Scientists blamed stressed-out bats and their habitat loss for this 21st century pandemic....
QUIZ WHIZ
1- In February 1692, in the Massachusetts village of Salem, eight young women accused their neighbours of witchcraft. But some historians blame the hysteria on a viral fever spread by insects and birds. What viral fever was that?
A. Bird flu
B. Encephalitis
C. Typhoid
D. Yellow fever
2- A trade deal with China unleashed one of the deadliest of the great pandemics. Italy was hit especially hard. Can you name the pandemic?
A. Plague of Justinian
B. Ganges River cholera
C. Bubonic plague
D. COVID-19
3- Scientists blamed stressed-out bats and their habitat loss for this 21st century pandemic.
A. COVID-19
B. Ebola
C. SARS
D. All of the above
4- Doctors called her the most dangerous woman in America. An immigrant who had worked as a cook, she was New York’s patient zero, passing the fever to 51 people. By year’s end, 20,000 had died.
A. Mata Hari
B. Mary Mallon
C. Marie Curie
D. Bonnie Parker
5- Missionaries, it was alleged, had treated this virus with strychnine.
A. Dengue fever
B. Measles
C. Malaria
D. Smallpox
6- Great viral clouds of mosquitoes beat back American forces. Commanders ordered that no soldier could be excused from combat without a temperature of at least 103¡F.
A. Dengue
B. Malaria
C. Encephalitis
D. All of the above
7- The plague forced Rome’s retreat in the war to recapture its former capital city. The emperor himself was stricken. Constantinople lost 5,000 people each day.
A. Plague of Antonius
B. Plague of Peloponnesian
C. Plague of Justinian
D. Plague of Cyprian
8- 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.
A.Tuberculosis
B. Spanish flu
C. Diphtheria
D. Mumps
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