Medications
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Boston Trivia
APhA Trivia
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100

Which class of blood pressure medication shares part of its name with a playing card?

What is ACEi (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors)

100

This hyperlipidemia medication is the best-selling drug of all time.

What is Lipitor/atorvastatin?

100

The first Dunkin' Donut location was located in this Massachusetts town.

What is Quincy, MA?

100

Where is the APhA headquarters?

What is Washington D.C.?

100

This soda was originally created by pharmacist John S. Pemberton to treat many common illnesses.

What is Coca-Cola?

200

What is the chemical name for aspirin?

What is Acetylsalicylic acid?

200

This OTC medication led to tamper resistant packaging being required.

What is Tylenol?

200

This first public beach in the United States is accessible by the T.

What is Revere Beach?

200

What year was the APhA Foundation established?

What is 1953?

200

This famous inventor was also a pharmacist.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

300

What Black Box Warning does bronchodilators/LABAs and steroidal anti-inflammatory agents carry? (i.e. Advair Diskus)

What is increased risk of asthma-associated deaths?

300

These two classes of medication were derived from Gila monster venom.

What is GLP-1 RA or DPP-4 inhibitors?

300

This museum experienced the world’s largest art heist, valued at over $500 million in 1990.

What the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

300

How many members are currently a part of APhA?

What is over 62,000 members from all branches of pharmacy practice?

300

The first CVS store was founded in this northern MA town in 1963.

What is Lowell, MA?

400

This tobacco cessation medication can cause vivid dreams.

What is Chantix (varenicline)?

400

This class of medications for UTI treatment can cause tendon rupture.

What is fluoroquinolones?

400

This date is the re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party?

What is December 16?

400


Which of the following is not a part of the APhA Mission?

  1. Advancing pharmacists’ optimal roles in team-based, patient centered care

  2. Providing opportunities for professional development, recognition, differentiation, and leadership

  3. Disseminating timely irrelevant information and state-of-the-art tools and resources

  4. Raising societal awareness about the role of pharmacists as essential in patient care for optimal medication use

  5. Creating unique opportunities for members to connect and share with peers across practice settings


What is 3. disseminating timely irrelevant information and state-of-the-art tools and resources.

400

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has this drug named after them.

What is warfarin?

500

This intravenous antibiotic is given orally to patients for treatment of C-difficile?

What is vancomycin?

500

This chest pain medication’s active ingredient is also used in dynamite?

What is nitroglycerin?

500

This Boston hotel is responsible for inventing the Boston Cream Pie.

What the Omni Parker House (or Parker House Hotel)?

500

Where did the current APHA President receive their PharmD?

What is the University of Colorado?

500

This was the first state to require pharmacists to be licensed (in 1804)?

What is Louisiana?