diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/Challenge-Description.js b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/Challenge-Description.js
index cfcadc8baf..ad6fcfd819 100644
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/Challenge-Description.js
+++ b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/Challenge-Description.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import React, { Fragment, Component } from 'react';
-import Prism from 'prismjs';
+import React, { Fragment } from 'react';
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
 
+import PrismFormatted from './PrismFormatted';
 import './challenge-description.css';
 
 const propTypes = {
@@ -10,37 +10,19 @@ const propTypes = {
   section: PropTypes.string
 };
 
-class ChallengeDescription extends Component {
-  componentDidMount() {
-    // Just in case 'current' has not been created, though it should have been.
-    if (this.instructionsRef.current) {
-      Prism.highlightAllUnder(this.instructionsRef.current);
-    }
-  }
-
-  constructor(props) {
-    super(props);
-    this.instructionsRef = React.createRef();
-  }
-
-  render() {
-    const { description, instructions, section } = this.props;
-    return (
-      <div
-        className={`challenge-instructions ${section}`}
-        ref={this.instructionsRef}
-      >
-        <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: description }} />
-        {instructions && (
-          <Fragment>
-            <hr />
-            <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: instructions }} />
-          </Fragment>
-        )}
-        <hr />
-      </div>
-    );
-  }
+function ChallengeDescription({ description, instructions, section }) {
+  return (
+    <div className={`challenge-instructions ${section}`}>
+      <PrismFormatted text={description} />
+      {instructions && (
+        <Fragment>
+          <hr />
+          <PrismFormatted text={instructions} />
+        </Fragment>
+      )}
+      <hr />
+    </div>
+  );
 }
 
 ChallengeDescription.displayName = 'ChallengeDescription';
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/PrismFormatted.js b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/PrismFormatted.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9c4aa4d077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/PrismFormatted.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import React, { Component } from 'react';
+import Prism from 'prismjs';
+import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
+
+const propTypes = {
+  className: PropTypes.string,
+  text: PropTypes.string.isRequired
+};
+
+class PrismFormatted extends Component {
+  componentDidMount() {
+    // Just in case 'current' has not been created, though it should have been.
+    if (this.instructionsRef.current) {
+      Prism.highlightAllUnder(this.instructionsRef.current);
+    }
+  }
+
+  constructor(props) {
+    super(props);
+    this.instructionsRef = React.createRef();
+  }
+
+  render() {
+    const { text, className } = this.props;
+    return (
+      <div
+        className={className}
+        dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: text }}
+        ref={this.instructionsRef}
+      ></div>
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+PrismFormatted.displayName = 'PrismFormatted';
+PrismFormatted.propTypes = propTypes;
+
+export default PrismFormatted;
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.js b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b7e3d1094..0000000000
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react';
-import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
-import sanitizeHtml from 'sanitize-html';
-
-const propTypes = {
-  text: PropTypes.string.isRequired
-};
-
-function SanitizedSpan({ text = '' }) {
-  const sanitizedText = sanitizeHtml(text, {
-    allowedTags: ['b', 'i', 'em', 'strong', 'code', 'wbr', 'br', 'pre']
-  });
-  return <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizedText }} />;
-}
-
-SanitizedSpan.displayName = 'SanitizedSpan';
-SanitizedSpan.propTypes = propTypes;
-
-export default SanitizedSpan;
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.test.js b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.test.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bc764173f..0000000000
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/SanitizedSpan.test.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-/* global expect */
-
-import React from 'react';
-import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
-
-import SanitizedSpan from './SanitizedSpan';
-
-describe('<SanitizedSpan />', () => {
-  it('matches the snapshot', () => {
-    const { container } = render(
-      <SanitizedSpan
-        text={`some text <script>dangerous code</script>
-    more <wbr>text <br> <img alt='danger' src='https://attack.com'>`}
-      />
-    );
-
-    expect(container).toMatchSnapshot();
-  });
-
-  it('removes scripts, images, etc', () => {
-    const { queryByAltText, queryByText } = render(
-      <SanitizedSpan
-        text={`some text <script>dangerous code</script>
-       more text <img alt='danger' src='https://attack.com'>`}
-      />
-    );
-
-    expect(queryByText('dangerous code', { ignore: false })).toBeNull();
-    expect(queryByAltText('danger')).toBeNull();
-  });
-
-  it('leaves in line breaks', () => {
-    const { container } = render(
-      <SanitizedSpan
-        text={`some text <br>
-       more text`}
-      />
-    );
-    expect(container.querySelector('br')).not.toBeNull();
-  });
-});
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/__snapshots__/SanitizedSpan.test.js.snap b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/__snapshots__/SanitizedSpan.test.js.snap
deleted file mode 100644
index b1e3fbbde9..0000000000
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/__snapshots__/SanitizedSpan.test.js.snap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
-
-exports[`<SanitizedSpan /> matches the snapshot 1`] = `
-<div>
-  <span>
-    some text 
-    more 
-    <wbr />
-    text 
-    <br />
-     
-  </span>
-</div>
-`;
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/Show.js b/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/Show.js
index 0606416cd5..3e38ccef64 100644
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/Show.js
+++ b/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/Show.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import YouTube from 'react-youtube';
 import { createSelector } from 'reselect';
 
 // Local Utilities
-import SanitizedSpan from '../components/SanitizedSpan';
+import PrismFormatted from '../components/PrismFormatted';
 import { ChallengeNode } from '../../../redux/propTypes';
 import LearnLayout from '../../../components/layouts/Learn';
 import ChallengeTitle from '../components/Challenge-Title';
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ export class Project extends Component {
                   </i>
                 </div>
                 <ChallengeDescription description={description} />
-                <SanitizedSpan text={text} />
+                <PrismFormatted text={text} />
                 <Spacer />
                 <div className='video-quiz-options'>
                   {answers.map((option, index) => (
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ export class Project extends Component {
                           <span className='video-quiz-selected-input'></span>
                         ) : null}
                       </span>
-                      <SanitizedSpan text={option} />
+                      <PrismFormatted
+                        className={'video-quiz-option'}
+                        text={option}
+                      />
                     </label>
                   ))}
                 </div>
diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/show.css b/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/show.css
index eea7bda54e..ed0eda2eca 100644
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/show.css
+++ b/client/src/templates/Challenges/video/show.css
@@ -62,3 +62,7 @@
   border-radius: 50%;
   transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
 }
+
+.video-quiz-option > p {
+  margin: 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/challenge-md-parser/__snapshots__/tests-to-data.test.js.snap b/tools/challenge-md-parser/__snapshots__/tests-to-data.test.js.snap
index d35e91aa65..500209cb91 100644
--- a/tools/challenge-md-parser/__snapshots__/tests-to-data.test.js.snap
+++ b/tools/challenge-md-parser/__snapshots__/tests-to-data.test.js.snap
@@ -10,3 +10,19 @@ Object {
   ],
 }
 `;
+
+exports[`tests-to-data plugin should match the video snapshot 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "question": Object {
+    "answers": Array [
+      "<p>inline <code>code</code></p>",
+      "<p>some <em>italics</em></p>",
+      "<p><code> code in </code> code tags</p>",
+    ],
+    "solution": 3,
+    "text": "<p>Question line one</p>
+<pre><code class=\\"language-js\\">  var x = 'y';
+</code></pre>",
+  },
+}
+`;
diff --git a/tools/challenge-md-parser/fixtures/video-challenge-md-ast.json b/tools/challenge-md-parser/fixtures/video-challenge-md-ast.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9161b038d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/challenge-md-parser/fixtures/video-challenge-md-ast.json
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+{
+  "type": "root",
+  "children": [
+    {
+      "type": "yaml",
+      "value": "id: 5e9a093a74c4063ca6f7c151\ntitle: Jupyter Notebooks Importing and Exporting Data\nchallengeType: 11\nvideoId: k1msxD3JIxE",
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 1,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 0
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 6,
+          "column": 4,
+          "offset": 129
+        },
+        "indent": [
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "heading",
+      "depth": 2,
+      "children": [
+        {
+          "type": "text",
+          "value": "Description",
+          "position": {
+            "start": {
+              "line": 8,
+              "column": 4,
+              "offset": 134
+            },
+            "end": {
+              "line": 8,
+              "column": 15,
+              "offset": 145
+            },
+            "indent": []
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 8,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 131
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 8,
+          "column": 15,
+          "offset": 145
+        },
+        "indent": []
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "html",
+      "value": "<section id='description'>\n</section>",
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 9,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 146
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 10,
+          "column": 11,
+          "offset": 183
+        },
+        "indent": [
+          1
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "heading",
+      "depth": 2,
+      "children": [
+        {
+          "type": "text",
+          "value": "Tests",
+          "position": {
+            "start": {
+              "line": 12,
+              "column": 4,
+              "offset": 188
+            },
+            "end": {
+              "line": 12,
+              "column": 9,
+              "offset": 193
+            },
+            "indent": []
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 12,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 185
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 12,
+          "column": 9,
+          "offset": 193
+        },
+        "indent": []
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "html",
+      "value": "<section id='tests'>",
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 13,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 194
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 13,
+          "column": 21,
+          "offset": 214
+        },
+        "indent": []
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "code",
+      "lang": "yml",
+      "value": "question:\n  text: |\n    Question line one\n    ```js\n      var x = 'y';\n    ```\n\n  answers:\n    - inline `code`\n    - some *italics*\n    - <code> code in </code> code tags\n  solution: 3",
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 15,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 216
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 28,
+          "column": 4,
+          "offset": 411
+        },
+        "indent": [
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1,
+          1
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "html",
+      "value": "</section>",
+      "position": {
+        "start": {
+          "line": 30,
+          "column": 1,
+          "offset": 413
+        },
+        "end": {
+          "line": 30,
+          "column": 11,
+          "offset": 423
+        },
+        "indent": []
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "position": {
+    "start": {
+      "line": 1,
+      "column": 1,
+      "offset": 0
+    },
+    "end": {
+      "line": 32,
+      "column": 1,
+      "offset": 425
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.js b/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.js
index 97d69d4239..f550bd2499 100644
--- a/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.js
+++ b/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.js
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 const visit = require('unist-util-visit');
 const YAML = require('js-yaml');
+const unified = require('unified');
+const markdown = require('remark-parse');
+const remark2rehype = require('remark-rehype');
+const html = require('rehype-stringify');
+const raw = require('rehype-raw');
+
+const processor = unified()
+  .use(markdown)
+  .use(remark2rehype, { allowDangerousHTML: true })
+  .use(raw)
+  .use(html);
+
+function mdToHTML(str) {
+  return processor.processSync(str).toString();
+}
 
 function plugin() {
   return transformer;
@@ -11,6 +26,12 @@ function plugin() {
       const { lang, value } = node;
       if (lang === 'yml') {
         const tests = YAML.load(value);
+        if (tests.question) {
+          tests.question.answers = tests.question.answers.map(answer =>
+            mdToHTML(answer)
+          );
+          tests.question.text = mdToHTML(tests.question.text);
+        }
         file.data = {
           ...file.data,
           ...tests
@@ -21,3 +42,4 @@ function plugin() {
 }
 
 module.exports = plugin;
+module.exports.mdToHTML = mdToHTML;
diff --git a/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.test.js b/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.test.js
index 8c5b0b6347..4bb16f8bb3 100644
--- a/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.test.js
+++ b/tools/challenge-md-parser/tests-to-data.test.js
@@ -1,7 +1,23 @@
 /* global describe it expect beforeEach */
 const mockAST = require('./fixtures/challenge-md-ast.json');
+const mockVideoAST = require('./fixtures/video-challenge-md-ast.json');
 const testsToData = require('./tests-to-data');
 
+const { mdToHTML } = testsToData;
+
+describe('mdToHTML', () => {
+  it('converts Markdown to HTML', () => {
+    // a line of text on its own is parsed as a paragraph, hence the p tags
+    expect(mdToHTML('*it*')).toBe('<p><em>it</em></p>');
+  });
+
+  it('preserves code language', () => {
+    expect(mdToHTML('```js\n var x = "y";\n```')).toBe(
+      '<pre><code class="language-js"> var x = "y";\n</code></pre>'
+    );
+  });
+});
+
 describe('tests-to-data plugin', () => {
   const plugin = testsToData();
   let file = { data: {} };
@@ -29,8 +45,40 @@ describe('tests-to-data plugin', () => {
     expect(testObject).toHaveProperty('text');
   });
 
+  it('should generate a question object from a video challenge AST', () => {
+    expect.assertions(4);
+    plugin(mockVideoAST, file);
+    const testObject = file.data.question;
+    expect(Object.keys(testObject).length).toBe(3);
+    expect(testObject).toHaveProperty('text');
+    expect(testObject).toHaveProperty('solution');
+    expect(testObject).toHaveProperty('answers');
+  });
+
+  it('should convert question and answer markdown into html', () => {
+    plugin(mockVideoAST, file);
+    const testObject = file.data.question;
+    expect(Object.keys(testObject).length).toBe(3);
+    expect(testObject.text).toBe(
+      '<p>Question line one</p>\n' +
+        `<pre><code class="language-js">  var x = 'y';\n` +
+        '</code></pre>'
+    );
+    expect(testObject.solution).toBe(3);
+    expect(testObject.answers[0]).toBe('<p>inline <code>code</code></p>');
+    expect(testObject.answers[1]).toBe('<p>some <em>italics</em></p>');
+    expect(testObject.answers[2]).toBe(
+      '<p><code> code in </code> code tags</p>'
+    );
+  });
+
   it('should have an output to match the snapshot', () => {
     plugin(mockAST, file);
     expect(file.data).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
+
+  it('should match the video snapshot', () => {
+    plugin(mockVideoAST, file);
+    expect(file.data).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
 });