Potent Poisons
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
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 is NOT considered a poison?
Methomyl
Atropine
Cotinus coggygria
Hydrogen Cyanide
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.
Which poison is NOT derived from plants?
Cyanide
Arsenic
Atropine
Ricin
Ricin is derived from where?
Castor beans
Fava beans
It lives in the soil
Heavy metals
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