Medical Trivia
The largest bone in the body
What is the femur?
Country of our chapter's Service Learning Trip this fall
Where is Peru?
This disease that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s was caused by a bacterium spread by fleas
What is the Black Plague (or Bubonic Plague)?
The trips out of the country where members have the opportunity to help out in various medical clinics and construction
What is Service Learning Trip (SLT)?
The genetic material called DNA is famously shaped like this
What is a Double Helix?
Average number of bones in a human adult
What is 206?
The November 12th meeting event
What is writing thank you letters?
This imaging technology, discovered in 1895, lets us see a broken bone inside the body
What is X-Ray?
The continent MEDLIFE trips usually go to
What is South America?
The average human shares 96% of its DNA with this animal
What is a chimpanzee?
Subset of medicine that focuses on surgery on the eye
What is ophthalmology?
Name of our chapter vice president
Who is Ella Halvorson?
This inherited blood disorder, most common in people of African descent, causes red blood cells to become crescent-shaped and block blood flow
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
This is what MEDLIFE stands for
What is Medicine, Education, and Development for Low-Income Families Everywhere?
This scientist is famous for his theory of relativity and the equation E = mc^2
Who is Albert Einstein?
Excessive tanning increases the risk for this type of cancer
What is melanoma?
The on campus Advisor for MEDLIFE at UND
Who is Dr. Rebecca Simmons?
Roman physicians once recommended this bodily fluid for whitening teeth
What is urine?
After helping the first patient, the founder was asked not to forget this
What are the (poor) people everywhere?
This supercontinent existed about 300 million years ago before breaking up into the continents we know today
The first human organ to be successfully transplanted
What is the kidney?
Year Medlife at UND was created
A: 2010
B:2013
C: 2018
D:2021
When is January 13th, 2013?
This ancient Greek, known as the "Father of Medicine," created an oath for doctors to follow
Who is Hippocrates II? (Hippocrates of Kos)
The year MEDLIFE was founded
A: 2000
B: 2010
C: 2005
D:2008
What is 2005?
This class of molecules is known for having the same chemical formula but different arrangements of atoms
What are Isomers?