Question 1
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Nicotine has been found to constitute approximately what percentage of dry weight of tobacco leaf
Question 2
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Nicotine is an anitherbivore chemical. What does this mean?
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It is a potent neurotoxin with particular specificity to insects
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Herbivorous plants are immune to its harmful effects
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Only carnivores can eat it
Question 3
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Tobacco was "officially" discovered in 1492 by who?
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Christopher Columbus
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Stuart King James I
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Rodrigo de Jerez
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Chateau Jiahu
Question 4
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Considering the following, choose the best option below:
i. Alcohol is a drug
ii. Alcohol is a stimulant
Question 5
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What country consumes the most alcohol? (Source; WHO, 2011)
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The former Soviet State
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Australia
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The UK
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USA
Question 6
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Mothers used to smear poppy juice (opium) on their nipples to subdue their suckling babies.
Question 7
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What did German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner find that morphine could evoke in animals?
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Sleep
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Death
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Stupor
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Increased sex drive
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Increased appetite
Question 8
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Laudanum is derived from what drug?
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Opium
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Codeine
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Morphine
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Alcohol
Question 9
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Codeine induces myocardial infarctions (heart attacks).
Question 10
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Heroin is created by using which two (2) of the following?
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Acetic Acid
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Folic Acid
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Morphene
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Codeine
Question 11
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From what is Cocaine derived?
Question 12
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Which of the following is not an ingredient in cocaine?
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Coca paste
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Coke base
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Cocaine hydrocloride
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Erthroxyline
Question 13
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Crack cocaine was devised to overcome what obstacle of freebase cocaine?
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The inability to smoke it
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The inability to snort it
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It's reaction with air making it difficult to keep
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To remove ammonia from the production
Question 14
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Smith, Kline and French packaged amphetamine under which name?
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Benzedrine
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Benedril
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Ephedra
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Methamphetamine
Question 15
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WWII soldiers were given amphetamine in order to remain more alert.
Question 16
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Civilian use of methamphetamine multiplied at the end of the war when the Japanese supply was open to public consumption.
Question 17
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MDMA (Ecstacy) was first synthesised in what year?
Question 18
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What drug is the most popular in Australia?
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Ecstasy
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Magic mushrooms
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Ice
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Weed
Question 19
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Which of the following are the two key varieties of Cannabis?
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Sativa
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Indica
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Retrica
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Treta
Question 20
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Direct evidence of early Cannabis use was found in what country?
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China
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Peru
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South Africa
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Mexico
Question 21
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There are two forms of Cannabis. Phytocannabinoids found in plants and ____________, man made from other compounds.’
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synthetic cannabis
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fauxcannabinoid
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dronabinol
Question 22
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Most of the manufacture of drugs began as academic experiments.