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The Black Death

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  • Q1
    What was the Black Death?
    A terrible disease in the Middle Ages.
    A disease caused by birds.
    A disease of the skull.
    A disease that only affected the lungs.
    30s
  • Q2
    Why 'Black Death'?
    Purple spots in the ears.
    The appearance of black spots only in the face.
    The appearance of the disease; black purple blotches in the skin.
    Black spots in the knees.
    30s
  • Q3
    The French term "morte bleue" means...
    Blue hands
    Blue Death
    Life blue
    Blue life
    30s
  • Q4
    The Latin name 'pestis atra' means...
    terrible headache
    terrible pain
    terrible plague
    terrible noise
    30s
  • Q5
    How many types of Black Death?
    5
    3
    4
    2
    30s
  • Q6
    What transmitted the disease?
    Rats
    Dogs
    Fleas
    Mice
    30s
  • Q7
    A lymph node is...
    A part of a tree
    A part of a plant
    A part of the human immune system.
    A part of a herb
    30s
  • Q8
    A symptom of the Bubonic plague
    blood nose
    buboes
    knee pain
    backache
    30s
  • Q9
    The fastest death was caused by the ................................plague
    Septicaemic
    Pneumonic
    Nervousa
    Bubonic
    30s
  • Q10
    Body part attacked by the Pneumonic Plague
    liver
    kidneys
    Lungs
    heart
    30s
  • Q11
    In 1894 scientists identified a bacterium known by the scientific name of...
    Pestilencia
    Yersinia Pestis
    Pestis atra
    Zika virus
    30s
  • Q12
    Most contagious plague?
    Pneumonic
    Bubonic
    Septicaemic
    Bubocemic
    30s
  • Q13
    Bubonic plague was endemic to the following country...
    Portugal
    Western Arabia
    Britain
    France
    30s
  • Q14
    Pandemic means...
    normally found in a particular location
    widespread across a large region
    part of the immune system
    inactive or sleeping
    30s
  • Q15
    In 1890 a pandemic began in...
    China
    Russia
    Albania
    Turkey
    30s

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