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[dubdobdee]

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[dubdobdee]

is this section heart-related (obviously some questions are)?

if so i dimly remember re i that "larger than life" is what the first heart-replacement patient said after the op (surgeon was dr christian barnaard, but i forget the patient's name) (if it is him he actually only lived three months)

[jeff_worrell]

That was my guess for i. as well

Theme is organ transplants/surgery generally, rather than just heart-related ones? "Greffe du Foie" for example is a liver transplant.

[jeff_worrell]

Eiður Guðjohnsen has played for Barcelona, Monaco and AEK Athens (in that order), but I don't remember his having a transplant (other than of the contents of his wallet in casinos).

[katstevens]

Didn't George Best have a liver transplant? I don't think he did much footballing subsequently though...

[anonymous]

ii) Mr Mac Book (o-ho)

Maybe v) is the poor Australian chap who died a couple of years ago after being hit by a bouncer :(

[katstevens]

Erk that anon-o was me

[katstevens]

The cricketer is David Hookes - he was indeed Australian but wasn't the one I was thinking of (that was Phillip Hughes): http://www.donatelife.gov.au/david-hookes-cricket-match-celebrates-donors-giving-others-life-saving-second-innings-0

[katstevens]

x: the Moai are the Easter Island statues! The drug in question is extracted from a fungus found on Rapa Nui and is hence called rapamycin.

[katstevens]

iv) is the (easily googleable) first successful kidney transplant, on Dec 23rd 1954.