1. South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on 3rd December 1967. Name the Cape Town grocer who received the transplant.
Louis Washkansky
2. She was the first woman to be named as the ‘Person of the year’ by Time Magazine in 1936. Her memoir is titled ‘The Heart has its Reasons’. Who is this controversial American lady to marry whom English King Edward VIII abdicated his throne in 1936?
Wallis Simpson
3. Name the physician who invented the Heart Lung Machine in 1937
John Heysham Gibbon
4. Named after the 19th Century Bohemian Physiologist, what are the specialised fibres of the cardiac muscle that conduct the electrical stimulus and enable the heart to contract in a coordinated fashion?
Purkinje Fibres
5. What term is used to describe the 2 sounds that are heard during each heart beat?
Lub Dub
6. What term describes the medical condition in which the heart beats at a rate that is below the normal of 65 beats per minute?
Brachycardia
7. For what invention did Willem Einthoven receive the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1924?
Electrocardiograph
8. Stents are devices used to open up blocked coronary artery during an angioplasty. What alloy of Nickel and Titanium is usually used to make stents because of its ‘shape memory’ property?
Nitinol
9. If the tricuspid valve separates the right atrium and the right ventricle, what valve, named after its resemblance to a bishop’s hat, separates left atrium and left ventricle?
Mitral valve
10. Who is the author of the 1948 novel ‘The Heart of the Matter’, which was once included by Time magazine in the 100 best English language novels?
Graham Greene
Louis Washkansky
2. She was the first woman to be named as the ‘Person of the year’ by Time Magazine in 1936. Her memoir is titled ‘The Heart has its Reasons’. Who is this controversial American lady to marry whom English King Edward VIII abdicated his throne in 1936?
Wallis Simpson
3. Name the physician who invented the Heart Lung Machine in 1937
John Heysham Gibbon
4. Named after the 19th Century Bohemian Physiologist, what are the specialised fibres of the cardiac muscle that conduct the electrical stimulus and enable the heart to contract in a coordinated fashion?
Purkinje Fibres
5. What term is used to describe the 2 sounds that are heard during each heart beat?
Lub Dub
6. What term describes the medical condition in which the heart beats at a rate that is below the normal of 65 beats per minute?
Brachycardia
7. For what invention did Willem Einthoven receive the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1924?
Electrocardiograph
8. Stents are devices used to open up blocked coronary artery during an angioplasty. What alloy of Nickel and Titanium is usually used to make stents because of its ‘shape memory’ property?
Nitinol
9. If the tricuspid valve separates the right atrium and the right ventricle, what valve, named after its resemblance to a bishop’s hat, separates left atrium and left ventricle?
Mitral valve
10. Who is the author of the 1948 novel ‘The Heart of the Matter’, which was once included by Time magazine in the 100 best English language novels?
Graham Greene
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