# Episode 021 - Murder, Columbus & Santa Claus ft. Sai Suresh

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 25 May 2023, 54 min.

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Do you know which author's first murder mystery novel is believed to have been inspired by a real life murder at a hotel in Mussoorie? Do you know which country lost its entire navy, the largest on the continent, overnight in 1993? Do you know the funda behind the Canadian zip code HOHOHO?? It's a very special episode with a very special guest appearance by quiz master Sai Suresh!! Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to. Are you quizzing me?
[0:03] I'm an admirer with my co-host on the deck of a ship.
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[0:19] Now, the day another episode, Another special episode with our
[0:23] guest PSI, all the way from the US as well.
[0:30] Before, we start off with the things we have to tolerate at
[0:34] this question. What do we have to tolerate
[0:37] today at it yet? I asked you which event because
[0:41] I as is a wonderful sports related question about walk over
[0:44] and the origin of the word. So I asked you which putting
[0:47] event would never have a walk over and the obvious answer is
[0:51] swimming. And you can't walk over and
[0:55] Firming, but except for one caveat.
[0:58] And of course, if you are from Bethlehem and competing in the
[1:04] first 80 Olympics, that the only time that you perhaps have any
[1:08] chance of walking over. And I am not a lie at this point
[1:14] inviting the, the wrath of people, I'm inviting the wrath
[1:18] of God. Hey, these jokes Studs created a
[1:24] podcast can't record visual reactions because produces you
[1:30] not looking at us recording this.
[1:33] I had both. I have my hands on a literal
[1:37] face pienty of a risk as answer, and we need to ice probably
[1:42] rolled as far back as humanly possible, I would say exhaust
[1:49] rolling back. That is, that is the Truly
[1:57] terrible, I don't know what you want to call it.
[1:59] I wouldn't even classify it as upon.
[2:01] What would I do? What would you classify this?
[2:04] As it's not the Pun, It's pain, its pain is it is but it's just
[2:11] but you have to give props for the guy who came up with it on
[2:14] the spot. It was clearly not pre-planned
[2:17] for letting me spend. None of these questions are
[2:22] planned when he Especially this is the crazy part of it.
[2:25] Whenever you ask these questions he has no idea what the answer
[2:28] is going to be. And then before every episode, I
[2:33] have to wait for 5 minutes until he tenderly like comes up with
[2:37] something, but he just comes up with the.
[2:40] It's just amazing how he does it effectively in Sunday because I
[2:46] was genuinely trying to think when I was a kid, I asked the
[2:49] question at the end of the last episode when sometime between
[2:53] The recordings thinking about maybe it's a individual sport
[2:56] where the concept of walkover is non-existent and I was racking
[3:00] my brains to figure out what if a company is it like Endurance
[3:04] Sports? Where it's an individual getting
[3:07] yourself but who knew the answer was right there.
[3:15] I have my mind had actually gone to Copper T.
[3:17] I thought he would go to capacity because you can't just
[3:20] walk over. You have to, you know, run over,
[3:21] you get caught your corner. This.
[3:23] How you? Yeah.
[3:28] Let's start the third degree smile.
[3:31] Well on that, I mean, like, finding logic in some of our
[3:34] previous questions is futile exercise.
[3:37] So let's start off today's episodes with a high.
[3:44] It is. Yeah, so I wanted to jump into
[3:47] this right where we left off. I think we just moved over from
[3:51] Sports in the film. So I wanted to start by asking a
[3:55] couple of questions in film category.
[3:59] Particularly a quirk about film releases that I'm always a big
[4:03] fan of one example is, I love when a film releases on an
[4:09] appropriate date to give you an example, jump into the first
[4:13] question, which movie was screened privately or President
[4:18] Clinton on 1st of July and then released Nationwide the next
[4:22] day. That one of the tag lines for
[4:26] the movie was don't make plans for office.
[4:29] And this is a brilliant campaign that was attributed as the
[4:32] reason for its box office. So my first guess would be
[4:38] dependence day. Exactly.
[4:40] So, Independence Day is that on Fourth of July and the events of
[4:46] the movie are set on between July, 2nd of July 4th, where the
[4:50] Alien Invasion happened. And they release the movie on
[4:53] July 2nd with the tagline. Do make plans progress
[4:57] contributed to a pretty roaring success at the box of.
[5:00] Oh yeah, I remember independently was all the rage.
[5:03] When it came, everybody will anybody who's going to be
[5:07] watching it in theaters in watching the White House explode
[5:10] posed? Exactly.
[5:11] Because We need, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
[5:14] I was if you remember watching it in taters it's a pretty
[5:18] terrible movie in a vacuum but tastic marketing and an app
[5:24] release date similar to how 2012 captured.
[5:27] All are, you know, like our worst fears back.
[5:32] Then, when the Mayan calendar is expiring, they released in the
[5:36] believe late, 2011 saying that when he died?
[5:39] Yeah, I will tell you exactly. 2010 2010.
[5:45] Yeah, little gives us time to prepare for the apocalypse so
[5:49] you know because I remember what I
[6:03] remember is I was waiting for my finally girl invidious exam
[6:08] results which had gone you know it could have gone either way.
[6:13] And the results were supposed to come in the afternoon.
[6:16] I just left for 22 theater, turned off mobile phone and the
[6:20] only movie I had to watch Miss pretty 12 and I remember
[6:23] Watching This Disaster Movie and coming out on a lake.
[6:26] Okay, things can't get that bad and turned on my phone, I had a
[6:30] message from a friend saying you passed your fine.
[6:33] Awesome. So I think that was a nice place
[6:35] to just start us like moving towards the idea of policing.
[6:43] Create a div appropriate times. My next question before we move
[6:48] on is in a similar. Vein of thought.
[6:50] Occasionally there are going to be two films with similar flaws.
[6:55] That are that could be released at the same time by two
[6:58] different film studios on a topical issue.
[7:01] Particularly terrible example, was when two movies came out as
[7:06] Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down to movies about the
[7:09] president being killed, and so on so forth, till he's back and
[7:12] forth. So that is a particularly bad
[7:15] example but let's focus on this particular instance where
[7:19] there's a film directed by Ridley Scott, with the subtitle
[7:24] conquest of paradise, this was released within two months of a
[7:29] Mario, Puzo written claw, which was subtitled the discovery.
[7:34] So these are two massive big hitting directors releasing two
[7:39] movies with a similar theme within two months of each other
[7:44] Both of these films were released in which year is my
[7:48] question to the two of you, which nerve, yes, you gotta
[7:53] figure out which movies they are.
[7:54] First that would kind of what are the what are the sub time?
[7:58] What are the subtitle is the taglines for this movie's
[8:01] release courts subtitle, was conquest of paradise.
[8:06] Mario, Puzo, subtitle was the discovery this every eat.
[8:13] He didn't direct it right. It must have.
[8:15] He must return for the movie? Yeah, Mario Puzo, written claw.
[8:19] Usually the first ones ever comes the Godfather, but it's
[8:21] not the Godfather and year with the tag called every conquest of
[8:26] paradise. The only other, at least the
[8:30] most famous example, I know, for similarly themed movie coming
[8:33] out and this has happened. A few times is and send Bug's
[8:37] Life. But I'd is that the case in this
[8:41] scenario that I don't think either of them is, I would love
[8:47] to see Mario, Puzo, writing the Bug's Life, he's watching of an
[8:52] offer that but can't refuse would be fascinating to see what
[8:57] happens. But that was also, I think post
[9:00] Toy Story. So should be 96 97 inch.
[9:04] We're looking again, plugging another podcast.
[9:09] Business law says, is amazing episode for Pixar and
[9:12] DreamWorks, which talks about the very same interests.
[9:17] I do have a clue that I can give it once, please please.
[9:21] Okay, I'll go for the glue them in Ridley.
[9:25] Scott's movie, Gerard Depardieu, the actor, he plays the
[9:30] character who was born in Genoa, Pull now lends his name to a US
[9:35] public holiday of under this. This is this is the Columbus.
[9:42] He's playing Christopher Columbus.
[9:43] The movie is. So is it 1942 denied even team
[9:51] will be released in 1992? Release is the segmented?
[9:56] Or yes, the name of the movie is Christopher Columbus, the
[10:04] discovery. Oh, great crack.
[10:07] So that's the thing. I feel like as soon as we get
[10:11] Columbus, we're able to then connect it to a fact that you
[10:14] probably learned in middle school.
[10:16] All we know is 1492, Columbus, left and discover the new, the
[10:21] new, the new world. I think I ask a question next.
[10:32] Okay, this is something. I let me just clarify that I
[10:34] have not been able to completely fact check this, but I'm fairly
[10:38] sure of the details because I did read it from some reputable
[10:42] quizzing sources, right? So let me put it this way.
[10:45] So the Savoy is a hotel in Missouri which was built by the
[10:50] British in 1911, one of the guests was found mysteriously
[10:55] Dead with the autopsy revealing that they have been poisoned
[11:01] with pressure. Cassatt cyanide-laced the murder
[11:05] was unsolved and the doctor also found a few months later that
[11:12] the doctor was also found dead. A few months later from
[11:15] strychnine poisoning. This came to the notice of a
[11:18] veteran, English writer, if ex who wrote to another writer, why
[11:25] Suggesting that why should write a story about a murder By
[11:28] suggestion to why did not write anything about it?
[11:32] Never visited to investigate. He mentioned the story to
[11:35] another writer date and this story inspired, Reds.
[11:43] First, major novel, if you can just try and crack out by
[11:49] energy. So let me just put you in the
[11:51] timeline. I'll just give you the
[11:54] pertinent. The inciting incident is a
[11:58] murder that happened in a hotel. In, Missouri, in India timeline
[12:02] is 1911 a veteran author, who's quite invested in India X writes
[12:10] about it to another author. Why suggesting that he write a
[12:15] novel about this? About a mystery by suggestion of
[12:19] Murder By suggestion? Why even though he has a
[12:22] written, a lot of these kind of novels decide, Not a right about
[12:25] it but mentions it to their and Z ends up writing their first
[12:32] major novel, which practically uses the same plot, a lot of
[12:36] this out details of this. So try and crack out X, y&z the
[12:42] timeline. And you saying invested in
[12:45] India? I guess for X is either, they
[12:49] are typically not a skit Bond, but don't you need to follow up
[12:52] on that? I'm just talking about my train
[12:54] of thought. My guess would be one of those
[12:56] two and I know that the previous podcast you specifically called
[13:00] out the mistake of making assumptions.
[13:03] But you won't your question. You refer to author X and Y by
[13:11] the pronouns. He but you specifically said
[13:14] therefore Z. So I'm guessing Z is a female
[13:17] author. So my guests for Z10 first, get
[13:20] sposi as you know, detective thing is going to be timeline
[13:23] Agatha Christie But that is again based on a huge assumption
[13:27] that I don't have any clue whether x 0 Y is it deploying of
[13:33] bond and I don't know. Sorry I don't have any clue
[13:35] where the x is tickling or born and I don't have a clue for why
[13:39] other thing if you can build on it if you feel any of these
[13:42] assumptions makes sense. That's where I'm at right now.
[13:46] Okay no I agree with the gothic. She think it was just that the
[13:51] merderet suggestion. My first instinct was to say,
[13:56] Strangers on a train. But I also know that is a much
[14:00] later movie, the movie, was it a book as too much later.
[14:07] The book is also about Train is fantastic for moving forward on
[14:14] suggestion, but in this case, given that there was only one
[14:17] murderer. It may not fit.
[14:19] Yeah. That's the lady was murdered and
[14:22] the Doctor Who did her or yeah. So I think the thing that I was
[14:30] inclined towards. So I'm assuming Z is erotica,
[14:32] she X, I would say radiate, Kipling fits the bill, why
[14:40] Mother was killing. Was the timeline fits.
[14:44] Yeah, I think it is early. Early early to give you guys X
[14:49] is Kipling. Okay.
[14:51] Okay, why is Agatha Christie? Very same.
[15:01] Now, what's remaining is for you to tell me, who why is?
[15:05] And also, Which novel of Agatha, Christie, probably not.
[15:09] Yeah, I can't. I'm not as much.
[15:10] Open the last part so that they have your film.
[15:13] If you're familiar with, I've only read Agatha Christie's
[15:16] famous works. I've never had all four works.
[15:18] I would not understand them first breakthrough.
[15:21] So unlikely they'd ever heard of it, but we can take a stab, but
[15:25] for why do other, you know anyone who was may be right with
[15:30] you? I'm trying to think of an author
[15:34] was more more than touching crippling writing murder
[15:37] mysteries in that. That's the right way to think.
[15:42] Oh, I can't think of what about the Pyro that is?
[15:46] It Poirot is. Who is confusing Raymond
[15:54] Chandler? No, remission is much later.
[15:57] You mentioned, as we mentioned is also American.
[16:00] All right. He's a very communal.
[16:04] Some always it Indian author writing modem, she's in India.
[16:09] So, I would suggest that you go with the classics.
[16:13] I mean, the only one else I can think of Sherlock Holmes.
[16:15] And I know he was not writing, it was whatever Sherlock Holmes,
[16:20] right? Yes, it is.
[16:33] Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle's, telling
[16:34] him that, you know, you can write a story about Murder By
[16:36] situation E-Pass on the idea, too.
[16:40] Agatha Christie, the very first novel, which introduces Hercule
[16:46] Poirot to the world. It's called The Mysterious
[16:49] Affair at Styles. I have but that's a word of it
[16:53] but I've not read it. But yeah, if you, if people are
[16:58] not particularly in reading all your books for 40 years, I would
[17:06] suggest the Granada TV all Poirot.
[17:10] It's just amazing. It went from, I think the late
[17:13] 1980s all the way up to the mid 2000s but it it covers all the
[17:17] major 40 hits and it's beautifully.
[17:20] Shot beautifully shot on location.
[17:24] It's just amazing. It's amazing.
[17:26] I, as a follow-on to this. Okay, the follow-on to this me
[17:32] being greedy, but again, as a follower to this there, look at
[17:34] there is a novel by Agatha Christie, which had people
[17:40] Writing in angry, letters to the news basically, letters to the
[17:44] editor saying that they felt cheated because that was the
[17:47] first time that kind of a Twist had been used the book in
[17:52] question is the the murder of Roger Ackroyd.
[17:55] If you have not read it, I'm not going to spoil it for you, even
[18:01] though for somebody of Our Generation, it may not be much
[18:03] of a spoiler, because we've seen many imitations of that
[18:06] particular twist. But the felt very first time
[18:08] that this UND was in this book until then this kind of a Twist
[18:14] had never ever been seen before. Okay?
[18:17] Now, the idea first, the murder of Sir Roger Ackroyd, is
[18:21] believed to have been given to Agatha Christie by a player, you
[18:27] know, to a letter from somebody who would later become much
[18:31] famous for his role in India. Can you guess who ever again?
[18:36] This is slightly debatable, you know, there are some pieces
[18:40] Passing on this. But I prefer to believe that
[18:43] it's true. Somebody from the royal family,
[18:46] so, whatever the royal family, religious Ripley later became
[18:50] very instrumental in India in India, right, right.
[18:54] Say George. It's just a name.
[19:08] But sorry, he's I said this is related to the royal family is
[19:13] not okay. No, I have no idea if that would
[19:19] be Lord. Louis mountbatten.
[19:22] Okay, so that was my question Aditya.
[19:26] It is referred as do this. Once a final question probably
[19:29] easy for you guys. If you think a little bit about
[19:32] it I guess this is a postal code.
[19:38] That the Canadian Post has tell me.
[19:45] What is the Funda? Okay and positive goal is H 0, H
[19:50] 0 at 0. This and it is the not Santa
[19:54] Claus. Basically the postal code for
[19:56] Saturn has its importance of Canadian postal in the postal
[20:00] code I was like, okay, I know where is going as well as
[20:06] Finland has something similar, right?
[20:08] So away all it'll have the other way for people but I don't think
[20:12] they have the postal code thing but yes kids can write into
[20:15] Santa Claus in Finland, as the lab anyway.
[20:17] So this is supposed to be very small.
[20:19] One could ever show. You guys will get very quickly,
[20:21] so let me ask another one. Let's do the accidental
[20:28] invention of something. That is pretty ubiquitous now.
[20:33] Okay, and this is from 1908 There was an exporter importer
[20:41] gentlemen, go by the name of Thomas Sullivan and he was based
[20:45] out of New York used to import this particular product.
[20:51] And to send out samples, you would send it out in small
[20:56] quantities. They would want people to try
[20:58] out his product. You send out in small quantities
[21:00] to his potential customers. This led to an accidental sort
[21:05] of Let's say usage or or discovery of an item that is
[21:11] used very, very commonly today. So what was Thomas Sullivan
[21:16] importing into New York and what is this?
[21:21] Discovery accidental usage. Accidental Discovery.
[21:25] I think I have an inkling but I'm not 100.
[21:29] Mm, maybe, like, 50 percent on this.
[21:33] Was he using something packed in muslin bags.
[21:37] Yes, your your I think, you know the answer.
[21:40] Yeah, yeah. Just give it to attempt to sorry
[21:43] sight by. So I mean the small quantity is
[21:48] and he would send it out for samples.
[21:52] My first instinct was like, maybe like a spray bottle for
[21:57] perfumes, but I'm guessing that's hard invention to make
[22:01] for someone who's just an importer exporter to figure out,
[22:05] arrows, all, and all that. Point.
[22:07] So I'm going to unlikely to be that and given that the muslin
[22:12] bags idea seems to be along the same lines my second guess to
[22:17] possibly be something like T. You know, there are tea bags
[22:21] that we dip in rescued. You guys, you guys, you guys
[22:25] both got the answer very quickly.
[22:26] I'm glad it is, the teabags are not of God that without you
[22:30] needs to be so. So let me just give a quick
[22:35] background. So Thomas, Revenues to import
[22:38] booty, n Coffee into New York and because you want to be able
[22:42] to try out these exotic T's, he would sample if we send out
[22:45] samples in small muslin or silk bags, be intended for people to
[22:52] remove it from the bags to use it.
[22:54] People just found it. Easier to dip the bag itself
[22:57] into hot water and use that as a tea bag inches and that's or tea
[23:03] bags came to be. I like to think it was because
[23:06] people were so familiar. Earlier with French cooking and
[23:08] they put spices and hubzone, small muslin.
[23:13] Yeah. Right.
[23:15] They do have this, okay, I believe it is sized.
[23:21] Yeah. So the German branch of worth of
[23:24] the World Wide Fund for nature, WWF, okay.
[23:28] Created a file format called WWII.
[23:31] And they claim that this was a modification of the open
[23:34] standard PDF or They have touted it at being environmentally
[23:39] friendly. What possible feature does the
[23:42] WWF file format. Have that distinguishes it from
[23:47] the PDF, or d.o.c. form from going to take a wild, guess is
[23:51] there? They don't control po.
[23:53] The command P. Doesn't print this case.
[23:58] No, this is for convictions. That makes it cannot be printed.
[24:04] There is disorder. And I thought that was a very
[24:11] neat little invention. I'm surprised it didn't catch on
[24:14] but that is the WWF file form and along similar lines.
[24:19] The another file format that I found.
[24:21] Fascinating is the nkv 54 man. Brilliant.
[24:26] Yeah it's a video Interruption that you can hold an unlimited
[24:29] number of video audio picture or subtitle tracks in any one file.
[24:36] It's so, you know, it can hold all these many layers of content
[24:39] with their what is the n in MK. V, stand for rosca, what spot on
[24:46] that was faster than I did. So and reading the question,
[24:50] that's remarkable. There's a lot of time around to
[24:57] give some context for our listeners.
[24:58] We need as to how you got it. So quickly.
[25:01] No zajac for nesting down Jetta. Exactly who the Russian nesting
[25:06] dolls. They are called matroyshka
[25:09] dolls. They're known as the stacking
[25:12] doors nesting dolls or whatever and they were made in 1890
[25:18] first, I'd still not sure why they have the name matroska
[25:23] specifically but they are. Yeah, that's the origin of that
[25:29] Meme. Lends itself to the nkv file
[25:31] format because the container side And again, the side note,
[25:35] Russian doll and excellent is to purchase.
[25:38] And if I'm Loops. Lovely, lovely.
[25:41] Take on time lives here. Okay, then either believe with
[25:45] your question now, okay. This is a very, very easy
[25:49] question. This annual list was first
[25:54] compiled in 2005 by an executive, by the name of
[25:58] Franklin, Ray Leonard, who contacted his friends who worked
[26:02] in studios across Hollywood Find out the top movie script, which
[26:06] yet hadn't been produced. While it may not be a indicator
[26:10] of the quality of the scripts themselves.
[26:12] It's a collection of the most liked screenplays of the Year,
[26:19] movie screens, the screenplays and scripts, which have made it
[26:22] onto the list, include our go, American Hustle Juno the King
[26:26] speech from Dog Millionaire Spotlight.
[26:30] The Revenant The Descendants MRI water, Unbearable weight of
[26:34] massive talent and King Richard, the name of this list shares.
[26:40] Its name with an American drama. Thriller series which debuted in
[26:44] the early 2010's. What is this list called?
[26:48] I know this answer. So I'll see if sayona give it a
[26:51] crack. Yeah.
[26:52] Could you repeat the first part of the question the context
[26:56] before the list. Okay, yeah.
[26:57] So this and this is a list, it's an annual list that's compiled
[27:02] the first time it was done was By an executive called Franklin.
[27:06] Leonard in 2005 to, he contacted all his friends across Studios
[27:11] to find out and compile the list of the best race in places,
[27:16] which have not yet been produced for dents.
[27:18] Are you asking for the name of the list, the name of the list,
[27:21] which it shares with a drama Thriller series which debuted in
[27:24] the early 2010's and that's a great set of movies.
[27:28] Like the sound, the names are listed except for American
[27:31] Hustle. I've loved every one of them.
[27:33] I stand by the fact that America's was on the most boring
[27:38] movies as we know, that's a bridge to cross another day.
[27:44] Yeah. Okay interesting.
[27:46] So I don't know, I'm kind of index.
[27:48] Now on possible names of prominent Drama Series in early
[27:55] 2010 be relevant. So the first thing that came to
[28:00] mind when this when you started reading of this, Was, is it
[28:06] something like The West Wing related because no less than
[28:10] would be the only 2008 late 90s thing is earlier, we have a
[28:13] string is much earlier. This other this TV show ran from
[28:18] 2013 to 2023. Is it positive?
[28:25] It will end. It will end this.
[28:26] Here it lends it land in July this year.
[28:29] Yeah, are in 2013. Let me also give a hint here.
[28:33] Here it starts, James Spader. This is the way I want to try an
[28:37] approach this that scene trying to if the name of the series is
[28:43] escaping trying to see what else I can go started.
[28:48] Late 2000, it was. And the thing is the list was
[28:51] started in 2005. So before the show was even
[28:53] conceived of yes, yeah. It just shares its name with it,
[28:58] didn't get it from the show. Must be some prominent place
[29:01] that Hollywood executives. Week, is he pretending to like?
[29:06] Because it, I think it's more of an informal thing where they
[29:09] release is based on people. Like, okay, there are so many of
[29:12] these great scripts, we should make them presuming that.
[29:15] It's a list that literally has the word list in.
[29:18] It means I could think of initially was like, Downton to
[29:22] like the counter-intuitively The Blacklist.
[29:24] It makes no sense if you're going to Blacklist a movie Why
[29:28] names over there. So, possibly the, the catalyst,
[29:33] There's a movie that's a No-No. I just stop you right there.
[29:38] It is. The black list for the list of
[29:41] scripts that eventually, I saw the best screenplays are is
[29:45] called the black. Yes, they call it the black
[29:49] interesting. I was there a particular reason
[29:52] why in 2005 not, you know, I he just did it, I'm not sure why he
[29:58] did it. But obviously, it makes it makes
[30:00] sense to have a compendium of the best possible script so that
[30:04] Studios and actors, and directors can even start.
[30:07] It's like, you know, finding the Diamonds in the Rough
[30:11] interesting, Disney reference. Yeah, so, interestingly, by the
[30:18] way, Blacklist is named because and I saw this in an interview
[30:22] of that gentleman, that you mentioned Franklin and retain
[30:26] its name Blacklist because you wanted to remove the negative
[30:28] connotation around the word. Black is a black and Nigel
[30:31] himself. No, which is that is that is
[30:35] definitely he's he's a black man Franklin.
[30:39] It is a black man himself and he wanted to remove the negative
[30:42] connotation. All right, let's let me do mine
[30:46] and since we were talking about the Hollywood Machine, let me do
[30:53] something related to that. So the Hollywood Walk of Fame
[30:56] pretty historic pretty well known.
[30:58] But let me just quickly mention for anybody who might not know
[31:01] our Little star symbols along the roads of l.a. along the
[31:07] Pavements, valet rather, and they're meant to symbolize.
[31:10] And, and if give credit to filmmakers and people related to
[31:16] film in general, film and TV, whoever achieves great things
[31:20] now, they are, obviously star-shaped.
[31:23] However, there is one set of blacks as it were, which are not
[31:31] star-shaped. And instead are circular, who
[31:36] are these supposed to commemorate?
[31:38] So I'm thinking, it's still related to the film industry
[31:41] would possibly like supporting car, you know, maybe like the
[31:46] crew members are technical people.
[31:50] Yeah, technically. So interestingly enough, it is
[31:56] not really related to film interest or are they get ready?
[32:01] You not the entertainment industry.
[32:05] So Hollywood Walk of Fame also includes radio in, oh, but in
[32:09] this case, let me just tell you, there are five basic categories,
[32:12] the Motion Pictures broadcast television, there is music,
[32:16] there is radio. And in this theater, all five of
[32:19] them are covered in the Hollywood of all those arms, the
[32:22] other stars, but those others in our living usual Stars yet.
[32:26] So what does the circle supposed to put it be like sports
[32:31] members? Both prominent spokesman of LA
[32:34] or something. But they also follow an
[32:36] entertainment. I guess if you were to Define as
[32:40] for sentiment, but these are not Sports.
[32:42] Also, okay. He said not
[32:44] entertainment-related, right? This is this would not be
[32:46] entertained. The let me just mention that
[32:50] this was also done so because they have a public ceremony
[32:54] where they reveal these. Black-eyed Susan, the early
[32:59] 1970s. Okay.
[33:00] So these don't exist anymore on the Walk of Fame.
[33:03] No. No.
[33:04] As in they were they were open to public in the early 1970s the
[33:09] 1970s time. The killer could be astronauts
[33:15] diagonal. It is it is for the moon.
[33:17] Landing is it is people have walked on the moon.
[33:20] Basic 1969 was your moon landing and it is supposed to
[33:25] commemorate the first First three men who walked on the moon
[33:29] and nice. Correct, nice.
[33:30] But you sent the five of them, right?
[33:32] Of, oh, you meant five categories in the oh, the five
[33:35] categories are further, so there are little, but only enough.
[33:44] So wherever I found it. It said there are four of them
[33:47] but each of the circular moons, as it were has all three
[33:52] astronauts and the date of the moon landing and the words
[33:55] Apollo 11 on it, I believe four of them are identically shaped
[34:00] and writing on it, okay, yeah but if they do get the dope,
[34:05] okay? So then they're not people walk
[34:06] on the moon will basically gone to the moon, the three, the
[34:10] three or sorry sir. Yes yes, my bad, my bad.
[34:13] Yes. The third guy did not walk on
[34:16] the moon, but Michael Collins didn't walk on the moon.
[34:19] Thank you. Colin didn't walk on up Buzz,
[34:21] Aldrin and Neil Armstrong did. Yeah, Aldrin and Armstrong.
[34:26] For the first moon, landing basic.
[34:28] Yeah, I think I don't see any way I could have got it if not
[34:33] for the 1970s to, but that's not enough.
[34:35] No, but yeah, that went straight for that.
[34:37] I wouldn't. I would have taken me some time
[34:39] to get to that. Maybe your focus now, but I
[34:45] mean, like, I'm sure that you might have discussed this with
[34:50] your listeners in a previous episode, but I just wanted to
[34:53] shout out the importance of a good clue.
[34:56] Makes the real question. That is a good question, is also
[35:00] remarkable. Like I feel like a great
[35:03] question should be able to give a great first two, which doesn't
[35:07] give away the answer but still keeps them interested in allows
[35:11] them to figure it out because some of my favorite moments in
[35:15] quizzing have not come out as a Eureka moment where it's to me,
[35:20] it's a stroke of luck. Sometimes, if you either know,
[35:22] you don't know. You have a moment of
[35:24] inspiration, but I love when a A good first clue is only like a
[35:29] few people can get it, but it allows somebody else.
[35:32] I think. I just wanted to really commend
[35:35] a good first. Keep like the seventies, I don't
[35:37] think should give away too much, but it allows someone to think
[35:40] of the right direction. Exactly.
[35:42] Yes, I agree. Totally great question.
[35:47] We need energy, we are close to running out of time.
[35:50] Should we wrap it up with one last set of questions?
[35:53] Yes, I come on one. Last question, amazing.
[35:56] So I'm Like the category that I think I've missed out on that.
[35:59] I was really excited to ask you guys.
[36:01] I'm going to go back and forth. If you don't mind with three,
[36:04] good job. A few questions, if we have
[36:06] time, if we do, we learn amazing.
[36:09] So I'll start with a little bit of history geography, mix that
[36:14] the name of this particular island has a prefix which is
[36:18] historically used to differentiate it from a Mainland
[36:22] Peninsula. The name is from great and is of
[36:26] Greater. Antiquity and likely comes from
[36:29] Regional word, meaning, the tattooed folk the main, the
[36:34] tattooed folk that people who are rocking tattoos book as an
[36:38] fo, any case fol. But the mainland Peninsula,
[36:43] which needed differentiation, which the island needed
[36:46] differentiation from used to be called arm Orica by its
[36:51] occupants. And any Avid fan of certain
[36:55] comics, In tell you what this region.
[36:58] What is this particular Island in talking /?
[37:01] And I know we went astray with the traffic is so to summarize,
[37:05] it island has a prefix. Used to differentiate it from a
[37:09] Mainland Peninsula. The mainland Peninsula has a
[37:13] name that it's known as today but occupants at a certain time
[37:18] used to call it arm Orica which if you're a fan of a certain
[37:23] scenes of comics you'll be able to refer to I'm guessing.
[37:29] Okay. So our Monica would be and
[37:30] thinking from a strict it is from as tricks that we could
[37:34] Google as well call. It was my guess it's called is
[37:38] the peninsula. What is the island for God?
[37:41] Is actually not the peninsula's. All is the neighboring territory
[37:44] to the peninsula region of I was there is going to think
[37:48] consciously competent, No, he said tattooed folk, right?
[37:53] That's the that old Fork is. Yeah, I can tell you the
[37:58] language, but the maybe I'll tell you that as a clue to the
[38:01] second question there is an island which has a prefix which
[38:09] has been given to differentiate it from the mainland.
[38:12] Principe exam. Origin is from a term that means
[38:16] the battle. For yeah the name of the like
[38:20] Bell, insula and Islands. Second at the Eyrie ideas.
[38:26] So I have a I was only, as far as what you had gotten, it was
[38:30] all in a Squall, very honest with you.
[38:34] So, I mean, the, the, the, the origin of the name, for the
[38:39] peninsula, as well as the island.
[38:42] Without the prefix comes from the Celtic word, which scattered
[38:46] pork, It can record was thinking it does it have anything to do
[38:54] with Greenland or something? But I don't--there's or is not
[38:59] know if it's scary, think. I know, I know it is Britt
[39:02] Britt, Britannia has some time. Yeah, yeah, Britain has some
[39:07] Celtic origin. Yeah, French peninsula of
[39:10] Brittany, which is the Northwestern part of France and
[39:16] the island of Great Britain antiquity.
[39:20] And the weather breaks. Always that was.
[39:22] Yeah, I hate them. But the brief any area.
[39:26] Probably one of the least touristed parts of France.
[39:29] It doesn't have the wine appeal of Southwest France.
[39:34] It doesn't have the for like Mediterranean appeal of the
[39:38] South Coast, or the historical appeal of Paris in the north.
[39:41] But the Britain is a beautiful region.
[39:44] If you are planning a not so traditional French Foley The
[39:50] should be so trivial for our Wanderlust listeners, just
[39:57] jumping right to the next historical intersection, the
[40:01] intersection of history and geography.
[40:03] There's a certain city in the region during Gia.
[40:08] It's the focal point of German, Enlightenment.
[40:11] It was the home of major figures, like least gotha
[40:16] Schiller and other famous artists and Architects.
[40:19] I know I threw Three names as if I knew all of them.
[40:22] I just want to point out that I've only heard of least.
[40:24] I just hope that we need another.
[40:26] They are the kind of folks who know the other two I've heard of
[40:29] God. But yeah, at a certain chaotic
[40:33] stage in its history. Berlin was considered too
[40:36] dangerous for the capital to be located there due to Street
[40:40] lighting. So this centrally-located city
[40:43] was chosen as a temporary capital.
[40:46] What is this city? And this place is in the area.
[40:50] They called to arrange the ninja which part of Germany is it in
[40:56] like Central or enter? I come and geography isn't
[41:02] great. But is it strip-cut know?
[41:06] So why would you why do you think it's stupid?
[41:10] But still got isn't himself Germany, my bad.
[41:15] I just went into my default of anytime.
[41:17] I ask my friends just questions from doctor Yes but no student
[41:24] IDs in South. It's in the southern half of
[41:28] Germany, a little closer to Munich if I'm not wrong but this
[41:32] is most and it is had these three famous individuals as an
[41:38] example. Not too relevant.
[41:39] Yeah. Not too relevant for the actual
[41:41] answer but it basically it is like a point.
[41:46] It's Pokemon German Enlightenment and was chosen as
[41:49] a substitute for Berlin during a particularly tumultuous time and
[41:55] we know we've all heard of the name of the city but I've never
[41:58] Associated it with the reasons for its choice.
[42:01] Being just being centered and as a good altar.
[42:05] No I are there any more hints you can give?
[42:08] Yeah, I'm also lost it there this this is the capital of
[42:14] unified Germany. So post, you know like Otto von
[42:18] Bismarck coming together so it's 1870s.
[42:22] So basically, this was a capital for a few years in the 20th
[42:26] century pew, pew, pivotal years of the 20th century.
[42:32] Before Berlin was prompt swiftly, put back into its place
[42:37] as a recapture of national identity again, my German, but
[42:44] Nuremberg now nearer, Nuremberg is Central.
[42:48] Also, a very important city for Not just the trials that happen
[42:52] but also the post-world work like General decisions of how to
[42:58] split the country, but not running out of German cities.
[43:04] Yeah. So I think you may not know
[43:07] again. I don't know where these are
[43:09] like, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt is not what to index on index.
[43:16] On a important part of 20th century, German history.
[43:20] Yeah, I all the names that I mentioned, are the ones that I
[43:24] remember from my Journeys. Yeah, or maybe another last two,
[43:28] if you're not close to it, or you could the decision, the
[43:31] decision to make this city, the capital was made by of whatever,
[43:39] like, made by officials in a French city thousand miles to
[43:45] the west of Germany. Like, I mean, whatever. 500
[43:49] miles to the West is the part of the Versailles.
[43:51] Treaty. Exactly.
[43:53] Pretty Universal. And at Versailles they decided
[43:58] to make this the capital to what was Germany known as between
[44:02] World War one and two. The Weimar Republic.
[44:05] Exactly. This is the town of wymer, okay?
[44:08] The center of Germany which is one of the victims.
[44:13] Yeah. All of us have heard of the
[44:15] Weimar Republic because I don't think I've ever wondered why I
[44:20] was but They decided that, you know, it's too dangerous for
[44:28] Berlin to the Mena Capital, they named Weimer the capital, and we
[44:33] now know the period of the severe depression and three
[44:39] Nazis coming to power, Germany being known as the Weimar
[44:42] Republic and it is a significant part of 20th, century history.
[44:46] And yes, but none of us have ever known is why more just a
[44:51] name like Josh land or Germany? Know exactly the name of the
[44:55] town. On.
[44:55] That was a capital D. That is brilliant person.
[45:00] I love that. Really nowhere close to cracking
[45:03] it. But yes, no, but I love the way
[45:06] he bear. Let us do it.
[45:09] Divide from Germany to Versailles and then decide if I
[45:15] should probably have ended with this Revenue.
[45:17] Fantastic last question. But just before we go, because
[45:19] I've been eager to ask this question to the test,
[45:22] specifically his favorite country.
[45:25] Sorry continent, Africa. This question, the independence
[45:37] and international recognition of X came in. 1993, it was a de
[45:42] facto region since 1991, okay? This cost why to suddenly become
[45:49] a landlocked country? Okay, the white navy had
[45:53] originally been trained by the British royal Navy and it
[45:56] operated from the naval base of Misawa from 1956 and was in 1991
[46:02] the largest navy of its continent, but because of the
[46:06] recognition of X Y is Navy, had to be disbanded in 1996 identify
[46:13] X and Y. So X is the country that was
[46:16] recognized in 93, right? Yes, that would make it a
[46:21] retrieval. Exactly?
[46:23] What killed real food access to water.
[46:35] And one of the largest navies in the continent, had to be
[46:40] disbanded after going through Decades of training.
[46:44] It's just barely hilarious. Like some of my favorite Navy,
[46:49] related facts are like Mongolia has a Navy the size of 2 or
[46:53] something like that, which is basically just pointless for one
[46:57] of the most lawn landlocked countries in the world.
[47:02] Yeah, it's ups was one of the most sad cases of losing the use
[47:06] of lovely. Lovely, who all of that?
[47:09] A follow-up, when you said useless, navies, I think at one
[47:14] point, I don't know if you guys have heard of Pepsi, had one of
[47:18] the largest navies in the world. Ever heard of this.
[47:21] Oh yeah, I think they, I remember them having also honors
[47:25] like the most number of jets after like three countries or
[47:28] something observe the biggest, but they, they had, they found a
[47:32] way to, you know, deal with Russia, Soviet Russia.
[47:38] So they wouldn't allow to accept currency.
[47:40] So the initially were accepting vodka, And in return for you
[47:45] know, Pepsi but then how much more could they take?
[47:48] So then finally they started giving them warships and
[47:51] submarines and what the problem was.
[47:54] None of these warships and submarines were good enough to
[47:57] you know, use to they couldn't even sell them.
[48:00] They were so bad. So they ended up you know, just
[48:03] rusting away at ports but at one point Pepsi had a series maybe
[48:09] place just one last thing. If I could just follow up on.
[48:13] Of what I hope is my like the one of the better questions.
[48:17] I've asked the Weimar Republic and you give a little more
[48:19] context. It's actually the National
[48:23] Assembly had to meet to ratify everything that was suggested by
[48:27] the Treaty of Versailles. And they the German National
[48:30] Assembly, decided that Berlin was way too dangerous.
[48:34] And so the right president, at that time, he favored way more
[48:39] because the hope that it would remind the Victorious allies of
[48:43] way. Mark class system.
[48:45] And that, you know, you are an important part of the city Etc.
[48:48] And almost of South, Germany is worried about like a follow-up
[48:54] of Versailles being really negative over there.
[48:57] So they chose Weimer a deliberate.
[49:00] The terms of the Treaty of Versailles to calm and like
[49:04] small, sit down over there, then they signed the Republic's first
[49:07] Constitution and then for 15 years 1982 1930.
[49:14] We know that he does the way not probably beautiful way to poke
[49:18] and the episode beautiful are from.
[49:21] We're just love those things. It's unfortunately we don't have
[49:28] time for more though. I would love to have PSI back
[49:31] for more episode which I absolutely should be, should be,
[49:35] absolutely sure. I just love to.
[49:38] But then again in a sec, we going.
[49:41] We're out of left field from going from good questions.
[49:43] It's too bad questions. Aditya, what is your Christian
[49:47] for this? Okay.
[49:51] Yeah, sure why not. So yeah, let's do another reason
[49:56] why not but you are gonna do it. The Hollywood Walk of Fame as I
[50:00] asked, has has star-shaped plaques and famously, a circular
[50:05] one, as well, but if they were to have one in the shape of a
[50:11] square, what would that be? In commemoration of and this is
[50:16] answer, you will find out only next week because I'm going to
[50:19] take one I think I think things are so going to the next week.
[50:25] How this works. Yes, yes, okay, so that's all
[50:29] for this episode. Thank you guys, everyone for
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[51:28] where he will fact-check whatever these blabbered
[51:31] throughout. The that's all from me for this
[51:34] episode. Thanks again to sigh for joining
[51:37] us. Yeah, make sure to try and it
[51:40] was an absolute pleasure. I think it's a throwback.
[51:43] To us discussing virtually on Facebook so was great, meeting
[51:49] the toes. You and I'm excited to see how
[51:52] the show picks up. I think is really great
[51:55] production and the means incredible questions being asked
[52:00] but if nothing else the listeners are going to tune in
[52:03] for other peers, absolutely moronic question, it is obvious
[52:12] that I still haven't. Floor worth the walk.
[52:15] Over question, it is for the wife, he's very polite to say
[52:22] he's having PTSD. Look forward to flummoxing, some
[52:27] of my friends with that exact same question.
[52:31] Seriously contemplate, the rules of different sports before
[52:38] creating the first quiz, me might be transferred elevator,
[52:42] they might be guilty of that rhymes with Michael -.
[52:47] All right, guys, that's it for us.
[52:52] Thank you, everybody for listening in and B by for me.
[52:56] Bye. And here's the fact check for
[53:12] the episode. Edward, the eighth was a
[53:15] contemporary of Agatha Christie. Not Edward, fourth or Edward,
[53:19] fifth Matryoshka is derived from the Russian word matreshka
[53:24] meaning mother or highly respected lady Matryoshka dolls
[53:29] are named. So, because the largest of the
[53:31] nesting dolls originally was supposed to be a matron like
[53:35] figure in 2019, the Ethiopian Navy was re-established. and
[53:41] that's all for the

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