Congratulations to the Winners of the ASMR Medical Research Week Quiz 2001 !
I think you'll agree that this year's Medical Research Week Quiz was not that easy! We had a fantastic response with a total of 92 entries from a wide range of secondary schools. Six students answered all 20 questions correctly, so congratulations to Juliet Reardon and Alex Wilding in the Year 10-12 category and to Louise Pierce, Eileen An, Becky F and Melissa Yap in the Year 7-9 category! The correct answers are given below so check your entries and better luck next year for everyone who missed out.
The winners were:
Years 7-9 Joint winners: Louise Pierce, Eileen An, Becky F and Melissa Yap, Year 8, Balwyn High School.
Years 10-12 Juliet Reardon Year 12, Warrandyte High School
Alex Wilding Year 11, Doncaster Secondary School
QUIZ QUESTIONS
1) How many cells are there in a human taste bud?
A) 5
B) 60-80
C) 500-600
D) 1000
2) How many cells are there in the adult human body?
A) 100,000 cells
B) 200 millon cells
C) 10 billion cells
D) 100 trillion cells
3) The 2000 Nobel prize in Medicine was awarded to:
A) Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard & Eric R Kandel
B) Gunter Blobel
C) Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov & Paul Ehrlich
D) Peter Doherty & Rolf Zinkernagel
4) It was awarded for :
A) The discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localisation in the cell
B) Recognition of their work in immunity
C) Signal transduction in the nervous system
D) Discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence
5) Phase I clinical trials :
A) Test how a new drug should be administered and what
dose is safe
B) Evaluate how well a drug works
C) Decide whether a drug can be sold in the shops
D) Test new drugs in the laboratory
6) Which new drug discovered in Australia has undergone clinical trials and has recently been approved for general use in Australia?
A) Cyanide
B) LIF (AM424)
C) Flu-away
D) Relenza
7) Which Melbourne Research Institute specialises in heart research?
A) MacFarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research
B) Peter MacCallum Institute
C) Baker Medical Institute
D) The Murdoch Institute
8) What is the largest organ in the human body?
A) liver
B) heart
C) small intestine
D) skin
9) Based on the sequencing of the human genome scientists now estimate that the human genome contains how many genes?
A) 10,000
B) 30,000
C) 100,000
D) 230,000
10) Which mature cells do not have a nucleus?
A) liver cells
B) red blood cells
C) kidney cells
D) heart cells
11) A rhinovirus infects:
A) the upper respiratory tract
B) the olfactory lobe of the brain
C) herds of rhinoceros
D) The rhizome of a plant
12) Who was the Australian responsible for the development of penicillin?
A) Macfarlane Burnet
B) Alexander Fleming
C) William Penn
D) Howard Florey
13) Creutzfeldt-Jacob Syndrome is a human disease which is similar to Mad Cow Disease. It is caused by:
A) bacteria
B) prions
C) a virus
D) drinking pasteurised milk
14) An analytical tool routinely used to amplify very small quantities of DNA for further analysis is:
A) polymerase chain reaction
B) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
C) immunoprecipitation
D) electron microscopy
15) When did the World Health Organisation claim to eliminate smallpox disease?
A) 1970
B) 1975
C) 1980
D) 1985
16) What is the name given to the DNA base sequences interrupting the protein-coding sequences of a gene?
A) exon
B) telomere
C) intron
D) codon
17) Which human protein is used for treating patients undergoing chemotherapy and aids in the recovery of their white blood cells?
A) G-CSF (filgrastim)
B) M-CSF
C) growth hormone
D) erythropoietin (EPO)
18) Which famous tenor was successfully treated with the answer to question 18?
A) Placido Domingo
B) Luciano Pavorotti
C) Julio Inglesias
D) Jose Carreras
19) How many people worldwide, die from malaria each year?
A) 500 to 1000
B) 2500 to 3000
C) 10,000 to 20,000
D) 1,000,000 to 1,500,000
20) The malaria disease is spread by:
A) sandflies
B) mosquitos
C) sneezing
D) dog bites