The Jungle
Author of The Jungle
Who was Upton Sinclair
A toxic substance that allows objects to glow in the dark
What is Radium?
What was the Lux Radium Co.?
Name the scientist who discovered Radium
Who was Marie Curie?
Name of the fictional town where The Jungle takes place
Average life span of women who worked with Radium
What is about 30 years?
Name of the lawyer that defended the Lux Radium Company against the poisoned women
Who was "Sly" Slaughter Amboy?
Name the first female professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne University in Paris
This is an organization established by FDR to pass laws about food and drugs
What is the FDA Food and Drug Administration?
Using ones lips to create a point with a brush tip when painting dials
What is Lip Pointing or Lip Dip ?
Name the illness that was given as an alternative explanation for why women dying
What is Syphilis?
I was married to the woman who discovered Radium
name the Lithuanina Immigrant who is the main character of The Jungle
Who was Jurgis Rudkus ?
Name an object women painted radium on in 1917
I was the lawyer that helped poisoned women sue the Lux Watch Co.
Who was Terry Dwyer?
A mobile x-ray unit that could be driven to battlefields so that x-rays could be done in the field
Name at least two terrible scenes that are described in meatpacking plant in The Jungle
What are dead rats, children's fingers, cow fetuses shoveled into sausage grinding machines, diseased cows slaughtered for beef, filth and guts from the floor swept up and sold as ‘potted ham?
Name 2 symptoms of Radium poisoning
What could be teeth falling out, nose bleeds, bones snapping, jaw bone rotting out?
Name the two companies that used Radium laced paint to paint watch dials
Who are United States Radium Corp and The Radium Dial Company ?
Who is Marie and Pierre Curie?