radium - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

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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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	88%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	50%	83%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford B	10	10	20
McMaster A	McGill B	10	10	20
McGill A	McMaster B	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Simon Fraser	0	0	0
Toronto B	Toronto G	10	10	20
Toronto C	Waterloo A	10	10	20
Carleton University	Toronto E	10	10	20
Toronto F	Western C	10	0	10
UBC A	Guelph	10	10	20
Toronto D	UBC B	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Western A	10	10	20
Michigan State	Michigan A	10	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU A	10	10	20
Ohio State A	CWRU B	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	10	10	20
Ohio State C	Michigan C	10	10	20
North Carolina C	Duke	10	10	20
North Carolina A	VCU	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Liberty C	10	10	20
NC State A	South Carolina B	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Virginia	10	10	20
Wake Forest	James Madison A	10	10	20
William and Mary	Liberty B	10	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago B	10	10	20
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	10	20
Indiana C	Chicago D	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Chicago E	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Indiana B	10	10	20
Purdue A	Northwestern D	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	10	20
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida C	0	10	10
Florida B	Central Florida B	10	10	20
Florida C	Florida A	10	10	20
Carleton College	Claremont	10	10	20
Missouri B	Minnesota A	10	10	20
Washington A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20
Missouri A	Washington B	10	10	20
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	10	10	20
Texas B	Texas A	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	20
Bruin	Georgia Tech B	10	10	20
WashU A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	20
Louisville A	Tennessee B	10	10	20
Mississipi State	WashU B	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Kentucky	0	10	10
Alabama B	Vanderbilt B	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge A	10	10	20
Cardiff	Warwick A	10	0	10
Southampton B	Montpellier	10	0	10
Southampton A	Oxford C	0	10	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	0	10
Georgetown	Catholic	10	10	20
Columbia A	NYU A	10	10	20
Columbia B	Swarthmore	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Columbia C	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	John Jay	10	10	20
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	20
Maryland C	Vassar	10	10	20
Penn State	Cornell A	10	10	20
Cornell B	Binghamton A	10	10	20
RIT	Cornell C	10	10	20
Rochester	Binghamton B	10	10	20
Brown	Bowdoin A	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	10	10	20
Brandeis B	Dartmouth B	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	MIT	10	10	20
Harvard A	Yale	10	10	20