Q 01/05

Pasteur was born in 1822 in the town of Dole, in which part of eastern France?

A) Jura

B) Alsace

C) Savoy

D) Burgundy

Answer · why

A) Jura

The family soon moved to Arbois, where he went to school and later kept a house.

Q 02/05

What was the trade of Pasteur's father Jean-Joseph?

A) Baker

B) Vintner

C) Tanner

D) Notary

Answer · why

C) Tanner

The family was poor and Catholic; Louis was the third child.

Q 03/05

As a boy Pasteur was an average student whose real interests were fishing and what?

A) Chess

B) Sketching

C) Music

D) Chemistry sets

Answer · why

B) Sketching

His pastel portraits of parents, friends and neighbours survive.

Q 04/05

Pasteur is described as having had which learning difficulties?

A) A severe stammer

B) Partial deafness

C) Colour blindness

D) Dyslexia and dysgraphia

Answer · why

D) Dyslexia and dysgraphia

He entered primary school in 1831 and was never thought particularly academic.

Q 05/05

Pasteur passed his 1842 science baccalaureate at Dijon with a mediocre grade in which subject?

A) Physics

B) Latin

C) Mathematics

D) Chemistry

Answer · why

D) Chemistry

It did not stop him becoming one of the century's great chemists.