Shoeless Trivia: Episode 42 (Valentine’s Day)

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.

  1. 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?
  2. 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?
  3. Gilles de Rais, the likely inspiration for what colorful French folk villain, did not actually murder any wives, just dozens of children?
  4. The phenomenon whereby an animal (typically male) shows renewed sexual interest when presented a new potential mate is named for which US President?
  5. Everybody has their thing. Trichophiles like hair. Dendrophiles like trees. What do emetophiles like?
Answers

  1. Union Carbide
  2. broken heart syndrome
  3. Bluebeard
  4. Calvin Coolidge
  5. vomit

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