`

Science and Nature Quiz for 18 January 2012

A new science quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

Question 1: In 1979, a World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of which human infectious disease, the first (and only) one to be completely eradicated from nature?

A
Polio
B
Malaria
C
Smallpox
D
Chicken pox