It's Never Lupus Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cameron

It is usually Cameron who is responsible for the lupus diagnosis. In fact, the Season 2 "House MD" DVD comes with a featured montage of Cameron's lupus diagnoses in various episodes.

Answer: Termites

House decides to autopsy the patient's dead cat and realizes that the cat also suffered the termites' poison. The patient remained stable during for weeks because his body did not metabolize the napthalene stored in fat cells. When transferred to the hospital, he stopped eating, which caused his body to begin to process the poison and eventually shut down his liver. Foreman and Chase search the house and find a huge termite nest in the boy's bedroom.

The subplot of the episode concerns a bet between House and Cuddy. She bets him a month of clinic duty if he can go a week without Vicodin. He deliberately breaks his hand to allow endorphins to flow, and is in pain delirium for much of the episode. Although he wins the bet, House admits that he is a drug addict and will continue using Vicodin.

Answer: Gold

House corners the wife in the bathroom, where she is preparing to wash the gold compound off of her hands. He applies a chemical to her hands that reacts with gold to turn bright purple, and his somewhat outlandish theory is proven correct. The man eventually recovers after a lung transplant. House wins $100 in a bet off Cameron: he had insisted at the beginning of the episode that the patient's marital relationship was unhappy despite appearance.

Answer: His Vicodin stash

"Finding Judas" centers around a young girl who suffers from acute intermitten porphyria, essentially an allergy to light. However, the main subplot of the episode is House's battle with Detective Tritter, who is seeking information about House's drug habits to ruin his medical career. After running out of Vicodin, House has to access pills from his "secret stash", leading to an interesting exchange.

Dr. Foreman: "You hide drugs in a lupus textbook?"
Dr. House: "It's never lupus."

"It's never lupus" became somewhat of a motto for the television show, spawning a T-shirt craze with the phrase written underneath House's face.

Answer: The girl was extremely short, so they thought she was a dwarf.

The patient's mother was a dwarf, so the team naturally assumed that her unexpectedly short daughter had inherited the gene. They were wrong: in a bizarre turn of events, the girl had normal genes, but neurological difficulties limited her growth. After x-raying the patient's leg, House and his team realize that she had normal bone growth, indicating that maybe the dwarf wasn't really a dwarf.

Throughout the episode, House's feud with Tritter escalates. He is ostracized from the team and communicates his ideas through Foreman until he realizes the diagnosis.

Answer: Amyloidosis

At a critical moment in the episode, Cameron confronts Powell about his beliefs and consoles him, but manages to get a skin sample for testing. House realizes that Powell's disease is terminal, but the episode implies that Cameron euthanized Powell before he died from the disease.

Answer: A janitor

House tries bouncing ideas off the hospital's janitor, who suggests lupus as an inside joke. In the end, House realizes that his lack of a team led to the confusion of a fairly easy-to-solve problem that was complicated by hospital error. Two patients' records were switched, and House hadn't realized the error, although any of his original fellows would have noticed the mistake.

At the end of the episode, he begins a competition to pick his new diagnostic team.

Answer: Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome, made by Chase

Throughout the episode, the pilot refuses several diagnostic procedures if they can be traced, and House tries to take the case off the record. In the end, however, House tells her that he informed NASA about her chronic disease, which she believes will destroy her career. Chase and Cameron return to Princeton-Plainsboro, albeit in different departments. Foreman returns too, but later, and he eventually rejoins House's team after realizing that he is too much like House.

Answer: Heat stroke

Foreman's original diagnosis was heat stroke, but Brennan (one of the job applicants) attacks the theory and fakes a polio test to suit his results. Then, he fakes treatment with massive amounts of Vitamin C. Upon House's return, Brennan quits.

The sick CIA agent that House oversaw had selenium poisoning from eating too many horse chestnuts. Both patients eventually recover.

Answer: Lupus

House realizes that the patient had lupus after discussing blood types with Wilson: the magician had been given blood of a different type to perform his magic tricks, which caused an autoimmune reaction. Lupus occurs when the body produces antibodies that attack its own cells.

Although referring to eight separate diseases, lupus on "House" is specifically referring to SLE, or systemic lupus erythematosus. Symptoms include anaemia, arthritis, fever, malaise, rashes, weight loss, skin lesions, and a "butterfly" rash. Lupus has no cure.