APLS Quiz 1

This in 2025, is the which Anatomical Pathology and Laboratory Skills Workshop?

• 1st

• 9th

• 14th

• 15th

The 'Father of Microscopy' was born in 1632. He is also known as ‘The Father of Microbiology’. He was the first to use a microscope to study tiny organisms and he gave these organisms a name rarely used today, ‘animalcules’. He is

• Galileo Galilei

• Antony van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Which isn't one of the 4 humours?

• Sweat

• Phlegm

• Yellow Bile

• Blood

• Black Bile

Which of these individuals understood and believed in germ theory to help their developments?

• Edwin Chadwick

• John Snow

• Florence Nightingale

• Robert Koch

In Medieval Europe, doctors often diagnosed their patients by observing the urine’s smell, consistency – and even its taste. Urine analysis was pioneered by whom in the 1600s when the characteristic sweet taste of urine from patients with diabetes was noticed.

• Horace Wells

• Henry Dunant

• Rene Laennec

• Thomas Willis

The 'Father of anatomical pathology' Rudolph Virchow brought the microscope to the science of pathology and gave rise to the famous axiom "omnis cellula e cellula"

• True

• False

Formalin was introduced in

• 1858

• 1893

• 1897

• 1903

Although some 10 years before paraffin embedding was mastered, the microtome was invented in

• 1858

• 1869

• 1878

• 1885

The first successful tissue stain was

• Haematoxylin and Eosin

• Haematoxylin and Aniline

• Methylene Blue

• Ammonia carmine

George Papanicolaou's persistence to make the Pap smear and cytology a common clinical tool resulted in cervical and uterine cancer to reduce over the last 40 years by

• 20%

• 50%

• 70%

• 90%