Potent Poisons

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Potent Poisons Quiz

Test your knowledge about some of the most dangerous substances found in nature! This quiz covers a range of topics related to poisonous plants, historical poisonings, and more.

Join us and discover:

The toxic elements hidden in common foods
The history of poison in our diet
Interesting facts about plants and their effects

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by AnxiousScribe457

Apple seeds and peach pits are for notorious for containing which poisonous substance?

Arsenic

Cyanide

Unknown crystalline alkaloids

Vitamin C

The crystalline alkaloids in taro plants are rendered harmless through which process?

Cooking

Leaching

Aging and drying

Digestion

Arsenic poisoning has similar symptoms to and was historically confused with which illness?

Common cold

Influenza

Malaria

Death

Why will Jessica not be using arsenic poisoning in her novels?

It works too slowly

It works too quickly

It's almost never fatal

It causes explosive diarrhea

Which of these plants are poisonous in some cases and edible in others?

Fava beans

Celery

Rhubarb

All of the above

Which food was considered poisonous and not eaten in the Middle Ages?

Tomatoes

Wheat

Coffee

Chocolate

Eating apple seeds has caused deaths. True or False?

True. There are documented cases of death from eating the seeds from an apple.

True, but death is rare because you have to eat so many.

False. There are no documented cases of poisonings from apple seeds.

False. There was only ever one case of poisoning from apple seeds and the person only got sick because they ate a cup of apple seeds to prove a point.

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