| Connect the Docs |
Connect the Docs: The Quiz 1. What Olympic gold medalist turned down six-figure endorsements 2. What environmentalist is now the honorary president of the Sierra Club? 3. What philosopher conducted experiments in such phenomena as clairvoyance, telepathy, and religiously induced states of consciousness? 4. What ophthalmological surgeon traded in his scalpel for a conductor’s baton for more than a decade—and then returned to surgery? 5. What biochemist gained international fame for his nature photography? 6. What Amazon Basin explorer built a geographical institute at Harvard? 7.What surgeon, New Yorker staff writer, and MacArthur genius award recipient was nicknamed “Egghead” while serving as an advisor to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign? 8.What award-winning fiction writer and pediatrician helped found a program aimed at fostering a love of reading in children? 9.What cardiac surgeon recently served in the U.S. Senate? 10.Who helped author the modern rules of baseball? 11.Whose famous poem “Old Ironsides,” penned when he was a law student, helped ensure the preservation of the famous frigate the USS Constitution? 12. What former football player became an orthopedic surgeon after his team won the Super Bowl? 13. What natural health expert has gained an international following? 14.What critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer teaches fiction writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop? 15. What Nobelist performed the first successful organ transplantation in humans? 16.What novelist financed his medical education by writing pseudonymous thrillers? 17.What syndicated columnist has won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary? 18. What psychiatrist is a commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”? 19. Who was known as the father of modern medicine in his native country? 20. What medical school dean won a National Book Award for his compelling essays? 21. What former “ER” producer now serves as executive producer of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”? 22.What internist is an award-winning poet with five books of poetry to his credit? 23.What author, under the pseudonym “Samuel Shem,” set the medical establishment on its ear when he penned The House of God? 24. What New Yorker served as governor of the Territory of Alaska for 14 years and became known as “the father of Alaska statehood”? Alumni a. Lewis Thomas ’37 KEY Extra Credit This quiz appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. |
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