Terry Byrne, Author at 麻豆女优 Health News 麻豆女优 Health News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of 麻豆女优. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:58:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Terry Byrne, Author at 麻豆女优 Health News 32 32 161476233 KHN Quiz: Drug or Not a Drug? /news/khn-quiz-drug-or-not-a-drug/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://khn.org/?post_type=quiz&p=962023
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Face it: Drug names can be kooky. And Comirnaty 鈥 the brand-new brand name for the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine 鈥 is a candidate for the kookiest. Who hasn’t stumbled over names of prescription drugs, even those you take daily, when put on the spot by a doctor or pharmacist? Take this tongue-in-cheek quiz to see how many brand-name drug names you can pick out from the decoys.

By Terry Byrne

Step 1 of 10

Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of an angel or a character from Star Trek or Pokémon GO?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a star, anime character or subatomic particle?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a Dr. Seuss character, herb or Irish lad?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of an extinct language, comics villain or rock?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of an arcade game, a generic drug or a Lord of the Rings character?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a rock band, Ty Beanie Baby or biblical Old Testament name?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of an exoplanet, a mountain peak, or a tree toad or butterfly?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a pop singer, marble or car company?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a bowling ball brand, programming language or Renaissance painter?(Required)
Which is a brand-name drug 鈥 and not the name of a Harry Potter spell, constellation, lighting company, drug company or coral reef?(Required)

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(Note: For the purpose of this quiz, fictional characters who earned medical degrees do count as doctors, but real-life personalities with doctorates 鈥 i.e., Ph.D.s 鈥 do not, as they are not medical doctors.)

Step 1 of 21

Surgeon General Jerome Adams(Required)
Dr. Spock(Required)
Spock(Required)
Doctor Dolittle(Required)
'The Incredible Dr. Pol'(Required)
Dr. Seuss(Required)
HUD Secretary Ben Carson(Required)
Dr. Phil(Required)
Dr. Ruth(Required)
Dr. Sanjay Gupta(Required)
Dr. Dre(Required)
Dr. Oz(Required)
The doc with the gorgeous eyes on those Restasis ads(Required)
Dr. Jekyll(Required)
Dr. No(Required)
Dr. Sebi(Required)
Doctor Who(Required)
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg(Required)
Which of these serial killers was not a bona-fide doctor?(Required)
BONUS QUESTION No. 1: Dr Pepper(Required)
BONUS QUESTION No. 2: There are currently 13 doctors in the House and three in the Senate. Which statement is true about the 116th Congress?(Required)

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