1
What scientist is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928?
Marie Curie
Alexander Fleming
Galileo Galilei
Niels Bohr
2
What 19th-century doctor is known for promoting handwashing to reduce the spread of disease in hospitals?
Edward Jenner
Joseph Lister
Hippocrates
Ignaz Semmelweis
3
Which medical imaging technique, discovered in 1895, uses electromagnetic radiation to view inside the human body?
Fluoroscopy
X-rays
Thermography
MRI scans
4
What vaccine did Jonas Salk develop in the 1950s?
Tuberculosis vaccine
Mumps vaccine
Measles vaccine
Polio vaccine
5
What discovery by Edward Jenner in 1796 laid the foundation for modern immunology?
The smallpox vaccine
The cholera vaccine
The influenza vaccine
The tuberculosis antidote
6
What molecule, discovered in 1953 by Watson and Crick, transformed genetics and medicine?
Proteins' tertiary structure
Gene expression mapping
DNA's double helix structure
RNA's single strand formation
7
Who discovered the blood types A, B, AB, and O in 1901?
Hermann von Helmholtz
Robert Koch
William Osler
Karl Landsteiner
8
What type of medication, discovered in the 20th century, is used to treat bacterial infections by killing or inhibiting bacteria?
Hormonal therapies
Antiretrovirals
Analgesics
Antibiotics
9
What hormone, discovered in 1921, revolutionized the treatment of diabetes?
Ghrelin
Adrenaline
Insulin
Cortisol
10
Which scientist’s discovery of anesthesia in the mid-1800s allowed for painless surgery?
Niels Bohr
William Morton
Charles Darwin
Benjamin Franklin
