Pharmacy Trivia
From aspirin’s tree bark origins to penicillin’s petri dish debut, prove you’re the ultimate pill-pusher in the pharmacy arena.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Hydrocortisone is a common ingredient in OTC creams for soothing skin irritations. What class of drug does it belong to?
Corticosteroid
Which fruit juice, known for blocking CYP3A4 enzymes, is best avoided when taking simvastatin?
Grapefruit
Which bacterium, whose hardy spores lurk in soil and on rusty objects, produces a toxin that leads to the muscle spasms known as lockjaw?
Clostridium tetani
Established by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart in 1849, in which New York borough was the pharmaceutical giant originally founded?
Brooklyn
Which hallucinogenic drug was first synthesized from ergot fungus during research into heart medications?
LSD