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GCSE History (Medicine Through Time) Quiz on Medicine Through Times Dates Quiz, created by Susanna Alsop on 06/11/2017.
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Question 1

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What year was the Black Death?
Answer
  • 1956
  • 1342
  • 1345
  • 1348

Question 2

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What happened in 1343?
Answer
  • Butchers were ordered to use a separate area for butchering animals
  • The fine for throwing litter in the streets was increased to two shillings
  • The Black Death

Question 3

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When did William Harvey publish his theory on the heart?
Answer
  • 1624
  • 1628
  • 1630

Question 4

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What happened in 1665?
Answer
  • The Great Fire of London
  • The Plague
  • William Harvey died

Question 5

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What year was the Great Fire of London?
Answer
  • 1660
  • 1665
  • 1666

Question 6

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What year did Jenner test his smallpox vaccine on 8 year-old James Phipps?
Answer
  • 1784
  • 1793
  • 1796

Question 7

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What year did Jenner publish his findings?
Answer
  • 1795
  • 1798
  • 1800

Question 8

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What year did the smallpox vaccine become compulsory?
Answer
  • 1850
  • 1852
  • 1854

Question 9

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What happens in 1871?
Answer
  • The reform act is passed
  • The second pubic health act is passed
  • Lister starts begins experimenting with penicillin (but doesn't continue for very long)

Question 10

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When is the first public health act passed?
Answer
  • 1848
  • 1858
  • 1850

Question 11

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By 1853, how many towns had set up boards of health?
Answer
  • 68
  • 93
  • 103

Question 12

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What year was the second public health act passed?
Answer
  • 1871
  • 1875
  • 1880

Question 13

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When did James Simpson work out chloroform knocks people out?
Answer
  • 1844
  • 1847
  • 1849

Question 14

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In which years were there cholera outbreaks?
Answer
  • 1831
  • 1835
  • 1837
  • 1840
  • 1843
  • 1847
  • 1854

Question 15

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Which year did the Boer War begin?
Answer
  • 1898
  • 1899
  • 1900

Question 16

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What year did the Boer War end?
Answer
  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902

Question 17

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What year was the Great Stink?
Answer
  • 1854
  • 1858
  • 1866

Question 18

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In what year did Bazalgette finish his sewers?
Answer
  • 1860
  • 1866
  • 1868

Question 19

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How long were Bazalgette's sewers?
Answer
  • 80 miles
  • 81 miles
  • 83 miles

Question 20

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In what year did Pasteur publish Germ Theory?
Answer
  • 1861
  • 1862
  • 1864

Question 21

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In what year did Koch discover the microbe causing Anthrax?
Answer
  • 1875
  • 1870
  • 1880

Question 22

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In what year did John Snow make his discovery that Cholera is waterborne?
Answer
  • 1854
  • 1855
  • 1856

Question 23

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In what year did Lister start to use carbolic acid as an antiseptic?
Answer
  • 1864
  • 1865
  • 1867

Question 24

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In what year was the Reform Act passed?
Answer
  • 1867
  • 1870
  • 1871

Question 25

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In what year did the government set up an inquiry in public health led by Chadwick
Answer
  • 1837
  • 1839
  • 1841

Question 26

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In what year was Chadwick's report published?
Answer
  • 1840
  • 1842
  • 1843

Question 27

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In what year did Koch discover the microbes causing Tuberculosis?
Answer
  • 1880
  • 1882
  • 1884

Question 28

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How many people died in the 1831 cholera outbreak?
Answer
  • 20,000
  • 50,000
  • 70,000

Question 29

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In what year did Garrett Anderson become the first woman to be appointed to a medical post?
Answer
  • 1870
  • 1871
  • 1872

Question 30

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In what year did Koch discover the microbe causing cholera?
Answer
  • 1882
  • 1883
  • 1885

Question 31

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In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for Chicken Cholera?
Answer
  • 1880
  • 1882
  • 1884

Question 32

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In what year did Seacole publish her autobiography?
Answer
  • 1854
  • 1857
  • 1859

Question 33

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In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for anthrax?
Answer
  • 1880
  • 1881
  • 1883

Question 34

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How many people died in the 1854 outbreak of cholera?
Answer
  • 20,000
  • 40,000
  • 60,000

Question 35

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When was the Crimean War?
Answer
  • 1850-1856
  • 1853-1856
  • 1850-1853
  • 1853-1857

Question 36

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In what year did Florence Nightingale arrive in Scutari to help in the Crimean War with a team of 38 nurses?
Answer
  • 1853
  • 1854
  • 1855

Question 37

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In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for Rabies?
Answer
  • 1883
  • 1885
  • 1888

Question 38

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How many people died in the 1837 outbreak of cholera?
Answer
  • 20,000
  • 40,000
  • 60,000

Question 39

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What year is the structure of DNA found?
Answer
  • 1953
  • 1950
  • 1958

Question 40

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When were blood groups discovered?
Answer
  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902

Question 41

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What year did Beveridge propose a free health service?
Answer
  • 1940
  • 1943
  • 1942

Question 42

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What year does the government propose a free and comprehensive health service?
Answer
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945

Question 43

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When does the national Service act provide a free and comprehensive health care system?
Answer
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1948

Question 44

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In what year is the first day of the NHS?
Answer
  • 1945
  • 1948
  • 1950

Question 45

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When is 5-a-day adopted by the government?
Answer
  • 2001
  • 2003
  • 2005

Question 46

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When year was 'Tobacco misuse and lung carcinoma’ by Franz Hermann Muller of the University of Cologne is the first major report to find a strong link between smoking and lung cancer?
Answer
  • 1937
  • 1939
  • 1935

Question 47

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In what year is there a massive increase (43%) in cigarette tax which results in a drop in cigarette consumption among British men?
Answer
  • 1945
  • 1947
  • 1940

Question 48

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What percentage is the drop in cigarette consumption by?
Answer
  • 13%
  • 14%
  • 17%

Question 49

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In what year are cigarette advertisements banned on TV?
Answer
  • 1955
  • 1960
  • 1965

Question 50

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When are restrictions are imposed on other cigarette advertising?
Answer
  • 1970
  • 1972
  • 1971

Question 51

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In what year does the total number of deaths from lung cancer decreased for the first time for more than half a century (in men only)?
Answer
  • 1970
  • 1975
  • 1980

Question 52

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When was national No Smoking day launched in the UK?
Answer
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1984

Question 53

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In what year was smoking banned in all enclosed public places in England?
Answer
  • 2007
  • 2011
  • 2009

Question 54

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In what year were large shops in England, Wales and Northern Ireland prevented from displaying tobacco products and cigarette sales form vending machines prohibited?
Answer
  • 2009
  • 2011
  • 2015

Question 55

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In what year was the national insurance act passed?
Answer
  • 1909
  • 1911
  • 1910

Question 56

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In what year are pensions set up for people over 70?
Answer
  • 1908
  • 1910
  • 1912

Question 57

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In what year does Fleming discover penicillin?
Answer
  • 1920
  • 1925
  • 1930

Question 58

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In what year do Florey and Chain begin work on penicillin?
Answer
  • 1930
  • 1933
  • 1935

Question 59

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When do Florey and Chain test their penicillin powder on 8 mice?
Answer
  • 1935
  • 1940
  • 1945

Question 60

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When do Florey and Chain test their penicillin powder on a human?
Answer
  • 1943
  • 1941
  • 1940

Question 61

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In what year does America enter the war and soon make grants available to firms wishing to make penicillin?
Answer
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942

Question 62

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In what year does the mass production of penicillin begin in the UK?
Answer
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945

Question 63

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In which decade does A new building programme begin to replace some out of date hospitals?
Answer
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s

Question 64

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In what year did Lewisohn added sodium citrate to stop blood clotting?
Answer
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916

Question 65

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In what year did Rous and Turner use citrate glucose solution so blood could be kept for longer?
Answer
  • 1915
  • 1916
  • 1917

Question 66

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In what year is the first blood depot used in the Battle of Cambrai?
Answer
  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918

Question 67

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In what year did Rowntree name types of poverty?
Answer
  • 1900
  • 1901
  • 1902
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