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Diabetes and Insulin Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what year was insulin discovered?

a)

1921

b)

1889

c)

1910

d)

1900

2.

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

a)

Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering

b)

Frederick Banting and Charles Best

c)

Edward Sharpey-Shafer and Langerhans

d)

Albert Einstein and Max Planck

3.

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

a)

Strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake

b)

Regular exercise

c)

Herbal medicine

d)

Insulin injections

4.

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

a)

Island

b)

Sugar

c)

Pancreas

d)

Life

5.

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

a)

Frederick Banting

b)

Oskar Minkowski

c)

Edward Sharpey-Shafer

d)

Joseph von Mering

6.

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

a)

Frederick Banting

b)

Leonard Thompson

c)

J.B. Collip

d)

John Macleod

7.

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

a)

1922

b)

1923

c)

1936

d)

1982

8.

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

a)

Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals

b)

Eli Lilly

c)

Pfizer

d)

GlaxoSmithKline

9.

What was the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin called?

a)

Novolog

b)

Humalog

c)

Humulin

d)

Lantus

10.

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

a)

1922

b)

1936

c)

1978

d)

1982