HOSA trivia
CPR/First Aid/Diseases
Competitive Events
Anatomy and Physiology
Medical Careers
100
HOSA stands for this.
What is "Health Occupation Students of America?"
100
C.P.R. stands for this.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
100
The event where participants compete in a spelling bee.
What is Medical Spelling?
100
The watery fluid that makes up more than half of blood.
What is plasma?
100

This healthcare professional listens to your heart and lungs, diagnoses illnesses, and may prescribe medication.

What is a doctor/physician?

200
The slogan for HOSA.
What is "Future Health Professionals?"
200
The year when smallpox was eradicated.
What is 1979?
200
This event requires a case study analysis that may involve a crime scene or physical evidence.
What is Forensic Medicine?
200
The organ in which insulin is made.
What is the pancreas?
200

This career involves taking X-rays, etc to diagnose injuries and diseases.

What is a radiological technologist?

300

The 2025-2026 National HOSA Theme

What is "Champions of Change"?

300
The compressions-to-breaths ratio for Adult CPR.
What is 30:2?
300
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 Lifestyle?
300
An antibody is this type of macromolecule (Remember what a macromolecule is. Carbohydrates are an example).
What is a protein?
300

This professional works in an ambulance or in emergencies to provide care before the patient is able to get to the hospital.

What is a paramedic/EMT

400

This is the year HOSA-Future Health Professionals was founded.

What is 1976?

400

This is what you should do if a bee stings you.

Remove the stinger with a credit card/tweezers/etc. and avoid oil or other ointment?

400
This competitive event encourages HOSA members to study the effects of health and disease in populations.
What is Epidemiology?
400
These are the four bases found in RNA.
What are Uracil, Guanine, Cytosine, and Adenine?
400

This worker helps patients regain movement and strength after injury or surgery.

What is a physical therapist?

500
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.
500
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?
500
This event tests skills like ABO grouping and Gram Stain.
What is Biomedical Laboratory Science?
500
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?
500

This person prepares and gives medications prescribed by a doctor.

What is a pharmacist?

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