| Christmas '20 Questions | Christmas '20 Answers | |
| 1 | What is a Zoonotic disease? | Any disease that spreads from animals to people |
| 2 | What major disease did Europeans catch in the Americas and bring back to Europe? | Syphilis |
| 3 | Which type of pandemic led to the development of the first vaccine? | Smallpox |
| 4 | Which virus inspired the movie 'Contagion'? | Nipah |
| 5 | Which animal spread Nipah, a deadly virus that struck in Malaysia in 1999? | Pig |
| 6 | What is a pandemic? | A disease that affects a large number of people in multiple countries |
| 7 | Name the pandemic that infected about 500 million people in North America, Europe and Asia in 1918. | Spanish flu |
| 8 | Recognised as a pandemic in 1981, which disease is caused by a virus called HIV? | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) |
| 9 | Which bacteria caused The Black Death in Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1351? | Yersinia pestis |
| 10 | Name the 1956-1958 pandemic that originated in East Asia and killed at least a million people worldwide. | Asian Flu |
| 11 | Which epidemic helped forge the American two-party system in 1793 with Federalists accusing Democrats of a biological terror? | Yellow fever |
| 12 | Which viral fever, spread by insects and birds, is believed to have caused a witchcraft hysteria in Salem in 1692? | Encephalitis |
| 13 | A trade deal with China unleashed which deadly pandemic in 1346 with Italy being hit especially hard? | Bubonic plague |
| 14 | Which pandemic led John Snow, a London doctor, to develop a dot map to pioneer the modern science of epidemiology? | Third cholera pandemic |
| 15 | Who was New York’s patient zero, who in 1906 passed on a fever to 51 people, killing 20,000 people by year’s end? | Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) |
| 16 | Against which disease did Charles IV of Spain launch history’s first global immunization campaign in 1803? | Smallpox |
| 17 | Which plague forced Rome’s retreat in the war to recapture its former capital city in 541AD? | Plague of Justinian |
| 18 | Called “the romantic disease,” which affliction was hailed in Victorian times as poetic inspiration? | Tuberculosis |
| 19 | The bubonic plague anticipates nuclear winter in which brooding stylized film about a knight’s encounter with death upon his return from a holy crusade? | The Seventh Seal |
| 20 | Covid-19 had only spread to 30 people, until one woman codenamed ‘patient 31’ spread the disease to 1,200 others in what country? | South Korea |
| 21 | The number 19 in Covid-19 is based on what? | The year 2019 |
| 22 | How many stages of a pandemic virus does WHO describe? | Six |
| 23 | Which pandemic is considered the deadliest in history? | The Black Death (also known as the Bubonic Plgue) |
| 24 | Which virus has caused more widespread epidemics and pandemics than any other in the world? | Influenza |
| 25 | The flu pandemic of 1968 is estimated to have killed how many people worldwide? | 1 million |