcephaly?
This event tests skills such as patient assessment of medical and trauma, or bleeding control/shock management
What is Emergency Medical Technician?
This category of amino acids signifies those, which your body does not produce so must be obtained from your diet.
What are essential amino acids?
The two colors that make purple.
What are blue and red?