In the opening scenes of the movie Raiders of The Lost Ark, Indian Jones tries to remove a gold idol from a Booby-trapped pedestal. He replaces the idol with a bag of sand of approximatly equal volume (Density of Gold= 19.32g/cm3; Density of sand ~2g/cm3
A. Did he have a reasonable chance of not activating the mass sensative booby-trap?
B. In a later scene he and an unscrupulous guide play catch with the idol. assume the volume of the idol is about 1.0L. If it were solid gold, what mass would the idol have? Is playing catch with it plausible?