Anthony Fauci Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
Who is Anthony Stephen Fauci?
A: He is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID)
and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President.
When was Anthony Fauci born?
A: On December 24, 1940.
Where was he born?
A: In Brooklyn, New York City.
Who were his parents?
A: Eugenia Lillian and Stephen A. Fauci.
His father was a Columbia University-educated
pharmacist who owned what?
A: His own pharmacy.
Fauci's mother and sister worked at what?
A: The pharmacy's register and Fauci delivered prescriptions.
Where was the pharmacy located?
A: In the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, directly beneath the family
apartment, previously in the Bensonhurst neighborhood.
Fauci's grandparents immigrated to the United States
from where in the late 19th century?
A: Italy.
His paternal grandparents, Antonino Fauci and Calogera
Guardino, were from Sciacca, and his maternal grandparents were from where?
A: Naples.
His maternal grandmother Raffaella Trematerra was a
what?
A: A seamstress.
His maternal grandfather Giovanni Abys was a Swiss-born artist noted for his landscape and portrait painting, and magazine illustrations in Italy.
Fauci grew up in what religion? Catholic.
In 2021, he was named what?
A: Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.
What high school did Fauci attend?
A: Regis High School, a private Jesuit school in Manhattan's Upper East
Side.
He captained the school's basketball team despite
standing only how tall?
A: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall.
After graduating in 1958, Fauci attended what college?
A: College of the Holy Cross.
When did he graduate?
A: In 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with a pre-med track.
Fauci then attended Cornell University's Medical
College (now Weill Cornell Medicine), graduating with what?
A: A Doctor of Medicine degree in 1966 ranked first in his class.
Where did he then do an internship and residency in
internal medicine?
A: At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (now Weill Cornell Medical
Center).
After completing his medical residency in 1968, Fauci
joined what?
A: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases's (NIAID) Laboratory
of Clinical Investigation.
He became head of the LCI's Clinical Physiology Section
in 1974, and in 1980 was appointed what?
A: Chief of the NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation.
When did he become director of the NIAID?
A: In 1984, a position he still holds.
How many times has Fauci been offered the position of
director of the NIH?
A: Several times but has declined each time.
Fauci has made important scientific observations that
contributed to the understanding of what?
A: The regulation of the human immune response and is recognized for
delineating the mechanisms whereby immunosuppressive agents adapt to that
response.
He developed therapies for what formerly fatal
diseases?
A: Polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, and lymphomatoid
granulomatosis.
In 2003, the Institute for Scientific Information
stated that from 1983 to 2002, "Fauci was what?
A: The 13th most-cited scientist among the 2.5 to 3.0 million authors in all
disciplines throughout the world who published articles in scientific
journals.