HANDOUT 2 MILESTONES IN SCIENCE QUIZ

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PENICILLIN
I. 1) Who invented penicillin?...................................................... 2) What was his job?................................................................. II. 1) Alexander Fleming was trying to find new ways of treating bacterial infections when he discovered penicillin. a. true b. false 2) In World War I many soldiers died from their wounds rather than the infections caused by them. a. true b. false 3) Fleming was working at an American hospital when he made his discovery. a. true b. false 4) Penicillin was invented on September 3rd 1938. a. true b. false 5) The doctor made his discovery by chance, while cleaning his lab. a. true b. false 6) The new antibiotic was only used in World War II. a. true b. false 7) Nowadays penicillin is no longer used. a. true b. false 8) According to the information in the video, all diseases are caused by bacteria. a. true b. false

THE X-RAYS
1) X-rays were first discovered in November 1985. a. true b. false 2) The invention belongs to an English Physics professor named Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. a. true b. false 3) The discovery was made by accident. a. true b. false 4) Professor Roentgen was conducting an experiment with electricity currents when he stumbled on this world altering technology. a. true b. false 5) He called his discovery X because he did not really know what it was. a. true b. false 6) The first X-ray recorded image was that of his own hand. a. true b. false 7) The phrase I have seen my own death was said by one of Roentgens colleagues when seeing the photographic image of a hand. a. true b. false