# Episode 100 - The Magical Number 7, (Plus 2) & An Unlimited Capacity for Trivia

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 21 Feb 2025, 59 min.

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Do you know what happens when some of the best trivia nerds gather together on a single podcast episode? You get some amazing trivia like: Do you know what glaring omission is allegedly because of Gösta Mittag-Leffler's affair with Sofie Hess? Do you know what nickname was given to Adam Curry, one of the pioneers of podcasting? Do you know how 3 very iconic nature reserves were formed, unintentionally, because of other human activities? Tune in to find out as we are joined by guest quizmasters: Rajiv, Hari Krishna, Aniruddha, Aishwarya, Berty, Sai, and Garry in this phenomenal episode!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are You Quizzing Me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode #100 of Are You
[0:23] Quizzing Me? Your favorite quizzing and
[0:25] trivia podcast show. Aditya and I have been at it for
[0:28] 100 episodes straight bringing you the best quiz questions this
[0:33] side of the galactic boundary. So welcome one and all and all
[0:40] our listeners to our 100th episode.
[0:43] We've been doing it for just about two years now, and we
[0:46] couldn't be more excited for this very, very special episode
[0:49] that we are coming to you with. As usual, before every episode
[0:54] we have an audience questioned and this is a question that
[0:57] starts off the episode and the answer to which I reveal at the
[1:00] end of it. So the audience question, the
[1:04] very special audience question for our audience today is the
[1:10] word X in German means fear. The same word with the same
[1:16] spelling in English means a non specific feeling of anxiety and
[1:22] frustration. Identify the word X and let me
[1:26] repeat the question. The word X in German means fear
[1:31] and the same word with the same spelling in English means a non
[1:35] specific feeling of anxiety and frustration.
[1:40] Identify the word X. And I would really answer to
[1:43] this question at the end of our a special 100th episode.
[1:48] I am going to now pass the baton to Aditya to explain why exactly
[1:52] this is a special episode, apart from the fact that we have
[1:56] Humblebrag done 100 episodes straight. 100 episodes, Vineet
[2:01] when we started, I remember you told me this one thing, that
[2:05] most podcasts that are successful or let's say that
[2:09] survive, if you want to survive one year, you just have to
[2:12] survive the first two months and then there's a higher chance of
[2:15] surviving one year. And if you want to survive the
[2:17] first five years, you just have to survive the 1st 2 years to
[2:20] get to that five year mark. So we have hit the two year mark
[2:24] and more actually. And 100 episodes.
[2:26] Oh Lord, that is a lot of episodes.
[2:29] You have been my most consistent relationship in the last two
[2:33] years, last 100 episodes, which is saying a lot.
[2:36] Yeah. I don't think I've spent this
[2:37] much time talking to anybody as I have done to you.
[2:40] And any listener who still does not know this fact, I will
[2:43] reiterate it. We need that.
[2:44] I still have not met. We have never met in our whole
[2:47] life. In person, yeah.
[2:48] But given the way the technology and the world is going now, I
[2:51] think maybe virtual friendships will become as important or as
[2:55] significant as real life. In person once, yeah, But we've
[2:59] never met in person in IRL, to quote the Internet lingo.
[3:04] I think now we've gone so far, I don't think we'll keep it going
[3:07] as long as humanly possible that we're going to actively avoid
[3:12] you. No, no, this, this has to go on.
[3:15] Because if nothing else, it gives me something to look
[3:18] forward to every week. And that brings me to why 100th
[3:22] episode is special. Because Vineet and I have been
[3:24] doing this for a while, and every so often we feel like we
[3:27] want to bring in a fresh voice. And so many amazing,
[3:31] intelligent, brilliant, just trivia nerds of the highest
[3:35] pedigree have graced our podcast over the last century of
[3:40] episodes. And each time they appeared on
[3:43] the podcast, we promised them that we'd love to bring them
[3:45] back on. And some of them have come back
[3:48] on as well. And this seemed like a perfect
[3:52] opportunity to bring all of them back on.
[3:53] So we decided that we're going to ask all of our previous
[3:56] guests to send in a question and that they have done so.
[4:00] And how so we need has some of these questions and I have not
[4:03] heard them yet. And I have some of these
[4:05] questions which we need has not heard yet.
[4:07] So we will act as their proxy quiz masters, but due credit to
[4:12] the original quiz masters who did send in the question, which
[4:16] will be revealed in their own voices actually because we have
[4:19] their audio recordings. So that should be fun.
[4:21] Vineet. Before we start the episode
[4:23] though, I have to ask you favorite episode from the last
[4:26] 100? Let's let's exclude the guest
[4:27] episodes because all of them have been Stella.
[4:29] Oh yeah, I was actually going to point out a few of the guest
[4:31] episodes, but that's a tough question.
[4:35] This is like Sophie's Choice. You're asking me to choose from
[4:39] between my children. It's just not fair.
[4:42] But if you have to pick your favorite child.
[4:44] OK, I think our 2023, the end of your episode was pretty
[4:50] spectacular. Yeah 23 end of the year episode
[4:53] was good. 24 was also great. Both the year end episodes are
[4:56] great. I loved the Gen.
[4:57] Z lingo one the fun way we're doing.
[4:59] That was our weirdest one of all.
[5:01] Like, yeah, that would be number one of our most weird episodes
[5:05] ever. But again, it was a request from
[5:07] a fan fall out of the podcast who had asked us and suggested
[5:11] this particular point. So yeah, I get why it's special
[5:14] to you. Yeah, no, I love that one.
[5:17] So I'm going to start off the proceedings by being the proxy
[5:21] for our fantastic quiz master, Rajeev De Silva.
[5:26] Rajeev was our guest Quiz Master in episodes #64 and 65.
[5:34] First of all, thank you guys for inviting me back even for one
[5:38] question on this podcast, on this hundredth episode of the
[5:41] podcast. I had great fun a couple of
[5:43] times I was on the show and so I'm happy to be back for this
[5:49] guest question. OK.
[5:51] So a guy called Gusta Mithag Leffler.
[5:55] I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
[5:57] Gusta Mithag Leffler. He was a professor at the turn
[6:01] of the 20th century and he allegedly, the word allegedly
[6:09] being key here, had a brief affair with a woman called
[6:12] Sophie Hess. This.
[6:14] Is one of the supposed reasons or one of the reasons believed
[6:17] to be behind what notable omission?
[6:22] That's the question. So just to repeat, Gusta Mithag
[6:26] Leffler was a professor at the turn of the 20th century and he
[6:29] allegedly had an affair or brief affair with somebody called Kofi
[6:33] Hess. And this is one of the reasons
[6:37] touted behind what notable omission.
[6:43] Oh, interesting turn of the 20th century he mentioned, right?
[6:48] Yes, he did mention the turn of the 20th century, and I really
[6:53] wish Rajeev was here in person asking us this question because
[6:57] then I would have had a chance to flex because I actually do
[7:00] know this. So, Aditya, it's all yours.
[7:03] I am going to take a guess, I don't know the timeline fits,
[7:06] but is this Nobel Prize? Oh, OK, you're halfway there.
[7:11] What exact omission is Rajeev talking about?
[7:16] There is no Nobel Prize for mathematicians.
[7:18] Brilliant. Brilliant.
[7:19] Yes, you're right, There are actually there are no Nobel
[7:22] prizes for mathematicians now. In the hope that the question
[7:25] would go on longer, Rajiv had also recorded a couple of clues.
[7:30] So I'm just going to play those clues also for our audience to
[7:33] have a flavour of whatever we like if Rajiv had actually
[7:37] posted those to us. OK, I'll give a couple of clues
[7:41] which may help. One clue is that Nitag Leffler
[7:46] was a professor at the University College of Stockholm,
[7:49] so that might help you place this geographically.
[7:53] And Sophie has was based in Vienna, and Mitag Leffler used
[7:58] to travel to Vienna, apparently often as part of his academic
[8:02] duties. And that's when the tryst is
[8:06] supposed to have occurred. Yeah, the clue makes sense.
[8:12] OK, I'll give another clue if it's still required.
[8:14] And that clue is that the the crux of the matter here, or the
[8:18] number of the issue is that Sophie Hess, Sophia Hess was
[8:23] actually somebody else's mistress at that time when this
[8:26] the Alliance supposedly occurred.
[8:29] I was not sure of any of these names, I just knew the fact that
[8:33] there was an affair to be blamed behind the omission of
[8:38] mathematics as a field from the Nobel Prizes.
[8:42] I love it. It's such a fun question.
[8:44] Yes, and here's the answer in Rajiv's own voice.
[8:48] Just to reiterate, the answer is that this is the reason, alleged
[8:52] reason that there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics.
[8:56] So it turns out that Sophie Hess was was Alfred Nobel's mistress
[9:02] and Mitang Leffler was a professor of mathematics at the
[9:05] University College of Stockholm. So because of this supposed
[9:09] brief affair, Nobel was generally pissed at math, at
[9:13] mathematicians and and specifically didn't want to
[9:16] institute a prize which might be at some point won by Mittag
[9:21] Leffler and which is why he didn't institute a mathematics
[9:24] prize under the Nobel umbrella. Thank you, Rajiv, thank you for,
[9:30] you know, being such a sport and sending us this question for our
[9:33] 100th episode. You were one of our fan
[9:35] favourites as a guest quizmaster and we sincerely hope to get you
[9:40] back for another episode soon. OK, Aditya, hit me with it.
[9:44] Who do you have a question from? You know, before I get to my
[9:47] question, I just have to point out that Alfred Nobel thought
[9:52] his legacy would be 1 of violence and he wanted to change
[9:56] that because of course he is credited with inventing dynamite
[10:01] and he wanted to change that. So Nobel Peace Prize and you
[10:03] know, the sciences and all of those things came into being,
[10:07] but the man could not get over this one thing.
[10:11] See that, as I say, all is fair in love and war.
[10:14] He was able to give up war, but he was not able to give up love.
[10:17] Oh. Oh, Vineet, look at you waxing
[10:20] poetic. Yes, just.
[10:22] It's a full moon outside. Oh, on 100th episode.
[10:27] All right. OK.
[10:28] That was a great question. And I believe that leads me no
[10:32] better segue than to just say another great question.
[10:34] And this one is to our first ever guest and our most frequent
[10:38] guest, Hari Krishna. HK has sent me a fun little
[10:43] question, actually two questions and he left it to me to figure
[10:47] out the answer to the questions. I actually had to Google it.
[10:51] I was not sure what it was. Oh God, then I'm not getting it.
[10:54] No, you actually might. I feel like you might get this.
[10:57] But in any case, here's HK's voice with the question.
[11:03] Congrats Aditya and Vineet for reaching the milestone of 100
[11:08] episodes. I'm really, really happy for you
[11:10] all, and I'm so, so glad that I get to also have a voice back on
[11:15] this podcast after what feels like a while.
[11:17] So here you go. The earliest use of this term
[11:22] can be traced to the Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben
[11:26] Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004.
[11:30] The term was first used in the in this community in September
[11:34] 2004, when Danny Gregoire introduced it in a message to
[11:40] the ipoder dev mailing list, from where it was adopted by
[11:44] Adam Curry. Despite the etymology, the
[11:47] content can be accessed using any computer or similar device
[11:51] that can play media files. What term am I talking about?
[11:56] OK, if I'm not mistaken this is the origin of the Word podcast.
[12:01] Oh, that was a very quick crack. And yeah, HK anticipated that
[12:06] you'll be able to crack it very quickly, Vineet.
[12:08] So let me just repeat it Podcast.
[12:11] The word is a port panto of iPod and broadcast, and its earliest
[12:15] use was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben
[12:20] Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004 while
[12:25] writing an article for The Guardian.
[12:27] The term was first used in the audio blogging community in
[12:30] September of 2004, when Danny Gregory introduced it in a
[12:34] message to the ipoder dev mailing list, from where it was
[12:39] adopted by podcaster Adam Curry. Right.
[12:42] So now since Vineet cracked that very quickly and HK anticipated
[12:45] the fact that Vineet might crack very quickly.
[12:47] No, no. Question and this question I
[12:51] cracked and you'll know exactly why I cracked it so.
[12:56] We probably play that clip. I'm going to guess that it's
[12:59] going to be some sort of clever board play and that HK knows my
[13:03] weakness. HK knows what I love, it in
[13:06] fact, more than anything else. So he has sent this question.
[13:10] And if you've cracked that question really quickly, which
[13:13] I'm guessing is going to be the case for both of you because
[13:15] you're both, you know, amazing folks, what's the subsequent
[13:19] derived nickname that has been given for Adam Curry himself?
[13:26] Subsequent nickname given to Adam Curry himself.
[13:30] Something like a pod God, I don't know, I'm just blowing
[13:33] smoke out of you. Are so close.
[13:36] Tantalizingly close. Oh, God, OK, OK, see, see that
[13:40] that's that's the limit to which my brain will actually think of.
[13:43] So things that are very clever, you know, when it comes to word
[13:45] play, because I was I knew it would be something so that I was
[13:48] thinking podcast pod guard, because we're talking about Adam
[13:51] Curry. I don't know any any any clue
[13:54] that you could possibly give me or maybe something that Hari has
[13:56] sent? Now that he's sent one, but let
[13:59] me give it a shot. What would you call somebody who
[14:02] is the flag bearer, who's pathbreaker in any field, who
[14:07] leads the charge in any domain? Is he a pardon here like a
[14:11] pioneer? Forget about that.
[14:12] Forget about. I'm just asking in general.
[14:14] Pioneer. Pioneer or another word like a
[14:17] phrase actually. The father of podcast or
[14:19] something like that? Exactly, exactly.
[14:22] Father of podcast, but something to do with pod Godfather of
[14:26] podcast. Just combine these two and
[14:27] you're there. He's the God of podcast.
[14:30] He's the father of. It's one word.
[14:32] It's one word. Also famous movie.
[14:36] He's the godfather. He's the pod father.
[14:41] There are so many different layers to that, or it's just one
[14:45] layer in my brain is unable to comprehend.
[14:47] Clever word play. Damn you word play.
[14:50] Vineet, see, all of us have our strengths, OK?
[14:53] You, you are a medical genius. You are also very good with the
[14:59] music. You are also extremely smart
[15:02] when it comes to history. Some other people are good at
[15:04] making stupid jokes out of words.
[15:06] OK, so let us all just give each other space to be good at what
[15:10] we're good at, OK? OK.
[15:12] All right. So that was HK's question.
[15:15] Quiet app for our 100th podcast episode, The Origin of the Word
[15:20] podcast, and Adam Curry, who's called the pod father because of
[15:24] his efforts in the podcasting community.
[15:27] Nice, nice, very nice. And for our audience, if you
[15:31] want to listen to those excellent episodes where HK has
[15:33] been a quizmaster, I would advise you to go and check out
[15:37] episodes 11105977 and 86 of our podcast catalogue.
[15:43] It's so much fun to say catalogue, like we have a huge
[15:47] amount of episodes and content, you know, in our rearview
[15:51] mirror. At this point I'm not even sure
[15:55] if I pose a question. Have I already posed the
[15:57] question before? It is very likely that you and I
[16:00] at some point are going to start repeating questions and not even
[16:02] realize it. Yeah, possible.
[16:05] But then hopefully that doesn't happen because usually either of
[16:08] us, some, you know, one of us will recognize it.
[16:10] It sounds familiar. Maybe we've already done this
[16:12] before. So moving on to our next quiz
[16:16] master, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, affectionately known as Annie to
[16:20] us, who was our guest quiz master for episodes #70 and 71.
[16:25] And he has been so kind as to send us a question.
[16:29] Take it away, Annie. American science fiction author
[16:34] Paul Myron Anthony Line Barger, who lived from 1913 to 1966,
[16:41] used the norm, the plume of Ordwiner Smith, the two names
[16:45] referring to persons who made different things, like a Cooper
[16:49] makes barrels. Alan Ellison, another well known
[16:52] science fiction author born in 1937, used the pseudonym
[16:56] Cordwiner Bird in tribute to Line Barger's pen name.
[17:01] Now we know a Smith basically works with metal stuff.
[17:05] What does a Cordwiner make? That question was so unexpected,
[17:11] like I didn't know where it was going till the last word.
[17:14] Yeah, and his questions are always like that, and I just
[17:18] love it. He picks up these Nuggets of
[17:20] trivia and he makes these insane connections, which I would not
[17:24] even think of. And to be honest, I did not get
[17:28] this until his clue. And once he gave the clue, it
[17:31] kind of clicked. OK, wow, called Weiner Smith.
[17:37] I'm just right now I'm just letting it sink in that that's
[17:40] where the question ended up. Of course, I was just like, oh,
[17:41] what is he going to ask? All right, Cord Weiner Smith.
[17:48] Smith is somebody who works with metal.
[17:52] What does a cord Weiner do? Cord Weiner?
[17:54] Something to do with cords, wire, or some electrical job?
[17:58] Something to do with wiring. No, no, no, no, no.
[18:01] OK, should we have the clue then?
[18:04] Oh yes, so like I said, I was totally in the dark until he
[18:08] gave an excellent clue. Yeah, I have to say.
[18:11] Thelma Dash, who collaborated with Martin Scorsese as his film
[18:16] editor for over 5 decades, winning a record 3 Oscars in the
[18:21] process, as the Dutch name for the Cordwiners profession.
[18:27] Oh, are there any ideas? Scorsese is the editor, right?
[18:32] Yes, yes. Scorsese is editor first name
[18:36] Thelma. She's quite famous.
[18:38] She did a lot of his movies including Goodfellas, Taxi
[18:41] Driver. Is Wolf of Wall Street also by
[18:44] her? I think it's by her.
[18:46] I think so. I'm not.
[18:48] Because I remember, I don't know where it was, some random video,
[18:51] some YouTube video essay where this editor was talking about
[18:56] how the last thing that she cares about is continuity.
[19:00] She would rather prioritize the emotions of the actor and, and
[19:05] the vibe and the feeling of the scene than like, oh, where was
[19:08] the hand or where was this particular object?
[19:10] A lot of beginner editors focus on continuity.
[19:13] And she's like, oh, that's the last thing I care about.
[19:15] And well, her work speaks for itself.
[19:17] But OK, that's all I know about her.
[19:20] And oh, it's annoying me now because I can't remember what
[19:24] her last name is. Her last name is the Dutch.
[19:28] The Dutch version of Scott Weiner.
[19:31] OK, Thelma, something right? Yes.
[19:36] No, I cannot remember her name right now, so that's going to be
[19:40] a little tough. Yeah, so then you'll definitely
[19:43] get it when you listen to clue #2 from Annie.
[19:48] A football goalkeeper in the 1980s and one of the all time
[19:52] greats of Formula One racing have the equivalent German word
[19:58] or their surnames. Oh this is a brilliant question.
[20:03] Oh God, the clues made the question even better.
[20:06] I love that. Oh, this is Shumaker Thelma
[20:10] Shonmik Shunmik, something like that.
[20:13] Her name is also Shonmika. Shonmika Shonmika.
[20:16] So Cord Weiner is a Shoemaker. Exactly.
[20:20] Oh that's brilliant. That is so cool, I love this.
[20:25] Oh God. Leave it to Annie to give us
[20:28] such fantastic questions. It's his questions are so
[20:30] complex and at the same time so simple.
[20:34] He's a master quiz, right? I'm going to make it his new
[20:38] surname, rename him as Aniruddha Quiz, right?
[20:42] Like you have Arc, right? And Boatwright and so Wainwright
[20:45] and whatnot. No, that well deserved.
[20:48] Well deserved. He's quite poetic with his
[20:51] trivia. I love it.
[20:52] Each subsequent line needs subsequent piece of hint.
[20:56] Also made the original question better somehow.
[20:58] Exactly. Card, Weiner, Shoemaker,
[21:02] Schumacher. Oh, love that.
[21:03] Love it. All right.
[21:05] So I have a follow up question because and he had given such a
[21:08] great like a fantastic question. I have a question.
[21:12] So he mentioned Thelma Schumacher is one of the clues.
[21:17] Thelma Schumacher, obviously prolific editor.
[21:20] She's done hundreds of movies that you've heard of, Raging
[21:23] Bull, The Color of Money, Michael Jackson's music video,
[21:27] Bad Goodfellas, Cape Fear Casino, you know most of the
[21:32] Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island,
[21:35] Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, a huge and very impressive body of
[21:40] work. She has however edited or rather
[21:43] Co edited one Bollywood movie. Do you know which one that is?
[21:47] Oh, I had no idea that she's in a Bollywood movie.
[21:51] She Co edited it with Prerna Saigal.
[21:54] It's so unfortunate that I probably know fewer Bollywood
[21:57] editors than I do Hollywood ones.
[22:01] But no, no idea at all. Can you give me maybe a year or
[22:05] something? I'll give you the director.
[22:08] The director is Anurag Kashyap. Mr. Kashyap the more famous a
[22:15] Kashyap Anurag Kashyap's film that she's I don't think it's
[22:24] Gangs of Wassepur. No, it's not.
[22:27] I'm pretty sure it's not I I know.
[22:29] I mean, I have a vague recollection that that was some
[22:31] Indian editor. The movie starred KK Menon as
[22:34] well. KK Menon has been in Anurag
[22:37] Kashyap from Actually, that sounds just about right, but
[22:42] which film? OK, that was supposed to be a
[22:45] misdirect, but cello, I thought you would fall into the trap,
[22:48] but you didn't. I'll tell you the the basic.
[22:52] I mean, like, it has a fantastic technical team behind it.
[22:55] Directed by Anurag Kashyap. It obviously has, as I
[22:58] mentioned, editing by Telma Shulmaker and Prerna Saigal.
[23:02] It was based on a book by Gyaan Prakash.
[23:07] Oh, Bombay Velvet. Yes, it is Bombay Velvet.
[23:11] So Bombay Velvet was one of Anurag Kashyap's biggest
[23:14] commercial disasters, but it has the unique feature that it was
[23:19] edited by the legendary Telma. Shulmaker Wow, that's pretty
[23:23] cool. It is, it is.
[23:25] And Speaking of occupational surname, you may have heard of
[23:28] the obvious ones like Baker, Brewer, Glover, Right, Taylor.
[23:34] These are all names. Have you heard of the name
[23:36] Kellogg? Like from Kellogg's.
[23:39] Yes, Kellogg's conflict, right? And he's also, if you didn't
[23:45] know, the person who's responsible for most people in
[23:47] the US being circumcised. Look that up.
[23:50] So. So Kellogg is also an
[23:53] occupational surname. Can you guess what it is?
[23:56] What occupation it denotes? Kellogg log.
[24:02] Something to do with wood cutting?
[24:04] Something like that. Oh.
[24:05] No, no, no, no. No, no idea.
[24:08] Kellogg can't think of anything. Believe it or not, Kellogg is a
[24:12] pork butcher. OK, interesting.
[24:16] Yeah, so Kellogg is basically has evolved over time from Kill
[24:21] Hog as in hog as in a big sow or a pig and kill as in to butcher
[24:29] it. So kill hog when you say it in a
[24:31] Southern American accent and somehow becomes Kellogg.
[24:35] No, I don't think that's a strength.
[24:37] Neither either of us can do good accents.
[24:40] I think we should just not no. No, no, no.
[24:42] Our strength is doing terrible accents.
[24:46] That is true. It becomes funny at some point.
[24:47] Yeah, that's right. Exactly so that Annie, thank you
[24:51] again for the fantastic question.
[24:54] And just a reminder, you can catch Annie in two other
[24:57] episodes, actually in episode #70 and 71 of Are you quizzing
[25:01] me? So go back and check it out.
[25:04] Aditya, over to you. OK, actually over to Aishwarya,
[25:08] who has been on our podcast. And as a reminder, because all
[25:13] of these people have some stellar background in quizzing
[25:17] and in trivia, both Sai and HK have done trivia for the longest
[25:21] time, have been friends with me since college and a lot of it we
[25:24] bonded over trivia. Aishwarya is responsible for
[25:28] both Vineet and I have my favorite Instagram pages,
[25:30] Reading Room India, which does do a lot of current events and
[25:34] trivia. And he similarly very well known
[25:37] in the quizzing circles, Bertie, very well known in the quizzing
[25:40] circles, Rajiv as well. So all of these people have done
[25:42] that. And yeah, like I mentioned, and
[25:44] Aishwarya is the one responsible for Reading Room India.
[25:47] So Aishwarya has been kind enough to send us a question as
[25:51] well. Congratulations on your 100th
[25:55] episode. I'll jump right into my
[25:58] questions since I'm very excited to ask this.
[26:01] A historic house museum in the Queen's neighborhood of Corona
[26:07] commemorates the life of what legendary jazz musician and
[26:12] trumpeter who lived there for 28 years until his death in 1971.
[26:21] I repeat, a historic house museum in the Queen's
[26:26] neighborhood of Corona commemorates the life of what
[26:31] legendary jazz musician and trumpeter who lived there for 28
[26:36] years until his death in 1971. OK, we know from her episode
[26:44] that she's a big fan of jazz. I am not.
[26:47] But the only jazz trumpeter I know is Louis Armstrong.
[26:52] Yeah, nothing else. Right?
[26:54] It is Louis Armstrong. You are right.
[26:58] That was a quick, quick crack. I thought I'd have to give you a
[27:00] few hints in this case. I think because she's such a
[27:04] huge fan of jazz, she probably didn't think we'd need a hint.
[27:07] But I would have needed one if this question was posed to me.
[27:11] So I looked up a few hints and I'll give them to you.
[27:13] Firstly, his name, he always pronounced it Louis, even though
[27:17] a lot of people don't like just you did pronounce it Louis
[27:20] because that's the original French pronunciation.
[27:22] Yeah, he answered to both, but he himself used Louis.
[27:25] And if anybody ever pointed out that since it's originally a
[27:28] French name it should be pronounced Louis, he would
[27:31] always reply saying I ain't French.
[27:34] Which is such a cool, but he was from Louisiana, right?
[27:37] He was from New Orleans, which was a traditionally a French.
[27:40] It was a French colony before it was absorbed into the US, so I
[27:44] always assumed that his name would be pronounced as Louis.
[27:47] Wow, I did not know that he pronounced as Louis.
[27:51] Louis, he preferred the Lewis Lewis pronunciation of his name.
[27:55] Another cool piece of trivia, which again, maybe wouldn't lead
[27:59] you to the answer, but still nonetheless a fun piece of
[28:02] trivia. He told people his birth date
[28:04] was, and in most likelihood believed it to be the case that
[28:09] his birthday was July 4th, 1900. OK.
[28:12] Presumably because it would be easy to remember.
[28:15] Yeah. Independence Day at the
[28:17] beginning of the first year of the century.
[28:18] Yeah. Yeah.
[28:19] Exactly. It wasn't until many years after
[28:22] his death that a birth record was found confirming the correct
[28:25] date as August 4th, 1901. So he was off by exactly 1 year
[28:31] and one month. Yeah.
[28:33] Nice. The That was Louis Armstrong
[28:38] also, by the way, he's credited with the word chops, which means
[28:43] a musician's playing ability, and he came up with that word,
[28:46] so he coined that particular word.
[28:48] Oh, nice, nice. Some fun trivia, I love how this
[28:51] question was so emblematic of Aishwarya because she loves
[28:54] travelling and she loves arts, the music, dance, all of it.
[28:59] So yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much encapsulated her interests.
[29:02] I have a follow up on that because you said Louis
[29:04] Armstrong. So do you know Louis Armstrong's
[29:07] connection with James Bond? Oh no, I don't.
[29:11] If my memory serves me right, there's only one James Bond
[29:14] movie which did not have a Bond theme song.
[29:19] As in a song with lyrics, it had an instrumental.
[29:23] Oh. There's only one movie which did
[29:26] not have a lyrical theme song. It had an instrumental.
[29:29] However, there is a Louis Armstrong song.
[29:32] Oh, sorry, Louis Armstrong song, Which it has become emblematic
[29:37] of that particular film. It was the secondary theme to
[29:40] the film. It played throughout.
[29:42] It was actually repeated, I think in certain portions of No
[29:45] Time to Die as well. And it's a it's a haunting song
[29:48] and so perfectly apartment for that particular James Bond film.
[29:54] OK. So do you know which song I'm
[29:57] talking about? Which Louis Armstrong song?
[29:59] Or rather, which movie, if you can tell me?
[30:02] Both are so interconnected that if you know one, you probably
[30:04] know the other. No, no idea at all.
[30:08] OK, you've heard of all the people who've played James Bond,
[30:12] right? Sure.
[30:14] Yeah, there's only one person who's played James Bond
[30:17] officially for only one movie. Do you know who I'm?
[30:23] Forgetting the name? Never mind.
[30:24] Yeah. He appeared in only one movie.
[30:26] Do you know which movie that is? That's the movie that we're
[30:28] talking about. Is it you only live?
[30:31] Twice. That's not the One You Only Live
[30:35] Twice, if I'm not mistaken, was Roger Moore.
[30:38] OK, No, no, I don't think You Only Live Twice with Roger
[30:40] Moore. I think if that's not him, then
[30:43] it's Sean Conray. I think it is the last film of
[30:47] Sean Conray, I think. Yes, it you're right.
[30:50] You're right. You only live twice.
[30:51] It's right after Sean Conray. That guy who came in was right
[30:53] after Sean Conray. And then he did only one film.
[30:56] Yes, exactly. Yes, yes, yes, I've got it
[30:58] switched around. So yes.
[31:00] But what's his name I'm forgetting?
[31:02] Yeah, OK. It's Australian actor George
[31:04] Lazenby. He appeared only for one movie,
[31:07] On Her Majesty's Secret Service, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
[31:12] And the song that we're talking about by Louis Armstrong or
[31:14] Louis Armstrong was We have all the time in the world.
[31:18] Oh, OK, interesting. Yeah, so the song Titleist take
[31:23] was basically Bond's last words in the film.
[31:27] And it was a pivotal James Bond film because it it kind of set
[31:33] the tone for the next arrest, few of the films and his revenge
[31:36] against SPECTRE. And the same thing that we see
[31:39] in the recent movies with Daniel Craig as well, that there's a
[31:44] personal attack on James Bond and his wife, Tracy Bond.
[31:50] It's a spoiler that she dies at the end of the movie having been
[31:53] murdered by Blofeld. And the last words that James
[31:57] Bond says in the movie is we have all the time in the world.
[31:59] And that particular song, fantastic song, was performed by
[32:02] Louis Armstrong. So that's Armstrong's connection
[32:05] to James Bond. Oh sorry by the way I just
[32:11] realized that after Legend BI think Sean Connery came back to
[32:14] the series with Diamonds are. Forever.
[32:16] Yes, I think diamonds are forever.
[32:18] So You Only Live Twice was the last film in his first run, and
[32:21] then he did one more film, which was Diamonds Are Forever.
[32:24] Yeah. OK, phenomenal.
[32:27] I think that brings the question asking back to you or back to
[32:31] our next guest. So the next quiz master who has
[32:34] been so kind to us to send us a question is the inimitable
[32:38] Bertie. Ashley.
[32:40] Bertie is again one of our most popular quiz masters.
[32:45] He appeared on episode 90 and 91.
[32:48] Go check those episodes out. They are fantastic episodes.
[32:51] You can check it out. But yeah, she's a phenomenon in
[32:55] human walking form, walking on two legs.
[32:57] That's all I can say about him. And the next voice you're going
[33:01] to be hearing is that of Bertie Ashley.
[33:05] Hello, this is Bertie Ashley here and here is my question.
[33:09] The. Karman Line KARMAN is an
[33:12] imaginary line which is important for legal and
[33:15] regulatory measures and named after Hungarian American
[33:18] engineer Theodore Juan Karman. He was the first person to
[33:22] calculate when the atmosphere becomes too thin to support
[33:26] aeronautical flight. According to the FIA definition,
[33:30] the common line is exactly 100 kilometers from what entity?
[33:38] 100 kilometers away from what entity?
[33:41] Yes. I would have said sea level.
[33:43] That would be the most obvious answer.
[33:46] Can you be a little more specific?
[33:48] Because sea level isn't the same throughout the world.
[33:50] Throughout the world. Fair enough then I'd have to say
[33:53] the sea level at. Is it even the same across the
[33:59] equator? I'm just wondering if it's the
[34:00] same across the equator. It's not.
[34:02] You're right, it's not the same across the equator.
[34:05] In case of some specific point it is, then let's just say Cape
[34:10] Canaveral. Like the sea level at Cape
[34:12] Canaveral. Yeah, I mean, like, you would
[34:16] think that the Americans would do so something so
[34:19] Americocentric, if that's such a word.
[34:21] But no, it's not that. OK.
[34:25] You're there, you're there, You just have to add maybe a word to
[34:28] your answer. Oh, it's just a word.
[34:31] Average sea level. I'll give it to you.
[34:33] It's a mean sea level. OK, OK, OK.
[34:35] Yeah. Now I'm going to play out
[34:38] Bertie's clues and the answer in his own words, because he asked
[34:43] this question for a specific reason.
[34:45] So although the common line is more gentle and has no distinct
[34:50] physical significance, it is the altitude at which conventional
[34:55] airplanes or high altitude balloons, they stop.
[34:58] Even satellites, they decay before completing a single
[35:01] orbit. So basically it's the edge of
[35:04] space. After that is outer space.
[35:06] So if outer space is the upper limit, what is the water limit?
[35:11] That's your first clue. OK, makes sense.
[35:15] Makes sense. Space is the outer limit.
[35:18] Got it. So the answer is of course mean
[35:22] sea level. Yes, 54 nautical miles, 62 miles
[35:27] or 330,000 feet. Or to celebrate 100 episodes
[35:31] exactly 100 kilometers above mean sea level is a common line.
[35:36] Wish everybody who is listening to this many more testing
[35:39] episodes, fun facts and analyzing trivia on this
[35:43] podcast. This man is the God of segues.
[35:48] He is the absolute undisputed champion of segues.
[35:53] Considering how you and I both struggle with segues and have
[35:56] been for the last 100 episodes, he comes in with the smoothest
[35:58] segues. He managed to make a question
[36:00] also about this. I love it.
[36:03] So that was the indomitable, inimitable Bertie Ashley catches
[36:08] full length episodes and episodes #90 and 91.
[36:10] And if you're a reader of The Hindu newspaper, guess what?
[36:14] He's the guy who makes the Sunday quiz every Sunday on to
[36:17] The Hindu newspaper. Well, this brings me to our
[36:21] second level guest I believe. So if I'm not mistaken, Sai
[36:25] appeared on episodes #20 and 21, which is way back in our
[36:31] infancy. And I still remember episode 21,
[36:34] the last question, and that was Sai's question.
[36:36] He asked the last question and it was one of my absolute
[36:39] favorite questions that he has ever asked.
[36:41] I'm not going to tell you much it it has something to do with
[36:44] World War 2 history. So go check it out.
[36:46] It is a phenomenal question. I remember both Duned and I were
[36:49] blown away. And for added fun, I guess
[36:52] either it's episode 20 or 21 where I quote my favorite New
[36:56] York Times headline. Oh yeah.
[36:58] And I remember it was a lovely word play.
[37:01] One of the best word, just chef's kiss over word plays.
[37:04] So yeah, go check out those two things from that guest episode.
[37:08] And Sai has not disappointed this time either.
[37:11] Some really, really cool trivia coming your way in Sai's voice.
[37:16] Congratulations on the 100th episode.
[37:18] That's that's an amazing milestone.
[37:21] Some trivia that recently stumbled across that I found
[37:25] pretty interesting is whenever there's an unexpected fauna
[37:29] haven, if you will. And I came across it because I
[37:33] found out that the third largest nature reserve in mainland
[37:38] Europe, which is like 2800 kilometers square across was
[37:45] from not too long ago and has some unique endemic species.
[37:49] One of which is the eastern tree frog that typically is green in
[37:53] every other part of the world. But there's a black eastern tree
[37:56] frog in this particular nature reserve.
[38:00] Another one, for example, it's one of the only nature reserves
[38:04] in the world where the Amur leopard and the Siberian tiger
[38:08] coexist. Both incredibly rare species is
[38:11] this 155 kilometer long corridor that's literally just a mile
[38:17] across. But it's a, it's just an area
[38:21] that's home to 5000 pretty rare species, two of which are these
[38:24] famous Amur leopards and the Siberian tigers.
[38:27] And lastly, the third one that stood out to me is the European
[38:32] Greenbelt. It's like this ecological
[38:34] corridor that actually spans 24 countries from the Baltic Sea to
[38:40] the Balkans. Basically it's home to several
[38:43] rare lynxes and wolves and other endangered slash rare species in
[38:50] Europe. This was another unexpected
[38:52] fauna haven and all three of these clearly are man made fauna
[38:58] havens and in a way have resulted in unique homes for
[39:02] rare species. OK, so you've heard the question
[39:06] in size voice, but because there was a little bit of background
[39:09] noise, I'm just going to clarify what the question was one, one
[39:12] more time. By the way, I heard, I realized
[39:14] all of our guests have some sort of traffic happening in the
[39:16] background, even birdies. I love it.
[39:20] I think all our guests are just getting together, having a party
[39:22] without us. I love it.
[39:23] OK, so, so size question actually has to do with
[39:29] unexpected areas in the world that have become nature reserves
[39:33] that they were not intended for them to be nature reserves.
[39:36] They just happened to have become nature reserves.
[39:38] And he has given 3 examples, right?
[39:41] The first one that he mentioned was the third largest nature
[39:43] reserve in mainland Europe and it was not never even meant to
[39:45] be a nature reserve, right? And you mentioned I believe a
[39:47] frog which is black in colour in that nature reserve whereas
[39:51] everywhere else in the world that species would be green in
[39:54] colour. So that was the first one that
[39:56] he mentioned. You know, take a guess as to
[39:59] which area this could be because these are obviously, like you
[40:02] mentioned, they were not meant to be nature reserves.
[40:04] They just happened to become nature reserves.
[40:06] So what were they meant for or how did these places come to
[40:09] become nature reserves? Take a guess for the first one.
[40:13] Are these like urban similar to the Manhattan that we talked
[40:17] about? Are these similar?
[40:18] Are these like urban nature reserves or something like that,
[40:22] urban populations which have now become nature reserves?
[40:25] Interesting. I would not say exactly that.
[40:29] No, not that. OK, unexpected.
[40:35] Is it unexpected? Nature is of third largest in
[40:38] Europe. Oh, Chernobyl, the CEZ, the
[40:42] Chernobyl exclusion Zone. Exclusion zone.
[40:45] Yeah. Oh, OK.
[40:47] So then what are the other two? I mean like these are like
[40:49] radioactive places. All right, so let's get to the
[40:52] other two as well. So the first one, like you guys
[40:54] said, right, Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers 2800 square
[40:58] kilometers, especially in Ukraine and represents the third
[41:02] largest nature reserve in mainland Europe and has become
[41:05] an iconic, if accidental experimental in rewilding of
[41:09] these places. So interesting actually, if you
[41:11] go see, scientists didn't expect this area to have thriving life
[41:15] forms for a very long time and yet they have come back and come
[41:19] back. How so?
[41:20] It just goes to show that nature is resilient beyond our
[41:23] expectations sometimes. That's the first one and a
[41:26] really cool one to start off with.
[41:28] The second one that he mentioned was interesting, especially
[41:31] because of the leopard that is found over there alongside of
[41:36] the Siberian tiger. So Amur Leopard and Siberian
[41:39] Tiger is the only nature of where both of these are found.
[41:43] Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard.
[41:47] Is this Fukushima? No, it's not Fukushima.
[41:51] Interestingly enough, the dimensions will lead you to
[41:53] this. Probably.
[41:54] It's 155 kilometers long, but only a mile wide.
[42:01] Siberia. This is the Tunguska event, the
[42:04] Tunguska trajectory of the the comet when it landed, No.
[42:09] No, no, no, no. That's a good guess because it
[42:12] is unexpected as well. But no, this is unexpected, or
[42:15] rather, it was intended for other reasons.
[42:17] So it was not a natural event like a comet strike, but it was
[42:22] an intentional thing. OK, I I have this, this is this
[42:24] is the, what do you call it? The the military zone between
[42:30] North and South Korea. The DMZ.
[42:33] The DMZ. The DMZ.
[42:34] Yes, there's the DMZ. So the DMZ also has become a
[42:38] nature reserve of sorts because there are 5000 unique species
[42:42] that are found there because there's no human activity as
[42:44] such happening in the DMZ. Oh, very nice, very nice.
[42:49] OK, so the common thread would be places where humans have
[42:52] withdrawn completely and nature has taken over.
[42:55] Yes, in a way, Yes, in a way. OK, The last one was actually my
[42:58] favorite one. It's called the European
[43:01] Greenbelt and that's the name that has been given now.
[43:05] OK. It wasn't the name initially, it
[43:08] was given a different name. That's the name probably you and
[43:10] I were more familiar with. And due to the strong commitment
[43:14] of nature conservationists, this place eventually came to be
[43:18] recognized as a nature reserve. It's 870 mile court ecological
[43:24] treasure trove, and it is home to more than 1200 rare and
[43:28] endangered species of birds, mammals and plants.
[43:31] I'm going to give you one more clue, but before I do, I've
[43:34] given you Europe. I've given you roughly how huge
[43:37] it is. Try to take a guess.
[43:40] Can you do that? Repeat the dimensions again.
[43:43] I'm going to quote the dimensions on the Wikipedia page
[43:45] it says 870 mile quote ecological treasure trove. 870
[43:50] mile ecological treasure trove. Yeah.
[43:55] In Europe, 800 miles, we're talking about somewhere
[44:01] something unexpected has happened.
[44:03] For the purpose of this question, we are not considering
[44:05] Britain as part of Europe, right?
[44:08] It's mainland Europe. OK, anything to do with World
[44:13] War One and the the mustard gas fields or something like that?
[44:17] No. So Syed also mentioned in the
[44:19] question, I'm just going to repeat that, that it searches
[44:22] from the Baltic to the Balkan, Baltic Sea to the Balkan Sea,
[44:26] OK. And it spans roughly 24
[44:27] countries. It spans 24 countries.
[44:32] But it's Europe like tiny countries.
[44:34] Yeah, like all your countries in Europe are almost tiny
[44:36] countries, but wow, OK, this is the Iron Curtain.
[44:42] Don't tell me something to do with the Iron Curtain.
[44:44] It is the Iron Curtain, exactly right.
[44:47] Wow, that's a fantastic question.
[44:50] Yeah. Wow.
[44:51] The Iron Curtain. Nice.
[44:53] Yes, I hit with this and I was just insanely blown away.
[44:56] I love the fact that he came up with this question and actually
[45:01] I'm going to let him answer it. The first one says basically the
[45:07] Chernobyl Exclusionary Zone and the second one is the DMZ.
[45:12] The team will try zone between the two Koreas and this third
[45:16] one is basically the Iron Corridor, the area between
[45:20] eastern and western France after the Second World War.
[45:25] Wow. I think he misspoke and he
[45:26] called it the Iron Corridor, but it's the Iron Curtain.
[45:29] This is just, I don't know what to say.
[45:32] It's a fantastic question, not something I would have thought
[45:34] of. This is why we have guests,
[45:36] because these people think so differently from the way you and
[45:38] I think. Like the way I approach trivia
[45:41] or approach finding trivia is so different from how Sai or Annie
[45:45] or Bertie does it. It's just, wow, just fantastic.
[45:50] I I mean, who would have thought of Shoemaker?
[45:52] Who would have thought of 100 Kilometers, the entomology of
[45:55] Podcast Museum, home of a jazz musician?
[46:00] I love it. It's so different, it's so
[46:01] unique and it's amazing. But let's end it with one of our
[46:06] most unique guests, actually an Irish American quiz master.
[46:11] Yeah. So Gary Levy was a prolific quiz
[46:14] master on his own right and entrepreneur and businessman
[46:17] from New York, NY And he was our guest for two episodes, 75 and
[46:24] 76. And he brings, shall I say, a
[46:27] more American outlook to his questions.
[46:32] And so we're going to end today's run of quiz Master
[46:35] questions with his question. Greetings Vineet and Aditya with
[46:41] the amazing Are You Quiz and Me podcast.
[46:43] This is Gary in New York with Let's Go Trivia, and I have a
[46:47] question for your listeners. So let me set up the question
[46:51] first before I ask it. So London is the capital of
[46:56] England. London contains an N and AD, and
[47:00] England contains an N and AD. Paris is the capital of France.
[47:03] Paris has an A and an R, and so there's the word France.
[47:07] So my question is, what is the only US state where its capital
[47:15] city does not contain any of the same letters as its state?
[47:22] I'll say it again, what is the only US state whose capital city
[47:26] does not have any of the same letters as its state?
[47:31] So there you go. Good luck.
[47:34] Oh, that good luck was so needed because I need the luck in this
[47:38] question. Yeah, he will definitely need
[47:40] the hint because frankly I was a little stumped after this and I
[47:45] am not ashamed to admit it took his second clue for me to get
[47:48] the answer. OK, yeah, please give me the
[47:51] clues because I have so lost right now.
[47:54] OK. Here is hint #1 two and a half
[47:58] million visitors per year visit this state for a certain reason.
[48:04] Two and a half million visitors for a certain reason.
[48:08] Yeah, this is how do I put this Gary's way of being cheeky?
[48:14] Oh, man, OK, because I was going to say something like Burning
[48:18] Man. Oh, nice, but no.
[48:22] No, OK. No.
[48:24] Two and a half million visitors for a specific reason.
[48:27] Otherwise, like, I don't go in New York.
[48:29] My addition, forgive me Gary, but I have to throw my line over
[48:33] here, is I would ask you to cast your mind back to the episode
[48:36] where Gary was a quiz master. So think of that.
[48:41] Think of a question that he had asked.
[48:43] Think of what he says now and then go to hint #2.
[48:49] Here is the second hint. France.
[48:54] That's it, France. OK.
[48:59] So do you have it? France makes you think of
[49:03] Louisiana. Oh yes, but it's obviously not
[49:08] Louisiana. It's not Louisiana, OK, because
[49:11] I don't even know what the capital of Louisiana is.
[49:12] So. So the capital of Louisiana,
[49:18] it's Baton Rouge, which obviously does have an A and an
[49:22] O and whatnot. So I think back to Gary's
[49:26] episode where he asked his questions and remember it was a
[49:30] one American Independence Day special episode that we had done
[49:33] 1776. It was a 75th episode.
[49:35] It was on July 4th. And also think.
[49:39] As to OK, so I'm going to take a wild guess.
[49:42] I don't even know which state capital this is.
[49:45] I'm just going to take a guess just to the state reason I'm
[49:48] saying this because of our hundred episodes, I think this
[49:51] is the only time because our questions usually intricate and
[49:54] have something going on behind the scenes.
[49:56] Gary asked one of the most straightforward questions that
[49:59] had a stump for a while, which is Mount Rushmore.
[50:01] Yeah, I remember Mount Rushmore had a stump, so I'm going to
[50:05] guess South Dakota, because I know South Dakota is where Mount
[50:09] Rushmore is, that this is just a wild guess.
[50:10] That's all I remember from that episode being one of the most
[50:13] stumpy question. As I always say, sometimes it's
[50:16] better to play the man than to play the question.
[50:18] And you're right, it is South Dakota.
[50:20] He was referring to Mount Rushmore, which is part of now
[50:23] Mount Rushmore National Park, which as he had met, I think he
[50:26] mentioned the exact same figures during his question when he
[50:29] asked us which of the four presidents of Mount Rushmore and
[50:33] we did OK, consider there are we're not Americans, but.
[50:38] Took us a while. It took us a while.
[50:39] Yeah, you can go back to that episode to see what happened,
[50:42] but yes. So the answer is South Dakota,
[50:45] the capital of which is Pierre, which is the French
[50:48] pronunciation for Peter. So Pierre, which has none of the
[50:52] letters in South Dakota. So that makes it the only state
[50:57] with none of the letters in the state appearing in the spelling
[51:01] of the capital. Now Gary has given us a
[51:04] fantastic question. I got into a bit of a rabbit
[51:07] hole after listening to this. So I have a follow up question
[51:10] to you, Aditya, which is the only American state whose
[51:14] capital has all the letters of the state it is the capital of.
[51:19] So say for example, if it was England, England, all of those
[51:24] would appear in the name of the capital.
[51:27] OK. But the capital could be longer
[51:28] than that also. Yeah, obviously it will have to
[51:31] be longer than that because if you have so many letters, it has
[51:34] to be that. Oh, I know this one.
[51:39] OK. This is Indiana Indianapolis.
[51:44] Very good. Yes, it is Indiana, the capital
[51:47] of which is Indianapolis. So it has Indiana in it, and it
[51:50] has therefore all the letters. And this is a fact apparently
[51:53] not shared by any other American states.
[51:54] So Pierre, SD is the only capital state which does not
[51:58] have any of the letters from the state name in its spelling.
[52:02] And similarly, Indianapolis is the only state capital which has
[52:05] all of the letters of the state in its spelling.
[52:09] OK, so those were all the questions that were asked by all
[52:11] our guest quiz masters who appeared on the show in the past
[52:14] 100 episodes. I again want to thank and in no
[52:17] particular order, Bertie Ashley, Harikrishna, Aishwarya, Gary
[52:21] Levy, Aniruta Sengupta or Annie Rajeev de Silva and Sai Suresh.
[52:27] Thank you all for being such great guests.
[52:29] And I think combined all of you together have appeared in 16 of
[52:36] our 100 past episodes. We've had company for 16% of our
[52:40] episodes so far and it's it's just fantastic.
[52:44] And from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much.
[52:47] Thank you guys for coming through with those wonderful
[52:50] questions and making our 100th episode all the most special.
[52:54] And it has now become time for us to wind up today's episode
[52:58] and the very special question I'd kept as the audience.
[53:02] Question for our audience. I hope you have guessed what the
[53:04] answer is and the question here again.
[53:06] The word X in German means fear. The same word with the same
[53:10] spelling in English means a nonspecific feeling of anxiety
[53:14] and frustration. Identify the word X Aditya.
[53:18] Do you have any idea which word I'm talking about?
[53:21] Not phobia, right? No, it's not phobia.
[53:25] No, I don't know. So the word I'm talking about is
[53:28] angst. So angst in German means fear,
[53:32] but the same word with the same spelling in English means a non
[53:36] specific feeling of anxiety and frustration.
[53:40] That's a lovely positive note to end our 100th episode on.
[53:43] I like it. And before we go, that is the
[53:48] matter of our pop culture recommendations.
[53:51] Aditya, what do you have? Oh, I don't know why I had been
[53:55] sleeping on this for so long, but I recently watched
[53:57] Predestination. So go check out Predestination.
[54:01] Oh yes, and let me say that that movie is a mindfuck of a movie.
[54:09] You cannot swear so much. I cannot keep putting splitters
[54:11] on episode believe. OK, so then I'm going to let me
[54:16] just rephrase that to say that is a mind peep of a movie.
[54:22] Yes. Anyway, it's a it's a it's a
[54:24] brilliant movie and I always put it forward as one of the most
[54:30] logical yet convoluted time travel movies ever made and
[54:36] Ethan Hawke has done a fantastic job.
[54:38] I've recommended a lot of people and I am also now wondering why
[54:43] we haven't recommended it on the show before because we both seem
[54:45] to be such great fans. I would like to recommend a
[54:50] horror movie. This is not something that had a
[54:53] mainstream release in India as far as I know.
[54:55] And the movie is called Oddity. That's ODDITY.
[54:59] It's a 2024 Irish horror film. I'm not going to say anything
[55:03] about it. Just watch it.
[55:05] Spooky as hell. It's really, really spooky.
[55:09] And it's got a very fresh premise.
[55:11] And it's a, it's a wonderful movie.
[55:13] I really liked it. It's an indie horror, nothing
[55:15] too flashy and a fantastic movie.
[55:17] So go check out Oddity. And that is all we have for
[55:23] today's episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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[56:37] We appreciate your support and look forward to sharing more
[56:39] episodes with you. But before I wind up, I really
[56:42] want to say a heartfelt thanks to my Co host Aditya Kashyap,
[56:47] who I just realized has probably not seen Black Friday because it
[56:51] would be really really confusing for him considering that the
[56:55] movie was directed by a Kashyap and stars a Srivastav.
[57:00] So long time episode listeners will understand what I mean.
[57:05] But yes, I've I can't have asked for a better Co host and he has
[57:11] literally dragged us over the finish line, especially these
[57:14] past few months where I've been so extremely busy that we've not
[57:17] been able to put out episodes. Yes, we know we are a little
[57:20] behind schedule, but we hope to get back on schedule and we hope
[57:24] to bring something absolutely new in a few episodes.
[57:27] So all those listeners who've stayed with us from episode 1,
[57:31] thank you and thanks again for tuning in.
[57:35] Have a great day. Yeah, before I wind up, I also
[57:38] have to give my due. Thanks.
[57:39] It's been really fun. The last 100 episodes have been
[57:41] great. My only complaint, my only
[57:43] complaint is please don't let me design the cover art for
[57:46] episodes. I hate it.
[57:48] I, I designed it every single time.
[57:50] We've been busy last few weeks I've been doing it and I, I
[57:53] abhor it. Every several, I don't mind.
[57:54] I find a good image and find the right colors the font.
[57:57] Can you please for the love God share the font with me because
[58:00] this stupid font that I've been using annoys me so much.
[58:03] Unfortunately, unfortunately, it's a proprietary Adobe font.
[58:07] You'll need an Adobe subscription, and I'll be taking
[58:09] both those duties back from Aditya.
[58:11] At least the camera. Should I?
[58:14] Just the font and nothing else. Just please take back the font
[58:16] duties. Everything else is fine.
[58:18] I'm happy to work on everything else.
[58:20] So no, this has been fun. It's been amazing. 100 episodes
[58:23] and see you guys for the next 100 episodes as well.

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