Diabetes and Insulin Quiz

In what year was insulin discovered?

• 1921

• 1889

• 1910

• 1900

Who were the two German researchers that found the link between the pancreas and diabetes in 1889?

• Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering

• Frederick Banting and Charles Best

• Edward Sharpey-Shafer and Langerhans

• Albert Einstein and Max Planck

What was the most effective treatment for diabetes before insulin was discovered?

• Strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake

• Regular exercise

• Herbal medicine

• Insulin injections

What does the Latin word "insula," from which insulin is derived, mean?

• Island

• Sugar

• Pancreas

• Life

Who was the young surgeon that figured out how to remove insulin from a dog’s pancreas in 1921?

• Frederick Banting

• Oskar Minkowski

• Edward Sharpey-Shafer

• Joseph von Mering

Who was the first person to receive an injection of insulin?

• Frederick Banting

• Leonard Thompson

• J.B. Collip

• John Macleod

In what year did Banting and Macleod receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on insulin?

• 1922

• 1923

• 1936

• 1982

Which company started large-scale production of insulin soon after its discovery?

• Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals

• Eli Lilly

• Pfizer

• GlaxoSmithKline

What was the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin called?

• Novolog

• Humalog

• Humulin

• Lantus

What year was the first genetically engineered synthetic "human" insulin produced?

• 1922

• 1936

• 1978

• 1982