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Episode 232
Name the 1919 court case
that set the precedent that Freedom of Speech is not absolute,
and that speech with a tendency to cause evil may be curbed by
the govt.
Answer:
Shenck VS US
Episode 231
Scientists tend to agree that this involuntary respiratory
reflex regulates the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the
blood?
Answer: Yawn
Episode 230
Name the person who penned this quotation? “Teaching is not a
lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques
Barzun
Episode 229
Name the first American physician to devote her life to the
practice of industrial medicine.
Alice Hamilton, MD
Episode 228
Name the first American physician to devote her life to the
practice of industrial medicine?
Alice Hamilton MD
Episode 227
Name the writer and painter who coined the word robot?
Josef Capek
Episode 226
Standing at over 550 feet tall, name the tallest educational
building in the western hemisphere?
Answer: Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh
Episode 225
Name the Scottish born furniture designer and maker, who
emigrated to America and is acknowledged as one of the leading
19th century makers who is most well known for
incorporating the lyre or harp motif into his furnishings.
Duncan Phyfe
Episode 224
Name
the founder of the IICUC the predecessor of the IICRC / Clean
Trust
Answer: Edgar York
Episode 223
Which chemical or substance, naturally occurring or man made,
can claim to be the most toxic substance known to science
Answer: Botulinum toxin
Episode 222
In terms of common kitchen measurements such as teaspoons,
tablespoons and cups, how much assorted particles such as dust,
pollen , tar, smoke and microorganisms do we inhale daily?
Answer: 2 teaspoons
Episode 221
What drug did Nagai Nagayoshi a
notable Japanese organic chemist and pharmacologist and
synthesize in 1893?
Answer: Synthesis of methamphetamine from ephedrine in 1893
Episode 220
What event in 2005 caused the largest evacuation in U.S. History
and the 3rd largest peacetime evacuation in the world
during modern history?
Answer: Hurricane Rita
Episode 219
What is the name of mycologist Nicholas Mony’s book discussed on
the 2nd episode of IAQradio?
Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores.
Episode 218
Name the mushroom species responsible for the majority of
fatal and/or otherwise serious mushroom poisoning cases
domestically and worldwide?
Death Cap (Amanita
phalloides)
Episode 217
Name the mushroom species
responsible for the majority of fatal and/or otherwise
serious mushroom cases domestically and worldwide?
Episode 216
What mold is used to make blue cheese?
Answer: Penicilium Roqueforti
Episoce 215
Name the dynamic condition in which
the moisture content of wood is neither gaining nor losing
moisture?
Answer: Equilibrium Moisture Content
Episode 214
Name the only insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average
that recently posted its first financial loss in 7 years due to
tornado damage that cost the company more than Hurricane
Katrina?
Travelers
Episode 213
Trivia: Ten inches of snow equals how many inches of rain in
water content.
Answer: 1”
Episode 212
Name the CBS network television game show which ran from
1972-2007 making it the longest running game show in North
American television history?
Answer: the Price is Right
Episode 211
In what year was the
International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
founded?
Answer:
1992
Episode 210
Trivia question: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase
“Sic Semper Tyrannis” found on the State Flag of Virginia?
Answer:“Thus
always to tyrants”
Episode 209
Name one of the world’s
richest investors who is the son of a republican
congressman, made his first stock purchase at age 11, filed
his first tax return at age 14 listing his watch and bicycle
as deductions, owned a chain of pinball machines in
barbershops at age 15 and under the picture in his high
school yearbook wrote “likes math and future stockbroker”.
Answer:
Warren Buffett
Episode 208
Name
the industrial designer and architect who designed the
University of Texas Tower
Answer: Paul Cret
Episode 207
The World Health Organization is one of the original agencies
and is the health arm of what international organization?
Answer: The United Nations
Episode 206
Question: Name both the inventor and his ingenious invention
that detected an earthquake in February of 138 A.D.
Answers: Zhang Heng inventor of “Houfeng Didong Yi” aka “Dragon
Jar”
Episode
205
What percentage of all energy in the U.S., is used to heat,
cool, illuminate and ventilate buildings?
Answer: Between 39%-43%
Episode 204
Name the partially
constructed steel high rise building which caught fire in
August 2007 and defied all known physics when it didn't
collapse
Answer:
Shanghai's World Financial Center
Episode 203
Name the American statistician,
professor, author, lecturer and consultant perhaps best known
for his work in Japan. Where, from 1950 onward, he taught top
management how to improve design, product quality, testing and
sales through various methods including the application of
statistical methods.
Answer: William Edwards Deming
Episode 202
Trivia Question: March 25, 2011 is the 100th
anniversary of the worst industrial accident in NYC name it?
Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Episode 201
Name the substance the chemical symbol for which is Hg that
occurs in several forms, all of which produce toxic effects in
sufficient doses.
Answer: Mercury
Epidose 200
On
what date was Purdue’s football team first called the
“Boiler makers” in a newspaper headline?
Answer: October 26, 1891
Episode 199
Unless an exemption
applies, all pesticides must be registered with the EPA. Any
product that bears a pesticide claim also must be
registered, unless an exemption applies. One such exemption,
applies to products that have been treated with a pesticide
for protection. Name this exemption.
Answer: Treated article exemption
Episode 198
Trivia: This unit of measure of mass is based upon the mass
of a single seed of a cereal. This unit of mass measure is
common to the three traditional English mass and weight systems:
avoirdupois, Apothecaries’ and troy. Name it?
Answer: grains
Episode 197
When and why was
the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation created?
Answer: January 1, 1946, to
house returning war veterans and to lead Canada’s housing
programs.
Episode 196
What are the two meanings of the Latin prefix myco-?
Answer:
Fungus and wax
Episode 195
Where in the
Code of Federal Regulations is guidance regarding bait & switch
advertising found?
16
CFR
PART 238
Episode 194
Name the nonflammable, synthetic dry cleaning solvent
introduced to the market in the 1930s and still the most
common solvent used for this purpose today worldwide.
Answer;
Perchloroethylene
Episode 193
Trivia:In a March 2003 survey taken by
Hospital Doctor magazine, name the physician voted the
“greatest doctor” of all time.
Answer: Dr. John Snow
Episode 192
According to the EPA, what percentage of what Americans throw
away is recyclable?
Answer;
80%
Episode 190 & 191
Which US State’s legislature is unique having a
single-chamber or unicameral legislative body.
Answer: Nebraska
Episode 189 Trivia Question
From what Latin word is the word plumber derived?
Answer: Plumbum
Episode 188 Trivia Question
According to a survey conducted by The National Association
of School Nurses, this chronic condition is more disruptive
to school routines than any other.
Answer:
Asthma
Episode 187 Trivia Question
Name the British Environmental Assessment Method for
Buildings upon which the LEED program was inspired and based
upon.
Answer:
BREEAM
Episode 186 Trivia Question
In which state’s Naugatuck valley was America’s first trade
association founded?
Answer:Connecticut
Episode 185 - Trivia Question
Trade
associations that meet the requirements of this Internal
Revenu8e Code section are exempt from federal income tax as
business leagues. The same provision extends exemption to
chambers of commerce, real estate boards, boards of trade,
and professional football leagues. Name this code section.
501
(c) (6)
Episode 184 - Trivia Question
Name the Unites States federal agency responsible for
conducting research and making recommendations for the
prevention of work-related injury and illness.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Epsisode 183 - Trivia Question
Name the practice of creating and using healthier and more
resource-efficient models of construction, renovation,
operation, maintenance and demolition.
Answer: Green, or sustainable, building
Episode 182 - Trivia Question
Trivia- Name the medical malady of loss
of the sense of smell?
Anosmia
Episode 181 - Trivia Question
Insurance companies have a
duty
to deal with their policyholders fairly. When that doesn't
happen, policyholders can sue their insurance companies for not
acting reasonably.
Lawsuits for these types of cases are notable for resulting in
very large awards of punitive damages. Name the legal grounds
upon which these types of lawsuits are based.
Bad Faith
Episode 180 - Trivia Question
Name the profession which uses strict and rigorous
scientific methodology and often requires professional
experience in determining the potential for hazard, exposures or
risk in workplace and environmental studies.
occupational hygiene
Episode 179 - Trivia Question
Name the person credited with pioneering the
psychrometric chart in 1904.
Willis Carrier
Episode 178 - Trivia Question
Name the author, pamphleteer,
radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary and one of
the founding fathers of the United States who has been
called a “corset maker by trade”, a journalist by
profession, and a protagonist by inclination.
Episode 177 - Trivia Question
Name the
prolific 19th-century American author, many of who’s
literary works have been described as rags to riches stories,
illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the
American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage,
determination, and concern for others.
Horatio Alger
Episode 176 - Trivia Question
Name the
substances a protein (or protein based molecule) that speeds up
a chemical reaction in a living organism. These substances act
as catalyst for specific chemical reactions, converting a
specific set of reactants called substrates into specific
products. Without these substances, life as we know it would not
exist.
Enzymes
Episode 175 - Trivia Question
Care Label Symbols are required by
law for your information to help you make informed garment and
furniture decisions. Which federal agency requires manufacturers
to attach a permanent label on textiles that provides directions
for their care?
FTC
Episode 174 - Trivia Question
Name the Farmers Insurance Policyholder who received $32
million dollar jury award in Travis County Texas over water
leaks in her home.
Melinda Ballard
Episode 173 - Trivia Question
Name the two fungi responsible for the
most prevalent fungal infections in hospitals. (Candida and
Aspergillus)
Episode 172 - Trivia Question
Name the scientist who
in 1801 discovered ultraviolet light?
Name the physicist and
inventor who is best known for giving birth to the “black light
effect”?
Posted on July 7th, 2010
Episode 171 - Trivia Question
There are two homes in Western Pennsylvania designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright name them?
Answered by: Andrew Krowsoski
answer: Fallingwater and Kentucky Knob
Posted on June 19th, 2010
Episode 170 - Trivia Question
Who was Charles Joseph Whitman and what event was he infamous
for?
Answer: John Lapotaire answered: The shooter in The University
of Texas at Austin Shooting
Posted on June 12th, 2010
Episode 169 - Trivia Question
According to the US Army Corps of Engineers,
on what date did the Cumberland River in Nashville, TN reach 56.2 at
the Nashville gauge; the highest recorded flood in the city?
Answer: John Lapotaire answered: January 1,
1927
Posted on June 5th, 2010
Episode 168 - Trivia Question
In 1824 the US Congress created an agency within the Treasury
Department to establish and promote the consistent use of uniform
weights and measures. Name the agency?
Posted on May 24, 2010
Episode 167 - Trivia Question
In what city was the first Carnegie Library built?
What city is home to the first Carnegie Library built in the US?
Answers: Dunfermline, Scotland and Carnegie, Pennsylvania
(respectively)
Answered by: Andrew Krowsoski of Concast Metal Products Company
Bonus Question:
What amendment to
the Occupational Safety and Health Act referenced the FAA?
Posted on May 15, 2010
Episode 166 - Trivia Question
In 1979, an accidental leak from a laboratory in the former USSR is
believed to have been the cause of hundreds of civilian deaths.
Name the substance that leaked.
Posted on May 8, 2010
Episode 165 - Trivia Question
Who was the architect of the White House?
Answer: James Hoban
Answered by Andy Krowsoski of Concast Metal Products Company
Posted on May 8, 2010
Episode 164 - Trivia Question
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was one of the most honored generals of
the American Civil War, the Confederate general died as a casualty
of the war. What was the manner and cause of his death?
Posted on April 24, 2010
Episode 163 - Trivia Question
The members of this phylum, include all the
fungi with gills or pores, including the familiar mushrooms and
bracket fungi. Name it?
Posted on April 17, 2010
Episode 162 - Trivia Question
The
subject is the
field of medicine.
The administration of antigenic material to produce immunity to a
disease. What is it?
Answer:
Vaccination
Answered by
Cassidy Kuchenbecker
Episode 161 - Trivia Question
Subject was smart women.
Name the actress, mathematician, author and education advocate
best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show
The Wonder Years and now as author of the two NY Times
bestsellers Math Doesn’t Suck and Kiss My Math which encourage
middle-school girls to learn math.
Name the actress who received a US patent for a
frequency-hopping device designed to guide radio-controlled
torpedoes while making them more difficult to detect in water.
Posted on March 27, 2010
Episode 160 - Trivia Question
Canada is a
country proud and passionate about it's sports athletes. Name
the recipient that was named athlete of the decade by TSN, The
Sports Network in 1990.
Posted on
March 20, 2010
Episode 159 - Trivia Question
Name the north American international airport, that played an
integral role in world aviation in the immediate hours following the
September 11, 2001 attacks when due to the closure of North
America’s airspace 39 transatlantic flights bound for the US were
ordered to land there.
Posted on:
March 13, 2010
Answer:
Gander
Answered by
"The Answer Man" Paul Haas
Episode 158 - Trivia Question
Name the firm widely credited with introducing the forced air
furnace in 1935?
Posted on:
March 13, 2010
Episode 157 - Trivia Question
Name the allergist who in the 1940s developed the underlying concept
that people could become ill from exposures to substances at doses
far below the levels normally considered safe.
Theron G. Randolph, MD
Posted on:
February 27, 2010
Episode 156 - Trivia Question
Which type of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape?
Posted on:
February 20, 2010
Episode 152 - Trivia Question
Name
the scientific device that can measure lead levels in dust and
provide immediate results.
Posted on: January 22, 2010
Episode 151 - Trivia Question
How many
tablespoons of assorted particles do you think people breathe in
every day?
Posted on:
January 15, 2010
Episode 149 - Trivia Question
Name the
individual credited with making the following statement in the
American Journal of Diseases in Children in 1974:
“Until effective standards for the domestic environment are devised,
it is likely that children will continue to be employed as
biological indicators of substandard housing.”
Posted
on: December 12th, 2009
Episode 148 - Trivia Question
According to
an “Introduction to Indoor Air Quality” on the EPA’s website What
Causes Indoor Air Quality Problems (in homes)?
Posted on:
December 5th, 2009
Episode 147 - Trivia Question
The
following passage is known as what?
“Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and
a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that
are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to
his employees?
Posted on: November 28th, 2009
Episode 146 - Trivia Question
What is the
ACGIH Threshold Limit Value for fluoride primarily intended to guard
against?
Posted on:
November 14th, 2009
Episode 145 - Trivia Question
What are the four shades of green in green building?
Posted on:
November 7th, 2009
Episode 144 - Trivia Question
In 1724 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit developed the temperature scale
used in the U.S.
and a few other countries today.
The scale in widest use throughout the world was invented in
1742 and is also named for its developer, what is his name?
Posted on:
October 31st, 2009
Episode 143 - Trivia Question
A human cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at
speeds up to 60 miles per hour. What is the speed of a sneeze?
Posted on:
October 24th, 2009
Episode 142 - Trivia Question
Name the drug, food additive, or other chemical that
interacts with another substance so that their combined
effect (known as synergy) is more than the sum of their
separate parts.
Posted on: October 17th, 2009
Episode 136 - Trivia Question
The
source for today’s Microban trivia question was Mosby’s
Medical Dictionary. We are looking for a mystery word. The
definition of the word includes “poison produced by and
derived from plants and animals. Examples of our mystery
word include abrin and ricin from beans and strychnine from
an evergreen tree.
Name the mystery word.
Posted on: August 17th, 2009
Episode 135 - Trivia Question
Name both the person and country of origin for the founder
of the Giordano clothing brand.
Posted on: August 3rd, 2009
Episode 134 - Trivia Question
The
Antoine equation is a vapor pressure equation and describes
the relation of the saturated vapor pressure and the
temperature for pure components. Name the relation from
which the Antoine equation is derived?
Posted on: July 27th, 2009
Episode 133 - Trivia Question
Name the 5 ways in which bacteria can be classified.
Posted on: July 20th, 2009
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colorless and highly toxic. At lower levels of exposure, the
substance causes mild effects that are [...]
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