Pandemic "Fun" Facts
From 1346 to 1353, Europe, Africa and Asia were ravaged by the plague, also known by this colorful name
What is the Black Death?
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What is *NSYNC?
The Aloha State
What is Hawaii?
A sonnet by Emma Lazarus, which is titled “The New Colossus” and says “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” appears inscribed on a brass plaque on this statute
What is the Statute of Liberty?
The ruins of Pompeii sit in the shadow of this, still active, volcano which is overdue for its next eruption
What is Vesuvius?
From 2014 to 2016, this incurable disease spread throughout West Africa, killing more than 10,000 people
What is Ebola?
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What is Backstreet Boys?
The Hoosier State
What is Indiana?
This 19th Century Romantic poet is best known for his poem titled “The Raven,” which begins “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” and in which each stanza ends with the word “more” or “Nevermore.”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Beneath this U.S. national park isn’t just a volcano, but a supervolcano that has had 3 super eruptions and could blow again
What is Yellowstone?
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From 1545 to 1548, a strain of typhoid fever killed 15 million people in this ancient Central American civilization
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What is One Direction?
The Magnolia State
What is Mississippi?
This 19th century American poet, whose life has been fictionalized in a recent AppleTV series, wrote, “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers –/ That perches in the soul –”
Who is Emily Dickinson?
In December 2019, a tourist excursion turned deadly when a volcano erupted on this country’s White Island, killing 21 people
What is New Zealand?
Around 430 B.C., 100,000 people of this major Greek city were killed by an unknown epidemic, yet the city was able to continue their war against Sparta for another 25 years
What is Athens?
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What is Hanson?
The Volunteer State
What is Tennessee?
This poet, who was the Poet Laureate of Illinois for 32 years until her death and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1950, wrote “We real cool. We / Left school. We/ Lurk late.”
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
The region of the Pacific Ocean with the largest number of active volcanoes in the world is known by this lyrical nickname
What is the Ring of Fire?
One theory about the origin of the 1918 flu pandemic is that a virus mutated from a bird to this animal, before infecting humans
What is a pig?
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What is 98 Degrees?
The Beaver State
What is Oregon?
This modernist poet—who mentored Allen Ginsberg and John Ashberry—was a baseball fan, first of the Brooklyn Dodgers and then of the New York Yankees and she threw out the ball to open the season at Yankee Stadium in 1968. She wrote about poetry, “I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important/ beyond all this fiddle.”
Who is Marianne Moore?
In 1883, this volcanic island in Indonesia erupted with a force greater than an atomic bomb, and was heard nearly 3,000 miles away
What is Krakatoa?