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1. Who invented the flush toilet?
2. Who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for his 'apple corer' technique for prefrontal lobotomies?
3. In 1364, a man named Thomas du Buisson was hired to paint red crosses in the Louvre and its surrounding gardens to prevent what?
4. What was so unusual about Pope Stephen VII's interrogation of Pope Formusus in 897 A.D.?
5. What was the most common medical cure-all used in Renaissance France?
6. The word 'narcotics' comes from the Greek word for what?
7. In ancient India, it was common practice for adulterers to have their ____________ cut off.
8. In 1685, King Louis XIV helped advance surgical practices by having a doctor, rather than a barber remove what?
9. Pope John XXI wrote many medical texts before becoming Pope. What did he suggest may be used as an effective eyewash?
10. How did Catherine the Great die?
11. Why was Napoleon's hand always tucked into his jacket?
12. Where did the phrase 'the third degree' originate?
13. Where did bulldogs and bull terriers get their names?
14. Who were the "castrati"?
15. The Four Humors consisted of blood, phlegm, black bile, and ____________.
16. In the earliest known version of the fairy tale 'Cinderella', the Egyptian 'Rhodopis', the title character is a ____________.
17. Although today in the United States, brothels are only legal in Nevada, about 100 years ago which two other cities experimented with legalized prostitution?
18. In 13th century France, one would often hear the cry 'gardez à l'eau!' to warn people of what?
19. George Washington's dentures were made partly from the ivory of what animal?
20. In 1913, a New York woman named Caresse Crosby designed the first bra and sold the rights for $1,500 to what company?
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