Pharmacy Quiz

Try out this Pharmacy quiz to test your knowledge. Pharmacy trivia explores the science and practice of preparing, dispensing, and using medicines, from ancient apothecaries to modern drugstores and clinical care.

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Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Which Bayer chemist is commonly credited with synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid in 1897?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Who achieved an industrial synthesis of physostigmine in 1935?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
What drug became the first proton pump inhibitor approved in the United States in 1989?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which prescription drug is noted as the first blockbuster to surpass $1 billion in annual sales?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Which drug was approved in 2001 for chronic myeloid leukemia, marking a major milestone in targeted cancer therapy?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the first statin approved in the United States, which arrived in 1987.?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Before it entered human medicine, which anticoagulant had an earlier career as a rodenticide?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Metformin’s medicinal ancestry traces back to which plant?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Which sulfa drug, introduced in the 1930s by Bayer researchers, became an early antibacterial landmark?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
What drug, introduced in 1952, is widely recognized for transforming psychiatric drug therapy?
Question 11 · Easy · 10 pts
Advil is the brand name for which medicine?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
Which brand name is sold as loratadine?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Lipitor is a brand name for what drug?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Prilosec is the brand name for which medication?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
If a prescription says levothyroxine, which well-known brand name matches it?

Which Bayer chemist is commonly credited with synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid in 1897?

Who achieved an industrial synthesis of physostigmine in 1935?

What drug became the first proton pump inhibitor approved in the United States in 1989?

Which prescription drug is noted as the first blockbuster to surpass $1 billion in annual sales?

Which drug was approved in 2001 for chronic myeloid leukemia, marking a major milestone in targeted cancer therapy?

Name the first statin approved in the United States, which arrived in 1987.?

Before it entered human medicine, which anticoagulant had an earlier career as a rodenticide?

Metformin’s medicinal ancestry traces back to which plant?

Which sulfa drug, introduced in the 1930s by Bayer researchers, became an early antibacterial landmark?

What drug, introduced in 1952, is widely recognized for transforming psychiatric drug therapy?

Advil is the brand name for which medicine?

Which brand name is sold as loratadine?

Lipitor is a brand name for what drug?

Prilosec is the brand name for which medication?

If a prescription says levothyroxine, which well-known brand name matches it?