Dates

Question 1

When was the Black Death

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When did Vesalius publish ‘the fabric of the human body’

Answer 2

1543

Question 3

When did Harvey publish the ‘an anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood in animals’?

Answer 3

1628

Question 4

When was the Royal society founded?

Answer 4

In 1645

Question 5

When was the Great Plague?

Answer 5

1665

Question 6

When did Lady Mary Wortley Montagu start promoting innoculation?

Answer 6

1721

Question 7

When did Edward Jenner test his small pox theory?

Answer 7

1796

Question 8

When was Jenners report published?

Who by?

Answer 8

1798

By himself, the royal society refused to publish it

Question 9

The Jennerian society offered free vaccinations against smallpox, when was it set up?

Answer 9

1802

Question 10

Jenner was awarded £10, 000 in recognition of his work and dedication in what year?

Answer 10

1802

Question 11

When was the small pox vaccine made compulsory?

Answer 11

1852 but it wasn’t enforced until 1872

Question 12

When was smallpox declared eradicated?

Answer 12

1980

Question 13

When did Nightingale work in Crimea

Answer 13

1854

Question 14

When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘notes on nursing published’?

Answer 14

1859

Question 15

In what decade were 12 new wards opened at St Bartholomew hospital

Answer 15

1660s

Question 16

When was the Germ theory published?

Answer 16

1861

Question 17

When was the Germ theory proved?

Answer 17

1864

Question 18

What year did Koch identify the Anthrax microbe?

Answer 18

1876

Question 19

How many hospitals opened in the 1700s?

Answer 19

46

Question 20

When was the first Public Health Act passed?

Answer 20

1848

Question 21

When did Chadwick publish “a report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population”?

Answer 21

1842

Question 22

When did John Snow link dirty water and cholera?

Answer 22

1854

Question 23

When was the public board of health disbanded?

Answer 23

1854

Question 24

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 24

1858

Question 25

When was the factory act passed?

Answer 25

1864

Question 26

When was the sanitary act passed?

Answer 26

1866

Question 27

When was the second Public Health act passed?

Answer 27

1875

Question 28

Who got the vote in 1875?

Answer 28

Working men

Question 29

When did Robert Koch discover the anthrax microbe?

Answer 29

1876

Question 30

When was the artisan act passed?

Answer 30

1875

Question 31

What vaccination did Pasteur come up with in 1879?

Answer 31

Chicken Cholera

Question 32

When did Pasteur create a rabies vaccination?

Answer 32

1885

Question 33

When did the dissolution of the monasteries occur?

Answer 33

1530s

Question 34

When did Booth publish his report “Life and labour of people in London”

Answer 34

1889

Question 35

When did Rowntree publish ‘Poverty a study of town life’

Answer 35

1901

Question 36

When was the first liberal reform enacted?

Answer 36

1906

Question 37

In 1906 exactly what liberal reform was brought in?

Answer 37

Education act; provision of school meals for poorest children

Question 38

In what year did was the liberal reforms school medical service brought in?

Answer 38

1907

Question 39

When was the old age pensioners act brought in?

Answer 39

1908

Question 40

When was back-back housing abolished?

Answer 40

1909

Question 41

When was the National Health insurance act brought in?

Answer 41

1911

Question 42

When was the first chemical cure invented?

Answer 42

1909

Question 43

When did women get the vote?

Answer 43

1918

Question 44

When did Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 44

1928

Question 45

When did Fleming publish his report on penicillin?

Answer 45

1929

Question 46

When did Domagk discover Prontosil?

Answer 46

1932

Question 47

When did Florey and Chain read Fleming’s work?

Answer 47

1938

Question 48

When did Florey and Chain first test penicillin on a person?

Answer 48

1941

Question 49

When was the Beveridge report published?

Answer 49

1942

Question 50

When was the National Health service founded?

Answer 50

1948

Question 51

When was glasses and prescription costs introduced to the NHS?

Answer 51

1951

Question 52

In what year did the American government donate $80 million to fund the mass production of penicillin?

Answer 52

1942

Question 53

When did Rosalind Franklin first photograph DNA?

Answer 53

1951

Question 54

When did Watson and Crick identify the structure of DNA?

Answer 54

1953

Question 55

When did Watson and Crick win a nobel prize?

Answer 55

1962

Question 56

When did the human genome project start?

When did it end?

Answer 56

1986 - 2001

Question 57

When was free milk offered to primary school children?

Answer 57

1934