# Episode 073 - Boxing, Smokestacks & Top Level Domains

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 29 Jun 2024, 49 min.

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Do you know which world famous monument was once described as a gigantic black smokestack? Do you know what the name of a seaport in Indonesia has to do with the world of boxing? Do you know which country's top level domain was *.dd? 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 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to are 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. Welcome to episode #73 of are
[0:21] you quizzing me, your favorite quizzing and trivia podcast
[0:24] show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:26] another round of quizzing and let's start without any further
[0:30] ado. The audience question for today,
[0:33] which I will answer at the end of today's episode for all our
[0:37] people who are listening to listening to this episode is as
[0:40] follows. Initially, wine was distilled as
[0:45] a preservation method method and to make it easier for merchants
[0:49] to transport. It is also thought that wine was
[0:52] used distilled to lessen the tax, which was assessed by
[0:55] volume. The intent was to add the water
[0:58] removed by distillation back to it shortly before consumption.
[1:03] It was discovered that after being stored in wooden casks,
[1:06] the resulting product improved over the original distilled
[1:10] spirit. In addition to removing water,
[1:13] the distillation process led to the formation and decomposition
[1:17] of numerous aromatic compounds, fundamentally altering the
[1:21] distillate composition from its source.
[1:23] Non volatile substances such as pigments, sugars and salts
[1:27] remained behind in the still and as a result the distillate taste
[1:31] was often quite unlike the source wine.
[1:34] This is the origin story of XX being the shortening of an
[1:40] archaic English word which is derived from the Dutch meaning
[1:44] burnt wine. What am I talking about?
[1:47] Oregon Identify. XI will reveal the answer to
[1:50] this question the end of today's episode.
[1:53] In the meantime, you can try and guess what the answer is and
[1:56] wait till the end to find out if you were right.
[2:00] Let's move on to our regular round of quizzing.
[2:03] Aditya, why don't you start us off for this episode?
[2:05] Perfect 'cause Vineet. Today I'm debuting a new type of
[2:10] question. This is a question that is
[2:13] inspired by a podcast, and that will be my podcast
[2:16] recommendation at the end. But the type of question is I'm
[2:20] going to name important events in history, tell me which year
[2:24] this happened in. So I'm just going to keep
[2:25] listing them at any point of time you figure it out.
[2:28] Which year am I talking about? Stop me and tell me.
[2:32] This is the worst part of history.
[2:33] Like I love history but memorizing dates is not my thing
[2:38] so you have quite easily picked my weak spot.
[2:42] I also hate doing that. But what is interesting is when
[2:45] you start thinking of various things happening in conjunction,
[2:48] it kind of narrows it down. And I'll be kind enough to you
[2:51] if you even get it within like a + 2 three years range.
[2:54] And I'm only doing like 20th century.
[2:56] So nothing like back in, I don't know, the dark ages or anything.
[3:01] So hopefully you should be able to get it.
[3:04] OK, let's start chronologically in this year.
[3:07] In January of this year, military coup in Uganda happened
[3:11] under Idi Amin. In February, NASDAQ was debuted
[3:18] for the first time. NASDAQ came to be for the first
[3:20] time in February of this year. In October, United Nations voted
[3:25] to expel the Chinese nationalist, rule Taiwan and
[3:29] admit the Communist People's Republic of Thai of China also.
[3:33] So these are just general world events.
[3:35] I'll give you something else from the world of pop culture.
[3:39] Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange came out in
[3:42] this year. Stairway to Heaven by Led
[3:46] Zeppelin was first played this year in March.
[3:50] In sport, we have a Joe Frazer ending Muhammad Ali's 31 fight
[3:56] winning streak at Madison Square Garden.
[3:59] So some very important events. I've skipped one event and that
[4:03] will probably be the giveaway, but given the events so far, can
[4:07] you make a educated guess as to which year this happened and all
[4:10] of these things happened? So you're giving me a buffer of
[4:14] ±2 year two to three years, right?
[4:16] Yes, yes. I'm going to say 1972.
[4:23] Oh, that is brilliant because it is 1971.
[4:25] Well done, Vineet. Oh, OK.
[4:27] All right. OK, solid, solid start to this
[4:30] question series that will hopefully continue in the future
[4:34] episodes. The one that I skipped that I
[4:36] think you might have given it away entirely.
[4:39] Bangladesh declared independence.
[4:42] From independence, yes. OK, Yeah.
[4:45] The 1971 Bangladesh declares independence of Pakistan.
[4:49] You would have gotten that immediately.
[4:50] Well done, Vineet. Good job.
[4:52] OK, All right. So your question next.
[4:55] OK, So my question to you is his father, this was a monument that
[5:01] was supposed to be a temporary installation for the World Fair
[5:05] for 20 years, but it was ultimately never taken down.
[5:09] Since its construction, it's been repainted 18 times.
[5:14] When it was built, many eminent intellectuals of the day
[5:17] protested vehemently against it, calling it a giant, gigantic
[5:22] black smokestack that would ruin the beauty of the city.
[5:26] Which monument am I talking about?
[5:29] Gigantic black smokestack that doesn't fit the bill.
[5:34] Finding Which world fair did you say this was for?
[5:37] I did not say. I just said it's a world fair.
[5:39] If I give you the time and the time period, it'll be very easy
[5:43] for you. So I'm not going to, I'm not
[5:45] going to tell you that. OK so I believe this has
[5:48] happened a few times where things have been constructed for
[5:50] our world fair and they have stuck around beyond and but
[5:54] right now I have no clue. Especially the gigantic black
[5:56] smokestack is throwing me off entirely.
[5:59] So I might ask for a hint. Give me maybe location?
[6:02] Which country? Oh again, that's a giveaway.
[6:06] So I will have to say my clue would be as follows, that prior
[6:16] to its construction, many people did not believe it would be
[6:20] possible. They thought it would be
[6:21] impossible to construct. That fits the bill for most
[6:26] famous iconic landmarks. No, I have no clue.
[6:31] You'll have to tell me something else.
[6:33] OK, so I'll give you the name of the designers of the monument,
[6:37] and this is again a giveaway. So the designers of this
[6:40] monument were Emile Nougere and Maurice Kaklan.
[6:45] Oh, isn't this wait? Maurice Kaklan is famously Kalki
[6:53] Kaklan's forefather. She belongs to the Kaklan
[6:57] family, hence the name Kalki Kaklan who's an Indian actress
[7:00] for those who don't know. We have spoken about this and I
[7:06] I don't know why I feel like this is the Eiffel Tower, but
[7:09] then you didn't mention Eiffel so I'm a bit confused.
[7:13] Yes, so it is indeed the Eiffel Tower.
[7:18] So the design. The design of the Eiffel Tower
[7:21] is attributed to Maurice Cackler and Emil Nugere, 2 senior
[7:25] engineers working for the company.
[7:27] They establish small Eiffel, hence the name Eiffel Tower.
[7:31] The Eiffel Tower from the name of the company.
[7:33] It was envisioned after a discussion about a suitable
[7:36] centrepiece for the proposed 1889 Exposition Universal, a
[7:42] world fair to celebrate the Centennial of the French
[7:44] Revolution. That came out more Mexican than
[7:48] French. But then cello.
[7:50] We'll have to deal with my horrible accent today.
[7:52] The proposed tower had been a subject of controversy, drawing
[7:56] criticism from those who did not believe it was feasible and
[8:00] those who objected on artistic grounds.
[8:02] Prior to its construction, no structure had every had ever
[8:05] been constructed to a height of 300 meters or even 200 meters
[8:08] for that matter, and many people believed it would be impossible.
[8:13] A petition called Artists Against the Eiffel Tower was
[8:17] sent to the Minister of Works and Commissioner for Exposition
[8:20] Adolf Alfand, and it was published by Lehton on 14th
[8:25] February 1887. And this is what the letter
[8:28] read. I'm just reading you short
[8:30] excerpts from it. We writers, painters, sculptors,
[8:33] architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto
[8:36] untouched beauty of France, of Paris, protest with all our
[8:40] strengths, with all our indignation, in the name of
[8:43] slighted French taste, against the erection of this useless and
[8:49] monstrous Eiffel Tower. To bring our arguments home,
[8:52] Imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous star dominating Paris
[8:57] like a gigantic black smokestack crushing hundreds barbaric bulk.
[9:02] Notre Dame, the Tausan, Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome Live, even
[9:07] invalid, the Arc de Triomphe, and all of our humiliated
[9:11] monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream.
[9:14] And for 20 years we shall see, stretching like a blot of ink
[9:18] the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet
[9:23] metal. I just love that letter.
[9:26] Very interesting, very interesting.
[9:28] OK, so it where's the Eiffel Tower?
[9:31] Bang on. Good job buddy.
[9:33] Thank you. All right.
[9:34] OK, So moving from this to, I guess, the United States of
[9:41] America, I have a question for you, Vineet.
[9:45] There were seven brothers from Cassara de la Delicia in
[9:51] Northern Italy and their names were Giocondo, Frank, Rachel,
[9:57] Candido, Joseph, Chalindo, Valeriano, Valeriano.
[10:01] OK, something like that. close enough approximations over their
[10:05] actual pronunciations. Might be these guys immigrated
[10:10] to the US in 19 O 7. At least the first two brothers
[10:13] did and the rest followed soon thereafter.
[10:16] The immigration staff misspelled their last name.
[10:20] How is their last name remembered today?
[10:24] OK, I'm tempted to say Corleone, but I'm not guessing that's the
[10:28] answer. No, it isn't.
[10:31] It isn't. OK, misspelled their last name,
[10:35] Seven brothers. I'm guessing this has something
[10:38] to do with business. Yes it does.
[10:42] Seven brothers. Tell me the names of the
[10:44] brothers again. At least touch of the names once
[10:47] more. I doubt that's going to help,
[10:49] but I'll do it anyways. Giocondo, Frank Rochelle,
[10:54] Raquel. I don't know.
[10:55] Candido, Joseph Jalindo Valeriano.
[10:58] OK, and let me help you a bit more.
[11:03] These guys started a company and a lot of the family members
[11:07] immigrated to the US when the brothers won a contract to
[11:10] provide propellers to the US for World War One planes.
[11:15] Today the name of the company is their last name which was
[11:19] misspelled by the immigration officers back in 19 O seven in
[11:23] the USA. I'm tempted to say Boeing.
[11:27] No, no. So the company did provide
[11:31] propellers, but they no longer have anything to do with
[11:36] aviation. Wait, propellers?
[11:38] Is that part of their logo or something?
[11:41] No it isn't. OK, he said.
[11:46] I was going to think of Lockheed or something like that, Lockheed
[11:49] Martin, but obviously that's not the case because he said that's
[11:52] no longer with aviation. No, I need another clue.
[11:56] OK, so like I told you this happened in the beginning of the
[12:01] 20th century, but halfway through this century in 1948
[12:06] these guys created something to treat a family members
[12:10] rheumatoid arthritis and that is much closer to the product that
[12:17] today they are famous for and are synonymous with in fact.
[12:20] So rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammation, is an autoimmune
[12:23] inflammation of the joints, starting off with the small
[12:27] joints and then immigrating to the bigger joints like the knee.
[12:30] So if they created something for that, is it some kind of
[12:36] liniment or something? Some kind of ointment?
[12:40] No, I think something more for relief than a even a treatment
[12:45] or a cure. Like more of temporary relief, I
[12:48] guess you could call it. Yeah.
[12:50] So liniments usually do provide that.
[12:53] No. So today they won't be
[12:56] specifically or even in generally used by the medical
[12:59] community the products, but that's how it started.
[13:03] Wow, I'm drawing a blank completely for rheumatoid
[13:06] arthritis. No, I'll need another clue.
[13:09] So the last clue that I can give that will hopefully get you to
[13:12] the answer. If not, then I'll give you the
[13:13] last name that it originally was before it was misspelled.
[13:16] And that will probably give you the answer, definitely.
[13:18] So the clue that I'm going to give you was that this company's
[13:24] name is synonymous with the product that they make.
[13:27] To the point where people might not even realize that the word
[13:31] that they're using to refer to the product is actually the name
[13:34] of the brand and not the generic name for the product.
[13:37] Oh, that's the case for a lot of products like.
[13:41] Xerox. So for example Xerox?
[13:43] Yes, exactly. Xerox is the example that comes
[13:45] to mind first. An Italian sounding name.
[13:49] An Italian sounding name that's synonymous and it was originally
[13:54] created to provide relief for rheumatoid arthritis.
[13:58] Wow, this is going to turn out to be something so obvious and
[14:02] I'm having tunnel vision right now.
[14:04] OK. I'm going to give you one last
[14:07] crew which is related to the rheumatoid arthritis part.
[14:10] A full body hydrotherapy pump is what they came up with.
[14:16] A full body hydrotherapy pump to Oh, there's nothing to do with
[14:21] waterbeds or anything, right? Not waterbeds.
[14:24] No. Hydro the full body hydrotherapy
[14:27] pump. All right, Vineet, I'm going to
[14:30] give you the name that they originally had before it was
[14:33] butchered by the immigration officials, and they should give
[14:36] it to you. The name was Iacuzzi.
[14:39] Jacuzzi. Oh my God.
[14:43] Hydrotherapy. Yes, Now it makes sense.
[14:45] Jacuzzi. Oh, nice.
[14:48] Yeah, it is it Now that you tell me.
[14:50] It does sound vaguely Italian, but nice.
[14:56] And I can see how it would at least seem like give seem like
[15:00] it would give some relief, especially if it was hot water
[15:02] for rheumatoid arthritis. Fantastic question.
[15:05] Yeah, that is it came out of left field and knocked me out
[15:10] completely. Jacuzzi obviously when spelt
[15:15] with a capital I looks very close to a capital J, So
[15:18] somewhere along the way somebody messed up and that became
[15:21] Jacuzzi. So the Jacuzzi brothers started
[15:24] Jacuzzi, the company, initially they made propellers.
[15:28] Unfortunately, one of the brothers died in a plane crash
[15:31] and they exited the aviation industry and went into the yeah
[15:36] water pump business and eventually the Jacuzzi as we
[15:39] know it today came to be. Nice, Nice.
[15:42] It's like the company, the Swedish company Saab, they used
[15:45] to produce. So they used to manufacture
[15:47] fighter planes before they started making cars.
[15:49] So nice. OK, fantastic question.
[15:53] Yeah, I'm going to go to something slightly different, a
[15:58] little straightforward trivia. A bogey in golf is one and one
[16:05] over par, right? So in golf you have a for every
[16:10] hole. There are eighteen holes in golf
[16:12] in a full golf game, and for each hole there is a number of
[16:16] strokes. That is considered like a
[16:19] benchmark, right? So that is par.
[16:22] So if we end in the goal, the goal in golf is to get to the
[16:27] hole and sink the ball in the hole with the minimum number of
[16:32] strokes. So if it goes above the
[16:36] benchmark or the number par, then we call it as over par.
[16:40] And if it go, if the number of strokes is under that benchmark,
[16:43] then we call it as under par. Obviously getting it under par
[16:46] is much better. So a bogey is when you have one
[16:51] stroke over par. A birdie is one stroke under
[16:56] par. An eagle is 2 strokes under par.
[17:02] An albatross is 3 strokes under par.
[17:07] What name is used for four strokes under par?
[17:12] So whatever character in assuming that we are going with
[17:16] a bird or a. Yes, it is a.
[17:19] Bird on the slides. A big bird thing because as you
[17:22] know, an eagle, an albatross, there are like big, big birds.
[17:26] So this is also a big bird, but not in yellow and does not live
[17:29] on Sesame Street. OK, four strokes under par.
[17:36] A big bird, a vulture. Is it a vulture by any chance?
[17:42] It is a vulture but not a vulture.
[17:44] It is a type of vulture. A vulture is like a generic
[17:47] name. OK.
[17:50] It's like a wheelchair. Yeah, it is a wheelchair, but
[17:54] it's not also not the answer is also not a wheelchair.
[17:56] You see what I mean, right? No, I don't like how you assume
[18:01] I see what you mean. I don't at all see what you
[18:04] mean, but OK, so some sort of vulture esque bird man.
[18:10] I this is I'm not the right audience for this I need.
[18:17] OK, my clue for you would be to think of a 1975 Sydney Pollack
[18:26] political thriller starring Robert Redford.
[18:30] Yeah, definitely know what movie you're talking about.
[18:34] Oh, this is a this is a Seminole like a classic Robert Redford
[18:37] film speak Robert Redford to use the the current terminology.
[18:44] Yeah, no, I'm not a Robert Redford fan, so unfortunately I
[18:48] can't think of his best movies at the top of my head.
[18:51] But let's come back to the question itself.
[18:53] I'll ask you, does the bird have anything to do with the number
[18:56] four or something? Am I?
[18:58] Am I? Then I I don't.
[19:00] No, no, no, no, no. No, no.
[19:03] OK, no idea. No, you'll have to.
[19:06] Like, these are like really big birds.
[19:10] They have like huge wingspans, so anywhere between 2.7 to 3.2
[19:16] meters in fact. Yeah, you are publicly exposing
[19:22] how little I know about birds. No, I have no clue whatsoever.
[19:25] You'll have to give me the answer.
[19:27] OK, I'll give you one last clue. OK, so there are two specific
[19:33] species of this bird. It's an endangered type of bird
[19:39] and there are two very specific species, one found in the Andes
[19:44] and the second found in California.
[19:47] Oh, California. Is it a Condor?
[19:54] Condor, Yes. Yes, yes, it is the Condor.
[19:58] So the Condor is the name for two species of New World
[20:01] vultures. There are the species of the
[20:03] Andean vulture as to the Andean Condor and the California
[20:07] Condor. It is only second to the
[20:11] wandering albatross in wingspan, as I mentioned, huge wingspan,
[20:15] up to 3.2 meters in fact. And its name is derived from the
[20:22] Quechua language, which is an indigenous tribe language in
[20:25] Peru and it's called Kuntur in their language.
[20:29] And that's where we get the name Condor.
[20:31] And they are the largest flying land birds in the Western
[20:34] Hemisphere. And that is why not.
[20:36] That is why. And that is the name given to
[20:40] four under par, 4 strokes under par in golf.
[20:43] Keeping with the avian theme, you have birdie, eagle,
[20:45] albatross and then Condor. And the clue I'd given you with
[20:49] regards to Robert Redford is the movie 3 Days of the Condor.
[20:55] A fantastic political thriller. 70s political thriller.
[20:59] Sounds vaguely familiar, but no, wouldn't have cracked that with
[21:02] that clue. OK.
[21:06] The thing is its its a like the star.
[21:09] The book of the movie itself is really great.
[21:12] Robert Redford plays the CIA guy who goes to lunch, comes back,
[21:16] discovers that all his coworkers have been murdered and then he
[21:19] goes on the run and tries to avoid his own murder and to find
[21:22] out why somebody is out to kill him.
[21:24] A fun fact again, the movie is called 3 Days of the Condor, but
[21:28] the book on which it was based was called 6 Days of the Condor.
[21:33] I really don't know why they changed the title from Six Days
[21:35] to Three Days, but it's just fantastic.
[21:37] I think maybe it has to do, but I have not read the book, so
[21:40] maybe it's got to do with the time frame of the, you know, the
[21:44] action in the book and the movie.
[21:45] But yeah. They thought there was a
[21:48] potential for a sequel. The first three days in the
[21:50] first film, the next three days in the next film.
[21:56] OK. OK, Take the baton, Aditya.
[22:00] Vineet, this question is specifically for you.
[22:03] I have a feeling you'll crack it immediately though.
[22:07] I should not say that and then embarrass you on this.
[22:10] I'm going to hedge my bets and say no.
[22:14] No, I believe in you. I trust you, OK?
[22:17] Henry was born in 1827. He studied medicine and in 1853
[22:23] was appointed lecturer on anatomy at Saint George's
[22:27] Hospital Medical School in London.
[22:30] In 1855, he approached his colleague, also called Henry by
[22:34] the way, with an idea. This particular idea has been
[22:39] immortalized in pop culture today.
[22:44] OK, what idea did Henry come up with and shared with his
[22:50] colleague Henry as well? No clue dude.
[22:55] Henry and Henry. Oh wow, 1855 doctor.
[23:02] Lot of things kind of crystallized during that period,
[23:06] especially in medicine. But you said it's something
[23:09] that's like common in pop culture today.
[23:12] Pop culture, Yes. Wow.
[23:15] Oh, let's be more specific. A very famous TV show.
[23:19] Very famous TV show. Very famous TV show Henry.
[23:25] And you said Henry, right? If you had said Joseph Bell, I
[23:30] would have thought of Sherlock Holmes because Joseph Bell was
[23:33] the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
[23:36] He was also a doctor in Scotland.
[23:38] But also Sherlock Holmes wouldn't my first go to would
[23:43] not be TV show so. Obviously, Yeah, yeah.
[23:46] This this is specifically ATV show that is immortalized
[23:50] outside of the field of medicine.
[23:52] So it is popular in the field of medicine, but outside of the
[23:54] field of medicine in pop culture specifically.
[23:57] TV show I Know This. This is Henry Grey, Grey's
[24:00] Anatomy. Hey, there we go.
[24:02] I knew I trust you, Vineeth. I knew you'll crack this very
[24:06] easily. You are right.
[24:09] So here's the trivia that Vineeth has so brilliantly
[24:13] deducted. Grey's Anatomy is the name of a
[24:16] very famous book of human anatomy, first written by Henry
[24:20] Grey and illustrated by Henry Van Dyke Carter and published in
[24:25] London in 1858. It has obviously since then had
[24:29] multiple revised editions and the current edition, the 42nd
[24:33] one, came out in October 2020. It remains standard reference
[24:37] and is often considered the Doctor's Bible.
[24:40] So Vineet, firstly, do you have Grey's Anatomy with you?
[24:44] Yes. So I have two copies of the
[24:47] Grey's of Grey's Anatomy. One is an older edition which I
[24:51] had bought in 2004 when I was in medical school.
[24:53] And there was an actually an older version where which I had
[24:57] bought when I was in school because I always wanted to be a
[25:00] doctor. And there was this floating
[25:02] library ship called the Doulos which used to go all around the
[25:06] world and offer books, international books to, you
[25:09] know, place. So when it had docks, yes.
[25:12] So when the ship docked at the port of Bahrain, yeah, in
[25:15] Bahrain I had visited with my family and there was a, a
[25:19] facsimile copy of the original version of Grey's Anatomy with
[25:23] the original illustrations. So the current editions of
[25:28] Grey's Anatomy have New York computer generated and coloured
[25:31] illustrations. The original black and white
[25:33] hand drawn illustrations of Henry Van Dyke.
[25:35] I have a copy of that as well. So I do have two copies of
[25:38] Grey's Anatomy at home. Oh, OK.
[25:41] Well, so obviously that's a medical connection.
[25:44] And this, by the way, Henry Gray, The name is spelt Gray.
[25:48] And fans of the TV show, which goes by the same name, would
[25:52] know that that is GREY. And obviously it's a play on the
[25:56] name of the book, Grey's Anatomy, which also happens to
[26:00] be the last name of the lead character in this show, and that
[26:04] is Meredith Grey. Of course, Meredith Grey spells
[26:06] it to the GREY Vineet. Do you know this is very, very
[26:10] technical, but just to tickle your medical fancy since you are
[26:15] a medicine man. Do you know what the three most
[26:18] recent editions differed from than all the previous editions
[26:22] in one specific way, in one important aspect?
[26:26] I haven't seen any of the recent editions because I haven't
[26:29] frankly had to use Grey's Anatomy since my early days of
[26:33] medical school, and that was a good 20 years ago.
[26:35] So no, I wouldn't be able to really.
[26:38] What's really special about it? Maybe that's because they're a
[26:41] lot of textbooks have become like hybrid digital where a lot
[26:44] of the content is hosted online with 3D pictures and things like
[26:48] that. So they have done that in recent
[26:50] editions. But no, I was talking about a
[26:52] specific choice that they made in the way they present the
[26:55] information and this has nothing to do with digital or so on and
[26:58] so forth, but how it is grouped together.
[27:01] Oh no, I'm nothing springs to mind.
[27:05] OK, that's all right. I'll give you the answer.
[27:07] The three most recent editions differ from all previous
[27:09] editions in an important aspect. They present anatomical
[27:13] structures by the regional anatomy instead of describing
[27:18] all of the parts of, say, a certain what do we recall the
[27:24] system of the body together. So all parts of the skeletal
[27:27] system, all parts of the circulatory system, all part of
[27:29] the nervous system would be described together in the book.
[27:32] But in the last three versions, what they've done is they've
[27:34] decided to describe it by regional anatomy.
[27:36] So they might be describing the head specifically, or the torso,
[27:39] or the arms, the legs, or whatever, and so on and so
[27:41] forth. And they'll describe all of the
[27:43] parts in that part of the body, which I thought was a very small
[27:46] but interesting change that they took so long to change.
[27:49] And they thought about it for, I guess, decades before they
[27:52] decided to make that little switch.
[27:54] And then I can proudly say that us Indians got there first
[27:59] because the three-part textbook BD Chaurasia has an introduction
[28:03] to anatomy, which is you'll find on the desk of every Indian
[28:07] medical student has always been divided in by regional anatomy.
[28:13] So you have upper limb and torso, this thing what you call
[28:17] thorax. Then you have the abdomen, lower
[28:19] limbs and then head and neck. So they've been doing it.
[28:22] They just, they just came in late and decided to copy what we
[28:25] did, or at least what Charles. Henry Grey, please catch up.
[28:31] All right, OK. Worm food now.
[28:35] We need a chorus as anatomy TV show I guess.
[28:40] Oh yeah, that'll be fun. If they ever remake Grey's
[28:44] Anatomy on Sony Live, they can call it Chorus as Anatomy.
[28:48] Yeah, I would so watch that. Yeah, and one episode of Grey's
[28:52] Anatomy would be equivalent to five weekly episodes because
[28:56] after all the Zoom insurance and the background music and slow
[29:00] motion, you would be able to get maybe 5 minutes of content
[29:03] stretched into an entire episode.
[29:04] That's. True.
[29:06] That is true. OK.
[29:09] Vineet, your question? European sailors restocking on
[29:13] live foul for sea journeys used to visit a certain seaport in
[29:19] western Java in Indonesia. They found the small native
[29:24] breeds of chicken in this region to be useful and any such small
[29:30] poultry came to be known by the name of the seaport.
[29:34] Today, the name of the seaport is quite often heard in boxing
[29:40] and in molecular biology. So I want you to tell me what
[29:44] the name of this seaport in Java is.
[29:48] Interesting. Molecular biology, boxing.
[29:51] And you said it had something to do with the the animals?
[29:56] Yeah, so the poultry, so European sailors, they used to
[29:59] go on these long sailor, you know, journeys.
[30:02] Obviously it was the age of exploration.
[30:04] So they used to go to certain seaports to restock their
[30:09] provisions. So one of the places they
[30:11] visited were used to visit was this seaport in Java, and there
[30:16] were these really small chickens.
[30:19] It was a native breed of chickens, the poultry that was
[30:22] there in that particular region, which they found to be quite
[30:24] tasty and a good thing to restock with.
[30:27] Soon they started calling this poultry by the name of the
[30:30] seaport. Is that name still used?
[30:34] Yes, but nobody kind of uses, I mean like it's not something you
[30:37] would have heard in the context of the chicken itself.
[30:40] You would have heard the name on the context of boxing.
[30:44] And if you were somebody like me, you might have heard it in
[30:46] molecular biology. So I would suggest you focus on
[30:50] boxing. Is it a technical term in
[30:52] boxing? Semi technical, I mean like it's
[30:55] an absolute thing that's there. It's part of their definitions
[31:01] of boxing and things like that. Like if you look at the glossary
[31:04] of boxing terms you'll definitely find it.
[31:06] OK, so wow, no, I have no clue. Is it like a type of punch or a
[31:12] jab or something like that? No.
[31:13] No no no, not to do with the actual boxing match itself.
[31:18] Think pre match or matchups. Oh oh oh, is it like the weight
[31:24] categories? Which one?
[31:26] So there is a bubble weight, there is featherweight,
[31:30] everything of the more unusual. Lightweight, heavyweight, super
[31:35] heavyweight. Yeah.
[31:36] So you you are in the right region, but you have to tell me
[31:39] which one specifically, at least in your memory.
[31:41] Sounds like a Javan Seaport. Interesting.
[31:46] I can't think of anything which sounds like a seaport.
[31:48] They all make sense in terms of like weight.
[31:51] Yeah, like featherweight and lightweight and heavyweight.
[31:54] So. I the way I found this trivia
[31:56] was I was a little puzzled about the origin of this particular
[31:58] weight class. So then I had to kind of, you
[32:01] know, do a reverse search and find the origin.
[32:04] Interesting. OK.
[32:06] I'll tell you the weight class itself, so maybe that will help.
[32:09] So for boxing this range is 115 to 118 lbs or that will be 15.
[32:17] That's like 2253.5 KG. You know what?
[32:21] I think I've heard of this now that now that you're putting it
[32:24] in the context of Javan Port, an Indonesian port, it feels very
[32:29] vaguely familiar. But now I'm drawing a blank,
[32:34] though. It's like right there at the
[32:35] back of my head. OK, this, let me put it this
[32:39] way. This is one of the weight
[32:41] classes, apart from the heavyweight weight classes, that
[32:44] Manny Paco has never boxed in. He's boxed in like 10 different
[32:48] weight classes or something. Now this is one in which he is
[32:50] never boxed in because this is quite a small weight, as I
[32:54] mentioned, 52.2 KG to 53.5 KG. No, I know you have to tell me.
[32:59] I I get, I like it's there, but it's not coming to the front of
[33:03] the head. So please put me on my what is
[33:05] it? OK, so the answer is Bantam
[33:07] weight. The weight class is called
[33:09] Bantam weight and the island of the seaport is called Bantam.
[33:14] Bantam chicken. Bantam chicken.
[33:16] I know this. Yes, of course.
[33:18] Oh, yes, You grew up. You were in Singapore.
[33:20] You might have heard of Bantam chicken.
[33:22] Yeah. I have heard of Bantam chicken,
[33:26] that makes a lot of sense. It's used in molecular biology
[33:28] as well. Yes, there is a type of micro
[33:32] RNA which we call as a Bantam micro RNA as I mentioned, that's
[33:36] not going to be useful for you. Yeah.
[33:38] Come on. You really misled me with that
[33:41] one. That was absolutely 0 used to
[33:43] be. OK, your turn.
[33:48] Dot DD is the top level domain for which country?
[33:53] Dot double D you mean is top level domain for which country?
[34:02] Vineet, sometimes I can't believe that you are 30 years
[34:08] and older. See.
[34:11] Yeah, I'm even. What?
[34:13] How do I put this? Eternally immature?
[34:20] I might. Grow older, but I refuse to grow
[34:22] up. True, true.
[34:27] DD you know, this is one of those questions people always
[34:32] put, as you know, they put these questions as OK, think of this
[34:36] letter, Think of a country name starting with D and take the
[34:40] last letter of that country and think of an animal.
[34:43] And then people always say Denmark and they always say
[34:45] kangaroo. So I'm just trying to remember
[34:48] which other countries are starting with DI can think of
[34:53] the Dominican Republic. I can think of Denmark.
[34:58] If you think of the English names, you won't get them.
[35:01] Oh OK, so then this is a regional name which has been
[35:05] transliterated into English. OK, clue please.
[35:11] The country no longer exists. The country no longer exists.
[35:18] Is this something from Yugoslavia or something?
[35:20] No. So we're talking about Internet
[35:23] domains, right? Yes.
[35:26] So let me see which countries broke up post 9192.
[35:32] You have Ethiopia which broke up into Ethiopia and Eritrea.
[35:37] You had Yugoslavia which broke up but you told me its one of
[35:41] the Yugoslavian countries. You had E Timor but then that's
[35:48] E. Is it East Timor?
[35:50] No. No, I said its not daily right?
[35:53] So then which are the countries have broken up or become
[35:57] nonexistent in? Broken up is not the right word
[36:03] for this context. OK, no, at least cease to exist.
[36:07] Yeah. Cease to exist, 90s.
[36:13] OK, here's the last hint, and this should probably get you
[36:16] there. Countries cease to exist, yes,
[36:18] of course, when they break up, but they also cease to exist in
[36:21] another scenario, in another case.
[36:24] When they are renamed, no, but they don't cease to exist.
[36:29] And you are at the right time frame.
[36:31] Well, it has to be the mid to late 90s because you're talking
[36:33] about the origin of the Internet, which was in the early
[36:38] 90s sun and whatnot. Well, mid to late 90s is a bit
[36:43] late, so I would say early 90s. But did we have like domains at
[36:47] that point of time? Apparently.
[36:50] Is this something to do with Rwanda or the Congo?
[36:54] No, no, Remember that DD would be the language in itself that
[37:01] the countries referred to. What what?
[37:03] What languages the countries referred to?
[37:07] I need more clues. OK, early 90s country that is in
[37:14] its country in its own language would be referred to with the
[37:21] name that starts with D and it did not break apart when it
[37:26] ceased to exist, instead it. Your Deutschland.
[37:31] Yes, it is East Germany. Dot DD was East Germany's top
[37:35] level domain. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[37:38] Hold, hold, stop the presses. The Berlin Wall came down in 89,
[37:43] right? So the unification must have
[37:47] happened in 90 or 91. That's right.
[37:50] But didn't Tim Berners Lee start the Internet in 91?
[37:55] Well, technically the Internet did exist before 91 also.
[37:59] Yeah, but they didn't have like domains, right?
[38:01] So there's https://somesomethingsomething.com.
[38:04] That was Tim Bernard Lee, you know, WWW.
[38:07] So the domain thing came after that, right?
[38:10] OK, so the first registered and here's the technical the country
[38:14] code top level domain CCTLD. The first registered CCTLD was
[38:18] dot US, which which was registered in 1985 and
[38:25] seriously, Yeah, yeah. And later that
[38:29] yearwealsohad.uk.ilandby1986wehadau.d.fi.fr dot IS dot JP dot KR dot NL dot
[38:39] SE. OK, just out of curiosity, any
[38:42] idea when India gotit.in? It was before the 90s as well.
[38:47] It was 1989. Now that is mind blowing.
[38:54] I don't think India had probably computers at least.
[38:57] OK. I mean like in research
[38:58] institutes and certain offices and all private institutions,
[39:01] yes. But wow.
[39:03] OK OK. This was a complete TIL.
[39:05] This was a complete TIL. Before most Indians would have
[39:09] probably even seen a computer. Not I had existed, Yeah.
[39:14] Nice one. You really caught me with that
[39:16] one because I was thinking top level domains means it's after
[39:21] the posters Internet. So I was racking my brain for
[39:23] 80s or 90s geographical and geopolitical trivia.
[39:28] I did not even think of the late 80s.
[39:30] OK, nice one. My turn.
[39:33] Designed by Phil Tippett, X was inspired by the anatomy of
[39:37] several animal species. His body structure was based on
[39:41] analyte worms. His head was modeled after that
[39:45] of a snake. His skin was given moist
[39:49] amphibian qualities. X is portrayed by a one ton
[39:54] puppet that took three months and half $1,000,000 to
[39:59] construct. While filming the movie, the
[40:02] puppet had to have its own makeup artist.
[40:05] The puppet required 3 puppeteers to operate, making it one of the
[40:09] largest ever used in a motion picture. 1 puppeteer operated
[40:13] the right arm and mouth. And read the characters English
[40:17] dialogue while another controlled the left arm, head
[40:21] and tongue. Mike Edmonds, the shortest of
[40:24] the three, was responsible for the moment of X's tail.
[40:28] Identify X. You said English dialogue.
[40:34] Yeah, this is obviously a puppet used in an English movie.
[40:38] That's a given. OK.
[40:40] It's a one ton puppet. Yeah, because the size made me
[40:44] think, was it like some older version of like Godzilla?
[40:48] Because he used to have miniaturized versions of that.
[40:51] Yeah, this is not a Toho film. I know that the alien costume
[40:55] was donned by a person. Yeah, but that was one person.
[40:58] This is like three people. Yeah, it was.
[41:00] Huge. And three puppeteers, not not
[41:04] people inside a costume. So and a one ton that's heavy.
[41:08] So I'm trying to think of something that would be that
[41:10] heavy. You said snake, right?
[41:12] Its head was like a snake. Modeled after that of a snake.
[41:17] It doesn't look exactly like a snake, but they took inspiration
[41:19] from a snake. Is it?
[41:23] I don't know, I think I have the answer.
[41:24] Is it Java? The Hut.
[41:26] Yes, it is Java the Hut from Star Wars.
[41:31] The surprising part was they took such a lot of effort to do
[41:34] this. But if you watch the current,
[41:37] like if you are somebody who's not watched the originals and
[41:40] you're watching Star Wars for the first time in the late 90s
[41:44] or the 2000s or twenty 10s or the twenty 20s, you would not
[41:47] see this puppet because in the 1997 remastered versions, George
[41:53] Lucas replaced it with CGI. Oh, no way, did he?
[41:59] Yeah. Oh man, it has.
[42:00] Been controversy at the time. Lucas, come on, hand shot first.
[42:05] Always. Jabba the Hunter.
[42:09] Yeah. So so that's.
[42:12] Interesting, I actually realised that I'm watching the remastered
[42:16] version and that annoyed me and I went and watched the original
[42:18] one when I saw the end of the sixth film, the original
[42:22] trilogy's end and Anak and Return of the Jedi.
[42:28] Return of the Jedi. The force ghosts.
[42:31] The force ghosts. There's only one force ghost in
[42:33] that, the original. Exactly.
[42:36] Exactly. Because it was Anakin's ghost.
[42:38] And I was like, that doesn't make any sense.
[42:40] How, how, how did he put Arikins goes to the film?
[42:42] And of course, then I realized. Only Sir Alec Guinness is Obi
[42:46] Wan Kenobi. I think when they remastered it
[42:49] they added Anakin and Qui Gon as well.
[42:53] I thought Yoda, they added. I'm forgetting but OK.
[42:55] They added Yoda or Qui Gon? One of the two, yeah.
[42:58] Yeah, so and then I was like, oh wait, this doesn't make any
[43:01] sense. And then I realized I'm watching
[43:02] the real bastard version. And then I made the point to go
[43:05] watch the originals and my life is better for it.
[43:08] Yeah, the originals have a particular charm to it.
[43:11] Absolutely. OK, so I think it's time to wind
[43:16] up. There was the audience question
[43:18] that I had asked at the beginning of today's episode.
[43:21] So the question was as follows. Initially, wine was distilled as
[43:24] a preservation method and to make it easier for transport.
[43:28] It is thought it is also done to lessen tax, which was assessed
[43:31] by volume. The intent was to add the water
[43:34] removed by distillation back to it shortly before consumption.
[43:38] However, they discovered that after being stored in wooden
[43:41] casks, the resulting product of distillate was much improved
[43:45] over the original spirit. Which is why, in addition to
[43:49] removing water, the distillation process led to the frag
[43:51] formation and decomposition of numerous aromatic compounds,
[43:55] fundamentally altering the distillate composition from its
[43:58] source. Non volatile substances such as
[44:00] pigments, sugars and salts remained behind in the still.
[44:04] As a result. The distillates taste.
[44:06] The distillates taste was often quite unlike the sauce wine.
[44:11] This is the origin story of X which is a shortening of an
[44:15] archaic English word which was derived from the Dutch meaning
[44:19] burnt wine. So what am I talking about?
[44:22] What is? XI believe if the audience
[44:26] hasn't corrected yet, the answer is Brandy.
[44:31] Yes, it is. This is the origin of Brandy.
[44:34] Brandy was nothing but distilled wine, made it more potent and
[44:37] then stored in casts and then became this completely different
[44:40] thing altogether. Yeah.
[44:43] Pretty cool. Well, well, correct, yes.
[44:46] So what is your pop culture recommendation for this week?
[44:51] So my pop culture recommendation, as I mentioned
[44:53] at the beginning of this episode, which was the
[44:55] inspiration for the question where I listed down important
[44:59] events in history that have happened in the same year and we
[45:02] need to crack that very easily, was inspired by this podcast
[45:05] called One year. And the latest season covered
[45:09] one year 1990. And they have done multiple such
[45:13] seasons. And in each season, they pick an
[45:16] interesting and important year in history and all the
[45:19] interesting and important events that happened in that one year
[45:22] in different episodes of that season.
[45:24] So one year is my podcast recommendation, my pop culture
[45:27] recommendation for this week. Fantastic.
[45:31] I will give it a listen. I'll be putting it on my To Do
[45:35] List or to hear list, especially when I'm doing my daily commute.
[45:38] So my pop culture recommendation is to do with a series of
[45:46] detective novels written by an author called Tony Parsons.
[45:50] It's based on the all these novels have a common character,
[45:53] the lead character by the name of DC, that's Detective
[45:56] Constable Max Wolf. I found these very, very
[46:01] compelling and very well done. And it's quite a change from my
[46:07] usual fare where it's usually serial killers and FBI agents
[46:11] and DEA agents and ATF agents. We actually have the
[46:14] Metropolitan Police. So what's the added advantage is
[46:17] they don't carry guns. So this guy gets knocked around
[46:19] a lot and he has the most adorable little daughter who's
[46:26] also a very endearing character in the series of books.
[46:29] I would encourage all of you to go and read Tony Parsons, DC Max
[46:34] Wolf series of books. My second recommendation is a
[46:38] complete no brain. Just watch it to have fun.
[46:44] It's not serious comedy. I mean, like I know that's an
[46:47] oxymoron, but it's not like comedy that's very highbrow or
[46:50] anything. It's just very silly.
[46:52] It's one of those things that will just help you pass the
[46:54] time. And I really, really loved the
[46:56] name that they gave it. So it's a semi investigation
[47:01] series. It's about a younger son who is
[47:05] API who's lost his license and is hired as an investigator by
[47:10] his mother for her law firm. And so this son and mother have
[47:15] to work together and they are basically like milk and wine,
[47:21] completely two different characters and their conflicts
[47:24] is just a lot of fun. Again, as I mentioned, it's not
[47:27] going to be a classic. Maybe 10 years from now nobody's
[47:29] going to remember it. But I still say that it's worth
[47:32] a watch. There are two seasons available.
[47:34] The name of the show is So Help Me Todd, which I really love the
[47:39] name Todd being the main character.
[47:42] I think it's available on Geo Cinema.
[47:44] Go catch it on Geo Cinema and Tony Parsons series of books.
[47:48] It's available on Amazon, so go read that as well.
[47:51] So that's all the time we have for today's episode.
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