Quiz.

[Captain Nemesis]

Donna Summer.

Or is that another thread?

 

[Justin Passing]

OK,
Which two widely used but highly damaging products were invented by the same man?

 

[JohnD]

Thomas Midgley

Leaded petrol was the first, caused brain and nervous system damage leading to death of workers, and personality change to millions of babies and children especially, resulting in increased crime and violence in adulthood. Some rightwing people tried to blame liberal parenting for the rise in crime, and to credit zero tolerance policing for its decline, 20 years after the banning of leaded petrol stopped damaging babies brains, when those babies reached adulthood. The motor and oil industries and the politicians they paid, resisted the banning of leaded petrol for many years and are therefore responsible for the ruining of many lives, and untold crimes and murders.

Midgley cannot be blamed for his original invention, but he must certainly be blamed for suppressing and falsifying the evidence that would have shown its hideous results.

I think the second was fluorocarbons leading to climate change.

 

[securespark]

Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

OK,
Which two widely used but highly damaging products were invented by the same man?

Dynamite.

Gelignite.

Alfred Nobel.

 

[Justin Passing]

Midgley it was. Lead in petrol and Freon (CFC) in everybody's fridge and freezer for a long time. Clever guy, in his day.

Over to you JohnD

 

[JohnD]

After World War 2, what was the name of the British Foreign Secretary, who with representatives of the other victorious allies, and France, signed the Final Settlement Treaty with respect to Germany?

 

[Mottie]

Atlee?

 

[JohnD]

nope

 

[Bodd]

nope

Go on John... your go

 

[transam]

Bevan ? ( Ernie)

 

[charliegolf]

Eden?

 

[JohnD]

no, no.

 

[crystal ball]

I think there is a twist to this question, but I will not spoil it

 

[Charlie George]

John Major?