Past Winners and Questions


 

Barbara Thorne-Thomsen

 

 

Who invented the automated CBC test

(Complete Blood Count)?

 

Virginia Apgar

Wallace Coulter

Earle Dickson

Dean Kamen

Rosalyn Yalow

 

Correct answer: Wallace Coulter

 

 

Won Ja Leonard

 

 

 

Who invented the automated external defibrillator (AED)?

 

Shirley Jones

James Paget

Oliver Sacks

Priscilla White

Frank Pantridge

 

Correct answer: Frank Pantridge

 

Erik Maus, M.D.

 

 

Who invented computed axial tomography (CT)?

 

Wilhelm Roentgen

Godfrey Hounsfield

Marie Curie

Arthur Agatston

William Harvey

 

Correct answer: Godfrey Hounsfield

 

     

Norma McGee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who invented the medical cardiac pacemaker?

 

Denton Cooley

Michael DeBakey

Wilson Greatbatch

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Sanjay Gupta

 

Correct answer: Wilson Greatbatch

 

 

 

 

Cynthia A. Pavlik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who is generally regarded as the first physician to have employed ultrasound in medical diagnosis?

 

Jacques Cousteau

Karl Theo Dussik

William Shatner

Doogie Howser

Francesca Alberghetti 

 

Correct answer: Karl Theo Dussik

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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