Question
Identify the following about London's International Health Exhibition of 1884, for 10 points each.
[10h] One of the "insanitary" buildings showed wallpaper colored with Scheele's Green, which contains this chemical. James Marsh developed a test for this chemical used in Victorian police investigations.
ANSWER: arsenic [accept arsenic poison or copper arsenite or acidic copper arsenite; prompt on poison]
[10e] The flush toilets in the sanitary exhibitions helped prevent this disease. John Snow identified a pump on Broad Street as the source of transmission of an outbreak of this disease, which causes watery diarrhea.
ANSWER: cholera
[10m] This magazine mocked the entire "Insane-itary" exhibition. This magazine with a one-word title, co-founded by Henry Mayhew, employed cartoonists such as John Tenniel.
ANSWER: Punch
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Data
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 38 | 20.00 | 103% | 34% | 63% |