Covid-19 Trivia Quiz Questions
Covid-19 trivia quiz questions with answers
Trivia quiz questions about the pandemic virus covid-19
What is Coronavirus
disease
2019 (COVID-19)?
A: A contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Where was the first known case identified?
A: In Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease has since spread
worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic.
What are the common symptoms?
A: The symptoms often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing
difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste.
Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days How long after exposure to the virus
does it take for symptoms to develop?
A: Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days.
At least a third of people who are infected do not develop what?
A: Noticeable symptoms.
Of those people who develop symptoms?
A: Most people (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms including mild
pneumonia.
What percentage of people develop severe symptoms?
A: 14%.
Older people are at a higher risk of developing what?
A: Severe symptoms.
What is it called when people continue to experience a range of effects for
months after recovery?
A: Long COVID.
COVID‑19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by what?
A: Droplets and small airborne particles containing the virus.
The risk of breathing these in is highest when people are what?
A: When people are in close proximity, but they can be inhaled over longer
distances.
Transmission can also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids
in the what?
A: In the eyes, nose or mouth.
How long do people remain contagious for?
A: Up to 20 days.
What are common preventive measures?
A: Measures include masks, physical or social distancing, quarantining,
ventilation of indoor spaces, and hand washing.
During the initial outbreak in Wuhan, the virus and disease were commonly
referred to as what?
A: As "coronavirus" and "Wuhan coronavirus", with the disease sometimes
called "Wuhan pneumonia".
In the past, many diseases have been named after what?
A: Geographical locations, such as the Spanish flu,
Middle East respiratory
syndrome, and Zika virus.
How many of people who are infected with the virus do not develop noticeable
symptoms at any point in time?
A: At least a third of the people.
These asymptomatic carriers tend not to get tested and can do what?
A: Spread the disease.
As is common with infections, there is a delay between the moment a person
first becomes infected and what?
A: The appearance of the first symptoms.
COVID‑19 is caused by infection with a strain of coronavirus known as what?
A: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
COVID-19 is mainly transmitted when people do what?
A: Breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles
containing the virus.
Infected people exhale those particles as they do what?
A: Breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or sing.
Infectivity can occur 1–3 days before what?
A: The onset of symptoms.
Infected persons can spread the disease even if they are what?
A: Pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic.
Outside the human body, the virus is destroyed by what?
A: Household soap, which bursts its protective bubble.
As of December 2021, there are how many dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2
spreading among global populations?
A: Five, the Alpha variant, the Beta variant, the Gamma variant, the Delta
variant, and the Omicron variant.