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How Science Works - Wash Your Hands
By William Hope-Ross
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Watch the video and answer the Multiple Choice Questions
Question 1
1.
Ignatz Semmelweiss is called the “Saviour of ____________”
Hamsters
Fathers
Mothers
Question 2
2.
What is “obstetrics?”
Science of childbirth
Science of elderly
Science of sarcaastic teenagers
Science of corpses
Question 3
3.
Infantacide is the killing of ____________
sarcastic teenagers
llamas
Tonys
babies
Question 4
4.
What’s another word for puerperal fever?
Couch potato fever
Violet fever
Scarlet fever
Childbed fever
Question 5
5.
At first, what did Iggy think was killing the moms?
hard beds and soft pillows
rotten food and old knives
ringing bells and funny angles
bad doctors and cheap medicine
Question 6
6.
What was Iggy's hypothesis?
Disease can be sexist
Disease can be fun
Disease can be transmitted
Disease can be fatal
Question 7
7.
What was killing the expectant moms?
Old nurses
Clean sheets
Dirty hands
Smelly dogs
Question 8
8.
How did the scientists react to Iggy’s discovery?
With excitement
With disbelief
With a sense of humour
With sadness
Question 9
9.
After travelling around and trying to spread the word, where did Ignatz go back to work?
Hungary
Austria
Vietnam
Italy
Question 10
10.
How did Iggy end up in the loony bin (mad-house, asylum)?
took IBDP an extra year
sent by his father
had to teach math
tricked by another doctor
Question 11
11.
Ironically, how did Iggy die?
Covid vaccine
Gorilla fell on him
An infected cut
Bad doctor advice
Question 12
12.
What’s the "Semmelweiss reflex?"
to refuse new knowledge instantly
to spread old knowledge instantly
to accept new knowledge instantly
to use old knowledge instantly