Each question in this quiz is timed.
Nicotine has been found to constitute approximately what percentage of dry weight of tobacco leaf
2%
5%
10%
20%
Nicotine is an anitherbivore chemical. What does this mean?
It is a potent neurotoxin with particular specificity to insects
Herbivorous plants are immune to its harmful effects
Only carnivores can eat it
Tobacco was "officially" discovered in 1492 by who?
Christopher Columbus
Stuart King James I
Rodrigo de Jerez
Chateau Jiahu
Considering the following, choose the best option below:
i. Alcohol is a drug ii. Alcohol is a stimulant
Only i. is true
Only ii. is true
Both i. and ii. are true
Neither i. or ii. are true
What country consumes the most alcohol? (Source; WHO, 2011)
The former Soviet State
Australia
The UK
USA
Mothers used to smear poppy juice (opium) on their nipples to subdue their suckling babies.
What did German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner find that morphine could evoke in animals?
Sleep
Death
Stupor
Increased sex drive
Increased appetite
Laudanum is derived from what drug?
Opium
Codeine
Morphine
Alcohol
Codeine induces myocardial infarctions (heart attacks).
Heroin is created by using which two (2) of the following?
Acetic Acid
Folic Acid
Morphene
From what is Cocaine derived?
The leaves of the coca plant
Coke
Herbs
Which of the following is not an ingredient in cocaine?
Coca paste
Coke base
Cocaine hydrocloride
Erthroxyline
Crack cocaine was devised to overcome what obstacle of freebase cocaine?
The inability to smoke it
The inability to snort it
It's reaction with air making it difficult to keep
To remove ammonia from the production
Smith, Kline and French packaged amphetamine under which name?
Benzedrine
Benedril
Ephedra
Methamphetamine
WWII soldiers were given amphetamine in order to remain more alert.
Civilian use of methamphetamine multiplied at the end of the war when the Japanese supply was open to public consumption.
MDMA (Ecstacy) was first synthesised in what year?
1912
1950
1985
2001
What drug is the most popular in Australia?
Ecstasy
Magic mushrooms
Ice
Weed
Which of the following are the two key varieties of Cannabis?
Sativa
Indica
Retrica
Treta
Direct evidence of early Cannabis use was found in what country?
China
Peru
South Africa
Mexico
There are two forms of Cannabis. Phytocannabinoids found in plants and ____________, man made from other compounds.’
synthetic cannabis
fauxcannabinoid
dronabinol
Most of the manufacture of drugs began as academic experiments.