Packet B: Bonus 7

Cecil and Katherine Drinker conducted a qualitative study interviewing workers at factories that produced this metal. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this metal that was produced at a factory opened by Sabin Von Sochocky that employed Nobel winner Victor Francis Hess. Grace Fryer was among this metal’s namesake “Girls” who contracted poisoning from paint.
ANSWER: radium [accept Radium Girls; accept the United States Radium Corporation]
[10e] The first “Radium Girls” incident took place at the United States Radium Corporation factory in this mid-Atlantic state’s city of Orange. The Hindenburg disaster occurred 20 years later in this Northeast state.
ANSWER: New Jersey [or NJ]
[10h] In the aftermath of the “Radium Girls” lawsuit, this agency established the tolerance level of radium to 0.1 microcuries to enforce occupational safety. This agency created the SEAC computer and the Bat glide bomb.
ANSWER: National Bureau of Standards [or NBS; accept NIST or National Institute of Standards and Technology]
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7418.1191%91%0%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Alabama BVanderbilt B1010020ME
Berkeley BStanford A1010020ME
Berkeley CBerkeley A1010020ME
Berkeley DStanford B1010020ME
Brandeis ABowdoin B1010020ME
Brandeis BDartmouth B1010020ME
BrownBowdoin A0000
BruinGeorgia Tech B1010020ME
CardiffWarwick A100010M
Carleton CollegeClaremont1010020ME
Carleton UniversityToronto E1010020ME
Central Florida ACentral Florida C010010E
Chicago ANotre Dame A1010020ME
Chicago CIndiana A1010020ME
Columbia ANYU A1010020ME
Columbia BSwarthmore1010020ME
Cornell BBinghamton A1010020ME
Dartmouth AMIT1010020ME
Edinburgh ABirmingham1010020ME
Florida BCentral Florida B1010020ME
Florida CFlorida A1010020ME
GeorgetownCatholic1010020ME
Georgia Tech DAlabama A1010020ME
Harvard AYale1010020ME
Illinois BChicago B1010020ME
Illinois CNotre Dame B1010020ME
Imperial BWarwick B100010M
Indiana CChicago D100010M
Johns Hopkins AJohn Jay1010020ME
Louisville ATennessee B1010020ME
ManchesterCambridge A1010020ME
Maryland BMaryland A010010E
Maryland CVassar1010020ME
McGill AMcMaster B010010E
McMaster AMcGill B1010020ME
Michigan BCWRU A1010020ME
Michigan StateMichigan A1010020ME
Mississipi StateWashU B1010020ME
Missouri AWashington B1010020ME
Missouri BMinnesota A1010020ME
Murray State ATexas A&M A1010020ME
NC State ASouth Carolina B1010020ME
North Carolina AVCU1010020ME
North Carolina BLiberty C1010020ME
North Carolina CDuke1010020ME
Northwestern BChicago E1010020ME
Northwestern CIndiana B1010020ME
Ohio State ACWRU B1010020ME
Ohio State BPittsburgh1010020ME
Ohio State CMichigan C1010020ME
Penn StateCornell A1010020ME
Purdue ANorthwestern D1010020ME
RITCornell C1010020ME
RochesterBinghamton B1010020ME
Rutgers AColumbia C1010020ME
Rutgers BJohns Hopkins B1010020ME
South Carolina AVirginia1010020ME
Southampton AOxford C010010E
Southampton BMontpellier100010M
Tennessee AKentucky010010E
Texas BTexas A1010020ME
Toronto BToronto G1010020ME
Toronto CWaterloo A1010020ME
Toronto DUBC B1010020ME
Toronto FWestern C100010M
Toronto MetropolitanSimon Fraser0000
UBC AGuelph1010020ME
Virginia Tech AJames Madison B1010020ME
Virginia Tech BNC State B1010020ME
Wake ForestJames Madison A1010020ME
WashU AGeorgia Tech C1010020ME
Washington AGeorgia Tech A1010020ME
Waterloo BWestern A1010020ME
William and MaryLiberty B1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
California (North)Main Site✓320.00100%100%0%
CanadaMain Site✓1016.0080%80%0%
FloridaMain Site✓316.67100%67%0%
Great LakesMain Site✓520.00100%100%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓920.00100%100%0%
MidwestMain Site✓818.7588%100%0%
NortheastMain Site✓516.0080%80%0%
OverflowMain Site✓420.00100%100%0%
South CentralMain Site✓220.00100%100%0%
SoutheastMain Site✓718.57100%86%0%
UKMain Site✓613.3350%83%0%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓818.75100%88%0%
Upstate NYMain Site✓420.00100%100%0%