UVM
Medicine through the Ages
Pharm Phacts
Music as Medicine
Pop Cx Dr
100

UVM is the 5th oldest university in New England, built after which 4 other universities?


(20 pts per, 100 for all)

Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown

100

Who created the smallpox vaccine and is sometimes known as ‘the father of immunization’? 

Edward Jenner

100

The generic form of this trade medication is named for lasting 6 hours 

Furosemide (Lasix)

100

1977 

Stayin' Alive

The Bee Gees 

100

Which comedy show follows the career of Dr. Dorian at Sacred Heart Hospital?  

Scrubs

200

UVM is an acronym for a latin phrase that translates to this English phrase...

(double points for English & Latin)

University of the Green Mountains

Universitas Viridis Montis

200

What infamous biotech startup that was founded in 2003 raised 1.4 Billion before shutting down in 2018 after defrauding investors with claims of a next-gen blood test?

Theranos

200

While the origin is unclear, most scholars believe that “Rx” is derived from this Latin word meaning “take”

Recipe

200

2015

Stitches

Shawn Mendes

200

In which 90s TV show did Neil Patrick Harris play a teenage surgeon working in L.A.? 

Doogie Howser, M.D.

300

What are the 3 largest libraries on the UVM campus? (100 pts per)

Howe
Dana
Billings

300

He achieved fame in 1925 when he led a team of sled dogs (driven by Gunnar Kaasen) on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.

Balto

300

In 1866, pharmacist John S. Pemberton created this concoction as a treatment for most common ailments, before removing the namesake ingredient in 1903

Coca-cola

300

1979

Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)


Robert Palmer

300

A long-running medical drama named after this textbook has featured guest stars including Demi Lovato, Kyle Chandler, Leslie Odom Jr., Tessa Thompson, and Millie Bobby Brown.

Grey's Anatomy 

400

This famous actor attended UVM for a few months to study Spanish but broke his hip during a basketball game and moved to LA before fighting crime in Gotham on the big screen  

Ben Affleck

400

The theory of humors that dominated western medicine into the 19th century was derived from the Ancient Greek surgeon and philosopher Galen of Pergamon who thought all illnesses were derived from these 4 fluids

Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile

(100 pts per)

400

This generic medication originally derived from bear bile has a trade name of actigall because it acts on the gallbladder

Ursodiol 

(latin roots for bear + bile)

400

2001

Just Like a Pill

P!nk

400

Prior to manipulating time and the mystic arts, Dr. Strange practiced in which medical field? 

Neurosurgery 

500

This famous alum and namesake of the medical school graduated with his MD in what year? 


1942

(250 pts if 1940-1944)

500

In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, he was the son of Apollo and hero/god of medicine. To this day he represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, and a representation of his ceremonial staff is carried at all LCOM commencement ceremonies?

Asclepius / Hepius 

500

The patent on this leukotriene receptor antagonist expired in August 2012, but was developed by Merck in the Canadian city for which it's named.

Montelukast

Developed in Montreal!

500

1985

Like a Surgeon

Weird Al Yankovic 

500

Which Doctor was partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to investigate unsolved and unusual cases in TV classic The X Files? 

Dana Scully, M.D.