This year marks the 900th Anniversary of Barts Hospital, how well do you know this world-class medical institution? As before the correct answer will turn green when it’s clicked upon and expanded to give more information. The incorrect answers will turn red giving the correct explanation.
1. Founded in 1123 by a monk called Rahere, what other job did Rahere perform?
Master of the Stools to Henry I
WRONG Depicted in a stained-glass window in St Bartholomew the Less Church shows Rahere in monk’s robes but with the multicoloured leggings of a jester.
Jester and Courtier to Henry I
CORRECT Depicted in a stained-glass window in St Bartholomew the Less Church shows Rahere in monk’s robes but with the multicoloured leggings of a jester.
Keeper of the Keys
WRONG Depicted in a stained-glass window in St Bartholomew the Less Church shows Rahere in monk’s robes but with the multicoloured leggings of a jester.
2. In A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes first meets Dr John Watson at Bart’s Hospital, as recorded on a plaque in the hospital’s museum, what are Holmes’s first words to his future housemate?
Dr Watson, I presume
WRONG Upon their first fictional encounter on 1st January 1881, Holmes is using the hospital laboratory for experiments with blood stains when Watson, who had served in the Afghan theatre of war and was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, is shown in by a mutual acquaintance called Stamford. Both looking for accommodation, the famous duo agree to take rooms in Baker Street.
You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive
CORRECT Upon their first fictional encounter on 1st January 1881, Holmes is using the hospital laboratory for experiments with blood stains when Watson, who had served in the Afghan theatre of war and was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, is shown in by a mutual acquaintance called Stamford. Both looking for accommodation, the famous duo agree to take rooms in Baker Street.
Do you know the way to Amarillo?
WRONG Upon their first fictional encounter on 1st January 1881, Holmes is using the hospital laboratory for experiments with blood stains when Watson, who had served in the Afghan theatre of war and was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, is shown in by a mutual acquaintance called Stamford. Both looking for accommodation, the famous duo agree to take rooms in Baker Street.
3. Which artist painted the vast canvases that decorate the stairs of the hospital’s great hall?
William Hogarth
CORRECT William Hogarth who was born just yards away from Barts in Bartholomew Close is said to have taken the commission for no pay, rather than let it go to Italian artists.
William Kent
WRONG William Hogarth who was born just yards away from Barts in Bartholomew Close is said to have taken the commission for no pay, rather than let it go to Italian artists.
William Blake
WRONG William Hogarth who was born just yards away from Barts in Bartholomew Close is said to have taken the commission for no pay, rather than let it go to Italian artists.
4. Named after St Bartholomew, one of the Twelve Apostles, how was it said that Bartholomew was martyred?
Flayed
CORRECT The apostle is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages. His relics were supposedly taken to the Church of St. Bartholomew-in-the-Tiber.
Crucified
WRONG The apostle is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages. His relics were supposedly taken to the Church of St. Bartholomew-in-the-Tiber.
Garotted
WRONG The apostle is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages. His relics were supposedly taken to the Church of St. Bartholomew-in-the-Tiber.
5. Whose statue stands above the gatehouse of Bart’s, said to be the only one in London to depict this person?
Henry VIII
CORRECT A favourite with Knowledge examiners, this rather tiny statue commemorates Henry VIII saving the hospital. Another steel structure of Henry stands in Central Park, Havering. We locals insist that the London Borough of Havering is in Essex, unfortunately, Sadiq disagrees.
Henry Mayhew
WRONG A favourite with Knowledge examiners, this rather tiny statue commemorates Henry VIII saving the hospital. Another steel structure of Henry stands in Central Park, Havering. We locals insist that the London Borough of Havering is in Essex, unfortunately, Sadiq disagrees.
Henry Cooper
WRONG A favourite with Knowledge examiners, this rather tiny statue commemorates Henry VIII saving the hospital. Another steel structure of Henry stands in Central Park, Havering. We locals insist that the London Borough of Havering is in Essex, unfortunately, Sadiq disagrees.
6. In 1954 Barts became the first hospital in the country to offer which ground-breaking treatment for cancer?
Chemotherapy
WRONG Megavoltage radiotherapy (MRT) is now commonly used to deliver doses of radiation to patients with cancer.
Radiotherapy
CORRECT Megavoltage radiotherapy (MRT) is now commonly used to deliver doses of radiation to patients with cancer.
Hyperthermia
WRONG Megavoltage radiotherapy (MRT) is now commonly used to deliver doses of radiation to patients with cancer.
7. The grand staircase leading up to the Great Hall is home to two murals The Pool of Bethesda (1736) and The Good Samaritan (1737). Why is one a lesser quality?
The artist ran out of paint
WRONG Due to William Hogarth’s fear of heights, the more intricate of the two murals, The Pool of Bethesda, was painted in a different location, whilst The Good Samaritan was painted in situ but with far less detail.
The artist was ill
WRONG Due to William Hogarth’s fear of heights, the more intricate of the two murals, The Pool of Bethesda, was painted in a different location, whilst The Good Samaritan was painted in situ but with far less detail.
The artist suffered from vertigo
CORRECT Due to William Hogarth’s fear of heights, the more intricate of the two murals, The Pool of Bethesda, was painted in a different location, whilst The Good Samaritan was painted in situ but with far less detail.
8. Which Scottish freedom fighter has their memorial on the north-western wall of Barts Hospital?
Robert the Bruce
WRONG On 5th August 1305, Wallace was captured near Glasgow, possibly by treachery and taken to London, where he was hung, drawn and quartered outside Barts Hospital on 23rd August 1305.
James Douglas
WRONG On 5th August 1305, Wallace was captured near Glasgow, possibly by treachery and taken to London, where he was hung, drawn and quartered outside Barts Hospital on 23rd August 1305.
William Wallace
CORRECT On 5th August 1305, Wallace was captured near Glasgow, possibly by treachery and taken to London, where he was hung, drawn and quartered outside Barts Hospital on 23rd August 1305.
9. A memorial was installed in 2015 on Barts’s north-western wall, commemorating the murder of which famous Kentish rebel?
Wat Tyler
CORRECT William Walworth, London’s mayor stabbed Tyler who was negotiating terms with King John who had introduced a poll tax which was a fixed rate regardless of an individual’s earnings.
Jack Cade
WRONG William Walworth, London’s mayor stabbed Tyler who was negotiating terms with King John who had introduced a poll tax which was a fixed rate regardless of an individual’s earnings.
John Lincoln
WRONG William Walworth, London’s mayor stabbed Tyler who was negotiating terms with King John who had introduced a poll tax which was a fixed rate regardless of an individual’s earnings.
10. Sairey Gamp’s friend, Betsy Prig, is a nurse at St. Barts in which Dickensian novel?
Bleak House
WRONG Betsy Prig, features as a Barts nurse in Martin Chuzzlewit, also in Dickens’ Little Dorrit, John Baptist Cavalletto is taken to the hospital after being hit by the mail coach.
Martin Chuzzlewit
CORRECT Betsy Prig, features as a Barts nurse in Martin Chuzzlewit, also in Dickens’ Little Dorrit, John Baptist Cavalletto is taken to the hospital after being hit by the mail coach.
Oliver Twist
WRONG Betsy Prig, features as a Barts nurse in Martin Chuzzlewit, also in Dickens’ Little Dorrit, John Baptist Cavalletto is taken to the hospital after being hit by the mail coach.
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