So many choices. Do I do my traditional Wednesday current events round, or since it’s episode 42 do I do Hitchhiker’s, or do I look at the calendar and do Valentine’s Day? I choose door three, since as you know, there is nothing I care about more than romantic love.
- On February 14, 1989 what company agreed to pay the Indian government $470 million in compensation for a 1984 gas leak that killed at least 3787 people in Bhopal and injured more than half a million more?
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a sudden temporary weakening of the muscular portion of the heart thought to be triggered by emotional stress, is commonly known by what three word name?
- Gilles de Rais, the likely inspiration for what colorful French folk villain, did not actually murder any wives, just dozens of children?
- The phenomenon whereby an animal (typically male) shows renewed sexual interest when presented a new potential mate is named for which US President?
- Everybody has their thing. Trichophiles like hair. Dendrophiles like trees. What do emetophiles like?
Answers
- Union Carbide
- broken heart syndrome
- Bluebeard
- Calvin Coolidge
- vomit