Nexplanon &
Organon
Medieval Menstration & Medicine
Women's Health in History
Contraceptives
100

What are Organon's main three areas of focus?

What are biosimilars, established medicines, and women's health?

100

In 18 B.C., emperor ______ assessed heavier taxes on bachelors and unmarried women, and by contrast offered incentives for marriage and fecundity which became known as lex Julia et Papia.

Who is Emperor Augustus?

100

In what year did America log the highest known birth rate in the world?

What is 1800? When America logged 55 births per thousand residents. This translated to roughly seven children for the average American woman.

100

In what year was the first contraceptive approved by the FDA?

When is 1960?

200

Number of years Nexplanon is left in woman’s arm to provide contraception

What is 3 years?

200

What did some doctors think the cause of menstration was?

Hint: Think religious

What is a punishment from God upon women to pay for Eve’s original sin in the garden of Eden?

200

At what age did meopause begin?

What is age 40? This is due to malnutrition.

200

In the developing world, what percent of birth control is via female sterilization?

What is 35%?

300

Organon was founded by _______ in 1932 in Oss, Netherlands

Who is Dr. Saal van Zwanenberg?

300

Rather than relying on a nice, clean, sanitary cotton tampon or pad, what did women have to use to absorb their flow?

What is moss?

For most ladies, especially peasants and those of poorer classes, that meant using moss.

300

In what country did the earliest female physician live in?

What is Egypt?

300

What percent of pregnancies globally are uninteneded?

What is 41%

400

Women make ____% of their family's health decisions

What is 80%? 

***(answers accepted within 5% points from correct response) 

400

What medicine was used to lessen menstrual flow?

Hint: Think animals

What is powdered toad?

400

In what year did the earliest female physician live in?

2700 B.C.

400

_____% of women globally used contraception (any method) in 2017

What is 59.86%?

***(answers accepted within 5% points from correct response) 

500

Who used the term "Organon" as a method or instrument to be used in the pursuit of philosophical knowledge?

Who is Aristotle?

500

Those who were more medically minded believed that the menses bloodletting started at the head and traveled throughout the body collecting poisonous wastes and humors. This was because most medically minded doctors believed in the Theory of _____?

What is the Theory of the Wandering Womb?

500

In what year and where was America's first birth control clinic formed?

When is 1916? Where is Brooklyn, NY?

500

How many women of reproductive age (15-49) within developing regions have an unmet need for modern contraception?

What is over 214 million?