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Question	Answer	% Correct
What does trepanation, an ancient surgical practice, involve?	Drilling or scraping a hole into the skull	70%
Inca surgeons were able to perform successful skull surgery.	True	68%
What is the 19th-century physician John Snow famous for?	Curtailing a cholera outbreak	67%
During the Black Death, plague was reportedly introduced into Europe via Genoese traders fleeing the disease when it struck the city of Kaffa. What did the Mongols who had previously been attacking the city do in an effort to infect the inhabitants?	Catapult infected corpses into the city	56%
Hippocrates believed that, ultimately, the gods were responsible for diseases.	False	51%
In which two modern countries did Ebola first appear?	Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan	49%
Which of these texts contains no information about medicine?	The Book of Healing	48%
Which physician, in 1847, proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions while working at Vienna General Hospital?	Ignaz Semmelweis	45%
Who produced the first accurate diagram of the human spine?	Leonardo da Vinci	44%
What was the first pandemic of the disease plague?	Plague of Justinian	31%
What is the ancient Chinese physician Hua Tuo known for?	Being the first person in China to use anaesthesia during surgery	30%
Which of these people didn't die of influenza or a complication of influenza during the Spanish flu pandemic?	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	28%
Which of these was invented in Australia?	Electronic Pacemaker	26%
The earliest known prosthesis, dating as far back as 950 BC, was a replacement for which body part?	Toe	21%
Which disease caused an epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793?	Yellow fever	18%

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