Q 01/05

Which film director was bedridden with polio as a boy and passed the time staging puppet shows?

A) Martin Scorsese

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Francis Ford Coppola

D) George Lucas

Answer · why

C) Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola soon went from puppets to pictures: while still a schoolboy he began making his own 8mm films.

Q 02/05

What do most people infected with poliovirus experience?

A) A high fever

B) No symptoms

C) A stiff neck

D) A sore throat

Answer · why

B) No symptoms

No symptoms: roughly seven in ten infections pass unnoticed, yet those people still shed the virus for weeks, which let polio move silently from house...

Q 03/05

Because poliovirus has no animal reservoir, it could become the second human disease ever eradicated, after which one?

A) Bubonic plague

B) Diphtheria

C) Scarlet fever

D) Smallpox

Answer · why

D) Smallpox

Smallpox's last natural case, a Somali hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin, recovered and spent years as a polio vaccinator, telling wary parents his ...

Q 04/05

What is the main route by which polio spreads from person to person?

A) Blood contact

B) Mosquito bites

C) Fecal-oral

D) Airborne droplets

Answer · why

C) Fecal-oral

Fecal-oral: because infected people shed the virus in stool, health agencies now test sewage to catch polio circulating in a city before anyone is par...

Q 05/05

Which singer took his polio shot in front of news cameras in 1956?

A) Pat Boone

B) Johnny Cash

C) Little Richard

D) Elvis Presley

Answer · why

D) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley rolled up his sleeve at a television studio before going on air, recruited because so few teenagers were getting the new vaccine.