96484 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What asteroid in the Asteroid Belt is named after Alexander Fleming?
Answer
91006 Fleming
Which bacterium causing gonorrhoea did Fleming find was affected by penicillin?
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Fleming's 1917 antiseptics article appeared in which medical journal?
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The Lancet
Who was the research scholar in Fleming's first clinical trial of penicillin?
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Stuart Craddock
Who chaired Fleming's 1929 Medical Research Club talk on penicillin?
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Henry Dale
What name was later used for Fleming's 1928 discovery also called penicillin G?
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benzylpenicillin
Which German-British biochemist shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming?
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Ernst Chain
Which uncle's inheritance helped Fleming pursue medical education?
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John Fleming
Which institution did Fleming attend before St Mary's Hospital Medical School?
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Royal Polytechnic Institution
Which Spanish order made Fleming a Knight Grand Cross in 1948?
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Order of Alfonso X the Wise
What was Fleming's share of the 1945 Nobel Prize?
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one third
Which Nobel co-laureate was Chain's head of department at Oxford?
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Howard Florey
Who was Fleming's father?
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Hugh Fleming
Which pathologist first used penicillin successfully for medical treatment?
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Cecil George Paine
Fleming first presented penicillin to which club in February 1929?
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Medical Research Club
On what date did Fleming coin the name penicillin?
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7 March 1929
In 1928, which university elected Fleming Professor of Bacteriology?
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University of London
Who isolated scandium oxide in late 1879, confirming eka-boron?
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Lars Fredrik Nilson
What provisional name in Mendeleev's predictions corresponds to technetium?
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eka-manganese
Which prize did Mendeleev receive in 1889?
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Faraday Lectureship Prize
Which U.S. state’s petroleum industry did Mendeleev compare with Russia’s?
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Pennsylvania
Which academy awarded Mendeleev the Demidov Prize for Organic Chemistry?
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Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Which English chemist described the Law of Octaves before Mendeleev's table?
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John Newlands
Which German chemist published a similar periodic table months after Mendeleev?
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Lothar Meyer
Which society heard Mendeleev's formal periodic-law presentation on 6 March 1869?
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Russian Chemical Society
What prize did Mendeleev's textbook Organic Chemistry win?
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Demidov Prize
What 1861 textbook by Mendeleev won the Demidov Prize?
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Organic Chemistry
Bohr and Werner Heisenberg are closely associated with which interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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Copenhagen interpretation
What was Niels Bohr's mother's maiden surname?
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Adler
Which Michael Frayn play explores Bohr's 1941 meeting with Heisenberg?
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Copenhagen
What was the subject of Niels Bohr's master's degree work?
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electron theory of metals
Which academy sponsored Bohr's 1905 gold-medal competition?
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Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters