# Episode 077 - Assassination, Alamos Fission & An African Nation ft. Hari Krishna

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 19 Jul 2024, 59 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to our you quizzing me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing. OK, welcome to our You Quizzing
[0:19] Me episode #77 wow. We have reached 77 episodes and
[0:25] it is with great regret I inform our listeners that Vineet Nair
[0:29] has quit this podcast. It's going to be me and only me
[0:33] doing this podcast going to be solo show with me asking myself
[0:36] questions and me trying to figure out the answer all by
[0:39] myself. Of course, that's not the case.
[0:41] That was a really bad joke and that was me being uncomfortable
[0:44] with the fact that I have to host the podcast for the first
[0:47] time in a very long time. But to make it easy for me, HK
[0:50] is joining me because Vineet is unavailable just for this one
[0:53] week. So HK, thank you for stepping in
[0:56] for I don't even know the NTH time now.
[0:58] Thank you so much and welcome back to the show.
[1:01] Thank you for having me here. And yeah, it's always fun to see
[1:04] your friend descend into insanity after like, you know,
[1:07] spending some time in Mumbai and trying to break into God knows
[1:11] how many circles. So happy to save.
[1:14] I like the helping hand. Or at least, you know, that
[1:16] means that you high five the person drowning.
[1:19] That's that's what this episode did for the top.
[1:24] It's funny you say drowning because I'm literally drowning
[1:28] in the Mumbai monsoon. There has been some terrible,
[1:32] terrible flooding and waterlogging in my area itself.
[1:36] So I hope people are keeping safe and coming back to our
[1:40] podcast. HK, how are you feeling today?
[1:43] What kind of questions do you have for me?
[1:46] I have, I think what are easy questions because again, I was
[1:49] at very short notice so and I just put these together from a
[1:53] couple of these quiz links that I end up attending.
[1:56] So these are all meant to be solo workout, very easy
[2:00] questions. Yeah, we should give a shout out
[2:03] to these quiz links that you mentioned that you speak of at
[2:06] the end of the episode, so people can go check them out as
[2:09] well. But let's start today's episode
[2:12] with the type of question that I introduced a couple of episodes
[2:15] ago, and I think this should be right up your alley.
[2:18] Even though Vineet was adamant that it is not his Forte, I
[2:22] imagine HKU would be great at it because I'm going to mention
[2:26] some historical events and you have to tell me which year this
[2:30] all happened in. So I'm going to start with some
[2:31] of the more obscure or perhaps not the most easily guessable
[2:36] ones and move on to the ones that probably will direct you to
[2:40] the year. So just to start off, and this
[2:43] should be very obvious when I give you the events, but for our
[2:46] audience's sake, these are all events from a year, a single
[2:49] year in the 20th century. So any year from 1901 to 1999 or
[2:55] 1900 to 1999 is in this category.
[2:58] And let's see how HK does on this.
[3:01] OK? The 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
[3:06] was elected in this year. OK, OK, one more.
[3:12] The American Equal Pay Act was signed into law, so the US Equal
[3:18] Pay Act was signed into law at this point.
[3:21] Oh that is interesting. So I would assume Kenyan
[3:23] independence probably somewhere in the 50s is my guess, or early
[3:28] 60s. So I'm thinking which American
[3:30] president is more likely to have signed like an equal pay act?
[3:33] No, my, I mean, it's definitely not.
[3:36] It's post Roosevelt. I mean, I'm conflicted between
[3:39] like, you know, is it something Eisenhower days, which means
[3:41] it's 56 to 60 or is it Kennedy 60?
[3:44] My, my, but I'm I'm guessing in that 10 years, but yeah,
[3:47] continue. So like I said, HQ would be
[3:50] great at this. You have already narrowed it
[3:53] down significantly. If you had given this question
[3:55] to me and you had given these two events, I would have no
[3:57] idea. I have no idea when Kenya gained
[4:01] its independence till just now. So I guess yeah, you are
[4:05] perfectly suited for this. Let me give you a few more
[4:06] things, this time from pop culture.
[4:09] The Beatles released their first album in this.
[4:12] Oh damn. OK, Oh my God, my Beatles trivia
[4:17] then, is it? Is it perhaps, what, 64?
[4:21] This might have been Vineet's cup of tea.
[4:23] Cup of tea. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[4:24] But OK, I know it's early 60s, but let's see, maybe, or maybe
[4:27] it's like the thing, because I know that when they came to
[4:29] India in 68 or 670 somewhere, then that was their third album
[4:37] or something. So this is like probably early
[4:39] 60s. Very academic.
[4:40] Sorry. That means you're looking at
[4:41] Kennedy, OK. Yeah, you're, you're narrowing
[4:44] it down pretty significantly. Should be there very soon.
[4:47] Valentina Tereshkova, Are you aware of this name?
[4:52] Isn't she the first person, first woman to go to space?
[4:56] Right. First woman to go to space.
[4:58] Russian cosmonaut was the first woman to enter space and her
[5:03] space mission was called Vostok 6.
[5:06] Vostok 6 was also launched in this year.
[5:09] So now we have a significant space event as well.
[5:13] I'm going to give you 2 more events.
[5:15] The second one out of these will definitely get you to the answer
[5:19] knowing your personal background, but the first one
[5:22] also might. So let me give you the first
[5:24] one, which is MLK Junior delivers his I Have a Dream
[5:29] speech. 63 I think right is it? Is that your final?
[5:35] Answer no, give me the last one and then I'll confirm it.
[5:37] But like, I would support it because if you're saying it's
[5:39] off my alley that I'm imagining in 64 because Nero died in 64,
[5:43] that might be like the Indian event that probably, you know,
[5:46] you're talking about. But yeah.
[5:49] Interestingly, I was not referring to Indian event, I was
[5:51] referring to the Federation of Malaysia was formed including
[5:56] Malaya, Singapore, British N Borneo and Sarawak.
[5:59] In this year, that is 60. Oh, Singapore was there for four
[6:04] years or three years. Oh, it's 62 or 63.
[6:07] That much I know for sure. But I'm not very.
[6:09] I mean, it's, it's, it's if I have to put my money, I'd say
[6:12] 63. Well the money is all yours, you
[6:15] have made the most safest bet you could make or 63 is the
[6:19] right answer. Well done HK, Good job.
[6:21] Good job. Oh that is very impressive.
[6:24] And again, for listeners who might be new to the podcast,
[6:27] both HK and I lived in Singapore together and Singapore history
[6:31] would be something HQ would be very familiar with given that
[6:33] he's a history buff. And also why today's episode
[6:36] might feature a few history related questions just to cater
[6:40] to H KS taste and preference. OK OK that is interesting right?
[6:46] When does history start? HK?
[6:48] Do you have any philosophical take on this?
[6:49] Like at this point, is the unfortunate assassination
[6:53] attempt on Donald Trump part of history?
[6:56] Is that history already? It's that's interesting, right?
[6:59] I mean, there's always this there seems to be some a right
[7:03] amount of distance. Like for example, even you
[7:05] forget that that I mean that that Trump is is current event
[7:08] or you know, last week or whatnot.
[7:10] But even for example, is the coup that happened in like, you
[7:13] know, after is in 20/19/20 in 2020.
[7:15] Is that concerned history at this point, considering that,
[7:19] like the actors and people involved are it's it's tricky.
[7:23] It depends on what you. He has the use of history.
[7:27] Yeah. It is a very philosophical
[7:28] question. If you see it as just like this,
[7:30] you know, this lens through which we aim to learn or observe
[7:34] the past. Then again, technically your
[7:38] introduction is history as well. Then introduction for this
[7:42] episode when we're recording this history, but.
[7:47] I hope it is, because that was a terrible introduction.
[7:49] Those are the worst ways to introduce people to this
[7:51] episode. I don't know why I started the
[7:53] episode with that, but hey, that's now recorded for History.
[7:57] OK. Speaking of the assassination
[8:00] attempt, HK, there have been 4 assassination attempts.
[8:03] This is not even a question, but I'm just allowing you to flex
[8:06] your muscle. 4 assassination attempts successful, or rather
[8:10] unfortunately successful on American presidents.
[8:13] Can you tell us the not famous 2 ones?
[8:16] Because everybody knows Lincoln was killed and JFK was killed by
[8:20] an assassin. Who are the other two?
[8:23] What's his name? Oh Lord, I used to remember
[8:25] this. It's McKinley or something like
[8:27] that. I think something like.
[8:30] Perfect. Yes, William McKinley, McKinley
[8:32] and one more. Who is the other one?
[8:34] I think around the same time, only this was all I think in the
[8:38] 1890s, right? 18 Nineties 1910 not.
[8:41] Too far, 1881 actually. 1881 OK. Oh, the other McKinley was 1881
[8:46] or no? McKinley was 1901, the other one
[8:49] is 1881. Other one?
[8:51] Oh God, I don't remember this. An orange cat would be my clue.
[8:55] Oh gar. Oh, Garfield.
[8:56] Yes, President. Yes, James A Garfield.
[8:59] So you're right. This is just, this is not even a
[9:01] question. This was just because it's in
[9:03] the news. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and
[9:06] Kennedy were four of the presidents who were assassinated
[9:09] while in office. Three others were injured by an
[9:13] attempted assassination. Of course, Donald Trump and.
[9:18] Reagan, famously. Reagan.
[9:20] Yes, Reagan. That happened in 81.
[9:22] And you know the third one. There was a question on Are you
[9:25] quizzing me about this? Right.
[9:26] The person who saved them was inspired by Reagan's role as a
[9:29] Civil Secret Service agent to get into Secret Service.
[9:32] Perfect. Yes, you do remember that
[9:34] question. Well done Marks for that.
[9:37] Is the other one Teddy Roosevelt?
[9:39] Yes, it did feature on the episode where we talked about
[9:42] teddy bears and teddy bears being named after Theodore
[9:44] Roosevelt. So yeah, Theodore Roswell,
[9:46] Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, three of the presidents who have
[9:50] survived an assassination attempt.
[9:52] And that brings us to the end of the first question.
[9:54] Well done, HK. In 1963, also the year my dad
[9:58] was born. So lots of good things happened.
[10:00] Lots of bad things happened. The birth of my father.
[10:04] I don't know which category it falls, but no, I'm kidding.
[10:05] He's a regular listener. Thanks, Dad.
[10:07] Thanks for listening. It was a great thing.
[10:09] Great year, HK. Tell us, what is your first
[10:12] question? So this is etymology and
[10:16] probably a little bit of history, I guess.
[10:17] So the question is that the popular term for this ethnic
[10:21] group originated from the mistaken belief that they came
[10:25] from Egypt. Modern historians, however, have
[10:28] proved that they originated in India and their name comes from
[10:32] a phrase meaning husband's speech.
[10:34] Which ethnic group are we talking about here?
[10:36] Husbands. People.
[10:38] So that's tricky, let's say, because that is like probably
[10:40] the difficult part because that's I think from their own
[10:43] language. The popular term is from the
[10:46] mistaken belief that they came from.
[10:47] Egypt. Egypt.
[10:51] Is it Gypsy? Yes, it is Gypsy.
[10:55] I mean, apparently that's not the term that that you're
[10:58] supposed to use as well to refer to the people.
[11:00] So what's the the term that the actual term?
[11:04] So I think I think the gypsy is an outdated way of referring to
[11:08] the Romani people. Yeah, but Romani is does not
[11:13] have anything to do with Oh my God, I've got to sound like an
[11:15] idiot. I always assumed it had
[11:17] something to do with. Romania, so that that was going
[11:20] to be my next hit, which is not to be confused with an Eastern
[11:23] European country. So it has nothing to do with
[11:26] Romania. But Roma means husband in their
[11:29] language, and so Romani is like husbands.
[11:33] Oh, but interesting, I had. I was so convinced that Romania
[11:37] had something to do with Romania or Rome or Roman, and it has
[11:41] nothing to do with any of that. So there's like a follow up
[11:43] question on this which we can try to answer.
[11:46] I find that very fascinating. So basically the dispersion of
[11:49] the Roma people from India was one of the many reasons.
[11:54] One big reason was that Afghanistan slash Central Asian
[11:58] Kingdom essentially kind of, you know, during their in invasions
[12:02] into India, they used to enslave a bunch of these people and then
[12:05] they basically sent them over to away from India to Central Asia
[12:10] and then subsequently Europe, which is how they kind of
[12:12] migrated and they reached there. So this dynasty, this is
[12:16] basically 10th century, 11th century, 11th century.
[12:20] I don't know how much you remember your 11th, 12th century
[12:21] history. They are big name that
[12:24] dynasties. 11 ruler from this dynasty is a very big name in
[12:26] Indian history. Curiously.
[12:29] Basically they were overthrown 11/15 by their own vassals who
[12:33] are also a very big name in the industry.
[12:36] Oh God, I want to expose how terribly ignorant I am about
[12:42] Indian history, but is it by any chance the Cholas?
[12:47] Are we? Are we in that zone?
[12:51] Sir, you're in the time period, but the Cholas did not have, you
[12:56] know, enough dominion to enslave people towards like North India
[13:00] and Central Asia, right? Like the Chola domain very
[13:03] comfortably was in South India. I mean, they extended as much, I
[13:08] think a little bit towards Bengal and then, you know, much
[13:11] more Southeast Asia. Maritime basis.
[13:15] The name of the dynasty comes from their city, which is the
[13:17] city in Afghanistan basically. Oh, OK, OK wait, so is it our
[13:22] man Tuglak or some some? Tuglak is 14th century.
[13:30] Oh God, much before. So basically the the name to
[13:33] start it all off, basically like your name and history textbooks
[13:36] to start off like Islamic invasion of India is like a very
[13:39] common kind of I mean, it's a very fantastic thing to to say.
[13:41] Now it's a given the month people emphasis, but everyone
[13:45] starts with this person. Oh my God, this is this is going
[13:48] to be one of those moments which I'm going to be like, of course
[13:51] I knew that the the first Afghan ruler to rule India, No.
[13:59] Not rule India. This one is the one who raided
[14:01] India. Not ruled.
[14:02] Oh, OK. One of the famous temples we
[14:06] raided was Somnath. Is it by any chance Ghazni?
[14:10] Mohammad Ghazni. Yes.
[14:12] Yes. Ghaznavid.
[14:14] OK, Ghaznivid then. Gaznavid dynasty.
[14:17] The people who came after them were the Goran and from whom you
[14:21] get Mohammed of Gor who defeated.
[14:26] OK, cool. Well that was informative.
[14:29] Awesome. This is for anybody who cares
[14:33] about these things. If you ever want to talk
[14:36] history, talk, especially in industry.
[14:38] Delhi history actually is the person to talk to.
[14:40] So hit him up on his socials, hit him up on his Instagram, and
[14:46] slide into his DMS if you want to discuss Indian history.
[14:49] OK, But let us move on from that question of history to my next
[14:53] question. Let's stick to this history.
[14:55] I like it. I like it, but I'm going to go
[14:57] slightly more modern. And this is my favorite kind of
[15:00] question, which is really tough to crack if you don't know it
[15:02] already, but it is funny as hell, so I have to ask it.
[15:06] James Tuck, also called Jim, was working at the Los Alamos
[15:10] National Laboratory in the 50s. He pitched a concept for an
[15:20] early fusion power device. A fusion power device was not
[15:24] really in the making in the 1950s.
[15:27] They were working on fission back then, but there were some
[15:30] proposals and James Tucks proposal was one of them.
[15:34] His was based on the pinch concept which was developed in
[15:38] the UK. OK, so just a little bit of
[15:40] background. The question is, what did he
[15:43] whimsically name this device because he was not sure if it
[15:47] may or may not successfully create nuclear fusion.
[15:52] So what did he name this device? Schwartinger's Dynamo or
[15:56] Heisenberg's Dynamo? Heisenberg's Dynamo would be a
[16:00] great name, but no, it's a lot Dumber than that.
[16:04] But it may or may not work. Is that the?
[16:07] Yeah, it's literally. It may or may not work.
[16:10] And I end up overthinking and going towards like all these.
[16:13] See, I went to Heisenberg. Exactly your point.
[16:17] Please be extremely stupid HK. I know it's very difficult for
[16:19] you, but try to step into my shoes for a change.
[16:22] Think of the most ridiculous name you can think of.
[16:26] OK, here's here's my suggestion of how to approach this.
[16:28] OK, so divide it into two parts. The first part is may or may not
[16:32] or something which suggests that it might happen, it might not
[16:35] happen, and the second part of the name is like a Transformers
[16:41] robot name. You might hear this in manga and
[16:45] anime specifically. Transformers is what I think of
[16:48] when I think of the second part of the name so.
[16:52] OK, something Mecca or Tron, I guess that's the other common.
[16:56] OK. Great, perfect.
[16:56] So Tron is the one. What's the 1st for the first
[16:59] part of the word Sharktron? Sharktron.
[17:07] Oh perfect name. It should just be an emoji.
[17:09] Tron. Like just that it was shrugging
[17:11] emoji. Yeah, emoji Tron.
[17:13] No, it's not the shrug emoji Tron, but you are thinking along
[17:17] the right lines. It is as ridiculous as that.
[17:20] If you're a New York Times mini crossword fan, which you know, I
[17:25] know you do, so I would give you the number of letters for the
[17:28] first part, which would be 7 letters, 7 letters OK, and the
[17:33] starting letters P. Possible.
[17:36] No. Possible it'd be 8. 8 right?
[17:40] And the last letter would be S. Oh my God.
[17:42] So basically it's a function, a six letter word, is it?
[17:44] Or it's one of those? Is it like a plural word?
[17:47] No. No, no, it's not a plural word.
[17:48] It's not a plural word. Oh, OK, so that's that's a
[17:51] little helpful. Oh my God, I'm.
[17:54] Going to make it even more ridiculous, it might rain
[17:58] tomorrow. Perhaps Tron?
[18:03] Perhaps a Tron? James Tuck was a scientist
[18:11] working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and he had
[18:14] a long history of studying nuclear fusion, and he decided
[18:18] to pitch this device based off of the pinch concept developed
[18:22] in the UK, which was supposed to create fusion power, and he
[18:26] named it. Perhaps a Tron because he
[18:28] decided to whimsically name it on the chance that it might be
[18:32] able to create fusion reactions. Or it might not.
[18:34] It's perhaps a Tron. So clearly it did not.
[18:38] No, it did not. So I think very aptly named.
[18:41] I would say he was. He was not over selling it one
[18:44] bit. OK so Speaking of Internet
[18:51] culture and modern interest history.
[18:52] So I have a bunch of questions around like origins of Internet
[18:56] slang. So let's see how good your, you
[18:59] know, clang knowledge is. This slang is used to describe
[19:04] someone who behaves in the same way as most other people on
[19:08] site, and it gained popularity via 4 Chan forums in 2012 after
[19:13] it was adopted by cosplayers and anime enthusiasts and used to
[19:17] describe people who liked what they considered basic anime.
[19:21] So what's this term? Oh, I was actually going to say
[19:24] basic, but. No, that's all.
[19:28] Very often a lot of these words are food related is what I've
[19:31] noticed. So is this something to do with
[19:32] food? Is it like?
[19:34] This is not something to do with food.
[19:35] This is a little more simpler. Basically, this is like, you
[19:39] know, just someone who is just basic.
[19:42] What's another term you would use for someone who is like
[19:44] basic or average? Rube is rube, but I don't think
[19:48] that's a very Internet slang, your word.
[19:50] I mean, rube is also someone who's like a simple term that's
[19:52] different, right? This is like literally someone
[19:54] who is just average. Like what would you what is
[19:58] averages? My mum would say it's me, but I
[20:02] don't think that's what let's see.
[20:06] If something synonymous with basic and Internet slang, you
[20:09] are you're such a basic is the only word that comes to my end
[20:13] or otherwise it's very explicit words and I don't think they are
[20:16] necessarily. No, no, no, no, no.
[20:17] This is not. This is not that.
[20:19] No, give me a clue, I have no idea.
[20:22] I'll give you a tangential hint. There's a very famous book with
[20:25] this with like A2 title book, drama slash romance book, which
[20:31] is also made into a TV series starring Paul Mescal.
[20:36] OK, and the the first word is the hint.
[20:39] First one is the word itself. It's a hint to the word.
[20:43] It's, it's a derivation. It's a, it's an Internet
[20:45] internetified or slangified version of that term.
[20:48] So you can probably guess what series I'm talking about, right?
[20:52] No, I don't actually know. I, I know Paul Mescal, I can
[20:55] picture him, but I can picture Paul Mescal, but I don't know
[20:58] the mini series that he's been part of.
[21:02] I mean, that could be a pop culture recommendation, though I
[21:04] haven't read or it's been on my list to do a lot, but I've heard
[21:07] so many good things that so many people have told that like that
[21:10] might as well be my pop culture recommendation, like the book
[21:12] and the series. Potential pop culture
[21:15] recommendation? OK, you are such a basic rube.
[21:19] You are predictable. You are.
[21:22] Otherwise, there's a famous like.
[21:24] You know what's statistical distribution also that has the
[21:27] same name? Statistical Distribution Bell
[21:31] Curve Bell No. The technical term for the bell
[21:35] curve is not. It's a bell curve is the popular
[21:37] term. Oh, a normal distribution.
[21:41] Normal. Oh, it's a norm.
[21:43] Normie. Normie, normie.
[21:45] Normie. Interesting, so Normie came from
[21:50] cosplayers? Basically people saying that
[21:53] like your taste, if your taste is just basic anime, you're a
[21:56] normally. So it's like you behave like
[22:00] everyone else's society. I mean there's a similar ish
[22:04] term that's like that's probably much more decent.
[22:06] That might be like another kind of follow up question.
[22:08] And this is like a three letter abbreviation term again used to
[22:12] describe people who just like, you know, who probably are in
[22:16] the background or who probably have no control in their lives
[22:19] or like you know, who just like not going to have an impact.
[22:22] Like it's a very kind of again self deprecating slash delegate
[22:25] the term to refer to like most of the.
[22:27] Oh NPCNPC. NPC, yeah, so that's also
[22:31] another term. So the more modern term.
[22:34] NPC being a non playable character non playing character,
[22:37] non playable, non playable. Character.
[22:39] Yeah, Yeah. Very good.
[22:42] Also a fun concept for the Ryan Reynolds movie Free Guy where
[22:48] he's an NPC who gains awareness, self-awareness and and comes to
[22:53] life, I guess in a way in a game.
[22:55] So yeah, free Guy, random pop culture recommendation.
[22:57] Cool. Do we have any more in this
[22:59] category? I have like, two or three.
[23:01] Well, let's do a couple more. I think this one you might.
[23:05] Yeah. This list you might probably be
[23:06] able to get. So this slang is often used in
[23:09] online gaming to indicate someone has been defeated or
[23:12] destroyed. OK, but not to be confused with
[23:15] Pond pond PWNT. You know, I think that's come up
[23:18] before also. But this term has also been
[23:21] embraced by crypto Bros to indicate an utterly ruined
[23:25] position. So what term is this?
[23:27] Oh, Crypto Bros, you have been utterly destroyed.
[23:32] Destroyed, decimated Oppon. OK, but you said oppon pond is
[23:37] not owned. Is not Yeah.
[23:40] Wow. There's a famous phrase.
[23:42] Get disturbed kamakido or like. Also not an explicit word
[23:48] technically. No, not an explicit word.
[23:51] Yeah, It's like, you know, it's Internet slang, right?
[23:53] So this is again, it's a regular word that has just been
[23:56] slangified like normally is very similarly.
[23:59] Get, get, get. Yeah, again, I can only think of
[24:04] explicit words. Get something, kiddo.
[24:08] Utterly ruined. What's a?
[24:09] What's an? English word for like, utterly
[24:11] ruined. Utterly ruined.
[24:14] Wow, Decimated. There's a word that's coming to
[24:17] mind. But something simpler associated
[24:20] with ship. With ships wrecked, get wrecked,
[24:22] get wrecked. Oh, OK.
[24:24] Wrecked REKT that word. OK, get wrecked.
[24:28] Very cool. One last one we'll do.
[24:31] Let's say this is also a fun one, and I didn't know this came
[24:33] from this. So this term gained popularity
[24:36] through four Chance Pawn boards, where users regularly used it to
[24:41] request for the origin of a particular Jifford video.
[24:45] OK, so this flag itself supposedly originates from the
[24:49] anime slash the manga Ghost in the Shell in the early 2000s
[24:53] after a character misunderstands 2 similar words.
[24:57] So what does this say? This is when a user would be
[25:00] requesting for the origin of something of a meme.
[25:04] Of a video of a Jifford video. This is famously used in for
[25:09] Chance porn. Pornography.
[25:12] Porn videos. Yeah, yeah, porn video.
[25:14] But the term is now used more broadly.
[25:16] Basically, it's used to when someone asks for, like, the
[25:19] origin of something and it's basically very similar to
[25:24] another word. And that's why the slang, you
[25:26] know, comes from this manga slash anime ghost edition.
[25:31] Do you know anything about, like, how Japanese people
[25:33] pronounce English words? That will give you a hint as to
[25:35] how the word has changed as well.
[25:38] Oh, OK. I was, I was going to say
[25:41] something like pixel didn't happen, but that's not Origin.
[25:44] That's more of like a. So what's a?
[25:48] What's an English word for origin?
[25:50] What's another word for origin of the etymology is not the
[25:56] word. What's the source?
[25:59] So if a Japanese person is pronouncing source like, how
[26:03] would you think they would pronounce it?
[26:05] So the stereotype is that they mispronounce the word a letter
[26:09] R, right? And they go with the letter L if
[26:13] I'm not wrong. But that's like the stereotype.
[26:15] So yeah, so so try to work around those lines and think
[26:18] like what word is. Souls like SOUL as souls as well
[26:23] is. Oh, so it's not always that they
[26:25] make it L, sometimes it gets dropped entirely.
[26:28] Sauce like. Sauce.
[26:32] Yes. So sauce is the term that's
[26:34] used, very popular, dreaded, it says sauce.
[26:37] What's the sauce? Oh, I think I've seen this.
[26:41] I think I've seen sauce, and I never understood what it meant.
[26:44] Oh, that's insane. The sauce is the bastardization,
[26:48] I guess, of what would be almost stereotypically or source in the
[26:54] Japanese pronunciation. And what's the source of this?
[26:57] And this comes from Ghosts in the Shell.
[26:59] One popular theory, I think, is that it alternated yeah, from
[27:02] course the Shell in the early 2000s.
[27:05] How cool is that? Wow, I have actually seen this,
[27:07] and I never even considered trying to figure out where it
[27:10] comes from. Well, sauce Source.
[27:13] OK, OK, Nice. Very nice.
[27:16] Very nice. All right, HK, that was a series
[27:19] of very fun questions. So because you gave me some
[27:21] Internet slang, I'm going to give you something from a game
[27:26] that was viral, I think during COVID, but probably even before
[27:30] that. I have a couple of friends
[27:32] playing a lot of this. Did you play Animal Crossing?
[27:35] I've heard of it, but I haven't played.
[27:37] It's like the farm game, yeah. Yes, it's it's in the same
[27:40] category as FarmVille and all of those games and it's a social
[27:43] game where you can play with friends and stuff.
[27:45] So if you have not played it, maybe you wouldn't know, but
[27:49] still worth a shot because it's a fun little piece of trivia
[27:52] associated to that game. So in the Animal Crossing
[27:54] series, specifically in Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing
[27:58] Wild World, which are the two versions of this game, catching
[28:01] a specific type of fish would result in a message that is an
[28:07] iconic phrase from the Roman poet Horace's work ODIs.
[28:15] So there's a Roman poet Horace. Horace's work ODIs, published or
[28:19] written in 23 BCE, has this iconic phrase.
[28:24] And this phrase, or let's say a version of it, is used when in
[28:29] Animal Crossing you end up catching a specific type of
[28:32] fish. OK.
[28:34] So what phrase am I talking about?
[28:37] That is, the is the phrase popularly used in general, like
[28:40] separately as well? Yes.
[28:42] OK, I think I know what it is. Go for it.
[28:45] The carpe diem and car. Oh, that was too easy.
[28:49] I thought that would be a tough one because I had no idea about
[28:52] all of this Horace and stuff, which I just knew carpet diem
[28:54] from dead poet society. Wow, that was that was way too
[28:58] quick. HK very well done yes.
[29:00] So if you do like you got it a crucian carp, a crucian crucian
[29:05] carp. I'm not sure how it's
[29:06] pronounced. It's a type of carp, a type of
[29:08] fish. If you catch that in Animal
[29:10] Crossing or Animal Crossing wild word, the message pops up saying
[29:14] I caught a Crusian carp carpet diem and carpet diem for fans of
[29:19] Dead Poets Society or fans of Robin Williams would know, is
[29:22] the famous dialogue from Dead Poets City, the movie where he
[29:25] says carpet diem sees the day boys make your lives
[29:28] extraordinary, which incidentally was voted the 95th
[29:31] greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute.
[29:33] Fantastic line, fantastic scene, fantastic movie, worth checking
[29:37] out. But wow, that was really cool.
[29:39] That was very, very well cracked.
[29:41] I am infinitely impressed HK, as I always am talking to you.
[29:45] But yes, so another instance in that.
[29:48] Well done. Thank you.
[29:50] My face can only get so red, as as Adi says.
[29:54] But yeah, I mean, thank you for all that praise.
[29:58] Let's go to another etymology question, also kind of related
[30:01] to three this time and a little bit of history perhaps.
[30:05] So the name Blank, OK, is derived from the Yemeni port.
[30:10] It's off with the same name, OK, which was a port well known for
[30:15] its coffee tray from 15 to 17th century and where small
[30:19] quantities of fine coffee grown in the hills where it was
[30:22] exported. So when coffee drinking culture
[30:25] spread to Europe, Europeans refer to coffee coffee imports
[30:28] from Arabia as bland, even though coffee from Yemen itself
[30:32] was uncommon. And it was probably mixed with,
[30:34] like, you know, coffee beans with beans from Abyssinia, which
[30:37] is, you know, Ethiopia and later coffee from Malabar, like India
[30:41] or West Indies, right? But the coffee drink today is
[30:44] also called blank, is made by adding an ingredient.
[30:48] And some believe this is the result of confusion caused by
[30:52] the flavour that may be found in the blank coffee or Yemeni
[30:56] coffee. But do you have an idea of this?
[30:58] I do. I think as soon as you said port
[31:00] in Yemen, even before you said coffee, I knew this piece of
[31:03] trivia. It's one of those things where
[31:04] if you read enough trivia, you have heard of this.
[31:07] You are talking about Mocha, the coffee Mocha, which is named
[31:10] after Al Mocha, the Yemeni pot. Yeah, Yeah, it is.
[31:14] And it is another. I mean, you must know there's a
[31:16] brewing device also, right? That's also the same origin.
[31:19] Oh, a brewing device. I don't know the brewing device.
[31:22] Oh, there's a brewing device. It's I never heard of the mocha
[31:25] pot. No, I've not heard the mocha
[31:27] pot. Oh.
[31:28] Wow. Yeah.
[31:28] They said, OK, that I should have asked that then because
[31:30] that was the original question actually about the brewing
[31:32] device. Then I was like, maybe this is
[31:34] the tougher question because it's I thought it was very much
[31:37] more well known. It's a very popular Italian this
[31:40] thing. So the name is confusing, right?
[31:42] You think the mocha pot is used to brew like mocha, which is
[31:46] like now coffee and chocolate, right?
[31:47] But no, the name is from the port of mocha, which is broadly
[31:51] associated with coffee in general.
[31:54] So mocha pot is just a coffee brewing method.
[31:56] I don't think, not necessarily or exclusively only used to make
[31:58] like mocha coffee. So yeah.
[32:01] OK, all right. Cool.
[32:03] Wow, I do not know about mocha pot so.
[32:05] Well, that's a little TIL for me.
[32:09] OK, so moving on from that to another question based in the
[32:13] Arab world and sticking with the theme of history, let's talk
[32:16] about a famous merchant from that part of the globe.
[32:21] This particular person, X, was an Arab trader who first visited
[32:28] an island and later lived there, and this island came to be named
[32:32] after him. He was still alive when Roscoe
[32:34] da Gama called at the island in 1498.
[32:38] So during the 15th centuries, when this particular gentleman X
[32:41] was active and going about his adventures and was still alive
[32:45] when Rasco da Gama came. And eventually, of course, that
[32:49] island town or that island was ruled by the Portuguese.
[32:54] Who named the island after XX is also the name of the first
[33:01] Islamic university that was opened in that island on that
[33:06] island in 2000. So it's a relatively famous
[33:10] university. At least people in that area
[33:13] would know of it very well. Maybe the rest of the world, not
[33:17] so much. Do you know which island is
[33:20] named after a famous merchant from the 15th century?
[33:25] 1498, right? If you look at Vasco da Gama's
[33:27] travels, then the first thing that comes to mind is I don't
[33:31] think this is India right off the coast.
[33:33] I think this is off the coast of Africa, right?
[33:36] Exactly. Yeah, it is off the coast of
[33:37] Africa. I mean, there's the famous
[33:39] island that I can think of is Zanzibar.
[33:41] Is this Zanzibar? No, it's not Zanzibar.
[33:44] OK. So that means this is, is this
[33:46] the? Is it also in Tanzania by any
[33:48] chance or no? So, OK, interestingly enough,
[33:51] the island is part of a country which is now part of the African
[33:56] mainland of the continental mainland, and which is not
[33:59] Tanzania, but it is right next to Tanzania, if that helps you.
[34:03] And both the country and the island have the same name.
[34:07] OK, next to Tanzania, is this Kenya further northern, is it
[34:13] Somalia by any chance is there like an island?
[34:16] Is that the the origin of? No, I don't.
[34:18] Know if Tanzania and. Somalia Mozambique is below
[34:21] Mozam Mozambique is well done. The Mozambique.
[34:24] Is the answer. Well done?
[34:26] Well done. There was this question about
[34:29] Mozambique that was also related to Mozambique, right?
[34:32] Or something. Yes, that is how the word
[34:34] Mozambique, Mozambique came from.
[34:37] But the word Mozambique itself comes from the name of this
[34:42] famous merchant of this Arab trader.
[34:44] His name was Moussa Bin BIK. Moussa bin BIK, which should
[34:50] directly give you of why it's Mozambique and he is the origin
[34:55] for the name of the island of Mozambique and the country of
[34:59] Mozambique. The island of Mozambique is just
[35:01] off the coast of the country and is also the name for the first
[35:06] Islamic university that was established in Mozambique in the
[35:09] year 2000. Mozambique University,
[35:12] Mozambique. And yeah, the etymology for a
[35:16] country name named after a person, not a lot of not a lot
[35:19] of examples of that. We did state names after people
[35:23] in the previous episode where we're doing American states, and
[35:26] I was taken on this rabbit hole of countries named after people,
[35:29] and this one seemed pretty interesting.
[35:31] So Mozambique is named after Musa bin BIC BIC, something
[35:36] along those lines. There is one more piece of
[35:39] trivia about Mozambique, something about its symbols.
[35:43] Do you know that? No.
[35:44] Or maybe I do, but I right now I don't know what you're talking
[35:47] about specifically. Tell me.
[35:49] The flag. Something about the flag?
[35:52] I know it's the the African colors, I guess that's what
[35:56] they're called the. The there's something on the
[35:59] flag which is very unique which is not.
[36:01] I don't. If I'm not mistaken, it's not in
[36:03] any other flag. Oh, I think I've read this.
[36:06] Is it, Is it an AK47? Is it a gun?
[36:10] That is the only flag with a gun on it.
[36:12] With a gun on it. I think there are swords on many
[36:15] flags, of course, but I think the only flag the gun on it is
[36:18] yeah. Nice.
[36:19] I actually would not have gotten that except that I think in
[36:22] preparing for this question I came across a flag, so it was
[36:25] still fresh in my memory. Yeah, you're right.
[36:27] It is the gun on the flag. It is it an AK47 specifically?
[36:32] It is an AK47 specifically like a lashka.
[36:34] Basically, you can make it out very clearly.
[36:36] It's that distinctive shape. Nice, nice.
[36:39] OK. HK your question so.
[36:42] So again, this is similarly themed, so keep that in mind.
[36:45] Like both the questions are. Linked.
[36:47] Sirens used on emergency service vehicles such as ambulances or
[36:51] police cars, come in many variants with siren variant that
[36:56] alterates between a highly elongated frequency is the most
[37:00] prevalent and used for generic vehicle response.
[37:04] It's an English word that means a prolonged high pitched cry of
[37:08] pain, grief or anger. Oh, OK, so there's a name for
[37:11] this sight and I was just going to make the sound.
[37:16] I'm assuming you mean that. That's the one that I can think
[37:21] of, but I don't know what the name for that.
[37:24] Oh, I did not know that that thing had a name.
[37:26] I always thought of it as the ambulance sighted or the fire
[37:29] engines island. And you said it's a it.
[37:32] The English word means a whale. That's the answer, I said.
[37:35] Prolonged high fish Cry of pain, grief or anger?
[37:40] Yes, it's the. English word feeling.
[37:46] Let us see the first time on this podcast where I've just
[37:49] given the answer without realizing I gave an answer.
[37:52] The veil. Okay, all right, that makes
[37:54] sense. All right.
[37:55] That's called a veil. There are obviously there are
[37:57] other variants, so this variant sounds similar to the veil but
[38:02] has a low frequency tone that can be felt near the vehicle
[38:06] operating it. For example, over the music,
[38:09] someone plays their car. So.
[38:11] The term is also used to refer to a stupid mistake, the type
[38:16] that might evoke laughter. There's there's more clues for
[38:20] this. For this I'm giving you probably
[38:22] the most sort of obscure ish. Right.
[38:25] A mistake that might evoke laughter.
[38:27] Is it a gaffe? No, not a gaffe.
[38:30] Also, again, like it's a veal, right?
[38:32] It's like a soundish word. So the gas doesn't particularly
[38:36] evoke like a sound. True, true.
[38:38] Something which is sound but also a mistake.
[38:40] Evoke laughter, mishap. Boo Boo.
[38:44] Is it a Boo Boo? No.
[38:46] It's not a Boo Boo. OK, right.
[38:48] This might be helpful. So it's also a type of monkey in
[38:51] the Americas, also known for its particularly for its crime.
[38:57] Oh, type of monkey, a mistake that might evoke laughter and
[39:01] also has the meaning of a sound. Oh, there are three clues that
[39:07] just are not coming together in my head.
[39:09] Type of monkey. Is it a very common type?
[39:11] Like is it like something like a baboon or something?
[39:13] Or is it a very specific name that?
[39:14] No, no. So it's literally this term
[39:17] monkey. That's the name of the this
[39:19] thing. Oh God no.
[39:21] Is there any other clue that might help me?
[39:23] One more clue. This is probably more relevant
[39:26] to the two of us. Specifically, this term comes up
[39:30] in Harry Potter, and famously this is introduced in the second
[39:35] movie in a very memorable scene, the books and the movies when
[39:41] Harry and Ron are sitting in the Great Hall.
[39:44] Oh, the howler, the howling monkey is.
[39:47] It Yes, Yeah. Howler.
[39:48] Howler monkeys. It's the Howler.
[39:51] The Howler is also, of course, a cast.
[39:53] You know a mistake that evokes laughter, right?
[39:56] Oh, OK, right. Yeah, Howler, yeah, sure, sure.
[39:58] I get that. Wait so howler is a type of
[40:01] siren that is low frequency version of the whale you?
[40:05] Know it has it's the whale but also has a low frequency added
[40:08] to it. Basically, you can probably
[40:10] reach people who are playing music and whatnot.
[40:14] Oh, very helpful. So is this like a
[40:17] internationally accepted? Like is a whale supposed to be a
[40:20] very specific sound or is it like a vague name or a generic
[40:24] name? No, no.
[40:25] I think there's literally like the sirens have names.
[40:28] Basically, yeah. Interesting.
[40:31] There's one more, which is also a name of a very popular website
[40:35] that particularly aggregates reviews and whatnot.
[40:38] That's another siren. Oh, an aggregator for reviews
[40:44] but also type of siren. Wow reviews.
[40:48] I immediately think of movie reviews but I don't think Rotten
[40:51] Tomatoes is the name of a siren. No, no reviews.
[40:57] Foursquare is known for its reviews.
[40:59] What else? American.
[41:01] Probably much more popular in the US.
[41:03] TripAdvisor. No, come on, it's a very, again,
[41:07] a simple term that is like, you know, it should evoke a sound.
[41:11] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'll need a clue for this.
[41:14] Clue which will probably give away or was originally in all
[41:17] these questions that I'm omitting is like they always
[41:20] mention the number of letters. This has four letters.
[41:23] OK, four letter website that is for reviews.
[41:28] No, I don't know. I'm very surprised that you
[41:31] specifically considering your interests, are not familiar with
[41:35] this website. What do you think you're
[41:37] interested and what interest am I referring to specifically?
[41:40] Food, I'm guessing. Yeah, so.
[41:44] Foursquare is the only one that's coming to mind, but
[41:46] that's again, more generically. Foursquare is the default.
[41:49] My God restaurant reviews. What's the most famous for
[41:52] restaurant reviews? Oh God.
[41:55] Yelp. Yelp.
[41:56] Yelp. Yes.
[41:58] So Yelp is there is also a particular kind of siren.
[42:02] What? Oh, OK, interesting.
[42:05] So we have the whale, we have Yelp and we have Howler.
[42:09] OK, nice. OK, so I'm going to get us the
[42:14] last question for this episode. And those have been some very
[42:18] interesting questions. Thank you so much, HK.
[42:20] But let me end us with a listicle.
[42:24] Always a fan favorite. I don't know, I don't know if
[42:26] anybody else apart from me likes this, but I love these
[42:28] questions. So I'm going to name three
[42:30] things on the list. This is an exhaustive list.
[42:32] Tell me what this list is about. OK, so the first one is a
[42:36] fragment of cedar wood. OK.
[42:40] The second is a copper hook and the third.
[42:44] OK. A small volcanic basalt ball.
[42:48] So volcanic basalt is a sub volcanic rock for anybody who
[42:52] might not be familiar. The other two I mentioned a
[42:55] copper hook and a cedar wood. Always a trick in these from
[42:58] what we need also does is kind of narrow it down to some
[43:01] domain, right? Like So what are they even
[43:03] related to? Like, I mean, the last mystical
[43:06] I remember listening to was the one about the three years,
[43:10] right? That was supposed to be offered
[43:11] in space. That's the one I remember.
[43:13] So what is this? OK fragment of cedar wood for
[43:17] salt ball and a copper hook? Are these some sort of movie
[43:21] props or something like that? Is that the where we are?
[43:25] No, these are not movie props. I'll give you.
[43:28] Since you said domain, I'll give you the domain of history, which
[43:31] is admittedly very large, but let's do ancient history.
[43:36] Ancient history. OK, are these things that have
[43:39] been recovered from Egyptian pyramids like tombs?
[43:44] Oh, you know, I at this point I should give you the points for
[43:48] this question, but I'll just ask you to be a little bit more
[43:51] specific because it's an exhaustive list.
[43:54] OK, so is it King Tut's tomb? Is it specifically his tomb?
[43:58] It isn't King Tut's tomb, no. But as famous as that, I guess
[44:03] I. Feel that King Tut is.
[44:06] I mean, there's the word khufu. Is it like the Great Pyramid of
[44:09] Giza? Well done it is that Yes.
[44:13] Oh wow, that's very impressive actually.
[44:14] You got there in basically like 2 steps.
[44:17] It is the tomb of Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza.
[44:20] These are the only three things that have been recovered from
[44:24] the Great Pyramid of Giza. The only three things from
[44:27] inside that huge, huge structure were the so-called Dixon relics.
[44:33] So Wayne Man Dixon was a British engineer and he was known for
[44:36] his work on the Great Pyramid of Giza and he discovered the only
[44:39] Egyptian artifacts to be found inside that pyramid.
[44:43] Those three were a small dolerite ball is the technical
[44:46] term which is what I defined as a basalt ball, a basalt rock
[44:50] ball, a copper hook and a fragment of cedar wood.
[44:54] The 1st 2. The ball and the hook are in the
[44:56] British Museum in London and wood is in the Merskal Museum in
[45:02] Aberdeen in Scotland. Oh wow.
[45:04] So yeah. So the Brits basically took all
[45:07] of it back and have refused to return it.
[45:10] Well done Brits. I presume that the other stuff
[45:15] that was in there has probably already been looted by the
[45:17] point, and also they've been haunted by, I don't know, the
[45:20] spirits of King Kofu, like the mummies.
[45:22] Ah, yes, it's a very interesting urban legend of how everybody
[45:25] died. And if you dig a little deeper
[45:27] into it and nothing like that happened to the modern
[45:29] archaeologists, at least they all LED a relatively normal
[45:33] life. But yeah, it's a surviving myth
[45:35] of how they all died from unnatural causes.
[45:38] But here's my appeal to I don't know if Starmer listens to this,
[45:42] but good Sir, you are in power now.
[45:45] The idiots before you refuse to return stuff.
[45:48] So along with the Kohinoor, if you could return the dolerite
[45:51] ball and the copper hook and the cedar wood, we'd be very
[45:55] grateful. The rest of the world thanks.
[45:57] And the Benin Bronzes and the Parthenon, the Elgin Marbles.
[46:01] The Elgin Marbles, the Benin Bronzes just basically empty
[46:05] your museum, just make it an open space for people to play
[46:08] indoor cricket or something. I don't know you guys could do
[46:10] with the practice anyways so. I think I, I don't know that
[46:14] those in a podcast or in news articles.
[46:17] So there's, I think there's Australian team.
[46:18] So apparently one of the things that the British ACM doesn't
[46:21] explicitly forbid, or at least not up now is they don't
[46:24] explicitly forbid 3D standing equipment or like you know,
[46:28] basically cameras to, to me they allow you to photograph and
[46:31] stuff like that, right? So this Australian team went and
[46:34] they basically 3D scanned all the many of the LGN marbles.
[46:38] And so the idea was that the original thing they went to the
[46:40] museum originally also was they wanted to basically duplicate,
[46:44] create like 3D prints of those items and restore them.
[46:48] Not just to like how they are right now, just like this white
[46:51] marble thingy, but how they would have looked in ancient
[46:54] Greece. Because again, there's this, you
[46:56] know, the assumption we have is that a lot of these cultures
[46:59] were white, right? And the same thing that if you
[47:01] go and you go to any kind of historical section in India,
[47:04] also what you're seeing is essentially the skeleton or like
[47:07] the not even the skeleton, like the eroded up, like the literal
[47:10] inner parts of the thing. How would have looked when it
[47:13] was painted over, when it had like ornamentation, when it had
[47:16] like carpetry and like, you know, lights and all those other
[47:19] things that make a place a place.
[47:21] Similarly, those marbles and those buildings would have been
[47:24] painted in oftentimes what we would consider garish colors,
[47:27] right? Bright colors, because it's an
[47:28] important place. So probably their aesthetic
[47:31] sense is and, and there is enough evidence that people have
[47:33] done research and like found out like what dyes they would have
[47:36] used and whatnot as well. So they want to basically create
[47:39] like a, OK, this is what it looks like now.
[47:42] This is what it looked like in the time of the Greeks.
[47:45] The British Museum refused to let them even take the marbles
[47:48] for 3D scanning. So they basically used like
[47:51] their own equipment. They took it into as visitors,
[47:53] they went into the museum and they scanned.
[47:55] And now they're trying to actually kind of 3D print it out
[47:57] and like recreate, you know, those sculptures.
[48:00] So fascinating project. I hope they do well.
[48:03] Yeah, pretty cool actually. Yeah, you're right.
[48:05] I read about this when I visited Greece and in some of the
[48:08] museums there in Athens, they mentioned how the aesthetic, the
[48:13] art aesthetic of the Greek or the ancient Greek architecture
[48:17] or art is this pure white thing. And that just happens to be a
[48:21] result of time passing and how this has eroded over time and
[48:25] has nothing to do with how it would have been back then.
[48:28] Right, like the entire Renaissance, all the sculptures
[48:31] you see are basically the sculptures looking at like the
[48:34] basically what is leftover and saying like, see, this is the
[48:37] pinnacle of beauty, right, And this is the pinnacle of
[48:40] expression is this pure whiteness is.
[48:42] The same way how we think of dinosaurs as being the skeletal
[48:47] basic version of it that we can imagine, as opposed to how they
[48:50] might have been covered with feathers and plumes and
[48:54] beautiful and colorful. So yeah, which is really cute
[48:57] image. Like somehow it makes AT Rex
[48:59] very cute if you imagine it. Hopefully you've covered with
[49:01] feathers. Highly recommend if you have
[49:04] Apple TV. This is a series called
[49:05] Prehistoric Planet. They have two seasons on Apple
[49:08] TV where they basically use like state-of-the-art CGI.
[49:12] Also narrated by David Attenborough.
[49:14] They can imagine like a few clitious and like dinosaur time
[49:19] biomes. There is one episode which has
[49:22] the Velociraptor and I think I think my version of the
[49:25] Velociraptor is coloured by Jurassic Park as I think is many
[49:29] people's. Version of it.
[49:30] So you see the Velociraptor there and then you compare it to
[49:34] a Goa Jurassic Park and you see the Velociraptor and you see the
[49:37] difference. At that time, that was probably
[49:40] one that's considered one of the most accurate depictions.
[49:45] Well, OK, great. That brings us to the pop
[49:46] culture recommendation part of this episode.
[49:48] So that's I guess the first pop culture recommendation of HK.
[49:51] Any other things that you'd like to recommend HK?
[49:54] I mean a book, and I think it's also been recommended by Warren
[49:57] Grohr, if I'm not mistaken. That's how I came across this.
[49:59] So it's this wonderful book and author whose name is Italo
[50:03] Calvino. And the book I, I'm reading and
[50:06] almost done right now is called The Complete Cosmic Comic.
[50:09] So it's a collection of these science fiction, but it's
[50:12] science and fiction like, you know, it's not like science
[50:15] fiction in the sense of, you know, imagining like alternate
[50:18] reality or things like that. It has literally it shares a
[50:22] scientific concept. What can we imagine with that
[50:25] scientific concept? And it's just a wonderful like
[50:28] goes places that you wouldn't imagine at all, like where you
[50:31] were. Like how the hell did he go from
[50:34] Big Bang to like pasta? Literally that happens.
[50:37] Like how do you go or rather from pasta to The Big Bang Like
[50:41] you know how? What is the connection to figure
[50:43] it out? Please read Italo Caldino
[50:45] complete cosmic comics. I think it's a wonderful read.
[50:48] Very cool. OK, love that That reminds you
[50:51] of the very famous Carl Sagan quote.
[50:53] I don't know if you have heard of it.
[50:55] If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first
[50:58] invent the universe. And I have always thought that
[51:02] to be such an interesting thing because I'm I love cooking.
[51:06] And for me, I'm, you know, some of those people will be like, I
[51:09] know I want to make it from scratch.
[51:10] I want to make it from scratch. And then you realize there's not
[51:12] truly making anything from scratch because at some point
[51:15] you are working off of the effort of other people or all
[51:17] that has happened before you. So I love this quote.
[51:20] Carl Sagan and said, if you wish to make an apple pie from
[51:22] scratch, you must first invent the universe.
[51:26] Love that man Fantastic quotes. Yeah.
[51:30] Speaking of fantastic things, I guess what a poor segue.
[51:35] I watched The Night Manager and I'm talking about the British
[51:38] version. I haven't seen the Indian
[51:40] version. From what I've heard it's not
[51:41] very good. But the British version stars 2
[51:44] actors who I greatly admire. I really, really love Hugh
[51:48] Laurie. I've loved him since his days of
[51:51] a little bit of Ryan Laurie, Stephen Ryan, Hugh Laurie.
[51:54] Both phenomenal actors, great comedy, great sketch comedy,
[51:57] followed up with House. Love that show.
[51:59] But my recommendation for this episode is the night Manager
[52:02] where Hugh Laurie is also in a pivotal role, if I'm not wrong,
[52:06] in an Emmy nominated role. Olivia Coleman, a phenomenal
[52:10] actor. I don't know how she is, but
[52:12] she's one of the actors who's just so effortless on screen in
[52:14] whatever she does. I it's it's astounding.
[52:16] You forget for a second that this is even somebody pretending
[52:19] to be another person. She's great in every single role
[52:22] she does. And it has Tom Hiddleston, so a
[52:26] beautiful man, eye candy always. So Tom Hindelson, Olivia Coleman
[52:30] and Hugh Laurie in the night manager.
[52:32] Check that out. I also have a recommendation for
[52:36] a website or I guess game. I have in the past mentioned
[52:39] this website called Geo Guesser, which HK and I both used to
[52:44] frequent. So I'm going to recommend
[52:46] something along this line. And it's called travel and it's
[52:49] spelled TRAVLE, travel dot Earth.
[52:53] And if you're a Wordle fan, it is something along those lines.
[52:58] But for geography and travel geeks, it starts off by giving
[53:01] you a destination country and origin country.
[53:04] And you have to plot away from the origin to the destination
[53:07] country in the least possible steps.
[53:09] So it depends how far apart. Sometimes it's only a few steps,
[53:12] sometimes it's a lot. Fun little website for those of
[53:16] you who want to play these games.
[53:17] And again, something that HK also does, I know.
[53:20] So another recommendation, I guess Wordle and Connections,
[53:24] all of the New York Times games, I use the free one.
[53:27] I think HK has the paid version. Either ways, if you have money
[53:30] or if you don't have money, you can go enjoy the New York Times
[53:32] games. So spend 10 minutes, 15 minutes
[53:35] of your time each day doing this if you can spare it.
[53:38] Worth your time, I promise you that.
[53:41] About travel, it took me a really long time to realize why,
[53:44] you know, I was getting plus zero and not perfect.
[53:47] And it took me a really long time to realize that there's a
[53:50] source and an oriented country, like a destination country.
[53:53] Like I would basically go both ends and like kind of meet in
[53:56] the middle. And then I would, you know, so
[53:58] even if you're solving the exact number of steps that they
[54:02] require you to solve, it just doesn't show perfect.
[54:04] It shows plus zero. So you have to do it in the
[54:07] order from origin to destination.
[54:09] Only then you get the perfect score.
[54:12] Interesting. I solved it correctly, but why
[54:15] am I not getting that? So they literally have perfect
[54:18] plus 0 + 1 + 2. Oh no, no, I'm, I'm nowhere
[54:23] close to perfect or plus zero. I've always been a + 1 + 2 kind
[54:27] of guy because I'll, I'll usually take like a little bit
[54:30] of a country detour because I might not remember the right
[54:33] country. So I'll have to take a little
[54:35] bit of a detour to the country right next to it.
[54:37] But yeah, it's a fun game and if HK recommends it then you know
[54:41] you have to check it out. Are these a great plus for you
[54:44] guys? So don't forget, Yeah.
[54:45] So I don't know what a plus do. Definitely a great plus one,
[54:49] yeah. That is true.
[54:51] That is true, yeah. A couple of things to inform our
[54:54] audience. Firstly, you can tell them about
[54:55] the quiz that you follow online, where you also found a few of
[54:58] your questions. Oh yes, a bit started out to
[55:01] Zephyr quiz League also called like ZQM.
[55:04] So they are I think a bunch of people organize these online
[55:09] quiz league's individual. So the every week you kind of
[55:13] you're in a group of four, so you basically compete against
[55:16] three other people. And it's a set of interesting
[55:18] questions, typically questions that aren't like you know it or
[55:21] you don't know it. It's like, for example, there'll
[55:23] be rarely questions like what's the capital of Mozambique, for
[55:26] example, right. And then like, you know, you
[55:28] have to, you either know it. Oftentimes it's workoutable
[55:31] questions, like some of the questions I showed with more
[55:34] hints than what I provided because I want to make it
[55:36] difficult for ADI. So for example, there's like a
[55:38] picture or there's like the number of letters and there's
[55:40] like stuff that's like, you know, bolded or italicized in
[55:42] the question to kind of draw attention to it because it's a
[55:45] solo quiz. So yeah, if you are, if you want
[55:48] to kind of wet your hands some more into like fun, but not like
[55:53] a it's competitive, but not in like a very toxic way.
[55:57] So if you feel like you want to get your brain challenged every
[56:00] week, once a week. So just go check it out and sign
[56:03] up and hopefully we'll meet again there that you will.
[56:06] Lovely. And if somebody wants to reach
[56:09] out to you, tell you how great you are in this episode, or
[56:11] recommend things to you, or talk to you about Indian history, can
[56:15] they reach out to you on your Instagram?
[56:17] Yeah, you can or on the Reddit where you know, so I've recently
[56:21] went to the Reddit and short art of the Redditor who's doing is
[56:24] like a tremendous job. He or she, I'm not sure they are
[56:27] doing a tremendous job. You know, like I went and looked
[56:30] looked for a pop culture recommendation beneath that
[56:32] given because I was looking for the detective series, you know,
[56:35] that everyone in this train or something.
[56:37] I think along those lines that he had recommended to someone.
[56:41] Yeah. So I was like, I want I want to
[56:42] find the name but of course listening to like 40 episodes
[56:45] and figuring out the pop culture record is hard.
[56:48] But subreddit literally has every episode's pop culture
[56:51] recommendations listed out, so shout out to whoever is doing
[56:54] that. Insane.
[56:55] I can't believe that we have such a lovely supporter of the
[57:00] podcast who who takes out the time and and goes and posts
[57:03] every time there's a new episode out every time.
[57:05] He He recently posted about each of the guests who have appeared
[57:09] on the podcast as well. So a little bit of just giving
[57:13] their names and their Instagram handles.
[57:15] So yes, please. It's a very small community, but
[57:17] it's a dedicated group of people who like this podcast, lucky for
[57:22] us, and also like trivia. So go there and there are some
[57:25] fun questions that people keep posting, which we can't ask on a
[57:27] podcast because those are, say, visual questions.
[57:30] So the go check those out as well.
[57:32] Yeah, I actually saw those and I was like, wow, these are fun.
[57:37] I wish there was a way to bring them to our audience.
[57:39] So now this is an opportunity to go check us out on Are You
[57:41] Quizzing Me? The subreddit.
[57:43] And of course, you can reach us on Are you Quizzing
[57:46] me@gmail.com. If you want to give us a
[57:48] suggestion of a trivia question, there have been a few that
[57:51] people have sent in. We will bring them up as soon as
[57:54] we need this back. And or you can reach out to us
[57:57] on Instagram as well at Are You Quizzing Me?
[58:00] And let us know if you have any recommendations, if you have
[58:04] questions, if you have trivia or any thoughts and feedback that
[58:07] you'd like to share. We always welcome that.
[58:08] Which also brings me to please leave us a review.
[58:11] If you like this podcast, recommend it to somebody.
[58:13] It's the easiest way for the podcast to grow and for us to
[58:15] keep bringing you new episodes is for more people to hear about
[58:18] us and like it and hopefully share it.
[58:20] So rate it, comment, subscribe, do all of the jazz, but
[58:24] definitely share it with somebody who you think might
[58:25] enjoy this. And big shout out to Hari
[58:28] Krishna HK once again stepping in in Vineet's huge shoes to
[58:33] deliver a fun episode. Thank you HK, those are some
[58:35] great trivia questions. I learned a lot today.
[58:38] Thank you for me and hey guys, maybe if you give enough reviews
[58:41] or comments, Aditya can be one of your plus ones.
[58:43] You never know. That's always a bonus.
[58:47] Very very very very available all the time.
[58:50] Please let me know if anybody needs a plus one in the Mumbai
[58:52] area. Honestly, even Navi Mumbai,
[58:54] Pune, Goa, I am very flexible so available if you need me and if
[59:00] you need to be hounded by trivia questions all night, I'm your
[59:04] man. And at that note, thank you HK
[59:06] and see you guys next week.

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