MEDICAL ACRONYMS
Know Your Colors
Alphabetically Speaking
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IV

What is Intravenous?

100

This color precedes ____ Ball, _____ Bail, and ______ Smith.

What is BLACK?

 

100

Alphabetically speaking, this country comes between Ireland and Italy.

What is Isreal?

100

He was a baseball icon who played for the New York Yankees from 1920 to 1934, and … she was the second woman and first Jewish woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

Who is Babe Ruth Bader Ginsberg?


100

This organization released a report this week detailing its historical ties to slavery and committed $100 million to make reparations for those ties?

What is Harvard University?  

Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts in 1783, over a century and a half after Harvard was founded.

200

DNR

What is do not resuscitate?

200

This color precedes _____ Pages and _______ Jacket.

What is YELLOW?

200

Alphabetically speaking, this is the first Roman Numeral?


What is C?



200

She played Maude on the 1970s TV sitcom of the same name and Dorothy Zbornak in the 1980s show Golden Girls, and … he was the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Who is Bea Arthur Conan Doyle?

200

According to multiple new studies, including one by Realtor.com, this is now

the least affordable US state to live in?

What is Florida?

300

Stat

What is immediately?

300

This color precedes ______ Fever and _______ Letter

What is SCARLET?

300

Alphabetically speaking, this US state comes between Montana and Nevada.

What is Nebraska?

300

A Motown icon, she was the lead singer of The Supremes, and … he was a businessman who announced his candidacy for US president in 1992 on CNN’s Larry King Live show.

Who is Diana Ross Perot?

300

This dumb US House member was cited at a North Carolina airport for bringing a

loaded gun through a security checkpoint?

Who is Representative Madison Cawthorn?   

This is the second time in just over a year that Cawthorn was caught with a gun. A repeat offender can be fined up to $13,000.

400

CPR

What is Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ?

400

This color follows Bowling ______ and Olive ________ .

What is GREEN?

400

Alphabetically speaking, in a list of spices and herbs, this spice comes between oregano and parsley?

What is Paprika?


400

The signature song of this musician (who was often referred to as “The Genius” by his contemporaries) was his 1960 recording of “George On My Mind,” and … he was a leader of the French resistance after WWII and President of France from 1959 to 1969.

Who is Ray Charles De Gaulle?


400

The oldest person in the world died last week at age 119 in this country.

What is Japan?

Now the oldest person in the world is Lucile Randon, a 118-year-old nun in France, who is also the oldest known survivor of COVID-19.


500

MRI

What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging ?

500

This color follows Big _______, Royal ______, and Jet

What is BLUE?

500

Alphabetically speaking, this cable TV channel comes between Hallmark and HGTV

What is HBO?


500

He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as General George Patton in the 1970’s biopic Patton, and … known as the “King of Ragtime,” he composed iconic ragtime songs including the “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer.”

Who is George C. Scott Joplin?

500

These two members of the Biden cabinet traveled to Ukraine last week to meet with President Zelensky?

Who are Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. 


Say A. Blinken out loud a few times; what president’s name does it sound like?)