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the person who invented the trocar needle?

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Capt. George Billous

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how many years required to complete the journey known as the “Circle of Necessity” in ancient Egyptian history.

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3,000 years

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What association is the only international trade association representing all segments of the cemetery, funeral service, and cremation and memorialization profession?

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International cemetery, cremation and funeral association (ICCFA)

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Who founded the “first embalming school” in America?

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Aygust Renouard

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produced 750 detailed anatomical plates of the human body?

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Who is responsible for detailing the blood’s circulation around the body before it returns to the heart?

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Dr. William Harvey

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Which association provides examination services, information, and regulatory support for funersl service licensing boards, educators, governmental bodies and other agencies?

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International conference of funeral service examining boards. (ICFSEB)

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Who was the first documented black embalmer in the United States.?

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Prince Greer

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Which burials were scheduled during the day of death before sundown?

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Jewish Burials

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During what period, societies were becoming common place?

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Medieval Period

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This person was responsible for bringing the European embalming techniques to the United Stated.

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Dr. Richard Harlan

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What was another name for the Middle Ages?

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Dark ages

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The great Plague of London took place during what era?

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Middle ages

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What is a Funeralis?

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Torch light procession

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What is the secret disinterment of corpses from the graveyard called?

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Body Snatching

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Who was the first to successfully adopt arterial injection as a means of preservation?

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Dr. william hunter

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The equivalent to the “Head Undertaker” in Rome is the?

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Libitinarius

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Which association is the national academic accreditation agency for college and university programs in funeral Service Education?

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American Board of Funeral Service education

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Who is known as “ The Father of Embalming”?

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Frederik Ruysch

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Which association offers funeral professionals’ comprehensive educational resources. tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professional?

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National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)

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How many elements did the sun worshipers believe people were developed from?

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6

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Which civilization usually held their funeral processions during the night?

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The romans

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Which association’s mission is to make independent funeral homes exceptional?

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Internation order of the Golden rule

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Who was the person who had Gannal”s book published in the United States?

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Dr. Richard Harlan

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Who is The person(s) who discovered formaldehyde was?
Dr. August Wilhelm and Von Hofmann
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What was Constantine's body of sumptuary Laws?
A body of mortuary laws
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What did the number of horses and plumbs in a funeral procession?
Indicated the social and financial status of the family of the deceased
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Name the Goddess who is recognized as " The goddess of corpses and funerals!
Libitina
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Which Native American Civilization buried their dead in large round holes and placed the body upright?
The Mohawks of New York
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What does the word "Kofinos" means?
Basket and Coffin
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What was another word for Praeco?
the Crier
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The individual who received the first American patent on a Metalica coffin was
James Gray
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What was the effect on the cemeteries during the Grear Plague of London?
Cemeteries were overcrowded
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During the middle-ages, who began experimenting with embalming?
Anatomists and surgeons
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Who report recommend all cemeteries be municipalized and religious rite be simplified and standardized?
Edwin Chadwick
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Name the solution the Egyptians used for soaking when embalming the deceased?
natron
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Receptacles that were patented in the early 19th century, but which gained no popular appeal were referred to as?
also-ran
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The old Jewish custom of "watching" or waking the dead was rooted in what genuine concern by relative and friends?
That no one be buried alive
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Who is known as the "Father of Histology"?
Marcello Malpighi
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One of the coffin shop/warehouses was started in New York by?
John L. Dillion
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what kind of casket or receptacle was used for ex-president Grant?
Style "E" state casket
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The wake during the middle-Ages was also referred to as the?
Vigil for the dead
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Who is credited with the discovery of Hunter's Canal?
Dr. John Hunter
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Who is known as "The Father of Modern Embalming" in the United States?
Dr. Thomas Holmes
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The introduction and development of early funeral transportation is associated with?
Crane and Breed
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Who is responsible for the introduction of the ogee design?
A. C. Barstow
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What are the shafts called that are created from upright slabs of stone?
Stelae
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What is the Greek term for Temple-like Tombs?
Naidia
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What is Trapazae?
Square-Cut Tombs
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What is the Greek term for the word "Columns?"
Kiones
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What is the Hebrew term for Flesh?
Basar
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What is the Nefesh?
Breath
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Who is the "Father of Scientific Anatomy?"
Herophilus
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Who is responsible for embalming without evisceration?
Dr. Gabriel Clauderus
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Who is known as "The Father of Microbiology?"
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
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Who is the "Father of Bacteriology?"
Louis Pasture
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Who is known as the author of the Undertaker's Manual?
Dr. August Renoyard
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Who is responsible for the invention of the corpse cooler or the cooling board?
Robert Fredrick and C. A. Trump
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What was the ferryman's name who was responsible for aiding the deceased to cross the River Styx?
Charon
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What is the name of the "God of Wine"?
Dionysios
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Who is known as the God of the Underworld and Judge of the dead?
Osiris
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Who received the first U. S. embalming patent?
J. Anthony Gaussardia
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What person(s) is responsible for founding the Dodge Chemical Company?
A. Johnson Dodge
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Who is Anubis?
Egyptian God of Embalming
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What is the Egyptian name for the Priest?
Kher-Heb
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What is the name of the Egyptian sun god?
Rah
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Who is the "Father of History," according to the Greek civilization?
Herodotus
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The origin of the word hearse is form?
Latin 'HirPex' meaning rake or harrow
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Who is responsible for painting the Sistine Ceiling?
Michelangelo
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Containers used by the Egyptians to store the viscera of the deceased were known as?
Canopic Jars
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Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor?
Constantine
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What did the poor do to protect themselves and assure proper burial?
Formed burial Clubs
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What is the early Roman view of the afterlife which emphasizes the soul as the vital principle called?
Roman Animistic View
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raised platform (with or without a canopy) used for a body to lie in state.?
Catafalque
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Portable table on which the deceased was placed and used in conjunction with the corpse cooler?
Cooling Board
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What Traveling Salesmen who went from town to town selling their product called?
are Drummers
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in Greek mythology, the Greek version of heaven.!
Elysian Fields
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a specially designed train car run on a city's trolley line to transport casket & mourners to cemeteries on the outskirts of the city.!
Funeral Trolley Car
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an association which guides, aids and supports members in honoring the deceased and comforting the bereaved by preserving, promoting and practicing the customs and traditions of the Jewish funeral.!
Jewish Funeral Directors of America (JFDA)
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The long hollow tube used by embalmers to inject fluids into cavities and remove excess liquids is called?
trocar
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The original term applied to those whose occupation included responsibility to organize and facilitate funeral activities is?
Undertakers
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name of the ancient Roman embalmers. They were either slaves or employees of Libitinarius.?
Pollinctores
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A follower of a polytheistic religion?
Pagan
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What Design is characterized by an "S" shaped curvature that is a component part of the casket cap?
Ogee design
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organization of college & university based funeral service programs established in 1961.?
University Mortuary Science Education Association
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A life-sized, waxen re-creation of the deceased which was often used at state funerals because the body of the deceased should be present for the funeral but could not be preserved for that length of time is?
Effigy
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he first formal organization of undertakers who kept a black book of objectionable and delinquent customers to be shared among members only was?
Undertaker mutual protective association
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What is the funeral rite called that adjusts to the needs and wants of those directly involved or that is altered to suit the tends of the times?
Adaptive Funeral
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the oldest and largest Catholic cemetery association servicing Catholic cemeterians nationally and internationally?
Catholic cemetery conference
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type of ice chest placed over the torso the body in order to slow down the process of decomposition prior to the funeral.?
Corpse Cooler
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Another term for being buried outside of the walls of the city?
Extramural burial
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A disposition by earth burial without any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition is called?
Immediate Burial
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A method used to apply a continuous flow embalming solution via manual manipulation of a handheld mechanism historical instrument resembling a large hypodermic syringe attached to a bottle apparatus?
Hand pump
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religious/philosophical belief of the ancient Greeks and Oriental East emphasizing spiritual aspects of the afterlife and the hope of joining the cult god in a wonderful existence in eternity.?
Mystery Cults
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A name given to the vehicle used by undertakers to transport the necessary mortuary paraphilia to the homes where funerals were typically held?
Undertaker buggy
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a limited, invitation-only membership funeral service organization formed in 1917 on the basis of one member firm per city?
Selected Independent Funeral Homes (SIFH)
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the care of the deceased to recreate natural form and color, whose "Father" is Joel Crandall?
Restorative art
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term originated when some of the original graduates of early embalming courses gave up regular employment with a single firm to provide embalming service to firms which had no trained embalmer?
Trade Embalmer
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outer enclosure for caskets placed in the grave; originally intended to prevent grave robbery?
Burial Vault

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