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What was invented by Caleb Radham in 1903 to prevent dyspepsia? The answer to that

at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is

Lateral. Welcome to our 16th heat in the Weird World Quiz Championships. The winner goes on to

the quarterfinals in Melbourne next month, with no expenses paid. Joining us, we have for the second time, Devonstone from Legal Eagle.

Hello, happy to be here.

I thought Alex Horn was going to come out and give us various tasks to complete.

I may be on the wrong show.

For trademark reasons, absolutely not.

Also joining us, Simone Yetch.

Hi.

I still don't know how to introduce you. Inventor, maker, what's the right? Inventor, breaker of things, mender of things. I run a YouTube channel about things I build in. I used to be known as the Queen of Shit Robots. And we're still going to have to bleep that. Yeah. Go ahead. As long as you don't call me the queen of silly robots. I'd rather take a bleep than silly. And finally, from Huge If True, among many other things, and from making a fusion reactor with Simone, Cleo Abram. Hey, everybody. How are you doing? Doing great. Excited to be back. Round two. Let's go. Thank you very much to all of you for joining us. If you've heard the show before at home, you'll know these are nuanced questions, devised so they can be interpreted on a number of levels. And we call those levels question, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and finally answer. So good luck to all of you. We start with.

This question has been sent in by one of our listeners, so thank you to Southak Chandra.

Complete the title of this slate article from 2010. The Big Red Word versus the Little Green Man,

the International War over what? I'll give you that one more time. Complete the title of this Slate article from 2010.

The Big Red Word versus the Little Green Man,

the International War Over What?

Conspiracy theories?

Um... Oh, hold on, Devin.

If you think you've got this right away and you look like you have, hold on.

If you want to take a gamble on this and sit out and say, you know what, I think I've got this immediately, that's your call.

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