The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)

April 22, 2007 Sunday
City Edition

Think you know Oklahoma? Part four

Places

1. In 1986, this Oklahoma City site became the first blood center in the United States to perform free cholesterol testing as a donor benefit. What is its name?

2. What is the largest Oklahoma-owned health system?

3. An Oklahoma City-based company is using a 3-D digital eye scan to detect and manage diabetic retinopathy. What is the name of the company?

4. What Oklahoma medical center became the first U.S. all-digital hospital?

5. Medicare's Rural Hospital Flexibility program has been beneficial to Oklahomans living in areas outside urban centers by providing what type of service?

6. What is Oklahoma's oldest hospital?

7. What is the name of the state's technology-based economic development agency, which oversees programs that focus on applied research, health research, small business and manufacturing assistance and technology commercialization?

8. In 1949, this Oklahoma power company became the first in the nation to use a gas/steam turbine combination to produce electricity. What company is it?

9. Which was the first commercial television station in the nation to install and operate Doppler radar for providing advance warning of severe weather?

10. The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa and OSU/Okmulgee are becoming heavily involved in a relatively new field that many say is the way of the future. What is that research field?

11. Developments at the OU Health Sciences Center's cancer research center have provided hope and new possibilities. These have come from decoding what?

12. It's one of the nation's oldest independent research institutes and one of the most successful. What is it?

13. This center in Norman is considered one of the best anywhere in predicting severe weather, as well as analyzing weather conditions. What is this center?

14. OU professor William Beasley invented the Campbell Scientific CS-110 Electric Field Meter. The device helps predict what?

15. OSU associate professor Allen Apblett and chemist Nick Materer developed Moly BombX, a compound that could make air travel safer. It helps detect and destroy what?

People

16. He performed Oklahoma's first heart transplant. This internationally known surgeon was founder, director and surgeon-in-general at the former Oklahoma Transplantation Institute, which now bears his name. Who is he?

17. What famed Oklahoma aviator invented a pressure suit for high-altitude flying and set numerous flight records?

18. What Oklahoman invented the shopping cart?

19. Who invented the parking meter?

20. Who invented the personal computer?

Quiz answers 1. The Oklahoma Blood Institute 2. INTEGRIS Health Inc. 3. Inoveon Corp. 4. Oklahoma Heart Hospital on W Memorial Road in Oklahoma City 5. Critical access hospitals 6. St. Anthony in Oklahoma City 7. The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology 8. OG&E 9. KWTV NEWS9 10. Nanotechnology 11. Human genome 12. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation 13. The National Severe Storms Laboratory 14. A lightning strike 15. Liquid explosive material 16. Nazih Zudi 17. Wiley Post 18. Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma City, a major owner of Humpty-Dumpty grocery stores, invented the shopping cart in 1936 by using a wooden folding chair, two wire baskets and wheels 19. Oklahoma newspaper editor Carl Magee invented the parking meter in 1935 to ease parking problems in downtown Oklahoma City 20. Oklahoma State University student Edward Roberts, now recognized as the father of the personal computer