Fleming, Florey and Chain

Who accidentally discovered penicillin in the 1920s?

Who developed and tested penicillin so it could be used?

Penicillin is an example of...?

• prevention

• diagnosis

• treatment

Which event influenced the development of mass production of penicillin?

• Second World War

• First World War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

Luck speeds up discoveries. Fleming was looking for an antibiotic when what chance happened?

• He ran out of boiling oil

• He ate some moldy cheese with penicillin on it

• He left germs on petre dishes out when he went on holiday and some penicillin mold landed on it

• He discovered some books by Florey and Chain

Government priorities change with war. Government is prepared to spend money to win a war. Who funded Florey and Chain's research on penicillin?

• The British Government

• The German Government

• The American Government

• The Welcome Institute

What percentage of Allied Causalities in World War 2 were saved by penicillin?

• 15%

• 30%

• 45%

• 60%

Individuals were the most important factor in the development of medicine because....

• without their discoveries the Government would not have effective cures to spread through the NHS

• chance events only speed up that discovery, not actually make them

• without their discoveries communications would have nothing to tell people about

• technology made the discovery of germs possible, but it was the people who made the discovery.

Penicillin was observed first in the 1800s by...

• Louis Pasteur (germ theory guy)

• Joseph Lister (antiseptics guy)

• Robert Koch (germ staining guy)

Why did nobody take Fleming's work seriously at first?

• The government was too poor.

• He had lied about the effectiveness

• He had not proved why it was important.