Q 01/05

In which Gloucestershire town was Edward Jenner born in 1749?

A) Berkeley

B) Cheltenham

C) Tewkesbury

D) Stroud

Answer · why

A) Berkeley

He was the eighth of nine children of the local vicar and later served the town as mayor and magistrate.

Q 02/05

What was the profession of Jenner's father?

A) Schoolmaster

B) Farmer

C) Clergyman

D) Surgeon

Answer · why

C) Clergyman

The Reverend Stephen Jenner's position gave his son a strong basic education at schools in Wotton-under-Edge and Cirencester.

Q 03/05

What procedure did the young Jenner undergo at school that affected his health for life?

A) Mercury treatment

B) Variolation against smallpox

C) Bloodletting for fever

D) Trepanning after a fall

Answer · why

B) Variolation against smallpox

The deliberate infection with smallpox matter was the standard protection of the day, and its risks helped motivate his later search for something saf...

Q 04/05

At 13, Jenner was apprenticed for seven years to a surgeon in which town?

A) Wotton-under-Edge

B) Bristol

C) Cirencester

D) Chipping Sodbury

Answer · why

D) Chipping Sodbury

Daniel Ludlow gave him most of the experience he needed before he went to London at 21.

Q 05/05

Under which famous surgeon did Jenner train at a London hospital from 1770?

A) Astley Cooper

B) John Hunter

C) Percivall Pott

D) William Cheselden

Answer · why

B) John Hunter

Hunter passed on William Harvey's advice, 'Don't think; try', and later proposed Jenner for the Royal Society.