Poisoner's Handbook Test 2
Carbon monoxide and Hydrogen
"Illuminating gas", employed for a variety of household uses, is a fuel produced from coal processing and consists mainly of what two gases?
quiet, cool, high ceilings, white walls
Describe the Bellevue autopsy room of the medical examiner's office
Harvard
From what university did Gertrude Gorman's husband, Charles Webb, graduate?
3.5 ounces
How many ounces of solid silver, experimentally determined by Alexander Gettler, did the Blue Man's body contain at death?
Alfred E. Smith Jr., son of the governor of NY
In the Frank Travia murder trial, what was the name of the young lawyer representing Frank Travia and what was the attorney's relationship to the governor of New York?
Bismuth
Reinsch's test, an adaptation of the Marsh test, detects arsenic and what other main group element found in Pepto-Bismol?
True
T or F: A primary reason for using white arsenic as a poison is that it is difficult to taste when mixed with food and drink
True
T or F: Carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, binds to hemoglobin more effectively than oxygen and causes death by suffocation
True
T or F: In 1926, citing evidence from a joint government and industrial report, the federal government revoked all bans on the production and sale of "leaded" gasoline.
True
T or F: The "dura" is the tough membrane protecting the human brain
True
T or F: The amount of carbon monoxide in the blood and organs of a human body increases after death
True
T or F: White arsenic is nicknamed "the inheritance powder"
Hg2Cl2
What is the chemical formula of "calomel", a mercury-containing salt?
CO2, gaseous
What is the chemical formula of "dry ice"? What is its physical state?
As2O3
What is the chemical formula of arsenic trioxide, also referred to as white arsenic?
Huckleberry pie
What type of pie did the victim eat that the NYC health commissioner later determined to contain arsenic in its piecrust?
Extortion syndicate, La mena nera, New York
What was the "Black Hand" and what was its name in Italian? Where was it headquartered?
Looney Gas Building
What was the employees' nickname for Standard Oil's tetraethyl lead processing plant?
Samuel Drexler, $1000
What was the name of Shelbourne's owner and how much money did he offer for information leading to the arrest of the killer responsible for the deaths of six of the restaurant's patrons?
Olivia Thomas
What was the name of the actress who won the 1914 "Most Beautiful Girl in NYC" contest and later mistakenly died of mercury poisoning?
Fowler's Solution
What was the name of the low-level arsenic containing tonic taken by Fanny Creighton to create a desirable translucent skin coloring?
Lillian Goetz
What was the name of the stenographer who was poisoned at the Shelbourne Restaurant and Bakery?
Gertie Gorman
What was the nickname of Gertrude Gorman?
Longshoreman, murder
What was the occupation of Francesco "Frank" Travia? Of what crime was Frank Travia guilty?
TEL
What is the industrial shorthand notation for tetraethyl lead, a poisonous and deadly gasoline additive developed at the Standard Oil Refinery in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
slows down decompositions, leaves well-preserved bodies
What is the meaning of "arsenic mummification"?
Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
What two carbon-containing compounds are formed when gasoline is burned in the internal combustion engine?
Sixth avenue and 34th street
What NYC street corner was referred to as "the nadir of quietness" and regarded as the noisiest intersection in Manhattan in 1926?
Pb (lead), C (carbon), H (hydrogen)
What are the chemical symbols of the three elements present in tetraethyl lead?
Silver
What chemical did the Bellevue doctors suspect the Blue Man ingested during his lifetime that would account for his blue color?
Slightly blue
What color do the hands and feet appear in victims of acute arsenic poisoning?
Argyria
What disease caused the color of the famed human oddity, the "Blue Man"?
Carbon monoxide
What gas poisoning caused the death of Anna Frederickson, originally thought to be murdered by Frank Travia?
HgCl2
What is the chemical formula for "bicolored of mercury", also known as "corrosive sublimate"?
HgS, red
What is the chemical formula for cinnabar and what color is it?
