Quiz · The Accidental Discovery of Penicillin

Question 1What is the main purpose of this talk?

To describe modern methods of producing antibiotics in factories To warn about the dangers of working in London laboratories To tell how an accidental discovery led to the world's first antibiotic To compare the careers of several famous wartime scientists

Question 2What did Fleming notice when he returned from his holiday?

Mould had killed the bacteria around it on one dish His assistant had cleaned the whole laboratory All his bacteria dishes had been thrown away A strange mould had turned his bacteria blue-green

Question 3What problem followed the publication of Fleming's findings?

Other scientists could not repeat his experiment The government banned all research on the new drug Wounded soldiers refused to take the new medicine Nobody could produce the drug in useful quantities for over a decade