What was the name of the shepherd boy who was the second human treated with Pasteur's rabies vaccine?
Answer
Jean-Baptiste Jupille
78 Louis Pasteur Trivia Questions with Answers
78 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which microorganism causes the silkworm disease pébrine?
Answer
Nosema bombycis
What disease did Pasteur first successfully vaccinate against in birds?
Answer
chicken cholera
What was the name of Louis Pasteur's wife?
Answer
Marie Laurent
At which French university did Louis Pasteur serve as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences?
Answer
University of Lille
What was the profession of Louis Pasteur's father?
Answer
tanner
What French commune was Louis Pasteur's home at the time of his death?
Answer
Marnes-la-Coquette
What second silkworm disease did Pasteur investigate after pébrine?
Answer
flacherie
What was the exact date of the first human rabies vaccination by Pasteur?
Answer
6 July 1885
In what year was the Pasteur Institute founded?
Answer
1887
What property of organic molecules did Pasteur discover by studying tartaric acid crystals?
Answer
molecular chirality
What type of flask did Pasteur use to disprove spontaneous generation?
Answer
swan-neck flask
Who was the biologist that Pasteur disproved using his swan-neck flask experiment?
Answer
Félix Pouchet
What was the name of the nine-year-old boy who received the first rabies vaccine?
Answer
Joseph Meister
Which industry did Louis Pasteur save from a destructive silkworm disease?
Answer
silk industry
In what year was Louis Pasteur born?
Answer
1822
What was the nationality of Louis Pasteur?
Answer
French
Which theory about the origin of life did Louis Pasteur disprove?
Answer
spontaneous generation
What research institute in Paris was founded by Louis Pasteur in 1888?
Answer
Pasteur Institute
What process of heating liquids to kill pathogens is named after Louis Pasteur?
Answer
pasteurization