Friday 20 Question Quiz – 09/08/2024

Round 1: Medical Breakthroughs

10 questions about major Medical Breakthroughs.

Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming made the initial discovery of penicillin in 1928, it was the first of which type of medicines for fighting bacterial infections?

The development of what, against a range of infectious diseases, resulted in the eradication of smallpox in 1977?

Revolutionising the detection of disease (i.e. cancer), the University of Aberdeen conducted what type of scan in 1980 – the world's first?

The 'Edinburgh method' of combined therapy is recognised as the single-most important treatment of – and has almost eradicated – which disease?

What surgical technique widens a narrowed or blocked artery in the heart and has been instrumental in the life of people suffering from coronary heart disease?

Antiviral therapy for which disease first became available in 1996 and has transformed the outlook from death in most cases to an expectation of near-normal lifespan for most patients?

What cholesterol-lowering drugs are now used extensively in the prevention of heart disease and have significantly reduced death rates in these areas?

What type of inhibitors used to treat high blood pressure help prevent the development of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure?

What type of surgery (commonly known as 'keyhole' surgery) is a form of minimally invasive surgery by which instruments are inserted through some small incisions in the skin?

Considered by many to be the most significant drug development of the last century, what were developed in 1962 by Sir James Black and revolutionised the treatment of angina?