Saturday, April 12, 2008

[saturday quiz] special bumper polio victim edition


All of these people below were polio victims. Match their occupations with their names:

1. Ben Bradlee

2. Ian Dury

3. J. Robert Oppenheimer

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

5. Donald Sutherland

Occupations:

a] hit people with rhythm sticks, b] enjoyed bad boy roles, c] helped expose Watergate, d] mad bomber, e] stole the nation's gold

Answers in white below - need to highlight:

1c, 2a, 3d, 4e, 5b

Poliomyelitis is:

1.
a] curable with Xenotobin 3X
b] incurable to date
c] curable depending on how it was transmitted

2.
a] infectious
b] contagious
c] can't be transmitted

3.
a] preventable by vaccine
b] endemic to most of the world today
c] impossible to prevent

Answers in white below - need to highlight:

1b. 2b. 3a

5 comments:

  1. I know at least 3 people I can think off 'off hand' who have post polio syndrome. Only one is someone I've met through the 'disability' world. Thankfully they are all past a certain age and I've never known anyone young to have this. Is it personal experience or the recent demise of (a) prompting this interesting observation? Bendy Girl

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  2. I remember having to take the vaccine on a sugar cube!

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  3. James my first 100%. Thank you. The only name I didn't really know was the Watergate guy but as he was the only one left at the end it was easy.

    I hope you didn't just choose easy ones because you were rushing to your party.

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  4. Mad bomber, poor Robert Oppenheimer was so much more than that. It is said he should have won the Nobel Prize for some of his work.

    Sadly the polio vaccine does not always work. The "old scientist" had an Indian post doctoral fellow who lost his son to polio despite having been vaccinated.

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