Illness and Disease Facts

Question 1

What year did Pasteur publish Germ Theory?

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

What year did Koch discover the anthrax microbe?

Answer 2

1876

Question 3

What year did Pasteur solve the problem of chicken cholera?

Answer 3

1878

Question 4

What year did Pasteur publish Germ Theory and its Application to Medicine?

Answer 4

1878

Question 5

What year was the meningitis bacteria identified?

Answer 5

1887

Question 6

What year was the pneumonia bacteria identified?

Answer 6

1886

Question 7

What year was the plague bacteria identified?

Answer 7

1894

Question 8

What year did Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium?

Answer 8

1902

Question 9

What year was Salvarsan 606 discovered?

Answer 9

1909

Question 10

What year was Salvarsan 606 first tested on humans?

Answer 10

1911

Question 11

What year did Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 11

1928

Question 12

What year did Pasteur discover the vaccine for anthrax?

Answer 12

1881

Question 13

What year did Koch identify the germ that causes tuberculosis?

Answer 13

1882

Question 14

What year was the typhoid bacteria identified?

Answer 14

1882

Question 15

What year was Prontosil discovered by Domagk?

Answer 15

1932

Question 16

What year was penicillin tested on Albert Alexander?

Answer 16

1941

Question 17

What year was penicillin mass produced?

Answer 17

1943

Question 18

Who developed penicillin?

Answer 18

Florey and Chain

Question 19

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 19

Fleming

Question 20

What type of drug is penicillin?

Answer 20

Antibiotic

Question 21

What did Domagk discover ?

Answer 21

The Second Magic Bullet - Prontosil

Question 22

Ehrlich and Behring found chemical vaccines for what?

Answer 22

Syphilis

Question 23

Ehrlich worked for who?

Answer 23

Koch

Question 24

In 1881 Pasteur claimed he had a vaccination for which disease?

Answer 24

Anthrax

Question 25

Koch was the first to use which technique?

Answer 25

Stain and grow bacteria in a petri dish

Question 26

Pasteur and Koch were spurred by the competition of which war?

Answer 26

Franco-Prussian War

Question 27

Which animal did Pasteur first experiment on?

Answer 27

Silkworms

Question 28

Who is the father of microbiology?

Answer 28

Pasteur

Question 29

Who discovered that a small dose of cowpox protected you from smallpox?

Answer 29

Jenner

Question 30

What was the miasma theory?

Answer 30

Disease was caused by bad air

Question 31

How much did the US government give to drug companies in WW2 to mass produce penicillin?

Answer 31

$80m

Question 32

What was spontaneous generation?

Answer 32

Rotting materials caused disease

Question 33

In the mid-19th century medicine was still based on the findings of which Greek and Roman doctors?

Answer 33

Galen and Hippocrates

Question 34

What type of surgeon was best in the mid-19th century?

Answer 34

A quick one

Question 35

What was used to treat pain in the mid-19th century?

Answer 35

Opium