yes!
Fell into the soup, but didn’t drown. How did he die?
Was it a sufficiently large pot of soup that the fall killed him?
Did he fall into a vat of soup at the Campbell’s Soup factory (or whatever brand) and get scalded to death?
Was he crushed by the mechanical mixer?
extra words
Did he die of embarrassment?
LOL! Nope.
I thought there was a “No” answer to death being due to burns or drowning, is that correct? If so, was it inhalation pneumonia?
I thought there was a “No” answer to death being due to burns or drowning, is that correct? If so, was it inhalation pneumonia?
No.
I guess the uppermost answer is correct enough. Yes he was burned badly, but did not die immediately. He lived for five days longer, but died as a result of his injuries.
He was cooking chicken soup for a massive amount of people, and accidently fell into his vat of soup. He was burned over 70% of his body.
Number 4 at the link.
(This is my first puzzle like this, I hope I did ok?)
Stan was a construction engineer and one day, he rather surprisingly set off an alarm at work. By doing so, it could be said that he saved many thousands of lives. How?
Was it a wired alarm system? Fire alarm? Smoke alarm? Carbon monoxide? Burglar?
Were the saved lives human? Were they ants? Bees?
Words.
You did - but now you can’t use any more from that list !
Was the situation one where, by design, that particular alarm should have been triggered?
Did he set off the alarm through a direct control meant to trigger that alarm (like pulling the handle on a fire alarm)?
Did he create a situation that caused a sensor to trigger an alarm (like smoking under a smoke detector)?
Did the alarm cause people to evacuate the premises?
Was the alarm audible?
Was the alarm visible?
Was the place where this happened a building in the process of being built from scratch?
Was it a building where an addition was being constructed, while the rest of the building was still in use?
Was it a building that was in the process of being renovated to a sufficient degree that it couldn’t be put to its usual use?
Were most/all of the lives he saved people in the place that the alarm was meant to cover?
Good questions.
True.
OK, then… Did he cause a malfunction that triggered the alarm?
The situation that would have caused the deaths of the people, had he not saved them… Was the alarm intended to warn of that potentially-deadly situation?
Would the people have died due to burns?
Would the people have died due to radiation?
Would they have died due to explosion?
Would they have died due to something intended as a weapon?
Would they have died due to falling debris?
Would they have died due to a toxin?
Would they have died due to asphyxiation?
Would they have died due to hunger or thirst?
Was there some sort of natural disaster?
So radiation is a part of this, but you might want to ask quite a bit more for this mystery to be made clearer.
Hm…
Would the radiation have been due to heavy metals (such as uranium, plutonium, or radium)?
Would it be due to natural sources?
Was a nuclear power plant involved?
Was a research facility of some sort involved?
Was radiation medicine involved?
Was a particle accelerator involved?
Was the radiation used for detecting, imaging, etc. something?
Was coal ash involved?
Is it relevant what kind of radiation it was (electromagnetic, alpha, beta, neutron, exotic particles)? If so, which?