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6. What prompted a national health service?

  • Beveridge Report
  • Mass deaths
  • Shortage of workers due to illness
  • Public protests

7. What battle was the first blood bank set up at?

  • Battle of Arras
  • Battle of the Somme
  • Battle of Cambrai
  • Battle of Ypres

8. How is the blood group of a person found out?

  • Blood tests
  • Family history
  • Surgery

9. What was the first complete organ to be transplanted?

  • Heart
  • Lungs
  • Kidney
  • Liver

10. What is the structure of DNA?

  • Double helix
  • Rectangular
  • Single helix
  • Circular

11. What was the first successful cancer treatment that didn't use surgery?

  • Targetted therapy
  • Radiotherapy
  • Chemotherapy

12. What year was robot-assisted surgery first introduced?

  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1983

13. What year was the NHS established?

  • 1947
  • 1946
  • 1948
  • 1949

14. What are immunosuppressants used for?

  • Stop the rejection of transplanted organs
  • Curing bacterial infections
  • Stoping the growth of viral infections
  • Treatment for cancer

15. What compound stopped blood from clotting when stored?

  • Calcium nitrate
  • Sodium citrate
  • Calcium citrate
  • Sodium nitrate

16. When did smoking increase in popularity?

  • 1920s
  • World War One
  • World War Two
  • 1930s

17. By what percentage has the number of men smoking fallen between 1948 and 2010?

  • 45%
  • 40%
  • 50%
  • 55%

18. What government campaign was set up to combat excessive drinking?

  • Movember
  • Change4Life
  • Drinkaware
  • Jeans for Genes

19. What did Fleming identify?

  • Magic Bullet
  • Penicillin notatum
  • DNA
  • Blood groups

20. When were blood groups discovered?

  • 1899
  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902