Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was _ Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit "Mission 523 "was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of "Mission 523". "Mission523" read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood , which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point. After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. " In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is "unsociable and quite straightforward", adding that "if she disagrees with something, she will say it." Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a "tough and stubborn woman". Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Name the first woman from China to win a Nobel Prize?
2. Who is the first Chinese woman to receive a Nobel Prize?
3. What is the name of China's first female Nobel Prize recipient?
Q2:
1. What was Tu Youyou's work?
2. What did Tu Youyou work on?
3. What was Tu Youyou's project?
Q3:
1. What do they call Tu Youyou in China?
2. What is Tu Youyou referred to as in China?
3. What is Tu Youyou's Chinese nickname?
Q4:
1. Does Tu Youyou have a medical degree?
2. Did Tu Youyou go to medical school?
3. Does Tu Youyou have training in the medical field?
Q5:
1. What spreads malaria?
2. How does malaria pass from person to person?
3. How can one get malaria?
Q6:
1. What secret research unit was formed?
2. Where was secret research being conducted?
3. Who was respnosible for carrying out secret research?
Q7:
1. What was the number of compounds tested worldwide?
2. How many compounds were tests done on across the world?
3. How many compounds were tinkered around with globally?
Q8:
1. What compound was found to have treated malaria in China in 400 AD?
2. What compound did the Chinese use to treat malaria circa 400 AD?
3. How did the Chinese attempt to treat malaria around 400 AD?
Q9:
1. Was sweet wormwood an effective treatment for malaria?
2. Did sweet wormwood work to combat malaria?
3. Could sweet wormwood successfully be used to treat malaria?
Q10:
1. What did Tu Youyou find out about sweet wormwood?
2. What did Tu Youyou learn to do with sweet wormwood?
3. What discovery did Tu Youyou make regarding sweet wormwood?
Q11:
1. What were Lianda Li's words regarding Tu Youyou?
2. How did Lianda Li describe Tu Youyou?
3. What description did Lianda Li give of Tu Youyou?
Q12:
1. How long have Fuming Liao and Tu Youyou worked together?
2. For how many years have Tu Youyou and Fuming Liao been colleagues?
3. How many years have Tu Youyou and Fuming Liao spent working together?
Q13:
1. How many people owe their lives to Tu Youyou?
2. What is the number of lives that have been spared thanks to Tu Youyou?
3. How many people has Tu Youyou kept alive?
