HomeQuizRadium Girls Quiz
local_fire_department 1/7
schedule 0:00

1. Which pair of scientists discovered radium?

2. Radium became known as a miracle element in the early 20th century because of its use in treatment of what ailment?

3. What nickname was given to the women who painted radium on watch dials and other commercial products?

4. Who was one of the first women to develop physical symptoms from working with radium?

5. Which pathologist developed a test that proved conclusively that radium had poisoned the watch painters by destroying their bodies from the inside?

6. Which attorney represented the women who were being poisoned by radium because of their factory work?

7. Whose lawsuit finally stopped the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. from continuing to hire more women to work in dangerous conditions with radium?