# Episode 030 - Kim, Linus & Simon

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 27 Jul 2023, 34 min.

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Do you know which Indian civil service officer had an infamous son who was a traitor and yet was given a state funeral? Do you know the two iconic pieces of software developed by Linus Torvald? Do you know which Paul Simon song title was inspired by a dish he spotted on a Chinese Restaurant menu? 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 port
[0:07] question. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, port, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:13] Pet Skin Quizzing and we're back for episode #30 of Are You
[0:20] Quizzing Me? Let's get right into the show
[0:23] with the audience question for the day.
[0:26] This question will be answered at the end of the episode, so
[0:29] stay tuned till all the way towards the end and you'll be
[0:33] able to get to know the answer. The question for today for the
[0:37] audience is Lacto Basilis del Bruki subspecies.
[0:43] Bulgaricus is the principal bacteria used to make yogurt and
[0:47] curds on October 18th, 2012. What designation was given to
[0:53] this bacteria by the Indian government?
[0:56] Let me repeat the question. Lactobacillus del Bruki
[1:00] subspecies Bulgaricus is the principal bacteria used to make
[1:04] yogurt and curd on October 18th, 2012.
[1:09] What designation was given to this bacteria by the Indian
[1:13] government? Wait till the end of the episode
[1:16] for the answer. Now let's get to the small
[1:19] matter of Aditya's question from last week.
[1:22] Aditya, what's the what was the question and what is your
[1:26] answer? It is.
[1:28] At this point I would like to acknowledge the fact that this
[1:31] is our 30th episode beneath. So a little milestone.
[1:35] Yeah, so that's something worth celebrating.
[1:38] And the reason I also point that out is because my answer might
[1:42] just get us cancelled. We might just lose.
[1:46] Are right to ever make a podcast ever again.
[1:49] It's going to be politically very controversial.
[1:51] Oh God. Because the question was which
[1:55] part of India would we want to give as collateral if we were to
[2:00] ever approach IMF or World Bank for funds And allegedly Nehru
[2:05] did that for collar gold fields as you mentioned in the previous
[2:08] episode. So I asked which other part of
[2:11] India could we do? And this is so politically
[2:15] incorrect. But I thought Kashmir would be,
[2:20] oh, sweeties, No, OK, I have. OK.
[2:22] Let me, let me just say that I have nothing to do with this
[2:24] man. I have no idea what we are.
[2:26] We just met on the podcast. That's all I know.
[2:29] Hey, I I love, I love Kashmir. I think it's a beautiful,
[2:33] beautiful region. The only reason I say this is
[2:35] because it's a very stupid pun on the fact that Kashmir has
[2:38] cash in it. Its name, cash in its name and
[2:41] hence the joke. It has nothing else to do with
[2:44] anything else. Lead with that next time.
[2:48] Hey, see, the other alternative was saying Manipur because
[2:52] money. But that also is not a very good
[2:54] choice right now. Unfortunately, it is It is a
[2:58] very bad choice. So I'm just going with the
[3:01] lesser of the two evils. Yeah.
[3:03] OK, let us. We we joked, we joked in the
[3:06] past about getting cancelled, but I think this might actually
[3:10] get it done. I I have.
[3:13] Yeah, I have. Decided that I'm going to treat
[3:17] this as a last ever episode, so I'm just going to go all out
[3:20] toward oh God, OK, Aditya, now that's out of the way and
[3:27] leaving me with a heart attack. What's your question for the
[3:32] day? Let's start off with something
[3:33] from you. OK, so I'm going to tell you a
[3:37] little story. This is guy called Curtis who
[3:42] was born in 1975. At the age of 12, he started
[3:46] dealing narcotics when his grandparents thought he was in
[3:50] an after school program. He was caught by metal detectors
[3:54] at his high school. He was also arrested for selling
[3:58] 4 vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer.
[4:02] He was arrested again 3 weeks later when the police searched
[4:06] his home and found heroin, 10 ounces of crack cocaine, and a
[4:10] starting pistol. So it was a.
[4:13] It was a tumultuous young life for Curtis.
[4:19] He decided to make a change in his life.
[4:22] How do we know Curtis today as and why did he choose that name?
[4:27] Would this by? Would this person also be famous
[4:32] for having been shot multiple times?
[4:35] You are, I believe, very, very close to the answer, if not
[4:40] already with the answer yes. So I I I don't know exactly how
[4:45] is God as moniker. I don't have that.
[4:47] But I believe that this might be Curtis $0.50 Jackson.
[4:53] Vineet, you blow me away every single time it is.
[4:57] It is indeed $0.50 the rapper. He chose the name $0.50 inspired
[5:03] by a Brooklyn robber from the 1980s whose name was Kelvin
[5:07] Martin, but went by 50 Cent, however.
[5:11] Curtis Jackson also wanted his name to mean something more than
[5:15] just referencing this particular robber, so he decided that it
[5:20] will be a metaphor for change. Change in both ways.
[5:25] Change in terms of money and change in terms of change in
[5:28] life. So that's how $0.50 chose his
[5:32] own Monica as an artist and a very successful businessman.
[5:37] If not, many people know that Boris Jackson's, a very
[5:40] successful businessman, made a lot of his life, even though the
[5:45] start of it may have been tumultuous, as you very
[5:49] eloquently put it. Absolutely.
[5:51] There was a quick crack Vineet. So let's move on to your
[5:53] question. OK, so I am going to ask you a
[5:59] question about a particular individual in the from the first
[6:06] half of the 20th century, Ex was an advisor, explorer, writer and
[6:13] intelligence officer. He was educated in Trinity
[6:17] College, Cambridge and was a friend and classmate of Jawar La
[6:21] Nehru, a member of the Indian Civil Service.
[6:24] He converted to Islam in 1930, changed his name to Sheikh
[6:29] Abdullah, and became an advisor to Ibn Saud, urging him to unite
[6:34] the Arabian Peninsula under Saudi rule and helping him to
[6:38] negotiate with the United Kingdom and the United States
[6:41] when petroleum was discovered in 1938, he is remembered in
[6:45] Ornithology by the name of a Partridge in southwestern Saudi
[6:49] Arabia and northern Yemen. You would probably know his
[6:54] eldest son Y, who was born in Ambala, Punjab in 1912, who was
[7:00] also a very highly infamous character.
[7:04] He's been the subject of numerous novels, both fictional
[7:07] and non fictional. On his death from heart failure
[7:10] in 1988, he was given a hero's funeral and posthumously awarded
[7:14] numerous medals. Who is X&Y?
[7:18] Who are X&Y? Father and son duo.
[7:20] Even if you don't tell me who X is, if you can tell me who Y is,
[7:23] then I will accept that. OK, I need to clarify.
[7:26] So why was born in 1912, died in 1988?
[7:30] And you also said infamous but was given a hero's send off
[7:36] during his funeral? Yes.
[7:40] OK, interesting is very infamous, very infamous.
[7:45] I would have definitely heard of the Sun.
[7:47] At least yes, if you OK. Here's the thing.
[7:52] If you've read any kind of spy novels or espionage novels or
[7:57] anything about the Cold War written in the past 50 years,
[8:02] he's had a lot of impact on that.
[8:05] A lot of characters have been indirectly based on him, and
[8:09] he's also one of the few real life characters who finds places
[8:13] in even fictional novels. Unfortunately, I have not read
[8:17] many novels from that particular era or of that genre, but I I
[8:23] there is a chance, at least there's a very good chance you
[8:25] you have heard of him. OK.
[8:29] Based off of the geography itself, was the son a Sikh?
[8:36] Was he a Sardar? No.
[8:39] He was born in Ambala, Punjab. Right, but his father converted
[8:43] to Islam, so I'm assuming I'm trying to just narrow down
[8:46] potential name types. So am I trying to think of a
[8:51] Muslim sounding name for the son?
[8:53] No, his son. His son is still known by the
[8:57] original name that his father had given him, his family name.
[9:01] Right. No, I'm.
[9:03] I'm completely lost. I have.
[9:06] I have absolutely no clue who this particular person is.
[9:09] OK, the son was is still known by his nickname, which is
[9:17] derived from a Kipling character, one of the Kipling's
[9:20] most famous Boy Spy characters. Yeah, wow.
[9:25] I have no idea. None at all.
[9:29] OK, would it help if I gave you a clue and I said that this
[9:33] person, the son, was one of the Cambridge 5?
[9:38] Again, no, I'm. I'm not off to the start here
[9:43] No, no, no, no, no, no. This I may The thing is I this
[9:48] is one of those things where you're my you know your own
[9:50] biases kind of inform your question and you know I have
[9:55] known about this and I've have heard about this and I read a
[9:58] lot of spy and lesbian novels so it's it's a little like I kept I
[10:02] keep thinking that everybody knows this stuff the character
[10:05] the people I'm talking about the father is Jack Philby and the
[10:12] son is Kim Philby. It sounds very vaguely familiar,
[10:15] but I have no context, so please fill me in.
[10:19] OK, so so Jack Philby. Obviously I've already given you
[10:22] his history. His son is the one that is
[10:25] really famous. Now, if you've not heard of the
[10:28] Cambridge Five, I will dedicate a small mini episode to the
[10:31] Cambridge 5:00 because of the fascinating care, I think.
[10:33] But what you have to understand, in short, is that they were a
[10:36] ring of spies in the United Kingdom who passed on
[10:40] information to the Soviet Union. All of them were recruited at
[10:44] Cambridge University as students.
[10:47] Kim Philby was the most successful of these spies.
[10:53] He was a senior officer in the British Secret Service, also
[10:56] known as MI6, and he went on to serve the K GB for 50-4 years.
[11:02] He defected to the Soviet Union under the cover of night and
[11:05] then lived out his last few years in the Soviet Union, and
[11:09] when he died, he was given a hero's funeral by the Soviet
[11:13] Union. OK, that makes sense.
[11:17] I must say though, that was a very clever misdirect because I
[11:21] was thinking only Indian names, which is why I asked, is it a
[11:23] Sikh name? Is it a Muslim name?
[11:26] Am I supposed to think of a Hindu name?
[11:28] I did not even consider the fact that it was a British guy.
[11:32] Well done, well done with. That was a fun question.
[11:35] Okay. Since you gave me something that
[11:38] comes very naturally to you and something you are very
[11:40] interested in, let me try to turn the tables on you now.
[11:46] This is going to be my last question for today, but let's
[11:48] push it up the order. Oh, OK.
[11:52] So Linus Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer.
[11:59] I might be mispronouncing the name.
[12:01] I'll spell it out Linus and last name TORVAL DS.
[12:05] Linus Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the
[12:09] creator of two very, very famous pieces of software.
[12:16] Both of them are kind of named after him.
[12:20] Could you name the two? OK, I know one is Linux, the
[12:24] Linux operating system. Perfect.
[12:26] So that was that was the easy part of the question.
[12:29] Do you know what is the second one?
[12:30] Yeah, no, not off the top of my head.
[12:34] The moment you said Linus Torvalds, I was like, OK, this
[12:37] is a Linux question. You're not talking about any of
[12:39] the variants of the Linux operating system, right?
[12:41] Not Red Hat or some Ubuntu or nothing like that, right?
[12:45] Nothing of that sort, no. In fact it is.
[12:48] If I may describe it, it's a version control system.
[12:53] It's a version control system. Yes.
[12:57] Is this something I would have heard?
[13:00] In this scenario, I'd have to give you back exactly what you
[13:03] said. Anybody who has done any coding
[13:06] in his life definitely has heard of this, but I'm not sure if
[13:10] anybody outside of that field has.
[13:12] I hope they have wait this is that wait wait wait wait is this
[13:18] a is this an online website kind of thing?
[13:21] Is this what is? What is it called?
[13:23] What is it called where people keep uploading their versions of
[13:26] code. This is the the code that they
[13:28] keep so that they have a backup it will.
[13:32] I think you might be close to the answer, yeah.
[13:37] What is it called? Some GitHub GitHub.
[13:45] GitHub is that. Is that it?
[13:48] You are very close, so I'll give it to you.
[13:50] Yes, GitHub is actually a platform and cloud based service
[13:55] which uses git and git is what I was actually.
[13:58] Talking about Git is in the distributed version control
[14:03] system that tracks changes in any set of computer files.
[14:07] So it is very useful to track changes, say if you are
[14:09] developing a website or a phone app, and over time obviously you
[14:13] are bringing in new new things, new features, you're fixing all
[14:16] errors. It's a good way to keep track of
[14:18] how things have changed over time and if you wanna reverse
[14:20] stuff. So anybody who has done any
[14:22] coding would would be very familiar with git and GitHub.
[14:27] Now, how is Git named after him? Because he was a Git.
[14:33] There was sarcastically quipped that the name Git.
[14:37] Which is British slang for an unpleasant person.
[14:41] Yes, refers to the fact that he is an egotistical bastard and
[14:46] names all of his projects after himself.
[14:49] So first was Linux and now get. And this is literally a direct
[14:53] quote that I'm putting out there.
[14:57] So, yeah, brownie points for self-awareness, I guess, to
[15:01] Linus. Yes, yes, definitely.
[15:05] Okay. That was that was a great
[15:06] question. That was a great question.
[15:08] Explorer X is an American travel agency and they provide a tour
[15:14] package lasting 12 days and 11 nights.
[15:18] This tour retraces a famous route.
[15:22] The highlights the trip are in the following order.
[15:26] Exploring the rolling countryside of Andalucia.
[15:29] Exploring Tarifa, a town on the southern coast with stunning
[15:33] views across the Mediterranean Sea to Africa.
[15:36] Sailing across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to Morocco,
[15:40] Exploring Tangier, then traveling to Egypt, spending two
[15:45] nights at the Fayoum Oasis in the Sahara Desert, and a
[15:49] privately guided visit to the Pyramids of Giza.
[15:54] What or which famous route or route does this tour retrace?
[16:01] Let me repeat the question once more so that you can get it
[16:03] right. Explorer X is an American travel
[16:07] agency providing a tour package which lasts 12 days, 11 nights,
[16:12] and this tour retraces the famous route.
[16:15] The highlights of the trip are the following.
[16:18] In order the rolling countryside of Andalucia for allowed by
[16:22] Tarifa, then sailing across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to
[16:26] Morocco, Tangier, then Egypt, two nights at the Fayoum Oasis
[16:33] in the Sahara Desert, and a privately guided visit to the
[16:36] pyramids at Giza. Which famous route does this
[16:40] tour retrace? Interesting.
[16:43] I was initially inclined to say crusade, but I do not believe
[16:47] Crusades took that particular route.
[16:50] None of the Crusades went via Morocco, if I'm not wrong.
[16:54] Is it a fictional route that you're recreating, Like from the
[16:57] world of fiction? Yes.
[16:59] Now you've gotten the important part of the question.
[17:03] Yes, it is a fictional route, OK, though many people have made
[17:09] the pilgrimage, so to speak. We're using the same route.
[17:13] Oh sorry, let me clarify. So even the Explorers X
[17:17] whatever. The the Tour Company.
[17:18] No, no, that's that's an actual. That's an actual company.
[17:21] OK, that's an actual company providing this actual tour, but
[17:27] it's retracing now, as you have correctly guessed, A fictional
[17:33] route. This has nothing to do with
[17:36] anything except gut instinct, so it's probably wrong, but I'm
[17:39] just going to say Tintin. No, not Tintin.
[17:42] Comes to my end. It's not tinted.
[17:45] Let me dare say. I dare say that more people have
[17:48] read this than have read tinted. OK, that is a select.
[17:53] Let me go and give you a second clue, I would say.
[17:55] I would also dare say that more people have heard of this book
[17:59] than most other books. Which era or when is this book
[18:03] from? The book is from the 80s.
[18:06] In 1988 would be the exact year of publication.
[18:11] Let me clarify, 88 is was its publication in its original
[18:16] language. It was published in English in
[18:19] 93. OK, I'm still a bit stuck, so
[18:22] I'll ask you which what was the original language for this?
[18:26] I believe it was Portuguese. Portuguese fictional work that
[18:32] has been translated into English and is so famous, that would be
[18:36] considered at par, if not more than tin.
[18:39] Tin. Yes, I believe so.
[18:42] Let's just say it's one of those books that people, when you ask
[18:45] them, like which is your favorite book?
[18:48] Or if you ask, if you go to any kind of bookshop you know
[18:53] anywhere in the world, they probably have a copy of this.
[18:56] What? Maybe the night?
[18:58] I'm not aware of the fact that this has Portuguese origin,
[19:01] because any other type of book I yeah, not many people, I think,
[19:04] know the fact that this is a Portuguese origin.
[19:07] The author himself is world famous.
[19:10] Trust me, even if you've read the book, this may not click
[19:13] immediately because the book meanders quite a little bit.
[19:16] When I first saw the the website of Explorer X and I saw this
[19:21] package, I was also a little surprised.
[19:23] And then it came back to me as I went through it.
[19:26] Oh, OK, yeah, the character does go through all of these things.
[19:30] Again, I've not read this book, so I have no idea why I'm saying
[19:33] this. Again, that instinct probably
[19:34] wrong. Is it OK?
[19:36] Liker's Guide to the Galaxy is almost set almost entirely in
[19:40] space. It's not on Earth.
[19:43] Yeah, I imagine. If you've not read it, by the
[19:45] way, Aditi, you really should. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
[19:47] Galaxy is one of my favorite books also.
[19:51] Why I said it? Because it is one of those books
[19:53] that people say is one of the favorite books and I have not
[19:57] read it, so I didn't know if it was based in the Galaxy.
[19:59] It sounded like it should be 1. Maybe they never left Earth.
[20:03] OK. No, no, no.
[20:04] They definitely do. And also Hitchhiker's Guide to
[20:07] Galaxy is older than 1988. If you you know the for those
[20:11] who've been to India, you know there are hawkers of books and
[20:14] second hand books and pirated books on roadsides everywhere in
[20:20] all the major cities in India. There's a very good chance that
[20:23] this book, a copy of this book is there.
[20:25] And practically almost all of them very interesting.
[20:28] I can't think of anything which fits that bill.
[20:31] No, you. That moment you hear this.
[20:32] Now you're going to go nuts, I guarantee you, the moment I tell
[20:36] you the name of the book. You're going to go nuts.
[20:40] No, I have no clue. Then yeah, maybe another clue
[20:42] would help. OK, I think I'm rapidly running
[20:45] out of clues to give. Would it help if I told you that
[20:51] the protagonist of the book is a shepherd boy by the name of
[20:58] Santiago? Is it The Alchemist?
[21:03] Yes, it is. The Alchemist by Paulo Coyler.
[21:06] Oh, you said Portuguese. That I'm thinking for.
[21:08] He's Brazilian. Yes, he's Brazilian.
[21:13] You're just throwing me off with this nationality so much today.
[21:15] I'm trying to think of a Portuguese author.
[21:19] Why have I not heard of a famous?
[21:20] I said Portuguese language. I said it was published in the
[21:23] Portuguese language. You did?
[21:25] You did. I have nobody to blame but
[21:26] myself. But yeah, so this this package
[21:32] by Explorer X. By the way, if you go to
[21:34] explorerhyphenx.com/alchemist you will find the package I'm
[21:40] talking about Aditya. Unfortunately your Europe
[21:44] itinerary is already booked. Otherwise, I could have
[21:46] suggested that you try this one out.
[21:49] I'm embarrassed enough right now to just change my itinerary and
[21:51] just go and then. But yeah, so that this is a
[21:57] package that's been made to follow Santiago's route to the
[22:02] Pyramids of Giza. Again, I was thrown off because
[22:05] the route is Europe and Mediterranean and you said
[22:08] Portuguese. And I'm trying to think of a
[22:10] European author and I can't think of anybody.
[22:13] Paulo Coilo makes so much more sense now.
[22:16] Yeah. OK.
[22:17] So have you heard of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon?
[22:21] Yes, I have heard of him. OK, so he has a very famous song
[22:28] that is named after a dish that he saw in a Chinese restaurant.
[22:33] A chicken and egg dish. Which song is this?
[22:40] I said I I have heard of Paul Simon.
[22:42] I'm not very familiar with his discography.
[22:47] That's. Yeah, it is an egg dish.
[22:50] It is not a song I had heard of to begin with.
[22:53] But for my songs, when I saw this piece of trivia, I was
[22:56] like, OK, this is really fun. OK, all right.
[23:00] So let me tell you, it's a bit of morbid back story to the song
[23:03] itself because the song's lyrics were inspired by a pet dog that
[23:07] was run over and killed. And it was the first death that
[23:11] Simon had personally experienced.
[23:14] And he began to wonder how he would react if the same happened
[23:17] to his first wife, Peggy Harper. Oh, so when he went down to
[23:22] these dark thoughts and he came up with the song.
[23:28] However, the song name came from a dish that he saw in the
[23:31] Chinese restaurant and knew. Chinese restaurant What?
[23:35] What is A and the dish? Specifically, is a chicken and
[23:41] egg dish. The chicken and egg dish that
[23:46] became the name of a song I. I'm completely clueless.
[23:55] You'll have to give me something to go by because I don't know
[24:01] his song. I don't know Paul Simon songs as
[24:03] well as I would like. Not that I know whether I would
[24:05] like his songs, but you know, I I imagine you know more of the
[24:09] Simon and Garfunkel songs, perhaps not the Paul Simon,
[24:14] yeah. More of a yeah, yeah, yeah.
[24:16] Those are the. Most Scarborough Fair any day,
[24:19] right? Right.
[24:20] So, but Paul Simon also has had a pretty.
[24:23] So no, no, he's a fan Serial. He's a fan.
[24:25] Yeah. Is it like a dish named Egg Foo
[24:28] Young or something like that? No.
[24:30] No, it is. It isn't something which would
[24:32] you which you would consider a very Chinese name.
[24:35] It's in fact a name which is using English words entirely.
[24:39] No, what I was trying to ask is is it isn't a name that when you
[24:43] say it and when you pronounce it in Chinese, sounds English and
[24:47] has a completely different meaning or something like that.
[24:49] Like, no, no, no no. Go young would be grew young or
[24:53] something like that. No, nothing like that.
[24:55] It's not like misheard lyrics, no, no.
[24:57] Exactly like if I was named after an in English which had
[25:02] English words, it would be butter chicken, which is both
[25:04] English words. So it's not.
[25:06] Oh, OK. So it's not Chinese words, which
[25:09] would sound different. Yeah.
[25:10] Yeah. So I'm.
[25:12] I'm sure that the dish has some Chinese name as well.
[25:14] But he read the English name. That's what he thought was a
[25:16] good name for the song. Now let me tell you.
[25:18] So he experienced the death and he started thinking about the
[25:22] context of his first wife also dying and how he would deal with
[25:26] that and specifically Peggy Harper, who his wife was.
[25:30] They had a son together and son's name was Harper Simon.
[25:35] So he was also thinking of the impact and it's almost written
[25:39] as a song to his son or describing the impact of this
[25:45] fictional of this hypothetical situation where his wife has
[25:49] died and he is singing to his son or they met on his son.
[25:55] The chicken and the egg dish? Nope.
[25:59] I'm. I'm completely clueless.
[26:00] Completely. I wish I could give you a clue
[26:03] for this. I wish I could give you a clue
[26:05] for this. I don't have any other clue to
[26:07] give which would lead you to the name of the dish.
[26:09] So I'm just going to give you the answer.
[26:11] The answer is mother and child reunion.
[26:15] What? That's the name of the song.
[26:17] And the dish, which is a chicken and egg dish, is called a mother
[26:20] and Child reunion because it has both chicken and egg in it.
[26:25] And when he read the name Mother and Child Reunion, he thought it
[26:28] was a beautiful song title for the song, talking about the
[26:32] death of his hypothetical death of his wife and the impact on
[26:37] his son. I think that's such a strange
[26:41] parallel to draw. Lacking piece of trivia, but I
[26:46] have serious doubts about his mental health right now.
[26:50] He sees a dish called Mother and Child reunion and thinks about
[26:54] the death of his wife. No.
[26:57] So he had already thought about this song and there was a
[26:59] context to it. He just didn't have a name to
[27:01] it. And when he saw the name on that
[27:03] menu, he's like, oh, that sounds like a great name.
[27:06] I'm going to use that it just in this context it is a chicken and
[27:09] an egg being cooked together. Oh my God.
[27:10] It is a mother, and the child reunion is the mother and child
[27:12] being cooked together in this. You know what this reminds me
[27:19] of? There are these Internet.
[27:22] I wouldn't say memes, but there are a lot of things in the
[27:23] Internet where you have menus from South Asia and Southeast
[27:28] Asia where translations have gone horribly wrong, especially
[27:33] in restaurants. This sounds like one of the
[27:36] mother and child reunion. Yeah.
[27:41] No, I I. It's a horrible name to give a
[27:43] dish, yeah, that is why I said strange name for a dish, decent
[27:47] name for a song, but strange name for a dish, because it
[27:50] sounds beautiful and poetic. And then it reminds me, as a lot
[27:54] of meat eaters try to avoid remembering the fact that what
[27:57] they're eating as live animals and with the whole life and
[28:00] stuff, which is what it reminds me of the fact that I'm meeting
[28:04] an animal which gave birth to an egg and were cooked together.
[28:09] And that is just very disturbing.
[28:11] And I want to become vegetarian for the foreseeable future now.
[28:15] So this is my next question to you.
[28:18] Theophylactus of Tusculum is the youngest ever to hold this post.
[28:25] He was elected at the age of 20. Could be said that it was
[28:30] something of a family business for him because two of his
[28:33] uncles. One grand uncle and one great
[28:37] grand uncle had all held the post.
[28:41] He's the only person to have held the post more than once,
[28:45] and the only one ever accused of selling the post that he
[28:49] occupied. What post did he hold from 10:30
[28:53] to 10:44 CE, then 1045 CE and for the finally for the last
[28:58] time in 1047 to 1048 CE? By the way, CE also means AD, so
[29:05] can I clarify what is the name again?
[29:07] Theophylactus of Tusculum Tusculum.
[29:12] Does Tusculum have anything to do with Tuscany?
[29:15] I do not know. I just know that it's the name
[29:18] of a place not particularly relevant to the question.
[29:21] So it's just his name, OK No, actually I was asking Tuscany
[29:25] because then I was thinking Italy and then I was thinking
[29:28] Pope. Would that be anywhere close to
[29:31] the right answer? That is the right answer, even
[29:34] though you're. I'm not sure that route was
[29:37] right. But yes, that was a very quick
[29:39] cry. He was the Pope.
[29:42] He was Pope Benedict the 9th. He was 20 years old when he
[29:47] became the Pope. Wow, alright, yeah.
[29:51] Good for him. And he tried to sell the post.
[29:56] No, literally, he did. He did.
[29:57] And he's the only person to have become Pope more than once.
[30:01] He had two uncles who were popes, Pope Benedict the 8th,
[30:06] Pope John the 19th, his great uncle's Pope John the 12th, Pope
[30:12] Benedict the 7th, great Grand uncle Pope John the 11th and
[30:17] another one, Pope Sergius the 3rd.
[30:20] So I think that's the end of today's episode and sense like I
[30:25] don't be. I think we're out of time for
[30:27] more questions, right? Yep.
[30:31] So before we go, Aditya, you have a question that you owe us.
[30:38] Today's questions had me very confused.
[30:41] So your questions at least. So I'm going to pose a very
[30:45] confusing question for our audiences.
[30:47] Well, not that any of my other questions are very
[30:49] straightforward either. It First of all, it doesn't.
[30:51] You do realize that you're the one answering the question, so
[30:54] you making it confusing is only going to make it more confusing
[30:57] for you to answer. And next week I'll be struggling
[31:00] with this. No, let me try.
[31:03] This is OK. So the question for this week
[31:07] is, if 50 Cent had been an Indian rapper, what is the name
[31:13] he would have chosen for change as a metaphor for change?
[31:18] OK, so you heard that question here first.
[31:21] If $0.50 was an Indian rapper, what name would he have chosen
[31:25] as a metaphor for change? I would not be lying if I told
[31:30] you that I'm shivering with fear at what Aditya's answer would
[31:33] be. But then that's for next week.
[31:37] Before we leave, there's the matter of the audience question
[31:40] that I had asked at the beginning of the episode.
[31:42] Lactobacillus del Brukis, subspecies Bulgaricus is the
[31:47] principal bacteria used to make yogurt and curd on October 18th,
[31:52] 2012. What designation was given to
[31:54] this bacteria by the Indian government?
[31:56] Aditya, any clues? No, I have no clue at all.
[32:01] Something to do with the word dahi.
[32:04] No, it was on that day that India's Minister of State for
[32:09] Environment and Forests, Jayanti Natarajan announced
[32:13] Lactobacillus Delbruki as the national microbe of India.
[32:18] Oh, OK. That's a fun little title, I
[32:23] guess. Yeah, good.
[32:24] Good for the microbe. It was selected by children who
[32:27] would visited the Science Express Biodiversity Special,
[32:30] which is a train which had been visiting various stations across
[32:33] the country. Voting for the national microbe
[32:36] took place in these stations and the children selected the
[32:39] Lactobacillus to be the national microbe for India.
[32:42] There's an actual press release. This is not just a question.
[32:45] If you have in any doubt, please go to the Press Bureau of India
[32:49] and you will find a press release dated October 18th. 2012
[32:56] Declaring this bacteria to be the national microbe of India.
[33:03] And that's all for this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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[34:05] for the episode. Tusculum is a ruined Roman city
[34:09] in the Alban Hills in the Latium region of Italy.
[34:12] And that's all for the Fact Check.

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