Anatomy & the Human Body
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is the skin?
This medical drama series focuses on a group of young doctors at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, who began their careers at the facility as interns.
What is “Grey’s Anatomy?”
Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard was suspected of having this mental disorder due to the alleged mental, physical, and emotional abuse she inflicted on her daughter, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard.
What is Münchausen syndrome by proxy?
This pandemic ravaged Europe and Asia in the mid 1300’s killing an estimated 30-60%, approximately 75-200 million people, of the Eurasian population.
What is The Black Death?
This ancient practice, dating back thousands of years, involved removing this substance from the body to restore balance. (Both the practice and/or the substance removed are acceptable answers.)
What is blood/bloodletting?
How many bones are there in the human body?
What is 206?
This series takes place at fictional Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey and follows this prickly genius who tackles health mysteries as would a medical Sherlock Holmes, all the while playing mind games with colleagues that include his best friend, oncologist James Wilson.
What is “House?”
In December of 2024, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot to death in New York City by this American man who is currently on trial.
Who is Luigi Mangione?
This pandemic is an ongoing health crisis which began in the 1980’s and has infected an estimated 88 million people, causing approximately 42 million deaths globally.
What is HIV/AIDS?
The use of this larva to clean wounds, dating back to ancient times, is now being revisited due to antibiotic resistance.
What are maggots?
The print of this muscle is unique to each individual, similar to fingerprints.
What is the tongue?
This irreverent black comedy series follows the exploits of a host of offbeat characters at a medical unit during the Korean war, including surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre who create havoc with their martini parties and practical jokes while the war rages around them.
What is “M*A*S*H?”
Charles Cullen, the real life man who inspired the Netflix movie “The Good Nurse,” confessed to killing up to 40 patients by injecting lethal doses of these two medications into IV fluids. (Either medication is an acceptable answer.)
What is Insulin and/or Digoxin?
This virus caused the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century, spreading globally in 1918 and 1919, killing an estimated 50 million people.
What is the Spanish Flu?
The first lobotomy, performed by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, took place in what year? (Notice: Answer is acceptable if within the same decade.)
What is 1935/the 1930’s?
The strongest muscle in the body, based on its ability to exert pressure, is what?
What is the masseter?
In this award winning film, Randle McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet nurse runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist. The battle of wills between the two soon affects all the ward's patients.
What is “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?”
This Oakland County physician became a household name in the 1990’s for his illegal role in helping upward of 100 terminally ill people end their lives. (Both the doctors legal name and his public nickname are acceptable answers.)
Who is Jack Kevorkian and/or “Dr. Death?”
This disease has caused several historical global outbreaks with the oldest documented beginning in the early 19th century and the most current taking place in 1961, which continues to affect many parts of the world, particularly in regions with inadequate sanitation and access to clean water.
What is Cholera?
The bark of this tree, containing salicylic acid, was used by Hippocrates in ancient Greece as a precursor to modern day Aspirin.
What is willow bark?
This part of the body doesn’t receive blood supply and, also, receives oxygen directly from the air. What is it?
What is the cornea?
In this 2016 horror film, a Wall Street stockbroker travels to a remote location in the Swiss Alps to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious wellness center. He soon suspects that the miraculous treatments are not what they seem. His sanity is tested when he unravels the spa's terrifying secrets and finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all of the guests there longing for a cure.
What is “A Cure for Wellness?”
This hospital orderly and American serial killer, nicknamed the “Kiss of Death” or “Angel of Death,” claimed to have murdered 87 patients across Ohio and Kentucky between the years of 1970 and 1987.
Who is Donald Harvey?
This pandemic/plague originated in Egypt and spread throughout the Byzantine Empire and Europe, causing the deaths of millions
What is the Plague of Justinian?
This surgical procedure involved drilling a hole in the skull to relieve pressure or release “evil spirits.”
What is Trepanning/Trepanation?