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Who discovered penicillin in a mold in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Why: Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, who turned penicillin into a usable medicine, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming.
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What is a fungus's hidden network of threads called?
Answer: Mycelium
Why: Fairy rings appear when a mycelium spreads outward in a circle and sends up mushrooms along its growing edge.
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Which moldy fruit gave the strain for mass-producing penicillin?
Answer: Melon
Why: Today's commercial penicillin strains descend from the mold found on that cantaloupe in Peoria, Illinois.
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What color is the light that glowing fungi give off?
Answer: Green
Why: More than 125 species of fungi are known to glow in the dark.
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Who wrote children's books and studied how fungus spores sprout?
Answer: Beatrix Potter
Why: Kew mycologist George Massee had to present her 1897 paper, because women could not attend Linnean Society meetings.
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What was poisoning from fungus-infected rye called in the Middle Ages?
Answer: St. Anthony's fire
Why: The name comes from the monks of the Order of St. Anthony, who devoted themselves to caring for its victims.
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