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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Used widely as an agent for homocide and suicide in ancient Greek and Roman times, the philosopher Socrates was utimately put to death by being forced to drink this poison. What is this poisonous potion?
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A study of twenty-five deaths caused by poisoning among active and former major league baseball players between the years 1889-1990 cited what poison or toxin was the most frequent cause of demise in these players?
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Name the major league baseball team found in this study with the largest number of former or active players to die from poisoning.
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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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Ron Luciano, a well known baseball personality associated with players and fans of the game, died January 18, 1995 from a self- inflicted overdose.
What position did he occupy on the baseball field? What was the cause of his death?
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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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This group of pharmaceutical chemicals was discovered in 1863 by the Belgian Chemist, A. von Baeyer on the Feast Day of Saint Barbara. To commemorate this development, von Baeyer named the group by joining the name of the saint with the chemical name of his new discovery. What is the name given to this group of pharmaceutical chemicals?
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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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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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In 1991, an epidemic of drug overdoses occurred among New York City heroin abusers who had bought and used "Tango and Cash" convinced that it was a new brand of heroin on the street. What was "Tango and Cash?"
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Excessive amounts of irradiation can have toxic consequences; who was the first person known to have died from radiation "poisoning?"
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On the night of April 26, 1986 Reactor #4 accidentally released an estimated 50 million curies of extremely harmful radiation into the surrounding environment. Where was this plant located?
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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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In 1852, the English chemist Robert Angus Smith, wrote a 600 page book about the environment; he is responsible for creating a term in the book that is very much in the headlines and well-recognized by the non-scientist public today. What is that term?
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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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What is the only material known to be "poisonous" to SUPERMAN?
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In 1791, this famous musician/composer died still early in his career and it was rumored that the cause of his demise was by poisoning which was carried out by a musical rival. Who was this famed musician/composer?
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In 1991, a major figure in American history was exhumed from his burial site in Louisville, Kentucky to determine whether the cause of his death 140 years ago might have been due to arsenic poisoning. Who was this well-known American?
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While serving as U.S. Ambassador to Italy in the 1950's, Claire Booth Luce suffered from chronic arsenic poisoning. What was circumstance responsible for her illness?
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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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Women in Naples, Italy during the late 1600's and early 1700's would occasionally seek the counsel of a Madame Gulia Toffana (1653-1723) who was renowned for her skill and care in concocting cosmetics ("Aqua Toffana", "Manna of St. Nicholas of Bar ") for personalized use. What was particularly unique about Madame's "beauty" service and advice?
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In 1896. this famous French post-impressionist artist known for his depictions of the native scenes and life in the South Pacific attempted suicide unsuccessfully by taking arsenic. Who was this individual?
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Who was the famous neo-Baroque Spanish painter (1746-1828) who became lead intoxicated following exposure to lead during the mixing of his white paint pigments?
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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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On October 31, 1993, outside of a West Hollywood, California music club called the"Viper Room", a popular 23 year-old actor overdosed on a lethal combination of opiates and cocaine. Who was this individual?
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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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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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Ms. Nannie Doss, after having poisoned eleven family members over a thirty year period was finally in 1954 discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma By what name was she most widely known once her murderous deeds were revealed?
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In 1960, the American U-2 Spy Plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down by a missile while flying on a spy mission over the Soviet Union. He carried a poison with him to be used for suicide if he was ever captured. What was the poison he was to use?
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In London, England, on September 23, 1939, this famous psychologist, dying from cancer-likely the result of a smoking habit of more than 20 cigars a day-was provided a fatal dose of morphine by his physician. Who was the patient?
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In 1881, Derek Humphrey, authored and published a highly controversial book which involved advice on the giving and taking of poisons. What was the title of this work?
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In 1936, British subjects were told that their beloved King, George V of England, had peacefully passed away following a long illness. However, the King's personal physician's notes published in 1986 revealed that the doctor, Lord Dawson, had carried out euthanasia on the King by giving him by injections two highly toxic substances. What were these two substances?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was said to be addicted to it; Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote under its influence creating works such as Kubla Khan; and the composer Berlioz romanticized its reverie in his "Symphonie Fantastique." Name this popular 19th Century drug with so much influence on these creative persons.
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Robert Louis Stevenson is believed to have completed the entire first draft of his "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in three days while undergoing treatment with a certain drug for his tuberculosis. Can you name this drug?
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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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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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In the 1986 movie "The Name of the Rose", Sean Connery played the character of a monk who was investigating the suspicious murders by poisonings of fellow monks. How were they being poisoned?
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In Shakespeare's tragedy, HAMLET, the King who was Hamlet's father is murdered at the hands of poisoner hired by the King's own brother. How did the killer administer the poison to his unfortunate victim?
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In a 1990 survey of hospital pharmacists, many reported that a skin exposure to cytotoxic drugs ocurred at least once a month and efforts at medical surveillance in the workplace were infrequent. What percentage of respondents claimed exposure and/or had a program for surveillance?
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From February 1993 to May 1995, five previously healthy New York City men experienced an acute onset of illness after they ingested either "Stone, Love Stone, Rock Hard," substances marketed as a topical aphrodiasiac. Cardiac dysrhythmia was the cause of death in four of the cases. What went wrong ?
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What does "Gan Mao Tong Pian" have in common with "Chui Feng Toukewan"?
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Highly publicized reports of heavy metal toxicities associated with ingredients contained in a number of non-FDA regulated imported patent medicines available in the United States raises concern for the health of self-medicating consumers who are unaware of their contents and proper usage. Identify the heavy metals that pose these concerns.
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Where can you report adverse experiences and untoward reactions caused by "aphrodiasiacs", patent medicines, etc?
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The U.S. Secretary of Interior in 1995 ordered the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service to "take action" with regards to violations of laws and regulations prohibiting the distribution of unapproved medicines. Why was this necessary?
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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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In April 1984, New Hampshire public health officials traced the source of an outbreak of acute diarrheal illness among numerous children to the dietetic candies they had consumed. What was the ingredient in the candy causing this?
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It was reported in Newsweek, (August 29,1994) that a potent alcoholic liqueur distilled from wine and wormwood, popular with French artists and poets during the early 1900's had become the fashionable and "in" thing to consume among the young neo-Victorian chic residing in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest area. What was being consumed in Seattle in hopes of returning to "Xanadu?".
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The National Nutritional Foods Association, a trade group for the health food industry, issued a warning in April 1994 that this "natural" substance "may be nappropriate as a product to be sold," and many suppliers halted its distribution. The front cover of the November 6, 1995, issue of Newsweek, featured this substance as the "The Selling of a Natural Wonder Drug." What was this the latest "magic bullet?"
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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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One of the greatest civilian toxic disasters in modern world history occurred in 1984 with 2,500 deaths and 20,000 injuries when in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leaked from a pesticide plant into the surrounding atmosphere. What was the toxic gas released? Do you recall the American-owned company involved.
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Since the 1920's, millions of U.S. workers have been employed in industries that used extensively a material which subsequently has been found on exposure to pose a particular risk for developing a unique form of lung cancer. What is this material?
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In 1977, an unusually high incidence of this condition was experienced by Lathrop, California workers who were exposed to dibromochloro-propane (DBCP) during production of a nematocidal agent. What was the condition?
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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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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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During May, 1996, more than 100 drug users were rushed to Baltimore and Philadelphia city hospitals after taking what they thought was "heroin." The drug taken was a "counterfeit" containing a mixture of several OTCs; what was is concoction?
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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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In India, a product widely used by women known as "Surma" contains 26-83% lead. What is Surma commonly used for?
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The first antivenin for treating snakebite was manufactured in 1895, at what world reknown institute in Paris, France?
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The FDA announced in a January 14, 1997 Federal Register notice its intention to withdraw approval of a popular prescription drug from the U.S. market. What is the drug and why is the agency taking this action?
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has requested the FDA reclassify as a "controlled substance" a widely used precription muscle relaxant because of increasing reports of its abuse and illegal trafficking. What is the drug?
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Name the country where police have been given permission to use poisonous snakes against rioters?
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From 1985 to 1994, there were nineteen (19) plant-related ingestion deaths reported to the AAPCC. Seven (36.8%) of the cases involved the ingestion of what specie of toxic plant?
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In the Bible ( Revelation 9:5) what venomous critter is referenced to when it is mentioned as a "torment" when it "striketh a man." The Ancient Romans incorporated this critter into the constellation of the Zodiac.
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Should little `Miss Muffet sitting on her tuffet' who was acknowledged to be "arachnophobic" in the children's nursery poem be fearful of centruroides exilicuda?
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What venomous animal has the slowest metabolism of any known invertebrate?
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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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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Spam
Puppy food
Chocolate-covered cherries
Frozen spinach
Imported caviar
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Aspirin
Anti-lice shampoo
Insect repellent
Eye shallow
Lipstick
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Pesticide residues in lettuce
Canned tomatoes
Oven cleaner
Spaghetti
Pet turtles
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Television sets
Over-the-counter antacids
Television advertisement for NSAIDS (OTC)
Human plasma
Diptheria vaccine
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Label on beer
Ground coffee
Coffee beans
Canned tuna
Food warehouse
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Tap water
Club Soda
Bottled Water
Ginger Ale
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates many consumer products-with some specific exceptions. Can you identify which products the FDA regulates from those that other federal agencies have responsibility for? From the following select the one not under the jurisdiction of the FDA:
Tamper-resistant package for OTC drugs
Child-proof packaging for OTC drugs
Plastic containers for soft drinks
Valentine candy containing chocolate
Tube containing medical ointment
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"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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Identify the first bacterial toxin approved by the FDA to be used as a medicine.
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Under Section 2, Chapter 65 of Title 18 of the U.S.Code, what authority is mandated to both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture?
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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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How many Americans are estimated to be addicted to nicotine due to cigarette smoking?
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Where is Khamisiyah. What role does this location have in the hisotry of human toxiciology and warfare?
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What is the average number of daily toxic chemical accidents in the United States?
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Name the four chemicals leaked in accidents most often causing immediate injury to persons
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The risks (or odds) of dying or injury during everyday and unusual occurences have been recently calculated in several publications (Discover, May 1997; Tucson Citizen, May 28,1997); according to these sources, what are the odds for:
(a)dying from a snakebite;
(b) drinking a detergent and dying;
(c) dying from a dog bite;
(d) dying from leaking gas;
(e) having your wallet or purse stolen;
(f) having your car stolen;
(g) contracting an infection during a hospital stay.
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