Medical Discoveries and Milestones Quiz
Test your knowledge on medical breakthroughs! Who discovered penicillin? When was the first heart transplant? Find out and more in this quiz.
#1
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Louis Pasteur
Jonas Salk
Marie Curie
#2
What year was insulin discovered?
#3
Who discovered the vaccine for rabies?
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
#4
Who discovered the bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis?
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner
Alexander Fleming
#5
Who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
Robert Gallo
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
#6
What year was the first successful human heart transplant performed?
#7
Which scientist discovered the structure of DNA?
James Watson
Rosalind Franklin
Francis Crick
Linus Pauling
#8
Who discovered the X-ray?
Wilhelm Roentgen
Marie Curie
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
#9
Which disease did Jonas Salk develop the polio vaccine for?
Measles
Smallpox
Polio
Tuberculosis
#10
What is the name of the first successful vaccine developed by Edward Jenner?
Smallpox
Rabies
Influenza
Polio
#11
What is the medical term for the 'Pacemaker'?
Echocardiogram
Cardiac defibrillator
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Artificial cardiac pacemaker
#12
Who is known as the 'Father of Modern Surgery'?
Joseph Lister
William Harvey
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Sigmund Freud
#13
Who is credited with the discovery of the circulation of blood in the human body?
William Harvey
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
#14
What is the name of the first successful oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin?
#15
Which disease is the BCG vaccine primarily used to prevent?
Tuberculosis
Malaria
Hepatitis B
Diphtheria
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