90 Vaccines And Medical Breakthroughs Trivia Questions with Answers
90 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who led the first successful human lung transplant in 1963?
Answer
James Hardy
Who received the first successful multichannel cochlear implant in 1978?
Answer
Rod Saunders
What was the first monoclonal antibody approved for medical use in humans?
Answer
Muromonab-CD3
What was the first dengue vaccine approved for use in humans?
Answer
Dengvaxia
Who received the first successful face transplant in 2005?
Answer
Isabelle Dinoire
Who was the first person to receive the Jarvik-7 permanent artificial heart?
Answer
Barney Clark
Who developed the first practical artificial kidney used to treat a patient?
Answer
Willem Kolff
Who designed the first implantable cardiac pacemaker used in a human patient?
Answer
Rune Elmqvist
Who performed the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion in 1818?
Answer
James Blundell
Which surgeon led the first successful long-term human kidney transplant in 1954?
Answer
Joseph Murray
Which surgeon performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967?
Answer
Christiaan Barnard
Which medical imaging technology did Godfrey Hounsfield help invent, earning the 1979 Nobel Prize?
Answer
Computed tomography
Which vaccine, introduced in 1961, was the first widely used oral polio vaccine?
Answer
Sabin vaccine
Which scientist created the first vaccine against rabies in 1885?
Answer
Louis Pasteur
Which vaccine became the first mRNA vaccine authorized for emergency use against COVID-19?
Answer
Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine
Which vaccine did Jonas Salk announce as safe and effective in 1955?
Answer
Polio vaccine
Which scientist developed the first successful smallpox vaccine in 1796?
Answer
Edward Jenner