Scarlet Fever Trivia Quiz

Answer: red rash

The rash is accompanied by fever, sore throat, a "strawberry" appearance of the tongue, paranoia, and hallucinations. Symptoms generally last a week, but it can take longer for swelling in the tonsils and glands to subside.

There is no current vaccine for scarlet fever. A vaccine was created in 1924 by Gladys and George Dick, but the rise of antibiotics in the 1940s made the treatment and prevention of scarlet fever more effective than the vaccine.

Answer: cardinals

The scarlet vestments symbolize the cardinal's willingness to die for their faith. Their normal wardrobe has scarlet accents, but their more formal choir dress is predominantly scarlet with white lace.

The birds of North and South America are called cardinals because of their red plumage, after the Catholic cardinals' vestments.

PHOTO: Guadalajara Cathedral or Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady, located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Answer: Rutgers

The original team name, the Queensmen, referred to the original name of Rutgers, Queen's College. From 1925-1955 the mascot was a Chanticleer (a medieval fighting rooster), until being changed to the Scarlet Knight.

Although scarlet was not officially adopted as the school color until 1900, the Rutgers players did wear scarlet handkerchiefs as a team "uniform" during the first college football games in 1869. Scarlet had been proposed as the school color by the student newspaper, "The Daily Targum" earlier in 1869.

Answer: Robin Hood

Will Scarlet is mentioned in "A Gest of Robyn Hode", one of the earliest surviving stories of Robin Hood (the oldest book with the story dates to somewhere between 1492 and 1534). In the early stories the character had several different surnames: Scarlet, Scarlett, Scarlock, Scadlock, Scatheloke, Scathelocke or Shacklock. Some writers have taken the different names to be different people.

Will is usually depicted as a young man, who is fond of wearing red, and an accomplished swordsman.

PHOTO: Statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham

Answer: Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her work in "Gone With the Wind" (1939) and "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951). She also received a Tony Award for her role in "Tovarich" (1963).

Scarlett O'Hara is the main character of "Gone With the Wind", a Southern lady who doesn't fit in Southern society. But what makes her different is what enables her to survive when her world falls apart after the Civil War.

PHOTO: Paeonia Scarlett O'Hara (Peony)

Answer: Wanda Maximoff

Wanda first appeared in X-Men #4 (1964) published by Marvel Comics.

While the character only had a cameo during the credits of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014), she played a much larger part in 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and 2016's "Captain America: Civil War". In these movies the character is played by Elizabeth Olsen.

Bonus Scarlet Trivia: Actress Scarlett Johansson was also in those films, as Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow.

Answer: Pearl

"The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" (1850, by Nathaniel Hawthorne) is set in the mid-1600s in Boston. The widowed Hester Prynne has given birth to a daughter, obvious evidence that she has committed adultery. Punished and given a red "A" to mark her as an adulteress, Prynne refuses to name the father of the child.

PHOTO: A red Victorian postbox.

Answer: French Revolution

Set in the "Reign of Terror" of the French Revolution, mild-mannered aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney operates in secret as the Scarlet Pimpernel, rescuing noblemen before they can be beheaded by the revolutionaries. His symbol is a small red flower, the scarlet pimpernel.

Sir Percy is the first "secret identity" hero in literature.

The 1903 play was written by Emma Orczy, who penned a later novel (1905) and a whole series of books.

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

In "A Study in Scarlet" (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes and they go on to solve a mystery of murder and revenge. The second part of the book is mostly an unflattering account of Mormonism, which has been the subject of modern controversy but was accepted at the time.

Answer: North America

The scientific name of the scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, means "the olive-colored one", and was obviously based on the plumage of a female or immature male, which are olive in color, rather than the scarlet plumage of the adult male.

It is related to both the cardinal and summer tanager, which are also red birds.