# Episode 115 - Iceland, Ireland & India ft. Berty Ashley

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 13 Oct 2025, 1 h 00 min.

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Do you know what extremely unique thing does a 36 year old school in Reykjavik, Iceland teach, that covers "Icelands history, as well as everything that is known about ___"? Do you know which famous historical, political figure from the early 20th century spoke with English an Irish accent, allegedly? Do you know in what global context Juliette is spelled with two T's and the only country mentioned would be India? Tune in to the episode to find out!! Featuring our guest quizmaster, Berty Ashley! 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] Where were the earliest known traces of wine found?
[0:04] Where were the earliest known traces of wine found?
[0:09] And not to sound like a scoop poop article, but the answer may
[0:13] surprise you. Cue the music.
[0:15] Welcome to RU quizzing meet. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:20] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:23] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:26] history, science, pop culture, and so much more.
[0:30] Let's get quizzing. All right, so welcome to episode
[0:34] 115. And because I'm doing the intro,
[0:36] you know there is a guest joining us and it is a fan
[0:39] favorite. Bertie Ashley, welcome back to
[0:42] Are you Quizzing me? Thank you so much for doing this
[0:44] yet another time. Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure.
[0:47] Glad to be back. And we are on a video podcast.
[0:51] We are. This is so cool.
[0:53] Things have upgraded. I can see that.
[0:56] I was like why are you asking me to wear new T-shirt and look
[0:59] nicer? Like, OK, cool, no.
[1:01] No, no, you always look great. I just had to match up to that.
[1:04] But I I must ask you, have people been surprised when if
[1:07] they've only known your voice and then seen you?
[1:10] Those surprises, yes, the two happened.
[1:12] But I'll tell you, my favorite surprises is when a college or
[1:16] educational institution, they only think of me as Bertie
[1:20] Ashley, the quizmaster from The Hindu.
[1:23] And they invite me without checking up or even Googling me
[1:27] or even putting it on Google Images.
[1:29] And they expect an older, distinguished looking gentleman
[1:32] to arrive. And then I arrive on the scene
[1:34] and they're like, Sir, are you his driver?
[1:36] Can you please ask him to come? I'm like, no, that's me.
[1:41] It's happened twice, which is not much, but you know.
[1:46] Interestingly enough, I had the reverse experience where I was
[1:50] the fan and this was Amit Verma seen and the Unseen podcast.
[1:55] And he has spoken a lot of times about how he lives in Versova.
[1:58] And I used to live in Versova or nearby.
[2:01] And he has spoken about going to coffee shops.
[2:03] And I didn't realize the coffee shop that he was referring to
[2:05] was the one right next to my house.
[2:08] And I ended up there one day and I remember hearing the voice
[2:12] because the voice is just iconic.
[2:13] He has this very deep voice and it sounds like this very
[2:17] Rasputin kind of person with like a long beard talking.
[2:20] And in turn, I see this clean shaven gentleman who looks
[2:24] obviously he's young as well, but also looks very sweet and
[2:26] somehow doesn't look like he'd have that deeper voice.
[2:30] And so I was just so surprised. It took me a few seconds and I
[2:33] went up to him and I asked him and he's, as he himself claims,
[2:37] a little shy. And he was, he was, he was very
[2:39] humble, very sweet and that was a lovely way to meet somebody.
[2:42] I admired his work off and it's a funny thing to see put a face
[2:47] to that person. Well, for all of you, this is my
[2:51] face, and that's my those are my guitars.
[2:54] There you go. Which one do you have a
[2:56] favorite? Oh no, I won't tell you now.
[2:59] You can't pick. They might hear OK.
[3:01] Yes. OK, Bertie, since you are the
[3:04] guest, I'll let you take it with the first question.
[3:08] What? No, no, I know.
[3:09] I know you like to RIP off of what I said.
[3:12] So my audience question was about the first traces of wine,
[3:16] where were they found in the world?
[3:18] And maybe that inspires you to your first question.
[3:21] OK, cool. So generally, as usual, I have
[3:23] not prepared anything and I was about to go full on with
[3:27] basically I thought of you. Lovely.
[3:29] In Australia, right there is a renewable energy source and
[3:37] they're trying to convert a waste material into source for
[3:42] growing bio fuel and they position themselves next to an
[3:49] important place where they can get the run off and then convert
[3:55] that into Elder City. OK.
[3:57] So they are placed next to the biggest manufacturing source of
[4:02] a particular product. Basically they are growing
[4:06] bacteria on this source and that is fermenting or you know,
[4:12] breaking down, decomposing whatever the sources and then
[4:17] generating you know bio gas, methane and fuel which is then
[4:22] made into fuel and Eldridge and so on and so forth.
[4:25] So what product and I need this specific product?
[4:30] Even though my first instinct was to say something Australian
[4:33] like Vegemite veggie meaty, which I don't even know how to
[4:36] pronounce it, I have. I have tasted it once.
[4:39] It was not good. Oh, very interesting.
[4:42] OK, I. Didn't get the hype anyways, but
[4:45] since the segue is my hint as well, I'm assuming it has
[4:48] something to do with wine and Australian wines are, I believe,
[4:52] popular. I'm not the biggest wine fanatic
[4:54] so I'm not sure, but then Australian wine, something to do
[4:57] with the wine production part of Australia.
[5:00] So that will be a direct segue, which will be very weird if I
[5:03] were to go for that. But I asked you for a special
[5:06] product, specific product. If it's a wine, I would have
[5:08] asked you to name a wine. For example, in India I would
[5:10] say Sula wines. Got it, garden.
[5:13] Like that I need a name a particular product.
[5:16] So then Australian alcohols in general, I don't know any
[5:22] specific brand that is Australian that I would.
[5:25] A lot of people in the podcast were right.
[5:27] Now I know the answer. That is every time I am posed to
[5:31] the question. I'll give you a clue.
[5:32] This is love. There's a lovely Monty Python
[5:35] line. OK, it's a giveaway If I tell
[5:38] the line it's a comedy. It's a punch line if I if I
[5:40] tell. I got it.
[5:41] It's an. It's a Monty Python punch line
[5:43] and it will be a giveaway so I won't ask you what it is.
[5:46] I'll give you the startup. Let's see if we can.
[5:49] You get 2 points if you do the punch line and then get the
[5:52] answer OK. OK, OK.
[5:55] OK, whatever, Dash. That's the alcohol.
[5:57] Whatever. OK, in your country, it's like
[6:01] making love in a canoe. Is making love in a canoe?
[6:05] Yeah, it's like, it's like making love in a canoe.
[6:08] I'm assuming it's not rhyming. I can't think of anything that
[6:10] rhymes with Canoe. No, it's.
[6:12] It's a Monty Python line, so it's.
[6:15] Is this pure punchline? It's like making love in a
[6:21] canoe. Wine, Beer.
[6:24] Beer in your country. But again, which kind of beer is
[6:27] it? Beer.
[6:28] Yeah, exactly. Name.
[6:30] Yeah, Name of beer. Australian beer?
[6:32] I don't know any. Oh really?
[6:34] Oh. I should mention I don't drink
[6:37] alcohol so my knowledge of alcohol is limited.
[6:40] OK, everybody watching this, listen this, tell it yes, that's
[6:44] the one everybody just screamed fosters at you.
[6:50] It. Is very infamous in Australia
[6:52] because just like making love in a Kanu, it is.
[6:57] It's fucking close to water. Oh, that is.
[7:05] Apologies for the swear word, but it's not mine.
[7:07] I'm just. I'm just quoting Monty Python.
[7:11] Worth the explicit tag. I love it.
[7:16] Oh Monty Python, they never disappoint.
[7:18] I like it. This is a sketch called The
[7:20] Philosopher's and Bruce. OK, I love that so much.
[7:25] OK, so the, the fact is that there is a university setup
[7:31] place which is right next to the Foster's brewery and they take
[7:35] all the Foster's runaway on off and even the beer itself, right.
[7:39] And that because it's got so much malt and it's got it's
[7:42] really heavy on fats and it's, it's a great medium to grow
[7:47] bacteria. It's a great medium to grow
[7:49] cultures and that they grow and that they convert into
[7:52] elasticity. OK, cool, cool, cool.
[7:56] And actually that gives me a great segue as well, because you
[7:58] mentioned it's a university. Did you say that?
[8:01] Is that what you said? I did, I did, I did.
[8:03] So I'm going to describe an institution, a place of higher
[8:07] studies, a place of study, and you have to tell me what this
[8:11] place of study is. OK, so X, and I'm going by the
[8:15] description on their About Us page.
[8:19] X is open all year round in Reykjavik.
[8:23] For anybody who doesn't know, Reykjavik is the capital of
[8:25] Iceland. X is open all year round in
[8:28] Reykjavik. The school is 36 years old this
[8:33] year. What students in X gain and
[8:36] learn is both a big and summarized part of Iceland's
[8:41] history, as well as everything that is known about why.
[8:46] They also hear some of the beautiful stories of true
[8:50] friendship between Icelanders and why the school is based on
[8:55] two major lectures by the headmaster of the school, Mr.
[9:00] Magnus Scarfedenson, probably mispronouncing that name.
[9:06] Go check it out. Mr. Magnus Scarfedenson was born
[9:10] in 1955 and who studied history at the Icelandic University
[9:16] between 1985 and 1989. So this is the background of the
[9:21] the main faculty at the school. And I also gave you a little bit
[9:25] of a description of who they are, how long they've been
[9:27] around, and what they do before I give you any other hints.
[9:31] Do you want to tell me what the school is all about?
[9:33] And you said it's only 36 years old.
[9:35] It's not too old like in the 90s.
[9:38] Yeah. Iceland.
[9:41] And the university is about Iceland and its relationship
[9:46] with someone. You said, yeah, OK, I'm just
[9:49] going to say Vikings. It's a University of Vikings.
[9:54] That that would be amazing. And I imagine there are a lot of
[9:57] universities which offer, if not exactly Viking studies,
[10:00] something related to. Viking Ology.
[10:03] Yeah, yeah. Something like that is probably
[10:05] offered at other universities. What I can tell you is this
[10:08] particular field is probably very exclusive to this
[10:12] institution. Interesting.
[10:13] OK, it can't be this fairies or whatever big seas or something
[10:18] right now, is it that Ireland or Iceland?
[10:20] You're very close. You're very close.
[10:22] Oh, OK, sprites. There's some paranormal thing
[10:27] which everybody thinks is mythical.
[10:29] But I I said people are like, no, we got to learn how to deal
[10:34] with them and have a relationship with them so that
[10:36] we can have a good place. Very, very close.
[10:40] I'm just going to prod you a little further till you get the
[10:42] exact, let's say, supernatural being in question.
[10:47] Wait, wait, wait, wait, trolls. Not trolls, no.
[10:51] That would also be a fun thing to study.
[10:53] Carries. In some in some mythology that
[10:57] would probably be considered a fairy as well.
[10:59] Maybe fairy is more of a generic word.
[11:02] Elves. Elves is what I was looking for.
[11:05] Very well done, yes. Icelandic Elves.
[11:09] So there is an elf school in Iceland where they teach you all
[11:13] about spotting elves and studying elves and, and the kind
[11:16] of interaction that Icelanders have had with elves over the
[11:19] years apparently. So the true friendship between
[11:22] Icelanders and the elves and the hidden people, that's how they
[11:25] describe it. It's probably the only place in
[11:27] the world which does it in that context of come to Iceland,
[11:31] learn about elves, go spot an elf.
[11:33] How many students do they have? Well, that is an interesting
[11:37] question. I don't think it mentions how
[11:39] many school students have participated.
[11:41] Because I think they should not go above 11.
[11:45] My 11 elves. Because the German word for 11
[11:49] is elf. Random multilingual,
[11:54] multilingual funds. I like it.
[11:56] Oh, the Wikipedia page does say. Since opening, the institution
[12:00] has welcomed more than 9000 attendees, the majority of whom
[12:03] are foreign. Of course.
[12:06] So that is the ELF school in Iceland, and if you're ever
[12:10] going to Iceland in the near future, go check out the ELF
[12:12] School. I know I will.
[12:13] I would love to do that as well. Do you want a random personal
[12:17] anecdote? Always.
[12:18] Absolutely. In Chennai, we used to have AI
[12:21] used to work in a music school, Power School of Music and once
[12:26] we had a acoustic guitarist called Thor.
[12:29] OK. Came all the way from Reyka
[12:31] week. OK, And this is the first time
[12:34] our man has stepped out of Iceland.
[12:37] Oh, OK. Ever in his life and in Iceland
[12:40] he used to live in a farm which is away from the city.
[12:44] Introvert listens to only acoustic ethereal music and the
[12:49] 1st place he lands like he flies through Frankfurt.
[12:54] But that's just an airport and he's tired.
[12:56] The 1st place he lands is Chennai and he lands during
[12:59] Diwali. OK comes out of the airport and
[13:04] he Oh my word, he the noise that he was met with, which is we are
[13:08] normalized too. He couldn't like why the, the
[13:10] number of horns, the number of honking, He's like, what, where
[13:15] there's so many people have like you're, you're still in the
[13:17] airport, you still haven't stepped out.
[13:19] And we're going to go to T Nagar because the host was like, let's
[13:21] show him shopping in which he was so traumatized for three
[13:25] days. Then we, we went on Wikipedia.
[13:28] We saw that the entire country's population is less than T Nagar
[13:31] population in Chennai. He's never seen so many people
[13:37] in his life altogether of his 36 years of existence.
[13:40] He saw them in one day. Poor guy, man, I, I, yeah.
[13:44] So we had to slowly wean more and then send them back.
[13:50] I was in Georgia recently and I have mentioned of the previous
[13:53] broadcast so apologies for bringing it up again and again.
[13:55] But I was in Georgia and I realized the entire population
[13:58] of that country is less than probably what lives in like
[14:01] Andheri, Santa Cruz, Villa, Parlay area of Mumbai.
[14:05] Like not even all of Mumbai. Little suburb area of Mumbai
[14:10] would probably have more population than that entire
[14:12] country. I can't imagine what it's like
[14:14] to to, like you said, like to see more people in a day than
[14:19] you have probably in your entire life.
[14:22] Yeah, that is insane. But I get, I get that.
[14:26] I get that fear that Thor must have felt.
[14:32] OK, now that we have that interesting episode, I have my
[14:37] next segue right and I will take it from Iceland.
[14:41] I want to do two ways. That is the Buddy Ashley style
[14:45] of workoutable question or the general knowledge question.
[14:48] OK, so first we'll ask the general knowledge question.
[14:52] OK, direct, either you know it or not is a boring question, but
[14:56] let's see, maybe somebody on the podcast can figure it out.
[15:00] What is Mary Tharp or what should Mary Tharp be famous for?
[15:07] It's the first question, MARIETHARP.
[15:12] Now, does the name ring a bill? No, not at all, Mary Tharp.
[15:16] OK, so this is this is one of those questions you'll ask in
[15:18] all of those quizzes where you go I want to show off with so
[15:22] fine, let's leave it. OK, now we go to my style of
[15:27] question. She's American, right?
[15:30] But here's an interesting thing. Iceland is the only place in the
[15:36] world where you can snorkel between two important things and
[15:44] Meri Thar was the woman who years and years back talked
[15:51] about it and nobody has believed her because she was a.
[15:55] Woman, obviously. American no, yes, correct woman.
[16:00] And then later on, notice Prude because some other guy said it,
[16:05] the actual name, the term for it is given to that guy, the user
[16:09] guy's name, obviously, so people don't know, but she's been
[16:11] saying about this for long. So what did she talk about?
[16:15] We changed entirely changed the way we think about the Earth
[16:19] one. And Iceland is generally the
[16:22] only place in the world where you can take a, you can just
[16:27] snorkel, jump into the water and see this.
[16:30] And you have two examples. OK, I, I feel like I have seen
[16:35] both the the underwater example of what you're saying on it's
[16:40] all reels. OK, I think I've seen people go,
[16:43] go into that space where you can see it, I believe.
[16:46] I think it's the plate, said the plate tectonics that was perhaps
[16:51] ruined because she saw the Ridge between the two, the European
[16:55] plate and the what is that to the North American plate, I
[16:58] guess. Yeah, absolutely.
[17:00] Yeah. I saw the underwater example and
[17:02] I think there is It's either Iceland or some other Nordic
[17:05] country where there's a supermarket that is in two
[17:09] continents. Cyber at 2:00, different, I
[17:12] guess, plates simultaneously and you can see that Ridge going
[17:17] through the center of that supermarket also bad.
[17:20] I believe that's the answer then.
[17:23] Absolutely. And So what is the thing that
[17:25] made it up figure out? Plate tectonics, I guess.
[17:28] Continental shift. Continental shift, OK.
[17:31] Yeah, continents moved around and they used to be a big
[17:34] landmass before, and it's not. Yeah, so she was the one who
[17:36] actually started it. But then later on people just
[17:40] decided no, because she's a woman shooting board.
[17:42] So this is called the Silfra Fisher.
[17:45] And generally you can, it's, it's you don't even need Cuba
[17:49] diving. You just put on your mask and
[17:52] just dive into the water. On one side is the North
[17:56] American rich and the other side is the European plate.
[17:59] And you can snorkel between two tectonic plates, but not for
[18:04] long because obviously in a few 1000 years it's going to be
[18:10] pulling a particle in a huge valley, or if that's maybe an
[18:13] earthquake or something else can come together and you can close
[18:16] up. So.
[18:17] And there's only a place you can do it.
[18:18] Yeah. Wow, that must be insane.
[18:22] I have not gone there yet and I want to, but there's an easier
[18:26] way to do something that is like this is if you go to Sharjah.
[18:30] OK. There is a specific area where
[18:34] you can go where the Earth's mantle has turned up.
[18:39] Instead of folding up and going over like this, it's folded
[18:42] around like this and it's bottom is exposed on top.
[18:47] So you can walk on top of the mantle and you can see the
[18:50] earliest fossils, but in the reverse order, you'll see the
[18:54] earliest on top, the earliest will be on top, the youngest
[18:57] will be at the bottom. It's very cool.
[19:00] Wow, that's that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's called Meiha MLEIHA.
[19:08] That is the name of the place. That's a lovely museum, the
[19:11] Meiha Museum. That's pretty cool.
[19:13] Sharjah is probably a lot more affordable, accessible
[19:17] affordable than Iceland for most of us, so, well, great, at least
[19:21] there's something closer to home.
[19:23] I love that. Since you're talking about
[19:27] history in the chronological order, my segue goes from that
[19:34] and I'm going to mention four works of art.
[19:37] Actually, I'm going to mention three works of art, 3 literary
[19:41] works, and you have to tell me what in what falls on the 4th
[19:44] one in that list, OK. OK.
[19:47] The first one is an Italian novella by Matteo Bandelo.
[19:52] Matteo Bandelo himself was an Italian writer, soldier,
[19:55] Dominican fryer and Bishop, and he was known for his novellas
[20:00] OK. So he was probably the most
[20:03] popular short story writer of his day.
[20:05] The Italian novella by Matteo Bandelo.
[20:09] He lived between 1480 and 1562. OK.
[20:13] So the next in line. The first one was the Italian
[20:15] novella. The second one in line is a
[20:18] French story. The French story is by Pierre
[20:22] Boyas Thou Boyas thou not sure. He lived between 1517 to 1566.
[20:30] I lived in Paris. He was a French Renaissance
[20:33] humanist writer, author of a number of popularizing
[20:35] compilations and discourses on various subjects.
[20:38] One of his works, one of his stories, is the second in the
[20:42] list. So first one was the Italian
[20:43] guy, second one was the French guy.
[20:45] OK. OK.
[20:46] The third one is an English language narrative poem.
[20:51] This one was first published in 1562 and the poem is by Arthur
[20:56] Brooke. Arthur Brooke, again, an English
[20:58] poet who wrote and created various works.
[21:01] It was around in that year. 1562 is when his work was published.
[21:05] The the work that is specifically in question over
[21:08] here one more time. Italian novella, a French story,
[21:13] an English language narrative poem.
[21:15] What is the 4th in this list? And the list is connected by the
[21:19] very simple idea that they are all inspired by the previous
[21:21] work. So the novella came, and then
[21:24] there was a French story inspired by it, the English
[21:25] language narrative poem was inspired by it, and the 4th
[21:28] literary work was inspired by the English language narrative
[21:31] poem. OK.
[21:32] Which one is 1/4 in the list? Oh.
[21:35] Man, OK, and you haven't told me anything about the content of
[21:41] the works. No, I've not.
[21:43] Only the contents here. OK, let's just say for the
[21:48] timing and the fact that you're asking this, I would say William
[21:51] Shakespeare is the dude we are looking for and something he
[21:55] wrote which is inspired because our man was known for being
[21:58] inspired. So is it Billy Shakespeare that
[22:02] we're looking at? Oh God, the Stratford upon Avon
[22:05] it is. Yes, it is William Shakespeare.
[22:08] OK, So what did Billy take from? OK, let me ask you, did it
[22:17] inspire The Lion King? No, it did not inspire The Lion
[22:21] King. So it's not Hamlet I'll.
[22:24] Give you a hint. Well, it's a useless hint to say
[22:27] that this particular work, as one of his most famous works,
[22:31] has inspired a lot of other films and plays and movies and
[22:34] everything in the trend. No, no, no, no.
[22:36] This I will. This I will not accept.
[22:38] This will not accept. So as a big fan of Hamlet, I
[22:42] think that is his greatest work. OK, To be or not to be that is.
[22:47] I didn't say his greatest work, I said.
[22:49] I said one of his greatest. So for me, it's always Hamlet.
[22:52] I can OK to count yourself to, to be in a nutshell and count
[22:57] yourself of the universal Hamlet.
[22:59] Now, I'm guessing because it's Italian and French, all of this
[23:03] stuff, and it's a poem. It has to be about lovers and it
[23:06] has to be about tragedy and all that kind of stuff, I'm
[23:09] guessing. So if that is the case, then the
[23:11] most famous one is Romeo and Juliet.
[23:13] And you would be correct, you are right.
[23:16] The story of Romeo and Juliet is based in Verona, which is
[23:20] Italian. So I think that's why the
[23:22] inspiration first came from Italy, went to France, came to a
[23:26] language, English language narrative poem, and then became
[23:28] Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare never left London.
[23:32] He never did. Yeah, I know, I know.
[23:34] How do you think you know so much about Verona?
[23:37] Because he was inspired. Do you want to be part of
[23:42] Conspiracy Cabal? I what there was there was a
[23:46] novel I read many years ago about the Shakespeare secret or
[23:49] something it was called. But how?
[23:50] Basically, Shakespeare didn't write all of his works and like,
[23:53] there were a bunch of writers, no.
[23:54] No, no, we are not talking. About no, no, not that we are.
[23:56] Not talking about Kit Marlowe. We are not doing all that right.
[23:59] So Giordano Bruno was a was from Verona was one of the greatest
[24:05] polymers of all time. He was the very first person who
[24:09] went against the church and told them, hey guys, shut up.
[24:11] No, the earth is not the centre of the universe.
[24:13] It's like the sun is the centre of the solar system, all that
[24:17] stuff. And when they said, how do you
[24:19] know? He knows The ferments of the
[24:20] heaven opened up to me. They're like, no blasphemy.
[24:23] He thinks he's God, let's kill him and all that kind of stuff,
[24:26] right? And he escaped to London for
[24:27] some time and he was hanging out with Shakespeare and apparently
[24:31] his owner told Shakespeare about Verona and Mata, you should come
[24:34] home. My city is so beautiful, lovely
[24:36] place it is, all that kind of stuff.
[24:38] And then Queen Liz first was like, oh, something's going on,
[24:41] let's get going. So our man went back to Italy
[24:44] where the church got him and finally said to want him.
[24:48] Yeah, they obviously got rid of him because he was telling the
[24:52] truth. And of that conspiracy theory,
[24:58] I'm I'm, I'm on board with that. Yes.
[25:01] And also I love how every every historical character in your
[25:06] stories always speaks like they are from Nangalanur.
[25:14] Bro, what are you putting bro? Come let's go bro.
[25:18] Come bro. You know.
[25:21] We'll send one, We'll send. I did not even know sending one
[25:27] was was a euphemism for smoking up.
[25:30] Yeah. Somebody I I like, I am almost
[25:34] sometimes embarrassed to admit I don't do all of these things.
[25:37] I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't smoke.
[25:39] So I feel like a big noob when it comes to all of it.
[25:42] And then I think somebody mentioned it once and I really
[25:45] genuinely for a while was like, what are they sending?
[25:47] Do you have to send a message? Do I have to like send send a
[25:50] signal? Yeah, bro, let's go, let's go
[25:53] send one. Bro, do you want to send one
[25:55] right now? And I genuine it was so
[25:56] confusing. What's that don't put see in the
[25:59] come we'll send it no, and you as a as a fan of the improv like
[26:07] put scene, of course I am NCE. I'm always putting scene.
[26:12] That's that's my job. I'm putting scene today I, I
[26:16] came across this will probably be edited out, but I came across
[26:19] this very interesting description of the natural
[26:23] language generation programs. All of your chat bots that are
[26:27] famous right now at chat GPD or Gemini and somebody compared
[26:30] them to an improv artist. How whatever you say, they are
[26:33] programmed to yes and yes and yeah, and and they and they
[26:37] reinforce your belief. They'll also not just reinforce
[26:40] it, they'll praise you for it. They'll be like, Oh my God,
[26:42] that's such a smart idea. That's such a thoughtful
[26:44] response. That's a great question.
[26:46] Wow, wonderful. And it's insane to me when I,
[26:48] when they put it in that perspective because I'm like,
[26:51] then I know what I can use chat GPD for.
[26:53] I can use to riff off of crazy ideas.
[26:56] But I should at no point take it for like solid fact without at
[27:00] least double checking it because you don't come to an improv show
[27:03] and take it as like whatever they're saying.
[27:04] Makes a lot of sense. Yeah, who?
[27:06] Jane Ostentatious is really good.
[27:08] They are very historical. No, dude, they're not.
[27:13] Exactly. Yeah, that.
[27:14] Is so cool. That is so cool, dude.
[27:16] Yeah. They're constantly ascending you
[27:18] so, so be mindful of and it's led to some very sad, tragic
[27:22] story. There was a New York Times, a
[27:24] podcast about it, so if you're interested, go check that out.
[27:26] Like, I think it came out yesterday.
[27:28] But yeah, this is an unfortunate parallel between what I love to
[27:33] do and what I'm quite scared of, improv and ChatGPT.
[27:37] OK, but coming back to the question, you're very well
[27:40] cracked. It is Romeo and Juliet.
[27:42] Lovely how you cracked that. I'm very, very impressed.
[27:45] I was going to give you a few more hints.
[27:46] The Tragical History of Romeos and Juliet is the English
[27:50] language narrative poem by Arthur and Brooke.
[27:53] Oh, he didn't change the name also.
[27:55] Literally Romeus and Juliet became Romeo and Juliet.
[27:59] That is how it blew my mind that there is a work of literature
[28:04] that is called Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet and somehow
[28:08] it is never mentioned even in the context of Romeo and Juliet.
[28:11] Amen. Just basically remixed it,
[28:12] that's it. Yes.
[28:16] Feat Shakespeare and This was a translation and adaptation of
[28:21] the French story which is derived from the Italian
[28:24] novella, and Arthur Brooke published it in 1562 for the
[28:28] first time, so pretty soon thereafter William Shakespeare's
[28:32] work came out. The difference between the poem
[28:35] and Shakespeare's work is that the ending is slightly
[28:38] different. The nurse is banished and the
[28:39] apothecary is hanged for their involvement in the deception,
[28:43] and Friar Lawrence leaves Verona to end his days in a Hermitage.
[28:47] So that's the minor difference, but I feel like most of the
[28:50] story is the same. The tragical history of Romeo
[28:53] and Juliet. Interesting.
[28:55] OK, I have a quick segue question from it.
[29:00] OK, where is or under which? Again, it's out of my top of my
[29:09] mind, so I have to phrase this rightly.
[29:11] Under which circumstance, or in what context, is the only time
[29:18] where Juliet is spelled with two TS?
[29:22] Oh wow, that is a solid segue. Birdie.
[29:25] I'm very impressed. This is Juliet.
[29:28] Yes, Juliet in the play? Or are you saying in in the
[29:33] world in general? When is Juliet spelled with two
[29:36] TS? Yeah, in the.
[29:38] World so I'm assuming So I'm assuming the spelling is Jul
[29:44] i.e. double TE. Is there an E at the end or is
[29:47] it just? No Jul i.e.
[29:50] Double T That's it. Can I check is this something to
[29:54] do with Shakespeare or is it just?
[29:57] It is to do with Shakespeare because the name was taken
[29:59] because it's famous because of Shakespeare, but it's got
[30:01] nothing to do with it as in usage of Shakespeare.
[30:04] In what context is it ever spelled with double T?
[30:08] See. Because obviously there will be
[30:10] somebody who spells their name differently and all that kind of
[30:12] stuff, but this is worldwide. Worldwide context.
[30:16] So I'm guessing it isn't a name because again, names are very
[30:19] varied spellings across the board.
[30:21] It is a name. It's not a weird acronym or
[30:23] anything. Good thinking you're thinking
[30:25] of. It's a acronym, right?
[30:26] Yeah. It is the name Julia.
[30:29] I can give you a clue. I think I need the clue.
[30:33] In the same context, India is the only country.
[30:37] Oh, the NATO alphabet. Juliet is double T.
[30:41] Yes. Now tell me why.
[30:44] Oh, they have to tell you the why also.
[30:45] OK, that makes a lot more sense because I was just like why
[30:47] would you put a double T then? Think of what we have been doing
[30:51] so far or what you have been doing so far in the quiz.
[30:56] Speaking, so I'm assuming it has to do with the different
[30:59] accents. Go on.
[31:01] The French might not pronounce if it was a single tea or
[31:03] something. What would they call it?
[31:05] Julie, Juliet or something like that.
[31:09] Perfect. That's it, you and you have
[31:12] landed. So Juliet as Shakespeare would
[31:17] have written him, we pronounce as Juliet.
[31:21] But if you show to a French man, he would say Juliet.
[31:24] Juliet, of course. Yeah.
[31:25] And so in the NATO alphabet, it is very important that all of it
[31:28] has to be spelled the same way by everyone around the world.
[31:31] Right. So we're putting an extra T on
[31:33] it. You know, the French guys will
[31:34] say Juliet in grammar. You have to pronounce AT if
[31:40] there's a double T on it. So that's why only the net
[31:43] alphabet is JULITT. And I've never, I mean, I guess
[31:50] I never consciously thought about it, but I assume a lot of
[31:52] the words are chosen such that they are pronounced similarly
[31:56] across accents, or at least there isn't too much of A
[31:59] variation that is very smart. Now that I say it out loud, it
[32:02] makes sense. Obviously the Romeo is also in
[32:05] it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[32:07] Well, exactly. A pretty cool question, I liked
[32:09] it. Juliet, thank you.
[32:11] I would have never thought of why the why makes it.
[32:13] Interesting. I'm glad.
[32:15] And that gives me a segue as well.
[32:19] My question has to do with the historical figure.
[32:23] Let's call him X. Malcolm X.
[32:28] No, I was talking about Charles Xavier.
[32:33] So X is a famous historical figure and the reason it's a
[32:36] segue is because X apparently, and there is some corroboration
[32:41] to this fact, X spoke English with an Irish accent and just
[32:48] makes it interesting because as you would have gathered already
[32:51] that this person was not English or Irish.
[32:54] And so the fact that this person spoke English with an Irish
[32:56] accent just adds to the myth around this individual.
[33:01] The other part of this question actually has to do with his
[33:05] siblings and all of his siblings were famous to some extent.
[33:09] His oldest sibling is Anna was Anna and she was famous as a
[33:17] revolutionary and a politician. The second sibling was
[33:22] Alexander, also again a revolutionary, a political
[33:26] activist, and who was eventually executed for planning and
[33:30] assassination. The third one is X in question.
[33:34] The 4th 1 is Olga. So you might have a sense of
[33:38] where this person might be. So I've told you, Anna
[33:41] Alexander, then X himself, and then Olga.
[33:45] Olga was a noble woman, a polyglot, and was influential
[33:51] socially. I guess the fifth one is Dmitri.
[33:55] Dmitri was a physician and revolutionary, was also a
[34:00] medical student and became while as a medical student became
[34:03] involved with the revolutionary activity and joined an illegal
[34:07] society and was arrested also shortly thereafter.
[34:10] Then the last one of the siblings, Maria, again a
[34:14] revolutionary, A politician and did some political work in her
[34:19] lifetime. Tell me who this person is who
[34:21] comes from a family of influential people.
[34:25] All siblings were of some note, and he himself spoke English
[34:31] with an Irish accent. OK, for some reason I can only
[34:36] think of one person because of multiple things that are coming
[34:41] to the word. Also, I'm heavily biased in
[34:45] thinking about him because I OK, let's see, is it by any chance
[34:51] Napoleon Bonaparte? Very good guess, but no, not
[34:56] Napoleon Bonaparte. Because I kept thinking of him,
[35:00] right? OK, so it's not for anything he
[35:03] started doing that time. I would say Napoleon Bonaparte.
[35:06] So it sounds like they're all. Russian, Russian Russian is a
[35:11] pretty solid guess. Yes, they are all Russian.
[35:12] And everybody's got some political influence.
[35:14] And did a man have political notaria or is he famous in some
[35:19] other context? Mostly.
[35:21] Mostly for politics. Yes, the Apple did not fall too
[35:25] far. But not direct political.
[35:27] That's what my point is. It's not like he was holding a
[35:29] position 0. No, no, very directly political.
[35:31] He's known for his politics. But what?
[35:34] He spoke English with an Irish accent?
[35:36] That is so weird. That to me was very interesting.
[35:38] OK, you know what? Before, until unless you have an
[35:41] answer, let me give you another clue.
[35:43] So the clue is then that should hopefully place where, because
[35:45] I've not mentioned any time frame yet, they should help you
[35:48] place it somewhere in history. There are, like I said, a few
[35:51] corroborations to this particular fact.
[35:53] One of them isn't an article written by the famous author HG
[35:59] Wells, the writer of War of the Worlds, for any of us out there
[36:05] who love our science fiction. So HG Wells wrote what are the
[36:09] world's? He wrote an article in which he
[36:11] documented this, apparently because he met.
[36:14] X. In Moscow in 1920 and noticed
[36:18] his Irish accent. 1920. Yes.
[36:25] This was before he became super important and Russian said OK,
[36:31] I'm going for the most obvious Russian name from that era,
[36:35] Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin is the answer.
[36:38] Yes, it is Vladimir Lenin. Why the hell does he have an
[36:41] Irish Irish accent? That is what the most
[36:45] interesting part of this question was to me, that
[36:47] apparently whenever he came to London, he wanted to work on his
[36:50] English and he happened to hire an Irish tutor.
[36:56] Instead of talking like every other English person would, he
[37:00] was speaking like an Irish person speak English.
[37:04] That is so cool. That is so.
[37:06] Yeah, so Vladimir already spoken.
[37:10] I just puts that man in perspectives of everything else
[37:13] you might know about him. This is a random piece of
[37:16] trivia. He spoke English with an Irish
[37:18] accent. Irish accent very nice.
[37:20] Just another piece of trivia from the same article which
[37:23] which says that Lenin wrote about his experience that when
[37:27] he visited Ireland he tasted one of the most tasteful wines that
[37:30] he has ever had. Going back to our audience
[37:33] question, in case somebody in the audience has cracked it,
[37:35] where was the first wine ever found?
[37:37] Traces of wine where ever found in history.
[37:40] And it should surprise you. It should surprise you Lenin
[37:42] thought Irish wines were great. So but your question.
[37:47] OK, cool. So talking about the Russians,
[37:49] let's I have my next segue now the most famous Russian you can
[37:54] say. Oh, those Russians, Who do you
[37:57] think I'm talking about? It has to be Rah Rasputin.
[38:01] Exactly. You can't just say Rasputin.
[38:03] You have to say Rasputin. Thank you, Boney.
[38:05] Great. So follow me down the rabbit
[38:08] hole. Prince Alexi, who's the son of
[38:10] the Tsar and Zarina, he suffers from a genetic condition, a
[38:14] disorder that comes because of genetic inbreeding, blah, blah,
[38:17] blah, all that kind of stuff. And his condition is worsening
[38:21] day by day. Rasputin comes in and he has
[38:25] mystical powers, and he tells them, stop the medicine.
[38:31] I will take care of him with my spiritual powers.
[38:35] And Zaran Zarina, like, But these doctors have been taking
[38:39] care of him for, like, like, so long.
[38:41] But he's like, yeah, but he's getting worse.
[38:44] Tell the doctors to go away. Stop everything that they're
[38:46] giving him. I am on it.
[38:48] And miraculously, it works. The prims gets better, right?
[38:54] And the Zaran Zarina, the Zarina is like indebted to Rasputin for
[38:58] life. And she's like, Oh my God, this
[39:01] guy saved, but not only his son, but the dynasty.
[39:04] And this led to a lot of infighting because Rasputin grew
[39:07] with power. Like the rest of the people
[39:09] thought Rasputin was feeding something into the king, into
[39:12] the czar, all kind of stuff. And that led to a lot of
[39:15] problems that led to the assassination attempts of
[39:17] Rasputin and then eventually the entire downfall of the Czar
[39:21] dynasty itself, which eventually led to the formation of the 1st
[39:27] United Soviet Socialist Republic and everything.
[39:29] So Russia as such, the superpower it is, is because of
[39:35] Rasputin and what he did there. Now here is my question, what
[39:41] was the Prince suffering from? OK.
[39:45] And what single tablet which was being given to the kid did
[39:53] Rasputin get them to stop that led to all of this?
[39:57] So what was the disease? And what was the tablet that
[40:00] brought down the fall of the Russian Tsar dynasty?
[40:05] So Rasputin asked the rulers to stop giving whatever medicine
[40:13] was being prescribed in and in exchange he was going to cure
[40:17] him with his magical powers. And it worked.
[40:22] Because that it's a genetic condition, I can't be too.
[40:26] Two things I know that happened because of inbreeding is the the
[40:30] jaws that these guys are very famous for, some some European
[40:34] royalties famous for. I think it is the British
[40:37] monarchy only which is famous for having very weak jaws.
[40:40] Yeah. And the other one I believe is
[40:44] hemophilia. I think that is another thing
[40:46] that happens to yes. Hemophilia is right, yeah.
[40:50] Do you know what happens in haemophilia?
[40:53] The blood doesn't clot. Yeah, blood doesn't.
[40:55] Yeah. Dying from bleeding out.
[40:57] But there is a tablet in question also you're saying?
[41:00] Yes, and I want you to name the tablet.
[41:04] And I should know of this tablet like it's a famous, it's not
[41:06] something very niche. If I ask you to name one random
[41:09] tablet and you're like, oh, Praso, press XL 25 and I'm like,
[41:12] Oh my God. So it's not Dolo, right?
[41:16] He was not. I mean, Dolo's more famous than
[41:21] Brazo Press. Like if somebody in the podcast
[41:24] knows what Brazo Press then they have BP problems.
[41:26] Hey, guys. OK, something that would cure
[41:33] haemophilia. I didn't say that.
[41:36] I did not say that because Rasput didn't cure the
[41:39] haemophilia. So they were giving him
[41:41] something which they thought might, but it wasn't working.
[41:44] They gave him a tablet for something else, but that was
[41:48] doing havoc. Who is hemophilia?
[41:52] Ah, that's the interesting thing.
[41:54] I see. I see.
[41:58] So it was worsening the haemophilia actually.
[42:00] They did not realize it. Neither did Rasput.
[42:02] Yeah. Oh, so the Rasputin just got
[42:04] lucky? Maybe he divined it, he is the
[42:08] great Mystic after all. But now we know.
[42:11] In retrospect, I can give you 1 further clue.
[42:16] Yes, please. The doctors were brought in
[42:18] obviously because of the hemophilia, right?
[42:20] But there are also other problems, and that problem was
[42:24] migraine. Oh, so something for migraine?
[42:27] Something for headaches? Was there an aspirin then?
[42:31] Does aspirin make it? Worse, that is the right answer.
[42:35] Salicylic acid, Aspirin. Aspirin, although it cures your
[42:40] headache, is because it is a blood.
[42:42] Thinner, thinner. I was just going to say it's a
[42:44] blood thinner which will make it impossible for blood to clot.
[42:46] Which is very dangerous for haemophiliacs whose blood is
[42:50] already not able to clot. So because they were giving him
[42:53] aspirin for his headaches, his haemophilia was really bad.
[42:58] But when Rasputin comes in and says no, stop everything, they
[43:02] obviously stop the aspirin as well, right?
[43:05] Which helps him. So he starts getting a little
[43:08] better because the blood is not thin, it takes more oxygen.
[43:13] He's looking more hail and healthy.
[43:15] He's looking better even though he still has a hem.
[43:18] But they coddled him so he doesn't get cuts or whatever.
[43:21] He doesn't really start looking better.
[43:22] And then this is like, Oh my God, Rasputin.
[43:25] He's a genius. He's cured our boy.
[43:27] The dynasty will live on. That's because of aspirin.
[43:32] That that. So if it hadn't been for the
[43:34] aspirin, Rasputin wouldn't have had his powers and your society
[43:38] wouldn't have existed, and Soviet wouldn't have become the
[43:41] huge powerhouse it is today. Now that is very cool aspirin.
[43:45] You wouldn't even imagine that tiny tablet.
[43:48] But once you said it my my house memory kicked in and I remember
[43:54] at some point in how is they talk about how it's a blood
[43:57] thinner. Yeah.
[43:59] I did a bleeding time test. Oh, I do remember so my.
[44:03] There you go. Cool, very cool.
[44:05] Aspirin was killing the boy and Rasputin solved it.
[44:10] Yeah. I like it.
[44:13] No one so certain man in Russia long ago he was being canned
[44:17] strong and his life was what a song.
[44:20] You know, since I think we are at the end of the podcast, but
[44:24] why don't you, if you have one more segue, one more question
[44:27] you want to give, give us something you learned recently,
[44:30] another piece of trivia that you came across, or if Rasputin
[44:32] reminds you of anything, we will end with one more question from
[44:34] you. Cool.
[44:36] We will go the other way. We will go the other way, so we
[44:39] will go with Bodium. Ah, I love it.
[44:42] Yes, OK. Simple question Adya, we are
[44:47] asking which country is Bodium from?
[44:51] Oh man, these simple questions are the most disarming
[44:54] sometimes. So they are singing about
[44:56] Russians, singing about proud girls in the rain.
[45:00] They have Caribbean song and you've seen them, you know how
[45:05] they look. I have.
[45:06] I never asked myself where Boney M is from.
[45:09] Where are they from? No, man, I'm thinking ABBA.
[45:12] And obviously ABBA is very different.
[45:15] Oh, Swedish. Yes, I was going to say Swedish
[45:17] only. ABBA Swedish, Yeah, no.
[45:19] Probably not Sweden. Are they by any chance like
[45:22] something from that area? Are they from Norway, From
[45:26] Sweden? From Finland.
[45:28] OK, So what are you saying? You're saying it's not obvious.
[45:32] So what is the obvious wrong answer?
[45:33] Go for the Allen TV then. So.
[45:35] Bony. And obviously, I mean whenever
[45:37] it comes to pop culture, the first answer is always the US of
[45:40] A. So they they they're not
[45:42] American. UK.
[45:43] They're not Brits. OK.
[45:45] What does it sound sound sound like?
[45:47] They sound a little Caribbean to me.
[45:49] They they do sound Caribbean because they have oil drums and
[45:52] all that stuff. Brown Girl in the Rain and
[45:57] obviously they are doing no moment, no crying, which is Bob
[45:59] Marley from Grassroots. Yeah, but they are not, they are
[46:03] not Caribbean. OK.
[46:05] So nothing in Central America, South America, nothing like
[46:08] that. So yes, they do have Caribbean
[46:11] roots, but where were they all born?
[46:13] Where were they all formed? What was the primary language of
[46:16] communication for them? So it has a very clear that
[46:20] Caribbean sound, a little disco Caribbean, but disco is more of
[46:24] the era I guess. OK.
[46:27] So OK, I'm I'm going to take a very broad guess.
[46:29] Europe is my first. Europe, you've got the right
[46:33] continent. Yeah, OK, great.
[46:35] Fine. Thank God.
[46:39] They're the one of the biggest bands in the world.
[46:41] You can go to Madurai and pick up a body and cassette every
[46:44] Christmas. Their songs are playing all over
[46:46] the world. Come on, tell me what country
[46:47] they're from. You know what?
[46:48] Not Italy, Not Spain. Not France.
[46:54] OK, fine, I'm. Not Italy.
[46:55] I'm ruling out the big ones simply based off of accent.
[46:59] Fine. Not Italy, not Spain, not
[47:00] France. OK.
[47:04] Also, because these music, the Italian music or Spanish music
[47:08] or French music, something very specific comes to mind.
[47:11] Yeah, from the points, they sound Caribbean.
[47:14] They sound. Caribbean.
[47:15] I can't, yeah. Are they like some very small
[47:19] country? I don't know, Are they Cyprus or
[47:22] Cyprus or something? Nope, they are not.
[47:25] They are from a bacon. I am going to say they are, you
[47:28] know, Polish. Polish.
[47:30] Bigger. Bigger than PO?
[47:34] Isn't Poland one of the biggest ones in mainland?
[47:37] Go for it. I can think of which makes no
[47:40] sense. Germany.
[47:42] Is the right answer. They are all Germans.
[47:47] These are Germans singing Oh God I would not have gotten that
[47:50] ever if not for the size. That is your random fact for the
[47:55] day. Bodium is a German band.
[47:57] It's. Also interesting that I did not
[47:58] rule out Germany because German music doesn't bring anything
[48:01] specific to. I mean, I guess it does.
[48:02] Oh man. I love the fact here.
[48:08] I don't know why, it's just funny, the idea that these are
[48:10] German musicians. First line from Wikipedia.
[48:14] Bodium is a German reggae, funk and disco music group founded in
[48:17] 1924. I got the reggae part, I got the
[48:20] disco part. I didn't get the German.
[48:22] So there's a guy called Frank Farian.
[48:24] Now, if you see his photo, you know he's German.
[48:26] He's the guy who brought them together.
[48:28] He's the one. All the male vocal pits are by
[48:30] him. That dude who keeps dancing like
[48:33] he's got fits. He doesn't do anything.
[48:35] That microphone, his hand is switched off.
[48:37] It's all Frank Farian. The white German producer who's
[48:40] doing all the sound effects, all the singing.
[48:44] Oh, those Russian. That's Frank Farian.
[48:46] But with obviously nobody would believe if they looked at him,
[48:50] so he said I'll stay behind. I'll get this guy to do all the
[48:53] dance moves and put. Him.
[48:56] Interesting German group. Wow.
[48:58] I mean, you technically answered this, but you went through the
[49:01] entire European Union. Yeah, I was going to go into
[49:07] some NATO allies the next, but great.
[49:09] I love it. Very nice.
[49:11] Germany wouldn't have guessed that.
[49:14] Love that question. OK.
[49:15] And that brings us to our audience question.
[49:19] And I had asked at the beginning of this episode, where in the
[49:22] world were the first traces of wine found?
[49:26] Where is the first historical trace of wine found in the
[49:29] world? And because you mentioned
[49:31] Europe, I'm going to say yeah, Europe are close enough, I
[49:34] guess. George is very famous for wine.
[49:37] You were there to please see they have wine running all
[49:40] around and you apparently went there right now, so you must
[49:42] have read about it or learnt it while you were there.
[49:45] So I'm going with Georgia. Very well, very well done.
[49:48] Yes, as as the doc says, never answer the question, always play
[49:52] the player and you played me very well.
[49:54] Well, it is Georgia. I was there.
[49:57] I was very surprised. Want to take a guess as to when
[50:00] it was found? Where?
[50:01] How old is wine or the first trace of wine?
[50:04] I know Georgia is ancient. I know that for a fact, right?
[50:09] Easily into the BC schedule, right?
[50:12] Yes, give me, give me any, any guess you might have.
[50:16] Let me get an educated guess, not a stupid nonsense like oh
[50:20] 20,000 BC, you know, because it has to be fermentation and it
[50:25] has to be in Europe. I will say 1432 BC.
[50:32] You tell me specifically which month of the year also.
[50:35] So this is pre Gorgon trial. We don't know.
[50:38] I don't need Julian. OK, no, what is it?
[50:41] It's. Older than that, it's 6000 BCE.
[50:44] No. So cool.
[50:46] So cool. Georgia has a apparently a
[50:48] continuous history of making wine for the last 8000 years and
[50:53] that to me is insane. And apparently there is a little
[50:57] bit of a friendly rivalry between Armenia and Georgia as
[51:01] to the history of wine where it was first one.
[51:03] So the first known traces of wine were from Georgia, but the
[51:07] first known winery is from Armenia and that was almost 2000
[51:13] years later. I think Georgia is probably the
[51:15] clear winner, but let let Armenians also enjoy their
[51:19] history, which is amazing too because Georgia is not a name
[51:22] that pops up when you talk about.
[51:23] Wine at all the quizzing circles, at least, are the wine
[51:26] circles. Yeah, and everybody's talking
[51:29] about your French wines, your Italian wines, and if more New
[51:34] World than your Napa Valley or or Argentinian wines or
[51:38] Australian wines. Nobody's talking about Georgian
[51:39] wines. And I think they deserve a shout
[51:41] out. So shout out to Georgian wines.
[51:43] There you go. It was found near Tbilisi and
[51:46] Tbilisi. The name itself, cute little
[51:48] etymology, not not something I can ask as a trivia question
[51:51] because most people wouldn't know, but it's because of the
[51:54] Hot Springs and Tbilisi. The word itself comes from
[51:58] Tipili. I'm assuming something like that
[52:02] in old Georgian and that means warm.
[52:04] So there were a lot of Warm Springs, sulphur baths, the hot
[52:08] water springs that were naturally occurring near
[52:09] Tbilisi. So when they moved the capital
[52:12] to Tbilisi, it was what? This was one of the reasons and
[52:14] that's why it was called Tbilisi as well.
[52:16] Very nice, do not know that. Thank you very much.
[52:19] I've been raving about it. You might hear it in the next
[52:22] few episodes. So if you do excuse me, I sound
[52:23] like one of the people who came back from a holiday and cards of
[52:26] talking about it. I mean, go for it.
[52:28] Oh my God, that country has so much to offer.
[52:31] So if you want to, that's an getaway holiday getaway option.
[52:36] Check out the oldest vine on the planet.
[52:38] Go for it. Do that, do that.
[52:41] Alright, so as always, Bertie, do you have any pop culture
[52:45] recommendations for our audience?
[52:47] Yes, there are two things I want to talk.
[52:50] I have a music album recommendation.
[52:54] This really nice book called Footnotes.
[52:57] Fascinating footnotes from history.
[52:59] Early night. Here's some blurbs.
[53:03] Did you know that Hitler to cocaine?
[53:05] That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplin's cops was
[53:09] filched and held to ransom? More such interesting facts from
[53:13] this book. This is like a whole 100
[53:17] episodes of Are you using me right there?
[53:20] OK, very. Nice.
[53:22] My music, OK, I'll give it to those who like rock and metal.
[53:27] Check out this album Retrograde by Sai Sanjit who's a Chennai
[53:32] based artist. Malu artist was living in
[53:34] Chennai. Fantastic.
[53:35] If you like Prague, if you like Dream Theater, if you like that
[53:38] type of music, go for him. And if you are not into metal,
[53:41] you want more pop vibe, check out this Mumbai based artist
[53:45] called Mali or Malvika Manoj and she recently has released a
[53:51] YouTube full gig of Mali Live at the G5A Warehouse came out about
[53:56] a month back. Love that it's a great gig.
[53:59] It's like an hour of great music.
[54:01] So check out these both out Mali Live at the G5A warehouse and
[54:06] Sai Sanjit Retrograde. Very cool, I have been to the
[54:09] G5A warehouse, that is the only familiar thing you said to me.
[54:13] But I will check out these artists, they sound sound pretty
[54:16] cool. Yeah, both of them are assigned
[54:17] to my production company, Original Dog, so I take care of
[54:22] both of the good stuff. Very cool.
[54:26] I had no idea you had a production company as well.
[54:28] Anything of yours that our audience might be able to catch,
[54:30] whichever part of India they are in?
[54:32] So if you are in Bangalore or if you are traveled to Bangalore,
[54:35] November 1st, which is a Saturday and it's Kannada rajas
[54:39] over, we are doing this fantastic gig at the Bangalore
[54:44] International Centre that is the BIC in Indiranagar.
[54:48] It's a free gig, it's open to all, no age, everybody can come
[54:52] and it's in the evening at 7:00 and from 7:00 to 8:30.
[54:59] I and my band are doing 100 years of music in Bangalore,
[55:04] 1920 to 2020. And not only it's going to be an
[55:08] audio visual presentation, so there's going to be a big
[55:10] screen. We're going to be showing you
[55:12] pictures and videos from the history of Bangalore.
[55:15] And then my band will live take you through history.
[55:20] Think of us like a moving TARDIS.
[55:22] So we'll show you, for example, 1920s and how was the scene in
[55:26] Britain, which was in Bangalore also at the same time.
[55:30] And then we'll play music that you would have heard if you were
[55:33] there. Then we'll show you 1930s and
[55:35] how the Carnatic Sabahs were developing in Malaysia.
[55:38] And we'll have a Carnatic performance.
[55:40] Then we'll go to the Kannada music scene and we'll all of it
[55:43] is live. We'll take you time travelling
[55:46] through music and it's a free gig.
[55:49] Come off everybody. And there's some fun medleys.
[55:54] And obviously I'm the narrator, so there'll be lots of fun facts
[55:57] in trivia. Come off to the BIC.
[55:59] November 1st evening 7:00 onwards.
[56:02] Perfect. That is for all of our Bangalore
[56:06] Friends of the Podcast to go check this out.
[56:08] Yeah, I know a few people are travelling from Chennai for
[56:10] this, so yeah. So if you're from Chennai or
[56:13] from Mumbai or from Delhi and plan to go to Bangalore, these
[56:16] are the dates you should be going on and checking out
[56:19] Bertie's gig. That sounds amazing.
[56:20] As always, whenever you mention your gigs, I'm always a little
[56:23] jealous of the fact that it's not happening in a place or at a
[56:26] time where I can attend it. But whenever the next one
[56:29] becomes even slightly feasible, I will go for it.
[56:32] So thank you so much for sharing that, buddy.
[56:33] My part, my recommendation, my pop culture recommendation.
[56:37] I'll keep it very short. It's only one movie.
[56:39] I saw it recently. It is a very fun film.
[56:43] I felt like the last act kind of faltered, like the stretched out
[56:47] the climax a little too much. And for a thriller slasher genre
[56:53] film, you want to keep it punchy.
[56:55] So I just felt like that part left me hoping for a little bit
[57:00] more, or in this case a little bit less.
[57:02] The name of the movie is The Blackening and it is hilarious.
[57:06] It's a horror comedy. It's an all black cast and they
[57:10] are all as as horror trope is there in a cabin in the woods
[57:14] and there is somebody trying to kill them.
[57:16] So that's the whole setup. It's just so much fun and
[57:21] especially if you're well versed with or have some knowledge of
[57:25] the black culture and the black community in the United States,
[57:28] this would be more fun. So so if that's something that
[57:32] sounds interesting, you should check it out from the
[57:34] blackening. It was, it was fun.
[57:36] Little from that I saw recently excuse the very last climax, but
[57:40] otherwise it's great. So that brings us to the end of
[57:43] the podcast and very quick shout out to all our listeners.
[57:47] Thank you so much for joining us week after week.
[57:49] We were on a small break, but here we're going to be back with
[57:53] episodes, with guests and with Vineet and me also coming back
[57:56] soon. Thanks so much for joining us.
[57:58] As usual, find us on all your podcasting platforms.
[58:01] We are on Spotify, we are on Apple Podcasts.
[58:03] Everywhere you listen to podcasts, you can find us.
[58:05] We are on YouTube. We are doing video podcasts as
[58:07] well. So that's an option you can
[58:09] switch to if you like it. There is some fun little bit of
[58:12] information that we show in our video podcasts, including visual
[58:15] cues. If you're listening to the
[58:17] audio, that's fine too. But if you want to see Bertie
[58:19] with his hand actions showing you how plate tectonics work,
[58:24] and then you will need to look at video podcasts.
[58:27] So check out the video podcast as well.
[58:29] We are on Reddit at R slash. Are you quizzing me?
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[58:36] If you have any thoughts, any ideas, any suggestions and
[58:38] especially any trivia that you'd like to share, share it with us
[58:41] at areyouquizzingme@gmail.com. There are a bunch of lovely fan
[58:46] emails and questions that all of you have sent that we are going
[58:50] to get to ASAP. Just waiting for Vineet to join
[58:53] us back on our regular programming and you'll hear your
[58:55] question very soon. And as always, if you liked what
[58:59] you heard, please go recommend it to a friend.
[59:00] That's the best way for a podcast to grow.
[59:02] And I would love to hear from any of you if you have thoughts.
[59:06] So drop us some line and buddy before we sign off, any any
[59:10] thoughts that you'd like to mention?
[59:12] Oh yes, keep quizzing. Stay curious.
[59:17] Love that. All right.
[59:19] See you guys next week. I'm so glad there's a video
[59:33] podcast so they can show this.

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