10 questions🇬🇧English
🧬 Medicine c1900–Present – GCSE
History · GCSE — penicillin, the NHS, DNA, modern diagnosis and the fight against lung cancer
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Questions
In which year did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin at St Mary's Hospital in London?
1928
1918
1938
1948
20s
Which Minister of Health led the creation of the National Health Service in 1948?
William Beveridge
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
20s
Salvarsan 606, the first 'magic bullet', was developed by Paul Ehrlich's team in 1909. Which disease did it treat?
Syphilis
Malaria
Diphtheria
Tuberculosis
20s
Whose X-ray photograph of DNA helped Watson and Crick work out its double helix structure in 1953?
Dorothy Hodgkin
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
20s
Which type of modern scan uses strong magnets and radio waves to create images of the inside of the body?
CT scan
X-ray
MRI scan
Ultrasound scan
30s
Why did Fleming not turn penicillin into a usable medicine after his discovery in 1928?
He found it only killed viruses, not bacteria
The government banned its use in hospitals
He lacked the funding and equipment to purify it
Another scientist had already patented it
30s
Which country's government funding allowed penicillin to be mass-produced in time for D-Day in 1944?
The USA
France
Germany
The Soviet Union
30s
Which two scientists published research in 1950 showing a link between smoking and lung cancer?
James Watson and Francis Crick
Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill
Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
30s
In 1941 Florey and Chain treated a policeman, Albert Alexander, with penicillin. Why did he die?
The penicillin had been contaminated
Their supply of penicillin ran out
He was given far too large a dose
He had a severe allergic reaction
30s
During the Second World War the British government launched a national immunisation campaign against which disease?
Diphtheria
Polio
Measles
Smallpox
30s