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Question 1

What is the spanish flu?

Answer 1

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.
Start date: February 1918
Deaths: 25–50 million (generally accepted), other estimates range from 17 to 100 million
End date: April 1920
Disease: Influenza
Suspected cases‡: 500 million (estimated)

Question 2

What is suffrage?

Answer 2

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums. In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to vote is called active suffrage, as distinct from passive suffrage, which is the right to stand for election.