34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who first synthesized penicillin in a laboratory?
Answer
John C. Sheehan
Which species of Penicillium was used in large-scale penicillin production?
Answer
Penicillium chrysogenum
What unit was originally used to measure penicillin potency?
Answer
Oxford unit
Which mycologist identified Fleming's original mold as Penicillium notatum?
Answer
Charles Thom
Who devised the extraction method that made penicillin purification possible?
Answer
Norman Heatley
What method did Dorothy Hodgkin use to solve penicillin's structure?
Answer
X-ray crystallography
Who determined the molecular structure of penicillin?
Answer
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
What species of Penicillium did Fleming originally discover?
Answer
Penicillium notatum
What chemical class does penicillin belong to?
Answer
Beta-lactam antibiotics
What was the name of the first patient treated with penicillin?
Answer
Albert Alexander
Who led the Oxford team that purified penicillin for medical use?
Answer
Howard Florey
Who coined the term 'microbe'?
Answer
Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot
What is the name of the filter developed by Charles Chamberland to remove bacteria from liquids?
Answer
Chamberland filter
Who discovered the bacterial cause of whooping cough?
Answer
Jules Bordet
Who discovered the bacterial cause of typhoid fever?
Answer
Karl Joseph Eberth
What is the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever?
Answer
Rickettsia rickettsii
Who isolated the tetanus bacillus?
Answer
Shibasaburo Kitasato
What is the name of the bacterium that causes peptic ulcers?
Answer
Helicobacter pylori
Who discovered that the malaria parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes?
Answer
Ronald Ross
Which scientist developed the first diphtheria antitoxin?
Answer
Emil von Behring
Who first demonstrated that a microorganism could cause disease in silkworms?
Answer
Agostino Bassi
Who developed the first vaccine for rabies?
Answer
Louis Pasteur
Which British surgeon introduced carbolic acid as an antiseptic in surgery?
Answer
Joseph Lister
Which bacterium is the causative agent of tuberculosis?
Answer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Which space shuttle conducted the first spacewalk from a shuttle?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle carried the first married couple into space?
Answer
Endeavour
Which space shuttle was the first to land at Kennedy Space Center?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle completed the most orbital missions?
Answer
Discovery
Which space shuttle performed NASA's first night launch?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle launched the Hubble Space Telescope?
Answer
Discovery
Which exoplanet was the first discovered via the microlensing method?
Answer
OGLE-2003-BLG-235L b