# Episode 028 - Paper towns, Papua New Guinea & Printing Errors

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 13 Jul 2023, 44 min.

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Do you know which Greek god is the the god of marriage ceremonies, and shares etymology with a part of the female anatomy? Do you know which celebrity brand was inspired by the names of successful tech companies? Do you know which famous comic book by King Features Syndicate has been published by both Marvel comics and DC Comics? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to Are You Quizzing Me? I'm Vineet Nayar with my cohost,
[0:05] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia pod
[0:07] question. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:13] Pet Skin Quizzing And we're back for episode #28 of Are You
[0:21] Quizzing Me? Let's start off today's episode
[0:24] with the audience question, which we will be answering at
[0:27] the end of the episode. Ekruka Hua Fesla A Pending
[0:31] Decision is an Indian Hindi language thriller film released
[0:34] in 1986, directed by Basu Chatterjee with a small cast of
[0:38] 13 including Pankaj Kapoor and Anu Kapoor, This movie was an
[0:42] unofficial remake of Which? 1957 film?
[0:46] Let Me Repeat That Ekruka Hua Fesla, Which Means A Pending
[0:49] Decision is an Indian Hindi language thriller film released
[0:53] in 1986, directed by Basu Chatterjee.
[0:56] With a small cast of 13, including Pankaj Kapoor and Annu
[0:59] Kapoor, this movie was an unofficial remake of a 197057
[1:03] film. Which film?
[1:06] We will be answering this at the end of the episode and before we
[1:10] get to the meat of this episode, we have to get through the
[1:12] gristle that is Aditya's question from last week.
[1:16] So Aditya. It was a simple question.
[1:18] I asked Which song would be very inappropriate if used as the
[1:23] national anthem of our country? If, per chance, we had to think
[1:27] of a new national anthem, even though we have a pretty great
[1:29] one, and the answer is quite simple, I don't even know why I
[1:32] asked this question. It is a very straightforward
[1:34] answer. It would just be the British
[1:37] national anthem. That would be a pretty terrible
[1:39] national anthem for Indians to have adopted when we gained
[1:41] independence from them. That was my two cents on Indian
[1:45] independence and political rhetoric.
[1:47] Let's move right? Past that, and for the audience,
[1:50] I believe the words you're looking for are.
[1:54] Anyway, let's move on to the next question.
[1:59] OK. Aditya, I invite you to start
[2:01] off the proceedings. Hit us with the question,
[2:02] please. All right, so my question is
[2:05] very simple. It's from the world of pop
[2:07] culture, and the question is, which character today, Famously,
[2:13] which fictional character today famously has an attribute that
[2:17] was due to a printing error when this character was first
[2:21] designed? Okay, I'm going to guess
[2:24] something because you said printing error.
[2:27] I'm not sure of this, but I I remember a piece of trivia about
[2:30] the Incredible Hulk being green or Gray because of the color and
[2:36] the printing or something to do with that.
[2:38] We start off simple and you hit it right off the park.
[2:40] It's it's I can't, I don't know what to say.
[2:43] Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right.
[2:44] OK, so very quickly, Stan Lee had chosen the color grey for
[2:49] Hulk, and the reason he chose it was because he did not want to
[2:52] suggest any particular ethnic group for this character.
[2:56] He wanted it to be vague. As it turns out, the colorist
[3:00] who Stan Goldberg, he faced some issues during the printing and
[3:04] the printer had some issues in the coloring.
[3:06] So it turned out that Hulk was printed green in its first
[3:10] iteration and when Stanley saw that, he thought it was a pretty
[3:15] great choice. So that's where the green Hulk
[3:19] was born. Interestingly enough, there has
[3:21] been actually a Gray Hulk also in the Marvel Comics, which came
[3:24] up much later and it was made part of the Canon, but the
[3:29] original color was supposed to be Gray and was unintentionally
[3:32] made green just because there was some printing issue.
[3:36] In the Marvel offices? Yep, that is a pretty great
[3:40] answer, Vineet. So hit me with your question.
[3:43] So I'm not going to stray very far from your own topic, so I'll
[3:48] keep us in the realm of pop culture itself, right X is an
[3:54] American adventure comic strip first published in February of
[3:57] 1936. It began with a daily newspaper
[4:01] strip on February 17th, 1936 and still runs as of 2023.
[4:07] This comic has been published by both DC and Marvel Comics, and
[4:11] while X may have never reached the American icon status of
[4:15] contemporaries like Batman and Superman in the independent
[4:18] state of Papua New Guinea, X is the most popular superhero by
[4:23] far, and X's influence is felt throughout the culture of Papua
[4:27] New Guinea. Case in point, the War shield is
[4:30] one of the most important weapons of weapons in the Papua
[4:34] New Guinea Warriors arsenal. It's cut from three trunks and
[4:37] painted with brilliant colors. Post World War 2X was accepted
[4:43] with open arms by the tribes of Papua New Guinea and soon found
[4:46] its way onto the Shields of Papua New Guinea's toughest
[4:50] warriors. What comic strip am I talking
[4:54] about? I would imagine this sounds just
[4:57] like the Phantom. Oh, you got that very quickly.
[5:00] Yes, it is the Phantom. I I don't know why I thought
[5:04] Phantom was an Indian comic for some reason.
[5:07] No. So the Phantom was it's by King
[5:10] Publications, if I'm not mistaken, King's Indication of
[5:13] King Publications. It started off as a newspaper
[5:16] daily strip and later on in India.
[5:21] It was. I don't know if it was licensed
[5:23] legally or not, but it was produced by we we did get comics
[5:26] by Indrajal Comics and Diamond Comics which produced a lot of
[5:30] these Phantom comic books. Interestingly enough, limited
[5:35] runs of Phantom Comics have also been run by, as I mentioned,
[5:38] both DC and Marvel. And there are if you go online,
[5:42] you can see there are photographs of multiple Papua
[5:44] New Guinea warriors with the Phantom on their Shields.
[5:47] Interesting. Yes.
[5:49] And you got that very quickly. I think the consensus, you know,
[5:53] opinion from this first two questions.
[5:55] So we should stay away from comics.
[5:59] Personally, we should in our lives not read as many comics
[6:02] and not spend some time reading comics, but clearly we got those
[6:05] very quickly. OK, yes.
[6:09] I do. I do enjoy comic books, so I
[6:11] must say I'm a big fan. And at once I was introduced to
[6:14] the concept of graphic novels. I was blown away.
[6:17] Yes. I was just about to suggest that
[6:19] that because both of us are north of 30, we should, you
[6:22] know, now be saying that, you know, we don't read comics, we
[6:25] read graphic novels. Graphic novels sound so much
[6:29] more acceptable, you know, more literary than just saying comic
[6:33] books. Yeah, comic books are usually
[6:36] accompanied with milkshakes and. Graphic novel can be had
[6:42] alongside a good Scotch, I guess.
[6:45] Yes, let's let's say that's true.
[6:50] OK, tell me what is common in between these places?
[6:55] Lancashire, Argleton, Bitosu and Go Blue?
[7:03] I shouldn't be finding that as funny as it is, but OK.
[7:07] Just the sounds are hilarious, yes.
[7:10] Yeah, Yeah. So, Lancashire, what are the
[7:12] others? Argleton.
[7:15] Argleton. I would not.
[7:17] Bet any money that my pronunciation is right, but I'm
[7:20] hazarding a guess which is Argleton and Betosu and go blue.
[7:28] OK, I have no clue. I'm guessing that Lancashire and
[7:35] Arguton are in the UK. Brilliant.
[7:39] You are absolutely right on that front.
[7:42] OK, but I've never heard of or. I can't even hazard a guess as
[7:48] to what the other two places are.
[7:50] They're actually in the US. And they're called what again?
[7:55] Please repeat. You know, how about I spell it
[7:58] out for you, just to make sure that I'm not butchering the
[8:00] pronunciation? So betosu is betosu is spelled
[8:05] BEATOSU and goblu is spelt goblu.
[8:10] Goblu Goblu. I know that Argyle has
[8:16] something, I mean I remember the term Argyle being associated
[8:20] with textiles. So is it something like an
[8:24] Argyle starter or something to do with textiles?
[8:26] No, no, no you're not. You're a bit cold right now.
[8:31] Yeah, I'm guessing it'd be very cold.
[8:33] What is Lancashire, famous for? My knowledge on British towns
[8:39] aren't as great as I would like it to be.
[8:44] Is this an exhaustive list, or are there more that could be
[8:47] added to it? You know what, I think I messed
[8:50] up, so I'm going to correct myself.
[8:52] Lancashire is actually not a separate space.
[8:55] I meant Argleton, Lancashire. So Argleton is in Lancashire.
[9:00] My bad. Oh, OK, OK, OK Oh.
[9:06] Because Lancashire is a county. OK, yeah, yes, I'm going to
[9:12] pretend I knew that. Is that supposed to mean
[9:14] something? The fact that it's in
[9:16] Lancashire? No, I just I misread the text.
[9:23] I am drawing a complete blank here.
[9:25] So let me give you another example in this list that would
[9:29] be aglow. In New York, and this was for a
[9:35] short while part of this list. And then interestingly enough,
[9:40] it wouldn't be considered to have fit the criteria after a
[9:43] while. OK, so aglo was part of the
[9:46] list, but it is no longer. Yes, and Aglo is perhaps the
[9:51] most famous example on this list, or something that has
[9:56] appeared in a specific movie. Would I have seen this movie?
[10:01] I wouldn't know. I honestly would not know it's
[10:03] based off. A book.
[10:04] OK, no, complete blank. The thing is, most of these
[10:09] examples are wouldn't be super well known, but they're meant
[10:13] to. OK, let's say they will not
[10:15] appear on all maps. Let's use that as a hint.
[10:18] They wouldn't appear on all maps.
[10:21] Are we talking about government basis?
[10:24] Like top secret government bases.
[10:26] It used to be a government base, but it's.
[10:27] Not that's a fantastic guess. It fits the bill in terms of the
[10:30] hints I've given so far, but unfortunately not the answer in
[10:33] this case. OK, you know what?
[10:35] Let me just actually tell you where what it is.
[10:37] And in this scenario, perhaps the trivia is more interesting
[10:40] than actually getting the answer because these places are called
[10:43] phantom settlements, or what is more popularly known as Paper
[10:48] towns. Paper Towns.
[10:51] Is actually a book by John Green as well, and a movie based off
[10:54] of the same book in which the main character is trying to find
[10:59] this place called Aglo. Now what are they actually
[11:01] about? These are settlements or cities
[11:04] or towns that cartographers put on their map as a copyright
[11:08] trap. So somebody else cannot just rip
[11:11] off their work because then they could claim that, hey, this was
[11:14] not actually real. I just put it on there.
[11:17] As a trap, And if you so in quote, how would you prove that
[11:21] what this other person has done is copied my work in this map or
[11:24] this Atlas? But couldn't somebody just sue
[11:26] the cartographer saying that you misled me?
[11:28] My let me think that there's a place like this.
[11:30] Like I went in search of Aglow and I couldn't find it.
[11:33] You wasted my time. Give me $5 million.
[11:36] Now that's where the fun kicks in.
[11:38] Because aglow was invented on the 1930s map as a copyright
[11:41] trap, somebody went and opened an actual general store in that
[11:45] place. And called it Aglo General
[11:47] Store. So Aglo stop being a paper town
[11:51] and became a real town. And for a brief file I do not
[11:54] believe this town is occupied currently, but for brief file
[11:59] Aglo Aglo was an actual town. The others are also similarly
[12:03] paper towns and funnily enough Beat OSU and Go Blue which are
[12:08] the American examples that I mentioned are two non existent
[12:13] towns. In counties in the state of Ohio
[12:17] in America, and they were inserted in the 7879 edition of
[12:22] the official State of Michigan map.
[12:24] The names referred to the slogan of University of Michigan fans,
[12:28] go blue. So that's where Go blue comes
[12:32] from. And a reference to their arch
[12:35] rivals from Ohio State University.
[12:37] So beat OSU or beat OSU. Is where the other name comes
[12:42] from. So Betosu and Go Blue, which is
[12:46] why I know that these are tough to get, but still just fun
[12:50] little piece of no. That's a fantastic piece of
[12:52] trivia I the When you said betosu and go blue, my, I mean,
[12:56] like, forgive my indirect racist thought, but I immediately
[13:02] thought it might be something in Africa for some reason.
[13:05] I don't think that is racist, particularly because they do
[13:07] have names which are not characteristically English.
[13:10] Are familiar to English speakers so.
[13:13] Yeah. But then as when you mentioned
[13:14] that they're in the USII also had this thought that that
[13:17] doesn't help me at all because half the places in the US are
[13:19] named after places in Africa and the Europe.
[13:22] And I mean, like they were spectacularly unimaginative when
[13:26] they started naming places. New York, New England, New
[13:29] Jersey, and and sometimes they just copied directly like
[13:32] Memphis, like there's an actual Memphis in Egypt.
[13:35] They called it Memphis. There's a Madras in the USI
[13:39] mean. Come on, I I get it.
[13:41] You got a new country. Spend some imagination, you
[13:44] know, coming up with new names. Honestly, even the name of the
[13:50] country is just like a oh, we are on a continent and a couple
[13:53] of us want to get together and just unite.
[13:55] So how about the United States of America?
[14:00] Yeah, that. That is not the most imaginative
[14:03] of country names, OK? That's a great piece of trivia.
[14:09] I'll move on to something a little different.
[14:12] So outside the British Embassy on Washington's Embassy Row,
[14:16] which is this street filled with the, you know, embassies and
[14:20] ambassador residences, there's a statue of Winston Churchill
[14:24] right outside the British Embassy.
[14:26] It's constructed of cast bronze and is slightly larger than
[14:29] life. The statue was installed with 1
[14:33] foot in American soil. And the other within the embassy
[14:37] grounds, which would technically make it British soil.
[14:40] One reason for this was in tribute to his work towards the
[14:43] maintenance of the Anglo American Alliance.
[14:46] What was the other, more personal reason?
[14:49] This is a shot in the dark, but does Winston Churchill have some
[14:54] family which is American? So some ancestor, a parent or
[15:00] somebody who's American? Yes, a first shot bullseye.
[15:05] Churchill was born to an American mother and a British
[15:09] father. Wow, OK, interesting.
[15:12] Very interesting. Now, do you want to hear
[15:14] something actually a little more interesting, but I could not put
[15:17] it here because this is a visual cue.
[15:22] OK, But there's a very interesting piece of trivia.
[15:24] So this, this particular statue that we're talking about of
[15:27] Winston Churchill, as I mentioned, is slightly larger
[15:29] than life. And it's got his traditional V
[15:33] for victory pose many years later after the statue was set
[15:36] up across the road from the British Embassy.
[15:39] Just a slight distance away is the South African embassy.
[15:42] So the South African embassy installed a statue of Nelson
[15:47] Mandela, and this is a larger than life statue, 9 feet tall,
[15:52] and he has his hand raised up in his in the typical black power
[15:57] salute, which is a raised fist. And during the inauguration of
[16:01] this particular statue, during the unveiling of this particular
[16:04] statue, the South African ambassador remarked that rock
[16:08] beats scissors. Oh, I love that.
[16:14] OK, so I was not planning on asking this question, but just
[16:18] because you said this, I'm gonna ask it because it is a lovely
[16:22] piece of trivia. Speaking of iconic images, there
[16:26] is a very iconic image from the Olympics.
[16:30] Of two black men raising their fist in a Black Power salute.
[16:35] Yes, I've seen the picture. I've seen the picture.
[16:37] They are standing on the medal podium, 2 of them with their
[16:42] hands raised, both of them wearing gloves only on one hand
[16:45] or something like that. Lovely.
[16:47] Yeah. So these two gentlemen were
[16:50] Tommy Smith and John Carlos. Now, this is the Olympics in
[16:54] Mexico City. In 1968, they had just one at
[16:58] the 200 meter race. So Tommy Smith and John Carlos
[17:02] both have hands raised in the air.
[17:05] The first position is has his right hand raised and the other
[17:09] guy has his left hand raised. OK, so the question is why, when
[17:16] the black power salute is with the right hand, did Carlos who
[17:19] came third, why did he raise his left hand instead?
[17:24] OK, this I don't think this is the answer, but I'm just going
[17:26] to say it anyway. Because I have this piece of,
[17:29] I'm either misremembering the photograph or this is the
[17:33] answer. Both of them have the hands they
[17:37] raised have gloves on them, but they have gloves only on one
[17:39] hand. So did they only have one pair
[17:41] of gloves, one right and one left?
[17:44] Oh man, that was way too quick for you.
[17:47] Tommy Smith and John Carlos have decided that this is going to be
[17:49] their protest moment, right? They're going to.
[17:53] They're going to show that they stand for black power and and
[17:56] going to speak out in a non verbal way on the biggest
[18:00] sporting stage about the atrocities against black people
[18:04] in the US. So this was their moment of
[18:07] glory except poor guy he Carlos forgot his gloves and did not
[18:13] bring them during the time of the medal ceremony.
[18:18] So instead of. Not doing it.
[18:21] Or instead of only one person doing it, Tommy Smith gave him
[18:26] his glove and the three people. In fact the third guy, Peter
[18:31] Norman, who was Australian and who came second, that's a silver
[18:34] medalist. He also wore a human rights
[18:36] batch in support of these two men.
[18:39] All three of them were later held to account for making a
[18:43] political statement in the Olympics, which is supposed to
[18:45] be famously non political. And the Olympic Committee
[18:49] actually got blowback for that because in a way they were like,
[18:53] oh, if you are talking about peace, these these people are
[18:55] also talking about peace and progress.
[18:57] So why would you hold them, you know?
[19:00] The Olympics are not non political.
[19:03] Okay. I'm again, my memory is a little
[19:05] fuzzy or I'm sleepy, but I remember certain countries
[19:08] boycotting the Olympics just because other countries are
[19:11] there. Certain countries are not being
[19:12] allowed to, you know, play to participate in the Olympics
[19:16] because of their policies. So I don't think it's fair to
[19:19] say that the Olympics are non political.
[19:22] Oh, by no means of measure can you see the Olympics are on
[19:26] political, but they do like to pretend that they're not.
[19:29] So yeah, as with many such institutions, they'd like to
[19:32] pretend makes them feel better. Well, if it helps IOC sleep
[19:38] better at night. Sure.
[19:41] But it's just a very interesting piece of trivia because I love
[19:43] that picture. It's such a powerful picture.
[19:45] They both don't have the shoes on.
[19:47] Also, I believe to symbolize the poverty of black America.
[19:50] And it was interesting because when Peter Norman was the one
[19:55] who, by the way suggested that they use one glove each and
[20:00] Peter Norman when he died, Peter Norman the Australian when he
[20:03] died, these two gentlemen, the Americans, they were actually
[20:07] there at the funeral and. I believe they're part of the
[20:11] procession where they they carry the casket as well.
[20:14] So obviously very, very close. And I guess for the very
[20:19] inseparable bond with this guy and interesting piece of trivia,
[20:22] accept this little gaffe where this man forgot his gloves,
[20:29] yeah. OK, I'm going to ask a question
[20:32] which hopefully you will not get very quickly, but I.
[20:38] Again, hope springs eternal. According to Greek mythology, X
[20:42] is the son of Apollo and one of the Muses, and is revered as a
[20:46] God of marriage ceremonies who inspires feasts and songs.
[20:51] At least since the Italian Renaissance, X has always been
[20:54] represented in art. As a young man wearing a Garland
[20:57] of flowers and holding a burning torch in one hand, X appears as
[21:02] a character in the final scene of William Shakespeare's As You
[21:05] Like It. There is a song alluding to X in
[21:09] the comic opera HMS Spinnaphor by Gilbert and Sullivan, and X
[21:13] is supposed to attend every wedding.
[21:15] If he did not, the marriage would supposedly prove
[21:17] disastrous, and so the Greeks would run about calling his name
[21:21] aloud. X would be most commonly known
[21:24] today because of the common etymological route shared by X,
[21:30] and a part of the female anatomy identify X.
[21:36] Let me repeat that because it was a very long question.
[21:38] So I'm going to repeat that for the sake of Aditya, who looks
[21:41] confused as hell, and for the sake of our audience listeners.
[21:45] According to Greek mythology, X is the son of Apollo and one of
[21:49] the Muses and is revered as a God of marriage ceremonies who
[21:53] inspires feasts and song. Since the Italian Renaissance, X
[21:57] has been represented in art as a young man wearing a Garland of
[22:00] flowers and holding a burning torch in one hand.
[22:04] X appears as a character in the final scene of William
[22:06] Shakespeare's As You Like It. There is a song alluding to X in
[22:10] the comic opera HMS Pinnafore by Gilbert and Sullivan.
[22:14] X is supposed to attend every wedding.
[22:16] If he did not, the marriage would supposedly prove
[22:19] disastrous, and so the Greeks would run about calling his name
[22:23] aloud. X would most commonly be known
[22:26] today because of the common etymological route shared by X
[22:31] and a part of the female anatomy.
[22:34] Whose X or identify X? Just because you said the female
[22:39] anatomy, I am, I am going to say names which sound like they
[22:44] could be fitting that particular bill.
[22:47] Is it the the God God of ovarius?
[22:52] No, I am going to enjoy this. Please go ahead Valvatrix.
[23:02] No. No, OK.
[23:06] You're in the general region, but you're focusing on the wrong
[23:10] parts of the anatomy. Yeah, I think we are just
[23:15] exemplifying, or at least I'm exemplifying, the common
[23:19] complaint that women have of how men are completely ignorant of
[23:22] the female anatomy. Let me try.
[23:26] This is going to be my third and final guess before I ask for
[23:28] maybe another clue. Vaginous maximus just making
[23:36] sound like the gladiator. No.
[23:40] So the fact is that there are not many clues I can give here.
[23:45] I can tell you that St. George's Hanover Square, which
[23:48] is the parish Church of Mayfair, was once called the London
[23:53] Temple of Blank due to the number of weddings there.
[23:57] That does not help me directly, but it does remind me of the
[24:00] fact that you said that this person is the God of marriage
[24:03] ceremonies, I believe. Yes, marriage ceremonies.
[24:06] Like the the. The best part about this is that
[24:08] the fact that if X is supposed to attend every Med a wedding,
[24:13] if he did not, the marriage would prove disastrous and so to
[24:16] the Greeks would run about calling his name aloud.
[24:19] I am just picturing that and literally laughing.
[24:22] You know I don't like on the floor.
[24:25] To be fair, the Greeks did not have a lot of other forms of
[24:27] entertainment, so running around shouting things sounds like very
[24:32] valid way of entertaining yourself.
[24:33] And there's no Netflix, I am going to guess, and this is
[24:36] going to be based off of myth, I believe is the right word.
[24:39] I guess that the hymen and how it is important to marriage and
[24:45] being a virgin and all of those kind of archaic beliefs about
[24:48] marriage and women's chastity. So I'm going to say something to
[24:51] do the hymen. Yes, it is hymen the God, the
[24:54] God is called hymen and as most people know that in women and
[25:00] some women, not all women you have.
[25:03] Actually all women have the hymen which is like a membrane
[25:07] which you can find inside the vagina.
[25:10] The thing is it It's supposedly supposed to, as Aditya already
[25:14] mentioned, depict virginity, which may not be true.
[25:19] You can perfectly be a virgin and still have a ruptured hymen.
[25:23] So the God of marriage ceremonies and who inspires
[25:27] feasts and song is hymen. So I'm just inviting all of you
[25:32] listening and with due respect and apologies to any Greeks who
[25:36] may be listening to this. And just imagine a number of
[25:39] Greeks running about during a big fat wedding yelling out
[25:43] hymen, hymen. Yeah, so as I mentioned, St.
[25:49] George's Hanover Square, which is the parish Church of Mayfair.
[25:53] Again, if you are fans or if you've read a lot of romance
[25:57] novels of the Regency variety of 18th century of 19th century
[26:00] England, this may be very familiar to you.
[26:03] Or if you're a fan of Bridgeton, the parish Church of Mayfair is
[26:07] called the London Temple of Hyman due to the number of
[26:09] weddings there. 1816 was a record year with 1063 weddings,
[26:15] including nine on Christmas Day. Which sounds impressive until
[26:19] you realize that again, this is a personal point of trivia.
[26:22] The Sri Guruvayur temple in Kerala that I got married there
[26:27] the day I got married, there were 210 odd weddings on a
[26:30] single day. What?
[26:34] What? You got married alongside 210
[26:37] other couples? No so, so 210 people, 210
[26:41] couples got married throughout the throughout the day.
[26:44] So there are multiple kind of mandaps in the temple where
[26:47] marriages go simultaneously. It's like a how do I put this
[26:51] like a conveyor belt. So you wait, so you and your
[26:53] family wait and then one person, the there's a couple in front of
[26:56] you, go, they get married, it takes 510 minutes, they go, then
[26:59] they go play, then the next person gets on it.
[27:01] It's like a very efficient system.
[27:03] So when we got married, I think they were telling us that it was
[27:06] a huge number and the extremely busy day.
[27:10] So yeah, there were in excess of 200.
[27:13] I've heard that that record's being broken.
[27:15] Subsequently, that even higher number of weddings have happened
[27:18] there. I am just imagining because
[27:21] recently I went to a visa office to get a visa.
[27:24] I'm just imagining you go in there and there's a ticket
[27:26] machine. Which prints out the queue
[27:28] number and then there's a light flashing on top of every mandap,
[27:31] and there's a voice that says topple #67, please proceed to
[27:36] mandap #3 and then you have to go.
[27:38] No, I mean it is, it is surprisingly similar.
[27:40] You have to book online and they give you a ticket and all those
[27:44] things and then basically you have to show up with all those
[27:46] things and you get married. Yeah.
[27:49] So I'm not. I wasn't even that far.
[27:50] So what were the people shouting at your wedding, Vineet?
[27:54] What were they running around shouting and you were getting?
[27:56] There nobody could hear anything.
[27:58] OK, so this is something I saw and this is a throwback to one
[28:04] of our wonderful guests who joined us and a pretty great
[28:06] episode Sai and I believe this was.
[28:11] His wife who posted an anniversary picture of Sai and
[28:15] Bhavna as her name and they're both sitting at the wedding
[28:18] ceremony. It was super funny because she's
[28:20] like, it's a picture of Sai leaning in and I don't know,
[28:24] maybe saying something very sweet to her.
[28:26] But she posted it on the anniversary and she's like, he
[28:28] was probably telling me some random trivia at that point and
[28:31] I was just like, it is our wedding day, man.
[28:36] So. It is us of the people who are
[28:42] obsessed with trivia and how we just do not know the right time
[28:45] and place. So to share.
[28:47] I I was too exhausted to, you know, remember I would like to
[28:52] say anything frankly because I I remember being awake from 3:00
[28:56] o'clock or 2:00 o'clock the previous night.
[28:58] I didn't get much sleep the previous night because there was
[29:00] a lot of things going on and the wedding itself happened very
[29:04] quickly. And there was a function of the
[29:06] temple, and then there was function of the hall.
[29:08] And then we just went home. And I remember crashing.
[29:11] That's it. That's all.
[29:14] Do you apologize to my wife, who may or may not be listening to
[29:16] this episode, but she knows she was crashing right next to me?
[29:21] Well, I guess all's well that ends well for you and for 210
[29:25] other couples. Hey, hey, Shakespeare Reference.
[29:31] Lovely. That was a fun question.
[29:35] So now that we were Speaking of Shakespeare and characters and
[29:38] Greek gods, let us move to something which is probably the
[29:43] exact opposite of that this particular celebrity in
[29:48] Hollywood. So you see why I said the exact
[29:51] opposite of that This Hollywood celebrity, OK, was when she was
[29:55] starting off her own brand, was told that the most famous
[30:01] companies in the world have. 2 vowels in their names.
[30:08] So she decided to take that advice and named her company
[30:14] with that rule. Which celebrity and what company
[30:18] am I talking about? OK, I am going to say that it is
[30:23] Gwyneth Paltrow and the company is.
[30:28] Goop. Oh boy, that was this.
[30:32] This episode is proving to be a very, very easy, easy breeze for
[30:38] you. But let me just tell you
[30:40] specifically, I tried to make it hard for you because I said
[30:42] bowels. And actually the rule was
[30:44] supposed to be there's two overs.
[30:46] And I think the example was Google and Facebook because I
[30:49] can't think of many other examples of famous tech
[30:52] companies, famous new companies. Yeah.
[30:55] So I'm assuming it was just Google and Facebook.
[30:58] And Gareth Paltrow is like, you know what, I'm going to take the
[31:00] two O's and I'm going to just put it in between my initials.
[31:03] And that's how the name Goop by Gwyneth Paltrow came to be.
[31:08] OK, this is a form of question where I'll be naming certain
[31:12] actors a list of actors which may be an exhaustive list which
[31:15] may be a non exhaustive. The 1:00 I'm going to ask is
[31:17] going to be a non exhaustive list right?
[31:21] And all I need you to tell me is what character?
[31:25] Like what is the common character played by all these
[31:28] actors? So there is just one character
[31:30] that has been played by all of these actors.
[31:32] You have to tell me what character this is.
[31:35] Fair enough. OK, so Orson Welles, Christian
[31:40] Slater, Rod Taylor, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Gary Oldman.
[31:49] I'm trying to think of popular characters Gary Oldman has
[31:51] played. Commissioner Gordon.
[31:54] In Batman, that is my first I don't.
[31:57] Think Orson Welles has Orson Welles has played Commissioner
[32:00] Gordon, Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've heard
[32:02] of Orson Welles being associated with the Batman.
[32:06] Michael Gambon, if you may remember or may not remember,
[32:09] was the one of the actors who played Dumbledore.
[32:13] Right. Yeah, I've not even heard of all
[32:15] the actors. Brian Cox, Gary Oldman, Orson
[32:18] Welles, and now this Dumbledore fella.
[32:22] Christian Slater. Let's not forget Christian
[32:23] Slater. Christian Slater, Yes.
[32:25] OK. But the other the other one or
[32:27] two you mentioned, I've not heard of them.
[32:30] Orson Welles. What character has he?
[32:33] Orson Welles, Christian Slater, Rod Taylor, Michael Gambon,
[32:36] Brian Cox and Gary Oldman. When I say character, let's say
[32:41] I'm I'm talking about somebody they've played on screen.
[32:44] Yeah, I figured I'm trying to and I'm assuming it is an
[32:48] adaptation because. An original character being
[32:52] played these many number of times would, I would imagine, be
[32:55] unheard of. As I said, it's somebody they're
[32:59] playing on screen. Let's not say character, they're
[33:01] playing somebody on screen. Interesting.
[33:05] So not a character specifically, is it This.
[33:10] I don't know of any examples of any of these actors, but maybe
[33:13] is it a supercomputer or AI? No, no, no.
[33:18] These are actual movies. I can even to give you the
[33:20] years. I think maybe that maybe that
[33:22] may help. Maybe not.
[33:24] Orson Welles played this person in 1973, Christian Slater in
[33:31] 2004, Rock Taylor in 2009, Michael Gambon in 2016, Brian
[33:38] Cox and Gary Oldman in 2017. And I have one more clue if I if
[33:43] you want. Where I'll actually tell you
[33:45] which the name of the actor and the movie.
[33:48] Oh, and that is a clue. Yes, please go for it.
[33:51] That's a clue. OK, so the name of the actor is
[33:54] Tom Hudson and the movie is Sardar Utham.
[34:00] Wait, sorry, this the movie and the actor is obviously not the
[34:06] answer for the question, right? No.
[34:08] So Tom Hudson is another one, another somebody else who
[34:11] belongs on this list. Oh God.
[34:13] And he played this person or character on in the 2021 Vicky
[34:18] Kaushal starrer movie Sardar Utham.
[34:21] Interesting. I have not watched that movie,
[34:24] but I know it's a period drama. So you know the rough list of
[34:29] characters who may be part of the usual suspects, right?
[34:34] So I I would I remember having a conversation, I think, with you
[34:39] regarding one of these because. I would actually ask you to pay
[34:45] attention to the fact that both Brian Cox and Gary Oldman played
[34:49] the same character in two different movies in 2017.
[34:54] That doesn't quite help. And the conversation we had
[34:56] months ago, if I remember correctly, you had seen one of
[34:59] them, I had seen the other, but we were both confusing the
[35:03] movies for each other. Oh boy, The thing is Vineet.
[35:08] And this is a sign of our friendship, that I talk to you
[35:10] so often that I have no idea which conversation you're
[35:13] referring to. And also, we both watch a lot of
[35:19] movies. So again, that doesn't help
[35:20] narrow it down. Yes, I'm going to guess because
[35:22] it's an Indian period film. And these are all white actors,
[35:26] at least the ones that I had heard of.
[35:28] I'm going to try to guess, is it by any chance Winston Churchill?
[35:33] It is Winston Churchill. OK, nice.
[35:37] It is Vincent Churchill. So Orson Welles played Winston
[35:40] Churchill in the 1973 check film The Battle of Suchska.
[35:45] Christian Slater played Winston Churchill.
[35:47] A young Winston Churchill in a comedy spoof parody movie called
[35:52] Churchill the Hollywood Years. Rod Taylor's the one who played
[35:57] Winston Churchill in The Inglorious Bastards.
[35:59] Michael Gambon played It played Churchill in Churchill's Secret.
[36:04] And in 2017 there were two Churchill movies which released
[36:07] one starring Brian Cox, which was called Churchill, and one
[36:11] starring Gary Oldman, which is called The Darkest Star, right?
[36:14] Right, right. Yes, we did have this
[36:16] conversation. You're right.
[36:17] Yeah, and Tom Hudson is this unknown actor.
[36:21] I seriously couldn't find a single credit for him on IMDb,
[36:25] who played Sardar. Fascinatingly enough, I couldn't
[36:29] find a single picture of the gentleman apart from a screen
[36:32] grab from the movie itself. So all these characters have all
[36:38] these people have played the Winston Churchill?
[36:42] Great. OK, that's that's fascinating.
[36:45] I I have one, I think. I think I have one that I think
[36:48] you'll crack. It's very similar question to
[36:50] this. I'm, I'm sorry, but I love these
[36:52] kind of questions. So I have one more Prithvi Raj
[36:55] Kapoor, NT Ram Rao. I'm just Khan Hrithik Roshan,
[37:00] Vikram Gokhale and Nasiruddin Shah.
[37:03] What is Hrithik Roshan doing in that list?
[37:05] He does not seem to have the the look of the rest of them, at
[37:09] least. Yeah.
[37:12] Prithviraj Kapoor. Oh, OK.
[37:14] Yeah. Akbar.
[37:15] Akbar. Yes it is Akbar.
[37:18] Prithviraj Kapoor played him in Mughal Azam and the Rama Rao
[37:22] played him in Akbar Saleem. Anarkali Amjad Khan played him
[37:26] in Meera Hrithik Roshan and Jodha Akbar Vikram Gokli in
[37:30] Akbar Birbal the. 1990s TV show on ZTV and Nasiruddin Shah in
[37:35] the 2023 OTT series Taj Divided by Blood Wow.
[37:42] OK, well, yes, that's a cool piece and.
[37:45] One last one. This is the last one.
[37:47] I promise. I'm just because again, I love
[37:49] these kind of questions. So this is another list.
[37:51] Roger Moore, you know James Bond.
[37:53] Roger Moore. Roger Moore.
[37:55] Christopher Plummer. Richard Roxborough.
[37:58] Will Ferrell, Ian McKellen. Michael Caine, Robert Downey
[38:03] Junior and Christopher. Lee Oh, I feel like at least
[38:08] Robert Downey and I believe Ian McKellen fit the bill for
[38:12] Sherlock Holmes. Yes, it is Sherlock Holmes.
[38:16] So Roger Moore played Sherlock Holmes in 1976 for Sherlock
[38:21] Holmes in New York. Christopher Plummer Blade played
[38:23] him in Silver Blades in 1977. Richard Roxboro played him in
[38:27] The Hound of the Basketballs in 22,002.
[38:30] Will Ferrell played him in Holmes and Watson, a comedic
[38:33] version, in 2018. Ian McKellen played a very aged
[38:38] Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Holmes in 2015.
[38:40] Michael Caine was in Without a Clue from 1988.
[38:44] Robert Downey Jr. famously played you know, steampunk
[38:48] version of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and A Game of
[38:52] Shadows in 22,009 and 2011. And finally Christopher Lee
[38:56] starred as Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes and The Deadly
[38:58] Necklace. From 1962 and that is the last
[39:02] of my indulgent questions. I.
[39:05] Love them. I I wonder if you could do a
[39:08] list of famous and of actors who have played Gandhi.
[39:10] Also must be a few. That would be an interesting
[39:13] list. Yeah, that would be a very
[39:16] interesting list. I'm sure there are quite a few
[39:20] because there have been so many Indian movies itself.
[39:22] Yeah. To come up with a good list,
[39:24] well, that could be homework for any of our listeners.
[39:29] Send us a list. And we If you do send, you know
[39:31] what? If you do send us a list, we
[39:33] will read it out in the next episode, and we will thank you
[39:36] for sending us that list. If you do, and if not, well, we
[39:39] will go back and edit this part of the episode out.
[39:44] No, no. We'll just follow in our
[39:45] obscurity, basically. Come on, we just celebrated the
[39:48] fact that we crossed 100 followers on Instagram, So.
[39:55] You know, I don't. I don't think that that's
[39:56] something particularly to boast about, given the fact that we've
[39:59] been doing this for the better part of a year now.
[40:03] I Hey, hundred is 100, just just celebrate the century.
[40:08] On that note, should we find out what your question is or do I go
[40:13] for my question first? V Yes, the tradition dictates
[40:17] that it is Aditya first who has to regale us with a question,
[40:21] and following which I will, I will.
[40:23] Reveal the answer to the audience question.
[40:26] Alright, perfect. So my question is based off of
[40:30] the question that you asked Vineet and that was about the
[40:33] Greek God. And this is going to be a
[40:37] slightly long form question. So it isn't going to be a very
[40:39] short form answer, going to be a couple of sentences long.
[40:42] And the question and the question is what were the other
[40:46] reasons that the Greek people who were running around shouting
[40:50] things at weddings? In ancient Greece, I'm not
[40:53] talking about any Greek people alive right now.
[40:55] I love Greek people, I have Greek friends.
[40:56] So. But ancient Greece, we just talk
[40:59] about people who have been dead for thousands and thousands of
[41:01] years. Why were they running around
[41:03] shouting? And the answer will be next
[41:07] week, so tune in for that. Yes, and let me just clarify.
[41:10] Yes, he did say Greek friends, not geek friends.
[41:13] We all know that he has a lot of geek friends.
[41:16] You know, my Greek friend is also a geek friend.
[41:18] So he kind of it's the bill. Oh, so you have got a geek Greek
[41:21] friend? I have a geek Greek friend.
[41:23] I do. Should try saying that five
[41:26] times quickly. OK, so at the beginning of the
[41:30] episode, I had asked an audience question.
[41:32] A Kruka Hua Fesla pending decision.
[41:34] Is an Indian Hindi language thriller film released in 1986,
[41:38] directed by Basu Chatterjee with a small cast of 13, including
[41:41] Pankaj Kapoor and Anu Kapoor, This movie was an unofficial
[41:45] remake of a 1957 film. Which film?
[41:48] Any guesses? Aditya before I revealed.
[41:51] The answer OK, I'm just going to guess 1957 parts of Glory.
[41:56] No, the clue is that there were only 13 cast members, so that.
[42:00] Should be your biggest. Win.
[42:02] So then, 12 angry men. Yes, it is 12 Angry Men.
[42:06] So 12 Angry Men was a 1957 movie which was based of a 1954 telly
[42:13] play the film. The original film starred Henry
[42:16] Fonda. And was selected as the second
[42:19] best courtroom drama ever, after To Kill a Mockingbird by the
[42:23] American Film Institute for their A F I's Top 1010 Top Ten
[42:26] list. It is regarded by many as one of
[42:28] the greatest films ever made and Ek Ruka Hua Fesla, which means a
[42:33] pending decision, was an unauthorized remake of the same.
[42:38] And that's all for this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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[43:12] See you guys next week. And here's the Fact Check for
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[43:32] by Lee Fogg for King Feature Syndicate.
[43:35] Indrajel Comics and Diamond Comics were authorized
[43:38] international publishers of Phantom Comics in India.
[43:42] There have been multiple boycotts and bands of countries
[43:45] at the Olympics for political reasons.
[43:48] Some of the examples include South African apartheid, Soviet,
[43:53] Afghan war, and the Suez Crisis. The two companies that were
[43:57] instrumental in GUP getting its name were Google and Yahoo,
[44:02] examples of successful young companies with a double O's in
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