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1. Henry “Doc” Carlson spent 1922-53 as a head coach in Pitt athletics, winning two national titles and fielding a starting lineup one year that featured five medical students. He was also director of student health services. What team did Carlson coach? Hint, he was famous for his “figure eight” offense.

Men’s basketball

2. Pitt students can now sit and study at the desk of what giant in medicine? (How carefully did you read this issue?)

A. Anthony Fauci
B. Thomas E. Starzl
C. Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk

3. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, formerly the Western University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, came about through a merger with the Western Pennsylvania Medical College. What year did that happen?

1892

4. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio River not far from Oakland. Which of the three runs north from end to end?

Monongahela

5. In the mid-1950s and 60s, many Pitt Med students listened to KDKA radio personality Regis Cordic. What beer did he promote as the “pale stale ale with the foam at the bottom”?

Olde Frothingslosh

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