The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7229 p904
21/28 December 2002

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Christmas quiz

1. How many people will turn up at your front door on the 12th day of Christmas?

2. What acid did Joseph Lister use to prevent operative sepsis?

3. Which of the top 10 Great Britons in the recent BBC TV series served an apprenticeship to an apothecary?

4. Who said: "If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged"?

5. What was the first patient safety alert to be issued by the National Patient Safety Agency in July 2002?

6. Replicas of what item from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's museum have been made available for purchase this year?

7. In which year was the British National Formulary first published?

8. Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donder and Prancer are seven of St Nick's eight reindeer, who is missing?

9. What does the acronym CHAI stand for?

10. In which famous novel does the following paragraph appear? "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury Square, intending to strike north past the Museum and so get into the quiet district. I was not cruelly chilled, and the strangeness of my situation so unnerved me that I whimpered as I ran. At the northward corner of the Square a little white dog ran out of the Pharmaceutical Society's offices, and incontinently made for me, nose down."

11. Who scored the goal that put England out of the 2002 World Cup?

12. Which former vice-president of the United States was a graduate of the Denver college of pharmacy and worked for a while in his father's drug store before turning to politics?

13. What is the name of the character played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffanys"?

14. In which British city did a pharmacy owned by a consortium of local pharmacists celebrate its 50th anniversary this year?

15. Which bus company provides the CPD bus in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's "Introducing CPD" videotape?

16. Approximately how much does Alan Milburn earn annually as Secretary of State for Health (parliamentary and ministerial salary)?

17. What is the title of the second Harry Potter film which was released in November 2002?

18. With which tree is aspirin traditionally associated?

19. Where was the original Martindale born?

20. Who is botanist Pamela Isley's evil alter ego in "Batman"?

21. What does the acronym rINN stand for?

22. Which writer of mysteries, born in 1890, was once a pharmacy technician?

23. In the 1800s, most of the opium in Britain was imported from India and which other country?

24. What is the legal blood alcohol driving limit (mg/100ml blood)?

25. What is former American president, Gerald Ford's middle name?

26. Who was the first editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal?

27. Which parasitic plant has been reputed to be a treatment for epilepsy and hypertension?

28. What was the first name of the discoverer of penicillin?

29. Which monarch granted the Royal Pharmaceutical Society its first royal charter?

30. Which island in the Indian Ocean is famous for its red crabs?