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Poison Center

College of Pharmacy, 1295 N. Martin
PO Box 210202, Tucson, Arizona 85721
Phone: (520) 626-1427

445 N. 5th St., Ste.120
Phoenix AZ 85004
Phone: (602) 293-3222
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Tox-Trivia Question Set 1

 

1. This popular author of detective fiction used poison to dispatch more than 30 victims in the course of 66 novels had developed her appreciation and knowledge of toxicology while serving as a hospital pharmacy dispenser during World War I. Who is the author?
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2. Name the field position played with the highest number of former or current baseball players whose cause of death was attributed to poisoning.
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3. Time Magazine, April 3, 1995 declared this individual to be the "Prophet of Poison."
Who is this person?
What was Time's reason for this declaration?
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4. Name the Japanese cult movie star who vanquished the toxic "Smog Monster" who had a bad habit of feeding from smoke stacks and spreading toxic gases all over Tokyo?
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5. One of the world's earliest recorded toxicological disasters occurred in A.D.79 when a volcano unexpectedly erupted releasing poisonous gases which killed thousands of people. Where did this natural disaster take place?
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6. Excessive amounts of irradiation can have toxic consequences; who was the first person known to have died from radiation "poisoning?"
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7. In 1962, an authoress published a popular and now famous literary work which detailed the effects of toxic chemicals, like DDT, on the world's environment and in particular their impact on the food chain. Who was the author and the title of her work?
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8. In 1980, this group was officially founded to support the active voluntary euthanasia of the terminally ill; often the use of a poison is recommended by the organization as the means to this end. What is this group?
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9. In the 1960's the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concocted a plan to poison Cuba's Fidel Castro. How was this going carried out?
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10. If one was playing the game Scrabble and spelled the word "POISON", with no bonus-letter scores, how many points would one receive?
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11. The actor John Belushi allegedly bought two drugs off a Hollywood dealer shortly before he was found fatally overdosed on March 5, 1982. Were the drugs ever identified? If so, what were they?
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12. The mystery authoress, Agatha Christie, described this tasteless, odorless white powder, poorly soluble in cold water but extremely well-suited to be dissolved in hot cocoa, tea or milk and where 20 to 60 times the"lethal" dose in as little as two teaspoonsful of a drink will remain undetectable for the unsuspecting victim. Identify the poison.
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13. Just after July 3, 1863, many trees around this small Pennsylvania town began dying from lead poisoning due to the large number of leaded foreign bodies embedded in the wood. Name the town.
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14. In 1992, the L.A. Gear company began production of high-tech sneakers with colored lights that flashed when the heels hit the ground! Some states considered these shoes a potential pollution hazard when disposed because of what toxic material in the lighting mechanism?
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15. The horn of a Unicorn was believed during ancient times to bring the bearer "protection" against poisoning. What animal was most likely to provide the ivory for this protection?
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16. You are on your long awaited vacation to France; you have been given as a gift by your hosts a bushel of "wild" mushrooms along with a recipe for making great crepes with them. Before you heat up your omelet pan isn't there someone who you can consult about "danger de mort?"
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17. In the movie THE NET (1995) Sandra Bullock plays the lead character who is a computer "wonk" and whose former boyfriend was summarily murdered when he came too close to uncovering a nefarious plot unfolding around Bullock while trying to help her. Remember how this character meet his demise?
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18. In the movie "Black Widow" (1985) co-starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell, a serial killer (played by Russell) kills off one by one her wealthy husbands to collect on their insurance policies. The methods she used to murder them were supposed to defy detection. How were these toxic murders carried out?
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19. Who was alledged to have consumed the following on a daily basis: "44 cigarettes, three cups of coffee, two glasses of wine, one beer, one marijuana joint, Tylenol PM, two morphine pills, 12 balloons of nitrous oxide and three `Leary biscuits'- a cheese-soaked marijuana bud on a Ritz cracker."
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20. Name the country where police have been given permission to use poisonous snakes against rioters?
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21. What venomous animal has the slowest metabolism of any known invertebrate?
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22. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the wolves who reared Mowgli called themselves the "Free People". Who did they call the "Poison People"?
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23. "Contaminated Acetaminophen Kills at Least 30 Children in Haiti" read the page 4 New York Times headline on June 27, 1996. What happened?
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24. Identify the first bacterial toxin approved by the FDA to be used as a medicine.
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25. In April, 1996, three cases of unusual food borne poisoning were reported in San Diego, California which was attributed to the consumption of a food product imported by a Japanese traveler who had failed to declare the item through U.S. customs. What happened?
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