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) Lorraine

Answer · why

A) Jura

Jura: the department takes its name from the Jura Mountains, whose limestone also gave the Jurassic period its name.

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

Tanner: generations of Pasteurs had worked leather, and at 15 the tanner's son grew so unhappy at a Paris boarding school that he came home within wee...

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) Horse riding

Answer · why

B) Sketching

Sketching: he drew pastel portraits of the townspeople, until encouragement from his teachers pushed him into rigorous study.

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.