History
Viruses
Solutions
100

During this War in the United States, one side weaponized the other with smallpox.

What is the Civil War?

100

Viruses lack this organelle that in other cells is home to DNA and RNA.

What is a nucleus?

100

This type of technology can help track biological weapons in public spaces if it is developed further.

What is artificial intelligence?

200

This empire threw diseased and dead bodies over the city walls of Caffa on the Crimean Peninsula to spread the bubonic plague and infiltrate the city.

Who are the Mongols?

200

This type of virus cycle is MOST effective as a weapon.

What is a lytic virus?

200

These 2 types of medical resistance can help reduce the spread of a biological weapons.

What are vaccines and antibiotics?

300

During this century, anthrax was most viewed as a threat to public health.

What is the 20th century?

300

This type of virus is MOST effective for a bioweapon.

What is a negative sense RNA virus?

300

These issues often cause incentive for warfare leading to biological warfare.

What are hunger, racial tensions, and religion?

400

This Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire put corpses in wells to damage the water quality of an Italian City.

Who is Emperor Barbarossa?

400

Influenza is an example of this type of virus.

What is a negative sense RNA virus?

400

The Biological Weapons Convention in this year formed more regulations over biowarfare.

What is 1972?

500

These 2 Native American tribes were impacted when Sir Jeffrey Amherst gave them blankets with yellow fever.

Who are the Shawnee and Lenape?

500

This enzyme is utilized by double stranded DNA viruses to catalyze the transcription of the virus.

What is DNA-dependent DNA polymerase?

500
This US law bans the production of biological weapons.

Code 18, Section 175