Some long sciency words for you. All you have to do is work out the nationalities of the commemorated individuals.
This one’s eminently Googleable, but do have a guess, or flaunt your knowledge, without looking up the answers.
Questions copyright Mike Ward and John Hodgson, reproduced with permission.
Taken from a recent quiz organised by College Hill Life Sciences.
In case you can’t read these:
31. Alzheimer’s disease.
32. Bordetella pertussis
33. Centimorgan
34. Chaga’s disease
35. Escherichia coli
36. Golgi apparatus
37. Loop of Henle
38. Peyer’s patches
39. Purkinje cells
40. Yersinia pestis (dual nationality)
Golgi was Italian, wasn’t he? Morgan was American (I guess someone has to be).
That’s the easy ones, I’ll retire now.
Alois Alzheimer was German I think?
Over to the next person.
31. Alzheimer’s disease.
A complaint in which one is obsessed by the price of everything while knowing the value of nothing.
32. Bordetella pertussis
A respiratory complaint believed to have originated in 17th-Century Venetian flop-houses.
33. Centimorgan
A pirates’ penny.
34. Chaga’s disease
I’m almost sure that this is a complaint in which the sufferer loses all ability to place apostrophes correctly.
35. Escherichia coli
Diarrohoea, if you are a gray whale
36. Golgi apparatus
This has got to be one of those machines that go ping, hasn’t it?
37. Loop of Henle
A particularly dangerous corner in the Italian Grand Prix circuit at Monza.
38. Peyer’s patches
As nicotine patches to smokers, these alleviate any irrational desire that one might have to join the accounts department.
39. Purkinje cells
Where prisoners are taken for a good dose of extraordinary rendition.
40. Yersinia pestis (dual nationality)
I think I have some of these growing in my garden, in between the euphoniums and the hegemonies.
I think Loop of Henry’s won, who could follow that? I’m off to the Islets of Langerhans.
There’s one of those pesky misplaced apostrophes again. If it will help you orient toward the correct nationality, it’s Dr. Chagas. (It didn’t help me; I am hopelessly oblivious to national origins.)
I took the family to the Islets of Langerhans last summer. Very picturesque, although the sugary deserts tended to keep us up all night. The Fissure of Sylvius was top of my list of the many startling topographical attractions the Islets have to offer, and Mrs Gee enjoyed relaxing afterwards with some Ampullae of Lorenzini.
sugary deserts? Oh, bum.
Henry, are the islets of Langerhans by any chance near San Seriffe?
No. A different place entirely. I expect Ryanair flies to San Serrife, theough.
Ah, the arial route, eh?
Only if you get the right courier.
It’s the only direct route, anyway. All the others go via either Garamond or Helvetica.
Round the Horne, presumably, but not diverting anywhere near Mornington Crescent.
Not Round the Horne, ooh, no. More like the Costa Verdana.
Lucinda Grande sends her regards from there.