# Episode 019 - Crimea, Everton & The Ace of Spades

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 12 May 2023, 51 min.

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The last veteran of the Crimean war in the 19th century died in the 21st century - Do you know how that's possible? Do you know why FC Everton's flagship store in a shopping complex in Merseyside is named "Everton Two"? Do you know why Aces are higher than Kings in the current 52 playing card deck? 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?
[0:03] I'm very tired with my co-host, Aditya kashyap.
[0:06] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show, where we ask each
[0:09] other questions, and share what we know and learn with you,
[0:12] though, in a quizzing format, it's not competitive.
[0:14] The questions are simply a way of sharing, our love of trivia.
[0:17] So sit back, relax and join us as we explore the depths of
[0:20] human knowledge. Here's the format, we ask each
[0:23] other questions alternatingly as many as time permits, while
[0:26] giving as many Clues is needed to help each other get to The
[0:30] answer. Let's get quizzing.
[0:33] And we're back. It's another day.
[0:36] Another episode and I did and I are back for another round of
[0:41] quizzing and just out of the proceedings, we have to first
[0:45] look back to last week and at this question about
[0:50] synchronicity so other than what is the answer to your question?
[0:56] So I asked what is that one thing which was I have
[1:01] completely ruined what this is. Listening means, but let me just
[1:05] twist around for the sake of my answer.
[1:08] What is the one thing that was really unique and it didn't fit
[1:12] in with the rest of Emperor sugars life, which stood out in
[1:15] a weird way? It is.
[1:17] This weird fact that and you might not know this, we need
[1:20] sir, take this as a moment of knowledge for you Emperor.
[1:25] Should not have any speech impediment.
[1:27] He he spoke fluently properly in the town of the day, whatever it
[1:32] was yet. The one word that he always
[1:36] struggled say in one, go was Kalinga, which is the famous
[1:41] War. So, he used to always say it
[1:43] instead of just saying Kalinga used to Seca Kalinga and this
[1:48] was very, very, very well documented in the 2003
[1:56] documentary, man, you have outdone yourself Dante will
[2:07] arise from his grave, go back and add an addendum to The
[2:12] Divine Comedy with a separate level of hell, just for you, and
[2:17] that's where we would be entertained with jokes all day
[2:19] long. Being some sort of very crude
[2:24] crude and violent form of hell. Yes, the photos are in the dark.
[2:30] I would suggest you go watch, Satoshi events class.
[2:34] Eric Flop, Show cast, starring Shahrukh, Khan and Kareena
[2:38] Kapoor. That should give you all the
[2:41] context you need. Yes, that is.
[2:44] That is my question for answer for the day but let's move on to
[2:48] some useful trivia. Yeah, not so useful.
[2:52] As you may think, I think association with Aditya is not
[2:57] particularly helpful for my mental state because I also
[3:01] talked team to be turning towards the Observer And
[3:05] slightly, he useless trivia. So as with the past two
[3:10] episodes, I have another piece of trivia round which I am
[3:14] crafting, what I will Loosely call a quiz question.
[3:18] So here goes the Crimean War was fought from 1853 to 1856 by.
[3:28] It was mainly between the Russians and the Allied Forces
[3:31] of the British French and the Turks Now the last veteran of
[3:38] this war died in 2004, how is this possible?
[3:45] Can you give me the funder in 2004?
[3:49] Yes, that's roughly maybe 148 or 150 years after the war ended.
[3:59] Was there a tortoise tortoise? Was conscripted in the Army.
[4:09] You got that way too quickly. Yes, it was a tortoise.
[4:14] He is it was the mascot of the HMS queen during the Crimean
[4:21] War, a tortoise named Timothy after surviving the Crimean War
[4:27] and another couple of Tours has various ships fast.
[4:29] Scott Timothy eventually retire to a castle in England in. 35e.
[4:37] She they lived until dying in 2004.
[4:43] Lovely, lovely. Well, good for Timothy, you got
[4:48] that way too quickly. I should go for more absurdity
[4:52] with my questions going forward. If it was not a tortoise, I was
[4:56] going to have to guess something.
[4:57] Like, was it a tree that was good.
[5:01] But for some reason that they can script, Advantage.
[5:04] And I think those are fun little question.
[5:08] Okay you know what since we started off on this Whimsical
[5:11] note I have this lovely piece of trivia So in 2018 in early 80s,
[5:20] this is January and February of 2018.
[5:23] Hmm, KFC ran out of chicken in the UK.
[5:29] Okay. That's vaguely in and around
[5:32] London. So they ran out of chicken which
[5:36] meant that they had to shut down a lot of the restaurants and
[5:42] this led to a lot of embarrassment.
[5:44] Obviously for a for a For a food chain which is known for the
[5:48] chicken. Not to not have chicken cause a
[5:50] embarrassing. So they printed ads in major
[5:56] English newspapers apologizing to their customers.
[6:00] What is that one cheeky way that KFC decided to apologize is a
[6:06] little cheeky little Whimsical way that KFC decided to
[6:11] apologize for this. Okay, mishap something to do.
[6:16] Your bloke. They have a tagline right,
[6:20] finger-licking good. So Is it something like finger
[6:28] missing? No, no it's silly.
[6:35] But it was also pretty silly and you are not too far off, but it
[6:40] doesn't have to do with the tagline missing.
[6:43] Did I put applicable missing poster or something?
[6:47] Oh no, I did Apologize. Yeah, they're apologizing and
[6:51] think because I said you were very close, think very close.
[6:54] To The Branding itself. So not their tagline.
[6:59] So, their branding branding, classical is a theme that they
[7:04] have with the other day. They're just a KFC.
[7:06] It gives his cape see, just three letters, KFC, very well
[7:10] done. Yes, yes, yes.
[7:11] You're very close your app, almost there.
[7:16] The order will do it is letters to God KFC.
[7:27] And the g think anagram, The gonna grab student cave team,
[7:32] okay, okay, how can you say that again?
[7:37] So the two reason I'm going to say this on our podcasts life
[7:41] but today, oh, F, CK is in. So it is the picture of the
[7:54] classic KFC bucket. But instead of saying is f CK,
[7:59] Which is basically how good the f-stop, and, and well good for
[8:08] them because F, CK doesn't even need to be censored, so they
[8:11] couldn't in newspaper. Two of the major, I believe it's
[8:17] the sun and the and the herald, which is these papers that
[8:22] carried his apology, which was just the KFC bucket and it said,
[8:25] f CK. And No.
[8:31] But I mean, the rest of it was also an apology where they did
[8:35] Issue an apology is that it's a single Loops, that was a nice
[8:49] question. Okay.
[8:51] That be stick with somewhere in the UK sports-related.
[8:56] Okay, this also somewhat ability, so Located in a
[9:01] shopping complex, in merseyside. London, Everton football club.
[9:08] I don't know if you're a big football fan but Everton is a
[9:11] football team. I'm guessing I know of so I'm
[9:15] not a big fan of great that makes it easier for me.
[9:20] So the London Everton, football club has a flagship store
[9:24] through which it sells its Club merchandise, okay?
[9:28] And this particular store has a very nonsensical sounding
[9:36] Everton to as in t wo to okay. Okay, so maybe is replaces, you
[9:44] know, replay the question again. There's a shopping complex in
[9:48] merseyside. London merseyside where the
[9:51] London Everton, football club's for our flagship store is
[9:54] present and that particular store has the name Everton to
[10:02] do. You know why they called the
[10:04] store? Overturn to the store is.
[10:09] In merseyside. I will.
[10:12] It's Northwest England and they call it Everton to yes.
[10:18] Everton one button one. I don't know why am I can't
[10:25] think of anything about? Was it do with?
[10:29] It's a football club rate. So it's a football trick
[10:33] evidence of football club. This flagship store sells their
[10:36] merchandise was To the jersey. Number one, or wooden one,
[10:42] reserved for some star player or something.
[10:47] Let me just put it this way. Merseyside is home to a very big
[10:54] city that you may have heard of which also would have a little
[10:59] bit. They will drop to the important
[11:03] of pertinent to this question. There were big city and I'm
[11:07] thinking If you're seeing City and football that I'm assuming
[11:12] it, as it can be any of Manchester and Liverpool and
[11:15] Chelsea. Mmm-hmm!
[11:18] Yes, you got that somewhere. Aight is there.
[11:22] Is there another football club called?
[11:24] Everton. That would be very, very no.
[11:27] Not particularly. Okay, okay, let me just I'll
[11:30] give you this as well. The count mercey site is a
[11:33] county which houses the city of Liverpool, okay?
[11:39] Okay. Now try and guess as to why they
[11:42] would name their store Everton to in a shopping complex in
[11:49] merseyside? I don't know again, this might
[11:52] be have to do with anything with to do with like, say the
[11:55] nicknames that all these British English football clubs have.
[12:00] And I'm I am not a benefice. I don't know if you're going to
[12:04] hold. That is a little more obvious, a
[12:06] little cheeky. Let's just say it's in your
[12:08] face. Everton 20, I have they have
[12:16] they had some very decisive victory over Liverpool, where
[12:20] they won? Two in a lasagna?
[12:22] No, I'm not big enough. And whatever you if they have
[12:25] done it, but then that is definitely their intention.
[12:28] But you have to belittle your to get that last part.
[12:32] It's not easy to get. It says, you know what am I
[12:35] seeing here is? Jennifer didn't Everton too.
[12:39] I did this in the face of their leading to nil like in their
[12:43] Liverpool, Everton matches their want to work there.
[12:47] Okay. So I give it, I'll give you one
[12:50] last group thing. What could possibly be the name
[12:54] of the shopping complex or Liverpool won?
[13:00] Yes. So I'll just put the address
[13:11] right? Technically becomes Everton to
[13:13] Liverpool won. No, but there is so cool.
[13:16] I love it. So the two teams separated by
[13:23] Stanley Park have enjoyed a fierce but friendly rivalry for
[13:27] more than a century. The Everton.
[13:30] Team has two superstars in the city center.
[13:32] Namely, Everton won and Everton to, which is perfectly normal.
[13:38] Until you realize where the second store is located.
[13:42] It's inside one of the biggest shopping malls, called Liverpool
[13:45] won. So the stores full address is
[13:48] everted to Liverpool won. Oh, that is so building.
[13:53] That is so brilliant. I do wonder how they have fared
[13:56] against Liverpool, do because at some point.
[14:00] This just becomes a humiliating joke if you haven't actually
[14:03] scored those many goals against Liverpool.
[14:06] In truth, I would actually have to phone a friend to get those
[14:09] kind of details. Because as we've mentioned on
[14:13] this podcast before, I'm not a sports person, fair enough, but
[14:18] this is a lovely sports. Trivia.
[14:21] Thank you for sharing that. Okay, well since we are speaking
[14:25] of sports Let's move to a parallel.
[14:32] Let's sort of category. This is to do with games.
[14:38] So what that we consider Universal today wasn't so common
[14:47] back in the 17th century In this passage and I'm starting vague.
[14:52] And of course, as usual will give you more clues in this in
[14:57] this category of sports and games, rather category of games
[15:01] that became common or Universal. Thanks to amongst other things.
[15:06] Thanks to the French Revolution in Europe.
[15:11] So in Europe This became more widely adopted in the field of
[15:17] games, thanks to the French Revolution and today will be
[15:21] considered almost common factor. We're talking games, right?
[15:27] Yeah, games not Sports, not Sports, no.
[15:32] Okay, reading do with chess chess pieces, not jest.
[15:39] No, no, no. Okay, the French Revolution.
[15:45] So, is it something to do with scoring the terminology used for
[15:53] scoring? In tennis you safe.
[15:56] No, that would be, that would be Sports.
[15:59] So now it is in sports. Yeah, let me go again.
[16:02] This is very very big and wide o category.
[16:05] Let me just be more specific and hopefully this will lead you to
[16:08] the answer playing cards now playing cards okay?
[16:12] The French blink, the suits on the playing cards.
[16:16] The one of the, what are the specific?
[16:19] The Kings has a sword on next is I think it's a no no no, not
[16:24] that. It's looking Louis, but no,
[16:26] that's not the thing that I'm looking for.
[16:30] Okay. But now that you mention it,
[16:32] playing cards are have they do have a French origin technically
[16:38] well, whatever. Was in the playing cards all
[16:40] over the world? Yeah, I know.
[16:42] But the current version that we have, I think the latest is
[16:45] mostly of French persuasion. If I remember having, perhaps,
[16:50] European more European and then If it is 52 cards, the two
[16:56] jokers or something. No, no, it isn't, no.
[17:01] All these wonderful trivia attached by the way, that I may,
[17:04] or may not asking future. Okay.
[17:08] Okay. Okay.
[17:12] I did a deep dive as you can tell in playing cards recently.
[17:15] So, okay, now I'm thinking It's not to do with the
[17:22] representations of the different suits.
[17:24] I'd never no, no. Okay.
[17:27] So okay let me read you a bit closer.
[17:30] Think order also the a is comes higher, a say specifically.
[17:35] Yeah, so yeah so is high it is historically historically, King
[17:40] was the highest car is an adventure Evolution?
[17:44] As they got rid of the king the Nerium higher than the king.
[17:50] Became higher than the king they actually said because it gained
[17:53] popularity, it wasn't something that was originated in during
[17:58] the French Revolution per se, but it definitely gained a lot
[18:01] more popularity during games from that era because of the
[18:04] fact that they wanted to establish that there is can be
[18:08] higher and more powerful than the king and wonder if they can
[18:11] be. Ace of spades is the topmost
[18:14] because the person who is burying the Kings is the That is
[18:23] bad. But I'm going to talk to, okay.
[18:26] So let me ask one more piece of trivia and I asked, this is the
[18:30] injunction simply because I could not verify this.
[18:34] So if any of our listeners can help me find any, but I've heard
[18:38] it from a source that I think is credible enough, I just could
[18:41] not give and only verified. So if any to say can help you
[18:44] out, I would be very grateful please reaches out towards
[18:47] social media. All right.
[18:48] So this particular Our trivia has to do less with the French,
[18:54] but with another European power and it affected playing cards in
[19:03] studying in the 19th century and again, we are talking order.
[19:10] So, okay, let me rephrase that connect the order of cards, and
[19:15] the importance of cards to another European nation, and
[19:19] something that And a couple of times since the nineteen
[19:24] eighteen Century. Okay, another European nation,
[19:27] not France right here 19. Such let's in 19th century of a
[19:34] 19th century. 19th in Germany, the 1800's.
[19:38] Yeah so from the around early 1800s he'll actually not that it
[19:45] makes any difference anymore. Okay, but till very recently,
[19:50] okay? Now this this is probably a bit
[19:52] misleading because the way I'm raising it but once you know the
[19:55] answers that will make a lot of sense.
[19:57] Okay. No.
[19:57] No. I'm just trying to remember what
[20:00] happened again. 1800's were very, very, how do I put this?
[20:06] There's a lot happening. It's not happening in Europe so
[20:10] I thought if I start of, I would go with Napoleon but that's
[20:14] again Frank. So it's like Fringe is not
[20:16] French, it's not French. Then I would go with the drape
[20:20] game. That would be Russia and not
[20:23] Rashida. Oh okay, we're getting close.
[20:27] You're getting close. Yeah.
[20:29] Okay. I just had the great game.
[20:30] The great game was Russia, and Britain.
[20:32] So there's a lot of share but English, is it the order of the
[20:43] sweets as in hearts I'm not I don't know this book.
[20:47] No no no this is oh wait, was it okay so a month.
[20:52] Okay this is a guess I would say that this game somewhere in the
[20:57] mid 8, maybe 1840 1845 and then lasted till around 2021.
[21:04] No up with the, with a gap of around 50 years in between.
[21:09] You are probably close. Yes.
[21:10] L. Can you know what the answer is?
[21:12] Yeah, so basically Queen High rather than King, you're right.
[21:16] So it probably hasn't changed much in the recent past.
[21:21] Nobody really cared about British monarch is to decide how
[21:26] you're a player card games by it.
[21:28] Apparently, and again, this is what I have not been able to
[21:30] verify the, I love this beautiful juicy piece of trivia.
[21:34] 18. Let me quickly check this 1819
[21:37] is when Queen Victoria was born and then made their 18.
[21:41] When was she? She was, when did she become the
[21:44] 1830s 37th? 1837 gesture 1837.
[21:49] So she Reign for quite a while. And then of course, there were
[21:53] some men who in the kingdom and then George Clooney, George
[21:57] again. Yeah.
[21:59] So it basically meant that to bend.
[22:02] There was a king on the Jordan the King was the highest card
[22:06] and the deck and windows agreement on Queen has higher
[22:09] card. So king and queen would change
[22:12] based on who was on the was the reigning monarch and this would
[22:15] be true for the UK and maybe the Commonwealth, maybe not now can
[22:21] do, but at least in the, you can the Commonwealth, this used to
[22:23] be a practice that the order of the change based on.
[22:28] Was there any Monarch? So something like, you know, the
[22:31] they are at their Anthem changes from God saved.
[22:33] The king to God's kingdom vs the queen.
[22:35] Exactly like. Oh gasps.
[22:37] Oh. Oh my God.
[22:38] And so now that Charles is the new king can go back.
[22:44] It can go back to being the invalid.
[22:45] Then again, I don't think anybody anymore cares about when
[22:51] I was a little surprised but surprised technically, I mean
[22:56] like his name is Charles after all, but he could have chosen a
[22:59] different Monica when he became king because Me Charles hasn't
[23:04] been very lucky for English monarchs.
[23:08] Okay? I think only one English Monarch
[23:13] has ever been executed and that was a child's.
[23:18] The worst of the second row tells the first child s.
[23:21] We will start hearing that your faction.
[23:24] Yeah yeah, no but I think yeah, if I remember correctly after
[23:27] the Norman Invasion, there was a be no T1 English monarch Who was
[23:34] executed by his own people. Regicide, I think, is the term,
[23:38] the official term solution. Yeah.
[23:41] And he chose that of all like Henry would have been a better
[23:45] choice Frankly Speaking. No seriously like how there is
[23:51] the plantagenet swerve, you know?
[23:54] Or even Richard. He would have been what Richard.
[23:59] Yeah, honestly, honestly should have just given up his throne to
[24:02] a woman cause at Point. We would have had a much better
[24:06] success rate of the throne than whenever cities near Elizabeth
[24:10] was my God. She's like the longest reigning
[24:13] monarch in the British in British history, right?
[24:17] Do you wish she were lost during all this thing in world is I
[24:20] think no I think there's a I think if I remember correctly
[24:24] and this, you will have to fact-check, but there was, there
[24:26] was as Monarch from Swaziland who became King when he was a
[24:31] few months old and then I think rained for until he was 60 or 70
[24:38] or something that you just might want to check that because I
[24:42] yeah if I remember I remember reading somewhere about this guy
[24:45] from Swaziland. Yeah.
[24:49] Now but there are a lot of the British royal family is chock
[24:53] full of questions. Okay?
[24:59] So that was a great question. That was a great condition.
[25:01] Okay, I have a question. That I think we'll just a little
[25:07] bit but you be able to work this out, okay?
[25:11] According to a Times of India article at least 12 children
[25:16] from Hyderabad and surrounding areas.
[25:19] Lost, I sight in one eye in the first 40 or days of the first
[25:25] coronavirus lockdown hospitals. In the city, reported around 25,
[25:30] such injuries both blunt. And piercing doctors subhadra
[25:36] Jolly director of The Retina Institute, said for about 15
[25:40] years. We did not see these injuries
[25:43] but the numbers are starting to rise again.
[25:46] What was the reason for these injuries cropping up in such
[25:49] numbers after so many years and during the lockdown of all
[25:54] times, or this is an injury. So it wasn't a disease, note,
[25:59] rounded disease. So let me just put it again.
[26:02] So around, Of children. This is according to the times
[26:05] of India on 12 children from Hyderabad and surrounding areas.
[26:09] Lost eye sight in one eye okay and the hospital's reporter on
[26:15] 25 such injuries which some of which led to loss of ice it all
[26:21] of this. During the first 40, odd days of
[26:23] the coronavirus, lockdown, the first lockdown.
[26:27] We're talking I think much 2020. Hey, it's March, April 2020 and
[26:34] one of the experts are director of The Retina Institute, said
[26:37] that for about 15 years, we haven't seen these injuries but
[26:41] now they're starting to rise up again.
[26:43] Can you tell me the reason for these injuries cropping up with
[26:47] such numbers, interesting, because when you said eyes and
[26:51] during covid, I was thinking of, there's this thing called black
[26:53] fungus or something. Yes, good thing.
[26:57] But no, not this. No, this is.
[26:59] This is moss or exclusively with children and this is the injury
[27:03] based not accomplished as used in Israel.
[27:06] Okay. Yeah.
[27:08] First. 40 days. Oh man, this is going to sound
[27:11] really, really sad. But we didn't have anything to
[27:14] do with. They were they were doing a like
[27:20] display to show their support for no, no Frontline workers.
[27:25] No, no, no third. Like they did.
[27:27] They used a firecracker inside the house or something.
[27:31] Okay. What else happened during code?
[27:36] Oh, Can suddenly had to be online a lot.
[27:43] No, not particularly. Okay.
[27:46] Do you want to do with enjoy it? That will be an injury.
[27:49] Yeah, please. Okay.
[27:52] So think, what did we all turn to during the lockdown?
[27:57] And, you know, a lot of people turn to something certain.
[28:02] Let's say, think of what kind of programming was available during
[28:06] the lockdown. Tick-Tock became popular.
[28:10] Let's see if you'd given him popular.
[28:14] Okay, so what kind of what other kind of programming, couple of
[28:18] shoes? Became some of the most watched
[28:21] in the world because of tiger tiger cake?
[28:28] No, no, no, I think these are bigger numbers.
[28:33] Okay, is it a Netflix show? No okay wow, I can't think of
[28:42] you some Not been for 15 years so that means they're watching
[28:46] reruns or something. Yes, that's a very good guess.
[28:51] Yeah. Yeah, 15 years ago.
[28:55] So that would be 2008 something and didn't work.
[28:58] Let me give you one more clue. Let me give you one more.
[29:00] Clue on April 16th. Okay, a record was set by this
[29:08] particular piece of programming, piece of programming.
[29:12] That's very interesting choice of words.
[29:14] So this is why I don't read too much into it.
[29:18] Okay. So I'm trying to think of
[29:21] something that ended in 2008 and was resurrected.
[29:24] I wouldn't, I wouldn't go. I would move that specific.
[29:27] I wouldn't go that specific. Okay, so let's say early,
[29:31] 2000's, it ended. And people said I wouldn't do
[29:35] that, I wouldn't I wouldn't go there, not even that, not even
[29:38] that. Okay?
[29:40] So the 15-year thing threw me off a little bit.
[29:44] Trying to think of any fiction show with the, with an eye
[29:47] patch, some pirate show. I can't think of something.
[29:50] Mmm, no. Okay, I'll just give you a clue
[29:54] on say 16th. April, The Telecast of this show
[29:58] had 77 Million viewers, worldwide making it the most
[30:04] viewed episode of TV ever or something.
[30:08] This is what appeared on the news.
[30:10] But this was actually, this is a vertical at.
[30:14] How do I put this is, this was a tweet that had come up, it's
[30:18] actually not a world record but this was a tweet that came at
[30:21] that time saying that it is the most viewed.
[30:24] The actual most-viewed was the what you got the season finale
[30:28] of CT scanner? A of mash smash.
[30:35] There was a tweet saying that oh my God.
[30:38] This is the most viewed TV program ever.
[30:41] But it's not actually. But I think Street TV program
[30:45] ever is World Series final, I believe.
[30:50] But non sporting event. I think is Mash mash?
[30:55] I'm sure even your world. Now, it must be FIFA World Cup
[30:59] and stuff. Okay yeah.
[31:02] Hey I can't think of anything which was and this is India,
[31:07] specific 77 million. I have our cabin, I was not in
[31:12] India during coitus. I'm going to use that as an
[31:14] excuse but I don't know what it is.
[31:16] Okay, let me just give you another clue when this show was
[31:21] first aired. You know I mean they aren't, we
[31:25] didn't have exact figures but it actually was able Able to bring
[31:30] the nation to a standstill and it is estimated.
[31:33] Now there are around 100 million viewers view, watched each every
[31:37] each and every episode. So it's quite possible that
[31:40] almost every episode of this show has yes.
[31:53] So this is actually ramayana and Mahabharata and ramayana and So,
[32:00] children started playing with homemade bows and arrows
[32:03] fashioned out of broomsticks. And this turned out though,
[32:07] enough of a problem that it actually, you know, I
[32:11] institute's actually started noticing the fact that they
[32:13] having a Spate of such injuries. Oh boy.
[32:16] Oh no that's a cute though. I mean it's very sad that they
[32:21] lost their eyesight but the children do the stupid things
[32:26] unfortunately. Yeah, that's a trivial.
[32:31] Yeah just a little bit of trivia about my in itself.
[32:36] Hmm it was a 1987 288 series made by Roman and soccer at the
[32:42] time Dede was the only DDR do reservation for our non-indian
[32:48] viewers was the state-run channel of the of India and if
[32:54] it was in mentally popular it was it.
[32:57] The Telecast of the episode would bring the on to a
[33:00] standstill. And even though the, it looks
[33:04] quite dated nowadays, when Didi re-edit a retailer casted.
[33:09] It during the lockdown. It got a lot of viewership.
[33:13] So, just to give you an idea about how it affected dedes
[33:16] viewership from in the second half of January 20, 22.
[33:23] DD's viewership was 9 million, okay?
[33:28] It was 9 million in the second half of January 2020.
[33:32] In the last week of March, it went to five hundred and
[33:36] forty-five million from just wonderful.
[33:42] Yeah, that's great. Game shows to achieve what maybe
[33:58] the record match set or what remind it because there's a lot
[34:03] more programming of course, available.
[34:07] So this evil certain conditions. This would be a fun piece of
[34:11] trivia except the red nodes and urban legend but when The Masha
[34:16] Mash. I'm so sorry.
[34:17] And the mash finale was Ed. There is this urban legend,
[34:21] which goes that there was a in between those a sudden shortage
[34:25] of water because when there was an ad break, apparently,
[34:29] everybody went to the lower the same time half of the u.s. went
[34:34] to pee together, suddenly the major cities and a lot of water
[34:38] in between, which is not true. But such a funny thing to have
[34:43] happened. That everybody went to be too.
[34:46] Because it was an addict. Yeah.
[34:48] So the only show, I think whichever had a chance of, you
[34:54] know, breaking that record was friends.
[34:56] And if the friends didn't manager, I don't think anybody
[34:58] else will tense was pretty high though.
[35:01] Like I think it does, you know, but it didn't break his record.
[35:07] I didn't know. No, I didn't attend either it
[35:09] Seinfeld, things known and Seinfeld.
[35:11] When I went out on a high, No, well, it's just a privilege of
[35:18] having so much more content that nobody's going to watch the same
[35:22] content as the rest of the world.
[35:23] And yeah, all right, my turn. Okay.
[35:30] So we'll write this American was caught in the in a firestorm in
[35:39] 1991 in Oakland Spired because he lost his home during that
[35:47] Firestorm, unfortunately and had to rebuild his life.
[35:50] And this inspired me to create something.
[35:53] What did he create from this tragedy?
[35:58] What, what came out of this tragedy in his life?
[36:02] What time frame is this which year 1991 is when he when The
[36:09] Firestorm happened, okay? Okay, I think this is too big so
[36:16] I gave this only because in case you knew will write what you
[36:18] would have gotten her out of the bat mames.
[36:21] You know you look so let me tell you he's a game designer and
[36:24] what he designed was released in 2000 in 2000.
[36:32] My grasp of dreaming history is not so great, the but 2000.
[36:40] What was big in 2000? Think also base of that tragedy
[36:46] in his life so that inspired him because he lost and he had to
[36:52] rebuild due to Firestorm trying to do with Minecraft or very,
[37:01] very close. Sims is the answer.
[37:04] Brilliant. Yes.
[37:11] Wonderful designer and he was inspired to create a virtual
[37:23] dollhouse because he lost his home and he was subsequently
[37:27] rebuilding his life. He has also claimed and that the
[37:31] Sims was meant to be also a satire on the US consumer
[37:35] culture. So this was partially his
[37:39] motivation as well. So that is the how The Sims game
[37:43] came to be in 2000 and 2001 when the first one was launched and
[37:47] since then has been pretty iconic.
[37:50] Yeah. Okay.
[37:51] Okay. I just sold nearly 200 million
[37:54] copies worldwide and it is one of the best-selling video game
[37:56] series of all time. Yes he is.
[37:59] I am aware. This is wow.
[38:02] I have not had no Clover forest. Fire Firestorm have.
[38:07] Yeah, I have some yeah. Okay, let me give you something.
[38:14] I'm not going to tell you in what this is relation to.
[38:18] But I am going to read you a quote with to blanked out
[38:22] portions. You have to tell me what is
[38:26] inspired from what I have blanked out.
[38:30] Okay, okay and I'll also tell you the sauce, okay?
[38:34] That this particular piece of text, I'm about to read you
[38:38] appeared with a date. Of me, it's 1793 in the
[38:44] connection of degrees made by the French national Convention.
[38:49] Okay? Okay so I'm going to read it out
[38:51] to you and I will blank out the portions that are important or
[38:56] that perform the question. Basically, the people's
[38:59] Representatives will reach their decision invested with the
[39:04] highest confidence and unlimited power They will show Great
[39:09] Character. They must consider that blank
[39:14] follows in separately, from blank to their energy, to their
[39:19] courage and above all their Prudence.
[39:22] They should owe their success and their Glory, the blanked out
[39:26] portions form a quote that is Very well known throughout the
[39:33] world. But not many people might
[39:34] realize it. This is where it may have come
[39:39] from. I don't have absolute proof that
[39:40] this is where it is from, but this is the earliest source of
[39:46] phrase with that same meaning. This sounds.
[39:49] You want me to read that portion again?
[39:52] I it sounds so familiar. I've heard this before, I don't
[39:55] know where but yes, I am struggling with it.
[39:59] Oh yeah. Please read it again.
[40:00] I'll read it again. Just that portion again.
[40:03] Forget everything else. Just concentrate on the X time.
[40:06] Reading the people's Representatives will reach their
[40:09] decision will reach the destination invested with the
[40:13] highest confidence and unlimited power.
[40:17] They will show Great Character. They must consider that blank
[40:21] follows in separately from blank to the energy to their courage
[40:25] and above all their Prudence. They should owe their success.
[40:28] And Glory something follows in. In separately from something.
[40:34] Yes. And this is a very common code
[40:36] matter where you go. Now, itself Rachel.
[40:39] It's a sport that is known everywhere.
[40:42] Like, children know it, even a lot of adults noise it and
[40:46] exactly the same wording or this morning about the me me.
[40:50] Yeah. But you would recognize the to
[40:54] operative phrases or operator portion, a choppin blanked out.
[40:58] Okay. Yeah.
[41:00] It sounds very familiar, but I'm kind of blanking out right now.
[41:04] So help me figure out. Yeah, so I would suggest you go
[41:09] towards pop culture specifically towards certain comic book
[41:16] characters, or is it a great responsibility?
[41:24] Yes, it is from great, power comes great responsibility, the
[41:29] original phases, they must consider the The great
[41:32] responsibility follows in separately, from great, our
[41:38] less, and who is this court by our know?
[41:42] It's we don't know who it is by. It's part of a collection of
[41:45] decrease made by the French national Convention in 1793.
[41:49] So, I'm guessing it there be more than one author when it
[41:53] comes to these kind of documents.
[41:55] Right? Right.
[41:56] Ok. Nice.
[41:58] Lovely piece of trivia, okay. Yeah.
[42:02] Your turn. This is a a little piece of
[42:07] trivia that I found out recently.
[42:09] So I have you heard of the restaurant Denny's.
[42:13] Danny's I am diverse style restaurant chain in the u.s.
[42:18] I have heard the name but I wouldn't know too much more
[42:20] about it. It's one of those things you've
[42:23] heard it and left it. Yes, it's urgent you as a coffee
[42:27] shop and then they started serving breakfast.
[42:29] Lunch dinner 24 hours a day. The dino supply chain that is
[42:34] presented in the US. Okay, you afraid.
[42:37] Okay. In 1988 on Christmas, they
[42:42] decided to give their employees and off.
[42:46] What issued they face, though. When they decided to do this,
[42:52] But they decided to give a day off to their employees on
[42:56] Christmas. Right?
[42:59] And what did they face? Because of that, I don't know.
[43:08] I'm you'll have to give me a clue here.
[43:09] I'm just, I can't think of anything right now that this is.
[43:13] This is one of those trivia that, you know what, you don't
[43:16] know. And not only do you, don't dance
[43:18] fun little piece of trivia regardless.
[43:20] So Okay, the were 24 hours restaurant, seven days a week,
[43:26] okay? And technically on Christmas
[43:29] 1988 when they decided to give their employees of, it was one
[43:33] of the first times ever. So what could possibly happen,
[43:40] what could be an issue that they might possibly face?
[43:44] And this was the first time they ever gave an off?
[43:47] The first thing that the yes the the stones not operational that.
[43:55] Okay, first time that the rationale was not operational.
[43:58] WoW, instead of the 24-hour restaurant, they didn't know
[44:06] when to shut down, whether it's to be shut down at 12:00 and go
[44:09] will shut down at 5:00 in the morning.
[44:14] I have no clue. Nothing.
[44:17] Something even more fundamental actually.
[44:21] Okay. What, what is more fundamental
[44:24] than that? Okay, I know Pia, you'll have to
[44:28] give me a clue here time just itself but this is an
[44:40] information surrounding it. Okay.
[44:42] So by 1981, they had already had 1,000 restaurants so by now,
[44:46] 1888. It definitely had a lot more and
[44:50] when they shut down on Christmas 1988 all, but six of them.
[44:55] So, whatever thousand-plus rations, they had only six of
[44:58] them were still operational. And Chris was 1988, but there is
[45:02] an ocean, okay? No, no, no, this will lead you
[45:04] to the answer, but this imagine a diner which has never closed.
[45:10] It is operational 365 days 24 hours a day, every day of the
[45:15] week, what what issue would they have?
[45:18] If they try to close the restaurant?
[45:21] Do they not have doors to close very close activity and give it
[45:25] to you? Many of the residents did not
[45:27] have locks. Many of the restaurants, did not
[45:29] have locks on them so I'm only selling at more than 700
[45:35] restaurants. Had to be outfitted with locks
[45:39] because they do not have a lock. Um, fertility in was never shut
[46:11] down so they didn't have locks. Wow.
[46:15] Now the yeah that's that's a first word, bottom, if you've
[46:19] ever heard one. Okay.
[46:24] So I think I think we are out of time for today.
[46:27] We are we are, we are right so I did yeah.
[46:31] Do you have a question before we wind up?
[46:35] I do. Yeah, I'm going to use.
[46:39] One of your questions. It doesn't matter.
[46:46] You couldn't break a few makeup from anything.
[46:48] Then hey, then circle of hell, then circle of n.
[46:56] So so okay, you know what, I'll use one of my questions so of
[47:00] course KFC apologized by using the explicit term, F CK.
[47:06] When they had opened this for they did how would I'm going to
[47:12] say ciao. Was apologize.
[47:15] The day there are not of chai TVs was, how would they
[47:22] apologized? And that is the question that we
[47:25] can answer in our next episode. Yeah, I shudder to think what
[47:29] your brain will come up with an answer for that, but that's all
[47:33] for this episode. Thank you, everyone for
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[48:34] So, that's all from me, and thank you for that.
[48:40] Is you having some feline trouble right now?
[48:44] He will be back after taking care of this.
[48:49] Quite cute cat with the doubling him.
[48:51] Acknowledge the cat in the frame.
[48:54] Yes. But thank you so much everybody.
[48:56] See you next week. Bye.
[48:57] Bye-bye. And here's the fact check for
[49:15] the episode in spite of her name, Timothy the last survivor
[49:19] of the Crimean War, was female determining the sex of tortoises
[49:24] was not properly known in the 19th century.
[49:28] The KFC apology message for the chicken shortage in 2018 was
[49:32] printed in the Sun and Metro Everton has defeated Liverpool
[49:39] to nil on multiple occasions, the latest being on 20th
[49:43] February, 20, 21 in the Premier League.
[49:48] The longest reigning monarch of a dependent or sovereign, state
[49:52] was sobhuza. The second who ruled for
[49:54] slightly more than eighty two and a half years as 14 e, or
[49:58] then known as Swaziland was under his Reign and was a
[50:02] British protectorate for a long time.
[50:05] The longest reigning monarch of a sovereign state was Louis, 14
[50:10] who ruled for slightly more than 72 years, Queen, Elizabeth the
[50:14] second false, second on that list with 70 and Half years,
[50:19] although Global TV viewership numbers are unreliable.
[50:22] It is generally accepted that the most widely watched events
[50:26] worldwide are international sporting events such as the
[50:30] Summer Olympic Games FIFA World Cup and formula one.
[50:34] And that's all for the fact check.

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