# Episode 036 - Nintendo, Fruits & Moonshine

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 14 Sep 2023, 48 min.

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Do you which classic video game character's movement was based off a horse's gallop? Do you know which fruit is named after the Latin for suffering? Do you know which famous soft drink originally had a cartoon hillbilly in its branding? 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? I'm Maneet Nayar with my cohost,
[0:05] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:13] Let's get Quizzing Another Day, another episode.
[0:19] And welcome to Are You Quizzing Me?
[0:21] This is episode #36 and let's get right down to it.
[0:26] Before we start off the episode, there is the matter of the
[0:29] audience question. But I ask a question to you, the
[0:32] audience, and I give you the answer at the end of the
[0:35] episode. And the question for today and
[0:37] this episode is Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest player to
[0:41] score a century in England when he scored 190 not out against
[0:46] England at the Old Trafford and also helped India savage the
[0:50] cricket Test in August of 1990. His performance led to him being
[0:55] made the man of the match and he was awarded with something.
[0:59] However, if he were to have used what he received, he would have
[1:04] had received a warning from the Manchester Police.
[1:07] Why that We repeat the question for the sake of the audience.
[1:10] Once again, Sachin Tendulkar, famous cricket player, became
[1:14] the youngest player to score a century in England when he
[1:17] scored 190 not out against England at the Old Trafford and
[1:20] helps India salvage the Test in August 1990.
[1:23] His performance led him to be made Man of the match and he was
[1:26] awarded with something. However, if he were to have used
[1:29] the award, he would have received a warning from the
[1:31] Manchester Police why? The answer to this question will
[1:35] be revealed at the end of the episode.
[1:37] Till then, fine guess if you can see find the answer.
[1:40] So Aditya, you had asked a question at the end of last
[1:43] week's episode. Please enlighten us as to what
[1:46] the answer could be for that. I did ask a question and the
[1:50] question was. There is a specific martial art
[1:54] that has been developed for the Japanese police force and I was
[2:00] asking if it was the context of India, what would that martial
[2:03] art be called? And I realized it doesn't even
[2:06] have to be called something new and just use a preexisting art
[2:10] martial art form. And that would be MMA, except it
[2:14] would be pronounced Mama like a Mama, which is a common slang
[2:19] that you use for cops. Like a Mama or a mamu.
[2:23] In Mumbai especially so you would just call that that's
[2:27] that's reaching. I mean like you literally have
[2:30] to be mean to Mr. Fantastic to reach whatever you've gone you.
[2:33] What a stretch. Man, that is such a stretch.
[2:37] It is episode 36. We are recording this at 1:30 in
[2:40] the night. I feel like I I did not sign up
[2:44] for this. If anybody has any doubts.
[2:46] Please go back to episode one and two where this was just a
[2:50] one time joke that I did not intend to ever continue.
[2:53] It was supposed to be a serious podcast where we do some serious
[2:56] trivia. It's all on you, so you get to
[2:59] complain. Nada.
[3:01] I'm just listening to the audience.
[3:03] A lot of people who have messaged us, the main thing they
[3:07] say, they all like the jokes. At least most of them.
[3:09] They like the jokes. And I like, I like one
[3:12] particular comment where they mentioned that they like the dad
[3:14] jokes. So, you know, even though I'm
[3:17] the dad, among the two of the two of us, the bachelor, the
[3:22] confirmed bachelor is the one giving the dad jokes.
[3:25] Yeah, I guess it is a not a skill that is determined by you
[3:31] having or not having a child. It is just or something you're
[3:33] born with, I guess. I guess so.
[3:37] Let me start off today's quizzing with a question.
[3:41] This fruit was named by missionaries in Brazil.
[3:46] The name comes from the short final period, which is a part of
[3:50] the Holy Week, which starts from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday,
[3:55] after which Jesus is crucified. In Latin, this word comes from a
[4:00] word which means to suffer. Identify the fruit name.
[4:06] Which fruit am I talking about? To suffer pineapple would be
[4:11] pining, but no, I don't think that fits.
[4:13] No, no, no. Named by missionaries in Brazil
[4:16] comes from the the name comes from the short final period,
[4:19] which is a part of the Holy Week, which starts from Palm
[4:22] Sunday to Monday, Thursday, after which Jesus is crucified.
[4:25] In Latin this comes from a word which means to suffer.
[4:30] Which fruit am I talking about? I can't think of a single fruit
[4:34] that would. Be an valid answer for this?
[4:39] OK, so my my first clue to you would be, even though the name
[4:44] comes from the Latin, which means to suffer, the current,
[4:50] more commonplace meaning of this word is something completely
[4:55] opposite. OK, so that's probably why
[4:58] you're not thinking of this fruit.
[5:00] Because you said Latin America. I am gonna guess plantain
[5:09] bananas. No, no, no.
[5:12] OK, wow, then I have no clue whatsoever that, and you said
[5:16] it's also a completely different meaning.
[5:18] So no, I I am completely lost. The commonplace meaning, I mean,
[5:21] like it still does have in certain contexts the meaning to
[5:25] suffer, but the more commonplace meaning would be completely
[5:30] different, and the meaning of to suffer is actually in one very
[5:35] specific context. OK, which is related to the name
[5:40] and the clue that I gave you that not the clue.
[5:42] The part of the question that the name comes from the short
[5:44] final period, which is a part of the Holy Week, which starts from
[5:47] Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday. Wow, no, I have no clue.
[5:51] Yeah, if there's no other hint, you should just tell me the
[5:53] answer. I'll give you one hint, an
[5:56] indirect hint, but this may get it to you.
[5:59] Think Mel Gibson. I could think of was
[6:03] anti-Semitic trades tirades that he has had.
[6:08] No, not that, no, definitely not that.
[6:11] But think of say I OK, put the clues together when I say the
[6:16] name comes from the short final period which is a part of the
[6:18] Holy Week which starts from Palm Sunday to Monty Thursday after
[6:22] which Jesus is crucified. And then when I tell you Mel
[6:25] Gibson, what should come to mind?
[6:27] Braveheart. No.
[6:34] You sound offended that I don't get this answer, so now I have
[6:36] to get this answer. The Sunday and the Thursday
[6:40] thing also seems to be a hint that you're giving me, but I'm
[6:43] completely lost over there as well.
[6:45] OK, think Jesus is crucifixion and Mel Gibson.
[6:48] Oh, OK, Passion of the Christ. Passion fruit.
[6:52] Yes, it is passion fruit. Oh, what?
[6:54] OK, would have never in a million years occurred to me.
[6:58] Yes, so exactly so The thing is the the the passion of the
[7:01] Christ, basically suffering of Christ.
[7:03] It comes from the Latin passes some which means to suffer.
[7:09] So passion fruit, literally it comes from that origin.
[7:13] But you think of passion fruit, you think of passion, you know
[7:17] love and intensity and things like that.
[7:21] Suffering is the last thing that comes to mind when you think of
[7:23] passion fruit. But this is so I I found that
[7:26] once I read this piece of trivia, I found that, you know,
[7:28] quite interesting. Yeah, for sure.
[7:31] Very cool. And interestingly enough, I was
[7:33] trying to think of words to be derived, so I wasn't even
[7:36] thinking like an actual English word like passion, fashion.
[7:41] Yeah, OK. But cool, cool, great piece of
[7:43] trivia. I love that.
[7:44] OK, I am going to move to another historical event and
[7:52] this one is. Set in the UK, as many
[7:58] historical events are. Yes, you're right.
[8:00] As a lot of history, at least the one that we're forced to
[8:03] study, did happen in the UK. This one refers to the time of
[8:07] Queen Elizabeth, the first who commissioned England's first
[8:11] National Lottery in 1567 to generate funding for the Royal
[8:15] Navy. The Royal Navy at this point is
[8:18] looking to extend its export markets across the world.
[8:21] So it was the beginning of the British Empire.
[8:24] The grand reward was a whopping 5000 pounds, which was
[8:29] astronomical at the time. And as if that wasn't enough to
[8:33] attract more people, as many people as possible to purchase
[8:37] these lottery tickets, the ticket holders were also
[8:39] promised certain other things. What is one of those things that
[8:46] is today remembered in pop culture as well, OK, I know this
[8:51] piece of trivia, but I'm don't remember what the extra kind of
[8:56] benefits were. Was it something to do with
[8:57] income tax that they didn't have to pay tax?
[9:01] Well, I don't know all the benefits that were offered, but
[9:04] not the one that I'm referring to right now because it is
[9:06] something that is in pop culture today, pop culture today.
[9:11] Let me give you specifically what kind of pop culture and
[9:14] this has to do with gaming, Gaming.
[9:18] And not. Video games.
[9:20] So not video games. Oh, OK, games.
[9:24] So we're talking about gaming. OK, so not not gaming as in
[9:28] gambling, right? Oh no, no, not gambling.
[9:31] Games. Games.
[9:34] Monopoly. Would this be something?
[9:37] Oh, is this a get out of jail free card?
[9:41] Very well cracked. Yes, it is the Get out of Jail
[9:43] free card, so 15. 1567 is one of the earliest recorded instances
[9:49] that have been a few more but pre the board game Monopoly
[9:54] which which is from the turn of the previous century.
[9:57] This is one of the most iconic examples of a get out of jail
[10:01] free card which was offered to people as one of the lottery
[10:05] rewards, and the winner could use that to excuse themselves
[10:09] from punishment for any except the most serious of crimes.
[10:15] Any other crime that they would commit, they would not have to
[10:18] maybe like murder and Creason or something like that.
[10:21] I I would imagine, yeah, something extremely serious like
[10:23] that. Apart from that, most other
[10:26] crimes would and would be something they would not have to
[10:31] pay the price for as it were because of the get out of jail
[10:33] free card and Monopoly users get out of jail free cards as most
[10:37] people would know who have played Monopoly.
[10:39] Nice question. I am also going to stay
[10:42] somewhere in the same Billi Vic. So in the 16th century the pure
[10:49] and solid form of X was found in the minds of Borrowdale,
[10:54] England. X was of the same color and
[10:59] consistency and density as another metal ore Y, and because
[11:05] of this X was initially called Y.
[11:10] The discovery had made the minds of Borrowed all extremely
[11:13] valuable, as wrapping brittle little sticks of X tightly in
[11:19] sheepskin became very popular. Later, when science advanced, it
[11:23] was discovered that the Y had nothing to do with X, But even
[11:30] today a layman would call X by the name of Y.
[11:36] What are we talking about? Are we talking about graphite?
[11:40] Oh, you got that too quickly. OK, yes, we are talking about
[11:44] graphite and obviously. So then the other one would be.
[11:48] Lead, lead, Yes, we are talking about graphite and lead when
[11:53] graphite was first discovered. As if you don't know the
[11:56] graphite, obviously you know, but I'm talking for the sake of
[11:58] the audience. If you don't know, graphite is
[12:00] basically carbon. It has nothing to do with lead.
[12:03] Lead is a completely different metal, but because graphite in
[12:09] that particular form has the same kind of color and was as
[12:13] soft as lead, it was considered to be lead.
[12:17] What gave it away? Did you already know this piece
[12:19] of trivia, or did you work it out?
[12:21] I worked it out because you said it used to be referred to by
[12:24] that name, but it has nothing to do with it.
[12:26] But a common man might still use that name, and I think I've
[12:29] always wondered why we call graphite pencils lead.
[12:35] Okay, like the lead broke off that that part of the pencil, we
[12:38] call it the lead and it just clicked in place when you asked
[12:41] me the question. So, nice crap.
[12:45] Nice crap. Okay.
[12:46] Great question, Great question. OK, since we were talking about
[12:52] pencils, I'm gonna go into writing and this is nice.
[12:59] And this is in the context of India.
[13:01] So I assume you have watched A Slumdog Millionaire.
[13:06] Yes, and I forgot it as soon as I watched it, I I still to this
[13:09] day believe it was. It is one of Danny Boyle's more
[13:12] mediocre efforts and I cannot understand why people place such
[13:16] a high value on it. And that's the end of my rant.
[13:19] You would not be alone. I think a lot of people do
[13:22] consider it to be slightly overrated.
[13:25] Regardless of that, whether you like it or you don't like Snoog
[13:28] Millionaire, it was a pretty famous film back from 2008, as
[13:31] you mentioned, directed by Danny Boyle.
[13:33] Now Danny Boyle is a fan of these Indian film people and as
[13:43] a tribute to these people, he named some of his characters in
[13:47] the film after them. So I'll tell you who those
[13:50] characters were, but I won't tell you the name.
[13:52] So in case, remember that like you said, you've forgotten it,
[13:55] so probably won't be an easy hint for you.
[13:57] Anyways, I'll say the brother of the protagonist and one of the
[14:03] antagonists was named after the people that Danny Boyle greatly
[14:08] admires. Who are these two people from
[14:11] the Indian film industry that he considers to be very inspiring
[14:15] in his own work? So I absolutely do not remember
[14:20] the movies. I mean, like, I frankly don't
[14:23] even remember what Dev Patel's character name was.
[14:26] Forget anything else. So asking for his brother's name
[14:30] is just, you know, pouring salt on the wound.
[14:33] But still, look, I'm going to give it a guess because this is
[14:36] Danny Boyle and I would guess that if he were a big fan of
[14:42] somebody in the Indian film industry, they would be
[14:44] directors. Would I be wrong in guessing
[14:46] they would be directors? Yeah.
[14:48] I did not say directors specifically because they are
[14:50] not directors. Oh, they are not directors?
[14:54] No. Oh, because I was going to go
[14:57] with Satya, Satyajit Ray. Because when it comes to the
[15:00] Indian film industry, when in doubt, it's Satyajit Ray.
[15:05] But it's not. OK, OK, that's interesting.
[15:07] So what else? So then it must be music, I
[15:11] don't think. I mean like, no offense to the
[15:14] Indian film industry, but we don't particularly have very
[15:17] famous cinematographers, at least famous worldwide.
[15:21] So I was thinking of Danny Boyle would be the music or
[15:24] cinematography or direction? So music is something that they
[15:29] have done, but isn't what they are particularly famous for.
[15:33] Are we talking about Salim Javed?
[15:36] I was trying not to say two people because I think the most
[15:39] famous duo is Salim Javed. But you're right, Salim Javed
[15:43] are two people that Danny Boyle considers a massive influence on
[15:48] his own work, and specifically on Slumdog Millionaire.
[15:52] Actor Anil Kapoor noted that some scenes of Slumdog
[15:55] Millionaire are quote like Deewar, the story of two
[15:58] brothers of whom one is completely after money, while
[16:01] the younger one is honest and not interested in money.
[16:03] So all of these things are very much reminiscent of Salim
[16:09] Javed's work. And for anybody who might not
[16:12] know, Salim Javed was an Indian screen writing duo.
[16:16] So they both were extremely influential back in the 70s and
[16:20] 80s with their films. Some of the most iconic
[16:23] Bollywood films that you can think of were written by these
[16:25] two. Now the two characters surely is
[16:30] by Salim Javed, I believe. Yes, you're right.
[16:31] I think surely is by Salim Javed.
[16:33] Surely is by Salim Javed. Some of the other ones which are
[16:37] like Sita or Gita or Zanjeer or Deewar.
[16:41] And Dawn, some very, very iconic films were all written by Saleem
[16:45] Javed, the two characters. By the way, in the film you said
[16:50] you don't remember the F Patil's characters name.
[16:52] That is Jamal Malik. Jamal Malik's brother is Salim
[16:55] Salim Malik. So Salim Kar, Salim Khan.
[16:58] And the main antagonist of the film is played by Mahesh
[17:02] Manjrekar, whose name is Javed Khan.
[17:05] So Javed OK, so for Javed Akhtar OK.
[17:08] That's right, Salim Javed were. Paid homage to in the movie by
[17:13] having their names given to these two characters.
[17:17] That's nice. I'm now going to ask you a
[17:19] question again related to food. I have a lot of food questions,
[17:22] so I'm going to ask you a question related to food.
[17:24] It's also related to geography and etymology.
[17:27] It's a combination of most of my favorite topics.
[17:30] This commodity, brought from a Portuguese colony in East Africa
[17:34] to India, was something that Indians had never seen before.
[17:40] It was sold under the name of the nation from which it came.
[17:44] But us Indians could not pronounce it correctly and so it
[17:49] got corrupted to the version that we now know it as.
[17:52] I want you to tell me which fruit and which country are we
[17:55] talking about? Which African country and which
[17:58] fruit? So the name that has been
[18:00] corrupted and is now used commonly is the Indian name or
[18:04] like like a Hindi name. Which one?
[18:06] Which language? It's a corruption of the name of
[18:08] the country. OK, got it.
[18:11] Yeah, it was sold. This commodity was sold in India
[18:17] under the name of the African country.
[18:20] Now we couldn't pronounce it well, so it got corrupted.
[18:23] I have a guess, OK, and this is the reference to the previous
[18:27] episode where you guessed. Mozambique.
[18:31] So I'm going to say Mozambique. I should.
[18:35] I was. I was praying that you didn't
[18:36] remember that one. Because it is.
[18:39] Yes, it is Mozambique and it is the Mozambique which to the rest
[18:44] of the world is the sweet lemon. OK, OK.
[18:47] It's the sweet lemon. It's a plant grown as a sweet
[18:49] lemon citrus limeta. It's also gone as the Mosami or
[18:54] the Moussami because they're all in corruptions of Mozambique.
[18:58] From where it? From whence it came?
[19:00] This has to be one of my favorite kinds of questions,
[19:03] right? Which are just once you know the
[19:05] question, the answer is obvious. And yes, you perhaps never
[19:09] thought about it, but once in front I was very careful to try
[19:12] and say commodity instead of fruit because I had a feeling if
[19:16] I said fruit you would get it very easily.
[19:19] No, that was a great question and I am glad I got it so
[19:23] quickly. Patterned back for myself, yeah.
[19:27] Yes, yes, yes, OK. Since we were talking about
[19:31] etymologies, a little etymology question.
[19:35] The time is August 1281, so this is almost 1000 years ago, and
[19:42] this word referred to major typhoons that dispersed the
[19:47] Mongol Koirio fleets which invaded Japan under Kublai Khan.
[19:53] So the invasions were happening between 1274 and 1281.
[19:56] And in August 1281, because they were major typhoons, the fleets
[20:00] were dispersed this word. I'll give you the translation
[20:04] later as a hint if you want, but for now, this word today is used
[20:08] in multiple contexts, including in English and of course in
[20:12] Japanese as well. What is the word that was used
[20:16] for the typhoons that is today used in both English and
[20:19] Japanese? Maybe it's like a Freudian
[20:21] connection, not a Freudian connection.
[20:24] Whatever talking about, maybe it's just a connection that I
[20:26] feel because you said typhoon. Is it Tycoon?
[20:30] Oh, that's a. That's a funny guess, but no,
[20:33] no, no, it's not. It's not.
[20:34] No, it's not. Yeah, I.
[20:35] Was going. To say a great guess, but there
[20:37] was like. Is that a great guess?
[20:38] That's not a funny guess. It's not.
[20:39] It's not. A great.
[20:42] Guess I usually use the word like, I'm like, yeah, I believe
[20:44] there was a great guess. I want to encourage you, but
[20:45] like Tyco type, What is this? No, that was just sad.
[20:49] That was just sad. It wasn't even.
[20:51] No. No.
[20:51] No, I I have a I have a positive adjective for it.
[20:54] I think that was a cute guess. That's a partner thing all.
[21:02] Right. Appreciate it.
[21:03] OK. No.
[21:04] OK. So yes.
[21:05] I know I I I'm owning, I'm owning my mediocrity there.
[21:08] So let's get on with it. OK, so the typhoons that sunk
[21:14] Kublai Khan's fleet August 1281, and we are talking about the
[21:24] what its impact on pop culture. There's a word that comes from
[21:26] what you're saying. It's the etymology.
[21:28] It's not necessarily just pop culture, it is there in pop
[21:31] culture as well, but I think in general usage as well in both
[21:34] English and Japanese. English and Japanese?
[21:39] I'll need a clue. OK, I'll give you the origin of
[21:45] the word in Japanese. So the source of the word and
[21:49] the word originated from. Figure of speech used in
[21:54] Japanese Waka poetry modifying and I'm spelling it out for you
[22:01] Ise and I don't know how to pronounce it, but I would assume
[22:04] it's something like Isay Isay, isay something like that which
[22:07] is a province in Japan. So it is a modified word which
[22:13] is originated from this source in Japanese, the haiku oh.
[22:19] No, it's not a haiku. No, I'm trying to think of
[22:22] Japanese words which I know, which are very few and far
[22:25] between. Oh.
[22:26] No, I'm sure you know a lot of them is that they are so
[22:29] commonly used in English sometimes you forget that
[22:31] they're Japanese in origin. Yeah, I'm just blanking.
[22:35] I have absolutely no leads on this one.
[22:38] OK, let me tell you what the word translates to.
[22:43] In English, even though the Japanese word itself is used in
[22:46] English, but if it was translated to English, it would
[22:49] be divine wind, divine wind. Hence the usage for referring to
[22:57] the typhoons that disperse the fleets when Japan was under
[23:01] invasion by Kublai Khan. Oh OK.
[23:04] I have a feeling this is something I've read at some
[23:07] point and forgotten completely. Because when you said divine
[23:10] win, something started to spark at the back of my head, but it's
[23:14] too deep. I can't remember what exactly it
[23:17] was. We need.
[23:19] I've known you for a very long time.
[23:20] In this case, I know you know the answer.
[23:23] There's no way you don't know the answer.
[23:25] OK, so I'm just. I'm just chalking it up to the
[23:27] late hour that it's not striking immediately.
[23:30] But you'll get there. I believe in you, yeah.
[23:33] Divine wind. Divine wind.
[23:35] For some reason, my head is going to karaoke.
[23:37] Empty orchestra. It's it's just playing over in
[23:43] my head. You know what kind of Japanese
[23:45] words define wind? OK, I'll give you a hint which
[23:49] is very close, I guess. Is the same starting letter as
[23:53] karaoke. I mean it's it starts with K it
[23:59] starts with K I'm just blocking right now.
[24:02] Only karaoke and karate both meaning empty is Kara means
[24:05] empty. That's the only thing that's
[24:07] coming to mind. I I'm not.
[24:08] You put me out of my misery event.
[24:11] I'll give you one last sent, OK. It became popular or it gained a
[24:15] lot of not right? I guess middle of last century,
[24:20] The middle of the last century. Kamikazi.
[24:24] There we go. It is.
[24:25] Oh, God, Yes. Yes.
[24:27] It just hit me. Yeah, yeah, the kamikaze pilots.
[24:30] The suicide pilots who used to crash their planes into the
[24:34] ships in the Pacific Fleet during World War 2.
[24:38] In exactly, exactly so suicide attacks against the allied naval
[24:44] vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World
[24:47] War 2, intending to destroy warships more effectively than
[24:50] with conventional air attacks, because conventional air attacks
[24:53] sometimes don't really hit the targets and kamikaze the word
[24:57] itself. Translates to divine wind, but
[24:59] is also now an English word and is used to mean basically doing
[25:04] something which would be self-destructive when used in
[25:07] English. And it comes from the word that
[25:10] was used to describe the typhoons that dispersed the
[25:13] fleets back in 1281. And that's coming as it for you.
[25:19] So I'm going to ask you a very, very simple question.
[25:23] This is a question I'm fairly sure you know the trivia for,
[25:27] but I'm going to ask you it anyway.
[25:31] Hillbilly is a term for people who dwelled in the rural areas
[25:36] of the US, primarily in the southern Appalachian Mountains
[25:40] and the Ozarks. Okay, a cartoon hillbilly, a
[25:45] cartoon style hillbilly was used as the logo on early bottles and
[25:51] signages of this beverage. Okay, which beverage I meant are
[25:55] we talking about? I'm intentionally holding back a
[25:58] couple of screws to make it a little more difficult for you
[26:01] because I know otherwise you'll get this very quickly.
[26:04] Is it your Telecy whiskey now? Interesting.
[26:08] A beverage which had a hillbilly character as a mascot, right?
[26:13] Yeah, a cartoon stylized hillbilly.
[26:16] If it weren't copyrighted, right now would be the perfect time to
[26:19] play dueling banjos in the background.
[26:23] No, I can't think of something that fits this.
[26:26] What kind of drink are we talking about?
[26:28] Okay. So I'm gonna give you an
[26:30] additional clue. This is for something I left out
[26:32] of the question. The name of this beverage
[26:35] originated from the Scots Irish slang meaning moonshine.
[26:40] Scott Irish slang meaning moonshine.
[26:43] Yeah, So it was a slang for moonshine.
[26:46] Moonshine, as most people may know.
[26:49] Or if you didn't, moonshine is kind of homemade distilled
[26:53] alcohol that is, that was made by the people of the Appalachian
[26:58] Mountains in the Ozarks and something that exploded during
[27:03] the Prohibition in the US. Moonshine.
[27:07] This is This is why alcohol questions always trip me up.
[27:09] I don't feel like I want to start drinking alcohol.
[27:11] Just we have to answer. Alcohol questions.
[27:15] One more clue for the For you, it's not alcohol.
[27:19] Ohh OK, interesting, because moonshine would have meant
[27:23] alcohol directly for me. OK, not alcohol.
[27:28] So I'm then I'm thinking famous American brands like Pepsi and
[27:33] Coke, but I don't think they ever had a hillbilly mascot.
[27:38] No, I don't think any of us have seen this particular mascot.
[27:41] We are all we are all very familiar with the very different
[27:44] stylized logo, but this is from it early origins.
[27:49] Does this drink still have a mascot or is it just a logo that
[27:52] is iconic now? No, there is no mascot as far as
[27:56] I know. It's not like 7UP, which had
[27:58] five or eight or something like that.
[28:00] Right, right, right. So is it something like a
[28:04] carbonated drink? Is it a carbonated drink?
[28:07] Yes. Then my guess would have been
[28:10] Coke or Pepsi. But I don't think they're right.
[28:13] So tell me what the answer is. OK, I'm going to, I'm going to
[28:16] read the question with stresses on certain portions and that
[28:20] should give you the answer. OK.
[28:22] Alright, alright, let's do this. Hillbilly is a term for people
[28:25] who dwell in the rural areas of the US, primarily in the
[28:28] Southern Appalachian Mountains and the Ozarks.
[28:32] A cartoon style hillbilly was used on the early bottles and
[28:36] signages of this beverage, with the name coming from the Scots
[28:41] Irish slang meaning moonshine. I I like how you stretch
[28:48] mountains. Is Mountain Dew.
[28:50] It is Mountain Dew. That is so kind of you, will.
[28:56] It justly handed me to the answer, OK, And made me feel
[29:02] good, as if I figured it out by myself.
[29:05] Yeah, OK, I'll take it. I'll take it.
[29:08] Great. So this Mountains of Mountain
[29:10] Dew is actually was actually a slang for moonshine.
[29:16] So when the beverage first came out, it had a cartoon kind of
[29:19] hillbilly on its logo. Yeah, that that is a great
[29:23] question. I like that.
[29:24] It's pretty cool, pretty cool. OK.
[29:27] OK. My next question has to do with
[29:31] the the United States of America and specifically the one thing
[29:36] that they're really good at undoubtedly, and that is their
[29:38] military, OK. As has been the case for many,
[29:43] many centuries, the US military also uses dogs as members of the
[29:51] of the military. And these dogs obviously are
[29:55] used in multiple scenarios, like they're deployed as scouts or
[29:59] bomb detectors, sometimes as sentries, sometimes even as
[30:02] couriers. Okay.
[30:05] Now one of the things that. Working with an animal sometimes
[30:10] requires is that we want to respect the animal rights and
[30:15] with the non human being obviously it is not like you can
[30:19] talk to them. So what is one thing that the US
[30:22] military does which in theory helps show respect to the dogs.
[30:28] So a practice that the US military employees that is meant
[30:31] to ensure that while in service they are shown respect, they're
[30:35] given ranks, right dogs are given official ranks and they
[30:40] can be majors and kernels and whatnot.
[30:43] That's pretty cool. Yes, you are right.
[30:45] But I would ask you to go a bit further.
[30:50] You're you're pretty much on the right track.
[30:52] So this is meant to basically ensure that they're shown
[30:54] respect and to discourage mistreatment of the dogs in
[30:58] theory. Obviously you can't ensure that
[31:00] just by a single practice, but this practice is meant to try to
[31:04] get there. Interesting, because I thought
[31:07] the whole purpose of those ranks thing was like, OK, the dog
[31:10] outranks you, outranks its handler, so you can't, you know,
[31:14] oh. OK then.
[31:15] Fine. Yeah.
[31:16] OK. OK, You got it.
[31:17] You got it already. Yes.
[31:18] OK. Because you just said rank.
[31:20] You just said ranks. I was looking for that little
[31:22] bit more. Oh, OK.
[31:26] It is the fact that dogs usually outrank their handlers.
[31:31] So that is more often than not the case that the dogs usually
[31:34] outrank, if not outrank. They're at the same level, and
[31:37] it's a matter of tradition. Most dog handlers start their
[31:40] careers as private, first class or sergeants, and the dog being
[31:47] a noncommissioned officer would outrank or at least match the
[31:50] rank of their handler. OK.
[31:53] Yeah, this is one of the things that they do in the military, in
[31:56] the US at least, to discourage mistreatment of the dogs.
[32:01] OK. That's nice.
[32:03] Quick crack. Quick crack OK, this person was
[32:10] a tech enthusiast who hopped on to the Internet bang wagon in
[32:15] India much before anyone else. OK, he became the founder and
[32:22] chairman of the Internet Users Committee of India and also
[32:26] played a major role in setting up Internet organizations like
[32:29] the Ethical Hackers Association. He very famously used to
[32:32] maintain a website dedicated to his family.
[32:36] I need you to identify who I'm talking about.
[32:39] What is this person famous for? Is it for tech or for something
[32:42] else? That's exactly why I'm asking
[32:45] this question. You wouldn't be very surprised
[32:48] if I told you his name. He has nothing to do.
[32:53] I mean, like in the public space at least.
[32:55] He's not known for being tech savvy or anything related to
[32:58] technology. Is fame comes from a completely
[33:03] different field? OK, I know I have no clue right
[33:05] now, so any hint would be good. OK, I will tell you who he like,
[33:12] what his profession was, he was famous for.
[33:15] He was a Bollywood actor. OK.
[33:18] And he was one of, you know, one of the first two hop on the
[33:22] Internet bandwagon, founder and chairman of the Internet Users
[33:26] Community of India. And he played a major role in
[33:29] setting up internal organizations like the Ethical
[33:31] Hackers Association. And he famously maintained a
[33:34] website dedicated to his family. Is the family also famous?
[33:39] Have to be now because otherwise people wouldn't be interested.
[33:43] Right. Amitabh Bachan was an early
[33:45] adopter, but I think there was more in the blogging space, so I
[33:48] don't think that would work and that was way, way after this.
[33:52] Also, it's like, actually actually proper early Internet.
[33:55] Yeah, this is when the Internet first came to India and there
[33:58] were like 15 Internet users in Mumbai or something like that.
[34:02] Wow. OK.
[34:03] Interesting. Yeah.
[34:05] This isn't that. Yeah, this is the time of VSNL.
[34:09] I don't know if you're old enough like I'm sorry to say
[34:13] that, but I don't know if you remember VSNL which are Sanchar
[34:16] Nigam Limited which used to provide Internet.
[34:19] Wow, I don't know what VSNL is. No.
[34:21] Yes, yes. Yeah.
[34:22] So yeah, I happen to be from the generation that has used VSNL
[34:26] dial up brings like dramatically I found nostalgic memories.
[34:32] I have I. Have used dial up, but perhaps I
[34:35] just don't remember VSNL. OK.
[34:37] Anyways, let's try this out. If it is Indian film industry,
[34:42] I'm assuming you meant Bollywood.
[34:45] Because you also said Mumbai, so I'm going to say the the Kapoor
[34:49] family and Rishi Kapoor. Just cause no it's not Rishi
[34:56] Kapoor. But is it the Kapoor family?
[34:59] Yes. OK, I have quite a few people
[35:02] there. Anil Kapoor, No.
[35:06] I'm trying to think of the Kapoors who are active in the
[35:09] 90s, but I guess doesn't necessarily have to be a name
[35:12] that was active in film. No, he was.
[35:14] He was. He's very, very famous, very
[35:20] famous actor, known for his personality and for his dance
[35:25] moves. Personality and dance moves in
[35:28] the 90s. I didn't say the 90s, I just the
[35:31] 90s when the Internet came to India.
[35:33] Yeah, I mean if it was an early adopter, it would be early 2000s
[35:36] and and no, the Internet came to the IT came to India in the
[35:40] early 90s. But it that doesn't technically
[35:43] mean this person was active during the 90s, at least in.
[35:47] Oh, oh, OK, is it then Ranbir Kapoor would be too young, I
[35:53] imagine. Is it Ranbir Kapoor would have
[35:55] been a toddler at this time. Yeah, OK, damn.
[36:00] I can't think of somebody who would fit this bill then.
[36:04] No, you've got to give me a hint.
[36:05] Even the Kapoor family should get me there.
[36:07] I still can't think of the right answer.
[36:10] OK, it is quite appropriate that this person was one of the
[36:18] initial adopters of the Internet, given that a very,
[36:21] very famous website kind of owe the name to one of his most
[36:26] famous movements, Moments in Cinema.
[36:30] An Indian website which is named after something from this
[36:34] person's films. Yeah, so in one interview,
[36:37] apparently he has mentioned that a lot of people thought that he
[36:43] owned this website because the name of the website is
[36:47] inextricably linked to him, at least in India.
[36:50] Somebody from the Kapoor family? A website name from one of their
[36:55] movies? No.
[36:57] Then the website actually had to see the website's name.
[36:59] Has actually nothing to do with this movie, right?
[37:02] But it is. I got that.
[37:03] Yeah, it's inextricably the name of the website is inextricably
[37:07] linked to this particular actor. So much so that many people in
[37:11] India, including some in an interview he mentioned that
[37:15] including some of his own family thought that he owned this
[37:17] website or at least he had a share in this website.
[37:21] Sounds like a really fun piece of trivia, but.
[37:24] No, I guess you have to give me the website name to for me to
[37:27] get there then. OK.
[37:28] So the website we're talking about, which has this link to
[37:31] him, is Yahoo. Shami Kapoor.
[37:34] Shami Kapoor It is Shami Kapoor, yes.
[37:37] Right, right, right. This is Shami Kapoor and his
[37:40] Internet club in the 19 in basically 1990s.
[37:44] We're talking about 94 to 96. Around that time, they were the
[37:48] first group of people to, you know, start using the Internet.
[37:52] They had this kind of club and whatnot and he used to maintain
[37:55] some of the first Indian websites.
[37:57] And there was this, a picture that was posted of one of his
[38:02] emails from 1996 on Twitter, or X as we should be calling it
[38:09] now, where he he's basically messaging I UCI members, that is
[38:15] the Internet Users Committee of India members, basically telling
[38:18] them to be less horny on the chat rooms.
[38:22] I'm not kidding, Okay. And I'm, I'm, I'm reading this
[38:24] Okay. A number of visitors to Talk
[38:26] City, many of them from India, I'm ashamed to say, behave as if
[38:31] the words they type on their keyboards will be read by
[38:34] computers. They seem to forget that there
[38:38] are human beings sitting in front of these machines.
[38:42] To put it bluntly, they are rude, they are offensive to
[38:45] members of the opposite sex, and they do things that make it
[38:48] difficult for others to participate in a conversation.
[38:52] Now, this is not typical of IRC channels.
[38:54] In fact there may there are many that seem to be full of
[38:57] unpleasant stuff. They are a bit like the not so
[39:00] nice bars in the not so nice areas of our towns, the ones
[39:04] most of us prefer to stay away from ourselves and the ones we
[39:07] try to protect our children from.
[39:09] Please. You wouldn't talk behave like
[39:11] this in your own homes, so please don't behave like this in
[39:13] Talk City. Well, as long as the Internet
[39:17] has existed, people have been very inappropriate on it.
[39:20] So I'm not surprised, but interesting.
[39:24] OK, so he was, he was an early adopter of the Internet.
[39:28] And you when you said the website thing, I was trying to
[39:31] think of an Indian website and I wasn't able to, but Yahoo, of
[39:34] course, is the word that is very closely associated with him.
[39:37] So, yeah, that makes sense. Great question.
[39:40] That is a fantastic question. Yeah.
[39:43] Shami Kapoor? Who knew?
[39:45] Yeah, love it. Your turn.
[39:48] Yours. I think yours will be the last
[39:49] question. OK.
[39:52] And here I go for the last question.
[39:54] For the episode, I'm going to bring this from Internet to the
[39:59] world of video games and tell you the story behind the origin
[40:07] of one of the iconic characters in gaming and tell me which
[40:12] character I'm talking about. So this particular character,
[40:16] the developers were trying to find references for this
[40:20] character, and they searched in what would be the most obvious
[40:24] place to be looking for a reference.
[40:27] However, they realized it was a complete waste of time because
[40:31] the reference that they were looking were at.
[40:34] They realized the movements were unsuitable and they were too
[40:38] quiet to be captured by a microphone.
[40:41] Which particular character is this that eventually used a
[40:46] horse's gallop to animate the movements and had the programmer
[40:53] working on this particular game provide the sound and the voice?
[40:58] Wow, a horse's gallop. Yeah.
[41:02] OK, can I ask one question? Is this an anthropomorphic
[41:05] character or is it a kind of? Basically I'm asking if it's
[41:09] Pac-Man or something else. It is not something in the realm
[41:15] of Pac-Man, no. OK.
[41:19] Any time frame for this? OK, I'll give you when this game
[41:24] was released, it's the 90s. OK, one of the classic games.
[41:33] OK, are we talking about the footsteps of Wolf 3D?
[41:39] Wolfenstein The Castle Wolfenstein 3D No, no no no.
[41:43] OK, a horses gallop, that's what then Is it Link?
[41:49] Is it The Legend of Zelda? Link.
[41:52] But then, I don't remember, you know, the horses gallop
[41:56] somewhere else. It is based after the horses
[42:00] gallop, but a horses gallop is not exactly directly.
[42:03] Seen, that's OK. It's the directly seen or heard.
[42:08] The movement was based off of the horse's gallop, right?
[42:10] So it's not like you see a horse galloping at any point.
[42:12] OK, OK, OK, I'm. I was thinking of the sound of a
[42:16] horse's gallop because I thought you'd the movement.
[42:18] What they realized was they were trying to base it off of what
[42:24] would be the most obvious reference point, but they
[42:29] realized that the movements were unsuitable for that reference,
[42:34] and also those the noises were too quiet to be captured by a
[42:38] microphone, so they couldn't base both the movement or the
[42:42] sound of the reference that they wanted to use.
[42:46] OK, so then the sound was given by the programmer, and the
[42:48] movement was based of a horse's Gallup.
[42:51] So if it's something that's based of a horse's Gallup, I'm
[42:55] assuming it might be some kind of animal, which would have been
[42:59] the original reference, but something that's a quiet one.
[43:03] We're talking about a famous video game, Ohh, Nintendo, if
[43:08] that helps you. Super Mario Brothers, No.
[43:15] In Kong. That's not the name though.
[43:19] Donkey Kong. You're talking about Donkey
[43:21] Kong? OK, so donkeys, Donkeys were the
[43:24] original reference. And then, oh, OK, no, no.
[43:27] Nice Donkeys are not the original reference.
[43:28] Sorry, Donkey Kong is actually a gorilla.
[43:32] So they wanted to use gorillas as a reference, and they went to
[43:35] a zoo. And they were trying to.
[43:38] They were trying to spend hours trying to record them by a
[43:41] phone, a microphone and, you know, a video camera.
[43:44] But they realized the movements were not very suitable and they
[43:47] were too quiet for the noises to be captured as well.
[43:49] So eventually Donkey Kong's running animation was based off
[43:52] of a horse's gallop, and one of the programmers provided the
[43:56] sounds for Donkey Kong as well. I just made.
[43:59] I'm just trying to picture this guy who was coding.
[44:02] Throwback to the beginning of video games as we know it today
[44:08] exactly, yeah. But I'm also trying to picture
[44:10] cuz I've been in the coding space and I'm just working on my
[44:12] code like late in the night and my boss comes up to me and he's
[44:15] like can you make some gorilla noises?
[44:17] And then for the next two weeks, that's what I'm doing.
[44:20] I'm just recording gorilla noises.
[44:22] So I think that's how Andy Serkis had his career, right?
[44:25] No, that's true. That's true pretty much how Andy
[44:28] Serkis has always worked. Yeah, that is the origin of
[44:32] Donkey Kong in terms of its characteristics for the video
[44:35] game. OK.
[44:37] Nice question. Great question.
[44:40] That's I think all the time we have for question or direct
[44:44] questions. Aditya, do you have a question
[44:46] for our audience for the next week?
[44:49] I do have a question for the audience.
[44:53] So the question is if to pay tribute to Shami Kapoor and his
[44:57] contributions to Internet in India, there was a website
[45:02] created. What would be the ideal name for
[45:04] that website which obviously can't be.yahoo.com because
[45:07] yahoo.com already exists. So what would be the ideal name
[45:10] for that website? And that is a question we shall
[45:12] answer in next week's episode. Great.
[45:16] And I actually look forward to that answer which is saying
[45:19] something. No, to be fair, I'm quite
[45:26] surprised that Aditya hasn't quit.
[45:28] This podcast because I keep folk its like a its like its like its
[45:32] a performing monkey and im keep poking him every week so.
[45:34] Like dance, monkey dance and. But he still you know, is a
[45:40] great sport. So yeah we will you know await
[45:45] that answer with waited breath for the next week.
[45:47] So lets wind before we wind up. There was the audience question
[45:50] that I had asked at the beginning of the episode.
[45:52] Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest player to score a
[45:54] century in England when he scored 119 not out.
[45:57] Against England at the Old Trafford and helped India
[45:59] salvage the Test. His performance led to him being
[46:02] made the man of the match and he was awarded with something.
[46:05] However, if he would have to have used what he was awarded,
[46:08] he would have received a warning from the Manchester Police.
[46:11] Why Aditya? Do you have any guesses as to
[46:14] what the answer could be for this question?
[46:17] The very obvious answer for that seems to be alcohol, like we win
[46:22] a bottle of champagne or something.
[46:24] Oh, bang on, bang on. Yes, he was awarded a champagne
[46:28] bottle, but he was underage at the time so he could not have
[46:31] consumed it without having received a warning from the
[46:33] police. The additional piece of trivia
[46:37] is that he stored it away from 1990 all the way to 1998, and
[46:42] opened it only when his daughter Sarah turned 10.
[46:46] That's beautiful. That's such a lovely little
[46:48] additional trivia. I love that.
[46:50] Yes. So that's all we have time for
[46:54] this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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[47:23] That Aditya, our Fact checker General will be back after the
[47:27] musical thing with the Fact Check for this episode.
[47:30] Thanks again for tuning in and have a great day.
[47:34] See you guys next week, and here's the Fact Check for
[47:52] the episode. Donkey Kong was first introduced
[47:55] in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong.
[47:59] The reboot of the character happened in the 1994 game Donkey
[48:03] Kong Country, which was developed by Rare, a British
[48:06] video game developer. Donkey Kong Country was where
[48:09] the movements from a horse and the voice of a programmer was
[48:13] used to create the titular character.
[48:16] And that's all for the Fact Check.

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