Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

Medicine

1. What is dermatophobia the fear of? Skin disease
2. How many teeth do adult humans have? 32
3. In 2015, which country started thanking people via text message when their donated blood was used? Sweden
4. An absence of the SRY gene means what for a human being? It means the human is a female. The presence of the sex-determining region Y (SRY) gene is the specific factor which leads to maleness in mammals
5. In which part of the body would you find the atlas and axis bones? Neck
6. First developed by John Salk, the vaccine for which illness was first tested in 1952? Poliomyelitis

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.