Friday 8th September 2023
    Difficulty: Very easy

    Dangerous toys (Quiz #294)

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    You'd think that toys sold to children would be safe - some of them are anything but.

    1. According to research published by the British Medical Journal in 2022, 50% of children under 14 admitted to A&E departments have been injured while playing with...what?

    2. Toy miniature crossbows were banned in China, where they were manufactured, in 2017. What did the crossbows shoot (with enough force to pierce drink cans from up to 60 feet away)? 

    3. In 1947, in the USA, General Mills' KiX cereal brand offered the "Atomic Bomb" Ring in exchange for 15 cents plus a cereal box top. The ring included a spinthariscope, which enabled children to see the emissions from a sample of radioactive material inside the ring as small flashes of light. The radioactive material used in the ring was around 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide, and was used in 2006 to murder the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. What was it?

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