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The Memorable Black Death Trivia Quiz

This is about the awful disease that made our world a horrible place to live in.

A multiple-choice quiz by thingie001. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
thingie001

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
366,399

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What flea-bearing creatures spread the Plague? Hint

Dirty people

Foxes

Cats

Rodents

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Question 2 of 10

2. What event in London in 1666 is said to have wiped out the Plague? Hint

The Great Fire of London

All of these

The invention of rat-repellant spray

The English Royal Court returned to London

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Question 3 of 10

3. There were 362 cases of the Plague in the USA from 1944 to 1993.

True

False

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Question 4 of 10

4. How many people are thought to have been killed worldwide by the Plague in the fourteenth century? Hint

1 million to 20 million

450 million to 500 million

500 million to 750 million

75 million to 200 million

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Question 5 of 10

5. There was more than one variety of epidemic that made up the Black Death. Which form of the Plague was the most common? Hint

Bubonic Plague

Septicemic Plague

Pneumonic Plague

They were about equally common

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Question 6 of 10

6. Where did the Black Death originate? Hint

Great Britain

Russia

USA

China

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Question 7 of 10

7. Medieval people called the Black Death of the 14th century 'the Great Plague' or another name. What was this name? Hint

The Black Death

God's Curse

The Great Rat Infection

The Great Pestilence

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Question 8 of 10

8. A sympton of the Plague includes orange fingers.

True

False

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Question 9 of 10

9. In 1347, the Plague was first introduced to which continent? Hint

North America

Africa

Europe

Asia

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Question 10 of 10

10. What was the first recorded attack of the Plague called? Hint

The Great Plague of London

The Plague of the Vikings

The Plague of Justinian

The Great Plague of China

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What flea-bearing creatures spread the Plague?

Answer: Rodents

They spread the Plague, and made millions of deaths around the world possible. They travelled to other countries in many ways, and if they hadn't, the Plague might have remained confined to the region where it originated.

2. What event in London in 1666 is said to have wiped out the Plague?

Answer: The Great Fire of London

Even though the Plague was already declining rapidly, it is widely believed that the Great Fire of London killed the rats and at least greatly accelerated end of the Plague.

3. There were 362 cases of the Plague in the USA from 1944 to 1993.

Answer: True

The four main states affected by this were Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico. Around five to fifteen people in America catch the Plague each year. Source: Wikipedia article on 'Bubonic Plague'.

4. How many people are thought to have been killed worldwide by the Plague in the fourteenth century?

Answer: 75 million to 200 million

40% of people in Egypt were killed by this. Half of Paris's population of 100,000 were killed. In crowded cities, it was very common for about 50% of people to die.

5. There was more than one variety of epidemic that made up the Black Death. Which form of the Plague was the most common?

Answer: Bubonic Plague

The Pneumonic Plague was the most deadly form of the Plague. If left untreated, Bubonic Plague kills about 50% of those infected. The other two forms are usually fatal without antibiotics.

6. Where did the Black Death originate?

Answer: China

It originated in China and spread by the Silk Road and/or by a ship. It has been suggested that the fact that the Mongols largely stopped trade on the Silk Road in the 1330s may have postponed the spread of the Plague to Europe by a decade or so.

7. Medieval people called the Black Death of the 14th century 'the Great Plague' or another name. What was this name?

Answer: The Great Pestilence

Writers contemporary to the Plague sometimes called it the Great Mortality. The arguably 'Gothic' term 'Black Death' only became popular from the 1820s on, though a very small number of earlier uses of the term from c. 1630 on have been found in Scandinavian literature.

8. A sympton of the Plague includes orange fingers.

Answer: False

No, but other symptoms include: vomiting, buboes, rashes, acute fevers and many more.

9. In 1347, the Plague was first introduced to which continent?

Answer: Europe

In Europe, it first started in the city of Caffa in the Crimea. From there it spread by ship to some of the Italian ports. When people discovered what was happening, some other Italian port turned ships away and they then docked in French ports ... The rapid spread of the Plague to England, Scandinavia, the Iberian Peninsula and most of Central Europe and Russia was soon under way. For reasons that are unknown most of Poland was unaffected by the Plauge in the Middle Ages.

10. What was the first recorded attack of the Plague called?

Answer: The Plague of Justinian

The Plague of Justinian started in the 6th and 7th centuries. It marked the first clear pattern of the Bubonic Plague.

Source: Author thingie001

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