What group of people inspired the first vaccine which was against smallpox?
1. Farmers
2. Milkmaids
3. Cow Hands
4. Sheep Herders
Measles evolved from?
1. Moosles, a moose disease
2. Rinderpest, a cattle disease
3. An influenza strain
4. Malignant Oedema, a sheeo disease
What major disease did Europeans catch in the Americas and bring back to Europe?
1. Smallpox
2. Scarlet fever
3. Syphilis
4. Hepatitis
Which of these factors have contributed to the rise in infectious diseases?
1. Deforestation
2. Factory farming
3. International tourism
4. All of these
What is a Zoonotic disease?
1. Any disease transmitted from human to human
2. Having to do with zoology
3. Any disease that spreads from animals to people
4. Any disease that spreads from one type of animal to another
Roughly how many ticks can a mouse have on its face and ears?
1. Up to aound100
2. Around 20
3. Around 10
4. Around 1000
Which virus inspired the movie 'Contagion'?
1. Nipah
2. SARS
3. H1N1
4. HIV
Which animal spread Nipah, a deadly virus that struck in Malaysia in 1999?
1. Orangutan
2. Mouse
3. Pig
4. Dog
What is a pandemic?
1. A disease that affects a large number of people in multiple countries
2. A disease that affects people within a community
3. A disease that occurs annually in a certain area
4. A localised disease
Name the pandemic that infected about 500 million people in North America, Europe and Asia in 1918.
1. Spanish flu
2. Swine flu
3. Bird flu
4. Russian flu
Recognised as a pandemic in 1981, which disease is caused by a virus called HIV?
1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
2. Hepatitis
3. Rabies
4. SARS
Which bacteria caused The Black Death in Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1351?
1. Yersinia pestis
2. Vibrio cholerae
3. Staphylococcus aureus
4. Bacillus spp
Name the 1956-1958 pandemic that originated in East Asia and killed at least a million people worldwide.
1. Asian Flu
2. Swine Flu
3. Chinese flu
4. Korean flu
Which epidemic helped forge the American two-party system in 1793 with Federalists accusing Democrats of a biological terror?
1. Smallpox
2. Great Plague of Marseille
3. Yellow fever
4. Plague of Justinian
Which viral fever, spread by insects and birds, is believed to have caused a witchcraft hysteria in Salem in 1692?
1. Bird flu
2. Encephalitis
3. Typhoid
4. Yellow fever
“We are fighting a disease, not people,” said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. "Americans would have to learn not to scorn a population of victims not exactly considered mainstream." Which epidemic was he referring to?
1. West Nile virus
2. Zika
3. Opioids
4. HIV/AIDS
A trade deal with China unleashed which deadly pandemic in 1346 with Italy being hit especially hard?
1. Plague of Justinian
2. Ganges River cholera
3. Bubonic plague
4. COVID-19
Which pandemic led John Snow, a London doctor, to develop a dot map to pioneer the modern science of epidemiology?
1. Third cholera pandemic
2. Great Plague of London
3. Typhus “Irish fever”
4. Diphtheria
Scientists blamed stressed-out bats and their habitat loss for this 21st century pandemic.
1. COVID-19
2. Ebola
3. SARS
4. All of these
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?
1. Mata Hari
2. Mary Mallon
3. Marie Curie
4. Bonnie Parker
Against which disease did Charles IV of Spain launch history’s first global immunization campaign in 1803?
1. Spanish flu
2. Whooping cough
3. Rubella
4. Smallpox
Jubilation on steps of the Idaho Statehouse overrode quarantines where thousands discarded their protective face masks during which pandemic?
1. Covid-19
2. Spanish flu
3. Typhoid
4. H2N2 virus
Missionaries, it was alleged, had treated this virus with strychnine.
1. Dengue fever
2. Measles
3. Malaria
4. Smallpox
Which plague forced Rome’s retreat in the war to recapture its former capital city in 541AD?
1. Plague of Antonius
2. Plague of Peloponnesian
3. Plague of Justinian
4. Plague of Cyprian
Which holy book recommends social distancing during outbreaks of disease?
1. Bhagavad Gita
2. New Testament
3. Holy Quran
4. Tibetan Book of the Dead
“Brothers abandoned brothers, uncles their nephews, sisters their brothers, and in many cases wives deserted their husbands,” wrote which Italian poet? “Fathers and mothers refused to nurse and assist their own children.”
1. Giovanni Boccaccio
2. Dante Alighieri
3. Lorenzo de’ Medici
4. Miguel de Cervantes
“Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven,” wrote novelist Mary Shelley, having lost family to which epidemic?
1. Puerperal fever
2. Dysentery
3. Malaria
4. All of these
Called “the romantic disease,” this affliction was hailed in Victorian times as poetic inspiration. Franz Kafka, John Keats, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky all romanticized the disease. Victor Hugo had it cripple the spine of Notre Dame’s famous hunchback.
1. Tuberculosis
2. Spanish flu
3. Diphtheria
4. Mumps
This epidemic corresponded with the rise of political editorial cartooning. Doctors sued cartoonists for slander, denouncing “atrocious falsehoods”.
1. 1831 London cholera
2. 1812 Ottoman plague
3. 1847 North American typhus
4. 1633 Massachusetts smallpox
A carved stone from the time of the Pharaohs is thought to depict a victim of this neuromuscular virus.
1. Elephantiasis
2. Smallpox
3. Meningitis
4. Polio
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?
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Resident Evil
3. Dawn of the Dead
4. Black Death
Covid-19 had only spread to 30 people, until one woman codenamed ‘patient 31’ spread the disease to 1,200 others in what country?
1. South Korea
2. China
3. Japan
4. India
Which common supplement flew off the shelves after being mentioned as a potentially effective way to fight Covid-19 on the Joe Rogan Podcast?
1. Vitamin D
2. Vitamin A
3. Vitamin C
4. Vitamin B
Fact checkers have been working over time to debunk covid-19 conspiracy theories related to which Tech Billionaire?
1. Bill Gates
2. Mark Zuckerberg
3. Elon Musk
4. Jeff Bezos
The number 19 in Covid-19 is based on what?
1. The year 2019
2. 19th version of covid
3. 19th province of China
4. 19 attempts to find a vaccine
Conspiracy theorists believing Covid was made in a lab have labelled the virus what play on the word ‘Pandemic?
1. Plandemic
2. Panspiracy
3. Panplan
4. Panoscope
Which was the first country to release a Covid tracing app?
1. Singapore
2. China
3. Japan
4. Spain
To keep spirits high during these tough times, The Office’s John Krasinski, started a Youtube show called what?
1. Good News Network
2. Home Office
3. Lockdown Fun
4. Adventures In Virus Land
The SEC suspended trading on which company, as confused investors spiked the price of a stock mistaking it with a video conferencing company?
1. Zoom Technologies
2. Zoom Industries
3. Zoomology
4. Zoomers Inc.
Which Instagram hashtag encouraging people to not go out has got almost 18 million hits on the social media platform?
1. #stayathome
2. #homehealth
3. #stayin
4. #myhomedissafe
A shortage of hoarded products has led to a surge in sales of what French originated hygiene device?
1. The bidet
2. The Soap Dispenser
3. The Hand Dryer
4. Disinfectant Dispenser
What is it called when a large number of people in a community get a disease at the same time?
1. Epidemic
2. Influx
3. Analgesic
4. Parasite
Which of the following is an example of an insect-borne disease?
1. Malaria
2. Cholera
3. Tuberculosis
4. Measles
How many stages of a pandemic virus does WHO describe?
1. 6
2. 5
3. 4
4. 3
Which pandemic is considered the deadliest in history?
1. The Black Death
2. Caragea's Plague
3. 1772 Persia Plague
4. Spanish Flu
The Black Death was another name for what famous pandemic?
1. Bubonic plague
2. Asian flu
3. London plague
4. Groningen epidemic
Which virus has caused more widespread epidemics and pandemics than any other in the world?
1. Influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. HIV
4. Smallpox
Which type of pandemic led to the development of the first vaccine?
1. Smallpox
2. Measles
3. Tuberculosis
4. Cholera
Which of these infectious diseases can be spread via infected water?
1. Cholera
2. Measles
3. Tuberculosis
4. Ebola
When was the first influenza vaccine developed?
1. 1938
2. 1796
3. 1952
4. 1957
Roughly, what percentage of the Earth's population was infected with influenza during the 1918 pandemic?
1. 33 percent
2. 15 percent
3. 25 percent
4. 66 percent
SARS is an acute form of what infection?
1. Pneumonia
2. Rubella
3. Bronchitis
4. Meningitis
How many people died during the SARS outbreak of 2003?
1. 774
2. 310
3. 642
4. 10,058
What Chinese city was considered the epicenter of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak?
1. Wuhan
2. Beijing
3. Chongqing
4. Zhouzhuang
Roughly, how many cases of dengue fever are diagnosed annually around the world?
1. 100 million
2. 5 million
3. 20 million
4. 250 million
During the Middle Ages, how was the bubonic plague spread?
1. Flea and rodent bites
2. Kissing
3. Touching human feces
4. Shaking hands
Which type of pandemic was spread to humans by infected body lice?
1. Typhus
2. Pneumonic plague
3. Yellow fever
4. Smallpox
The flu pandemic of 1968 killed an estimated how many people worldwide?
1. 1 million
2. 10,000
3. 100,000
4. 5 million
In the 2002 Ebola outbreak in the Republic of Congo, what was the mortality rate?
1. 90 percent
2. 60 percent
3. 30 percent
4. 10 percent
Why was the 1918 influenza pandemic nicknamed the Spanish Flu?
1. The Spanish Press was able to report on it
2. Spain was most impacted.
3. Spanish doctors discovered it.
4. Deaths first occurred in Spain.
Who developed the polio virus vaccine?
1. Jonas Salk
2. Maurice Hilleman
3. Edward Jenner
4. Louis Pasteur
Scientists believe that the Antonine Plague (165 to 180 AD) was caused by what virus?
1. Still unknown
2. Influenza
3. Rabies
4. Dengue
What is another name for the rubeola virus?
1. Measels
2. Mumps
3. Shingles
4. Chickenpox
What types of creatures are know for carrying the Hantavirus?
1. Rodents
2. Dogs
3. Birds
4. Pigs
How long does the novel coronavirus survive outside the body?
1. Several hours to days
2. A week on surfaces
3. Up to a month
4. Up to a fortnight
What percentage of people confirmed to have Covid-19 develop mild or moderate symptoms?
1. 80%
2. 60%
3. 40%
4. 20%
What is a fomite?
1. A contaminated object or surface
2. A hospital grade disinfectant
3. A disease carrier
4. An immunity boosting supplement
What’s a safe distance to stay apart from someone who’s sick with Covid-19?
1. At least 1 metre
2. A minimum of 2 metres
3. One half a metre
4. Three metres
Finanial markets reacted to the Covid-19 outbreak with a huge increase in volatility with what record being set in March by the sell-off in U.S. stocks?
1. Fastest ever 20% drop
2. Record low level
3. Longest market closure
4. Most delistings ever
Who’s at highest risk of developing severe Covid-19 disease?
1. Those with existing medical conditions
2. Children
3. Pregnant women
4. People over 60

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