# Episode 027 - Dogs, Moustaches & Nuclear Weapons

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 6 Jul 2023, 51 min.

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Do you know which "ideal Japanese citizen" born in 1923 was the subject of 3 movies in 3 different languages? Do you know what infamous fashion choice of a 20th century historical figure was necessitated by the use of gas masks in World War I? Do you know which country which currently does not have any nuclear weapons, once had the 3rd largest stockpile in the world? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to Are you Quizzing Me? I'm Maneet Nayar with my cohost,
[0:05] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia pod
[0:07] question. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:13] Pet skin Quizzing. And we're back for episode #27.
[0:21] But before we start with today's proceedings, there's the small
[0:23] matter of the audience question for this week.
[0:27] The question for you. Listeners is sandwiches,
[0:31] bechamel sauce, beef stroganoff, nachos, Earl Grey tea,
[0:37] Pattenberg cake pizza, Margareta and Beef Wellington.
[0:42] What do these all have in common?
[0:45] They tuned to the end of the episode to find out.
[0:48] Now going back to our oldest tradition on this podcast, we
[0:51] have a question from Aditya from last week that we have to listen
[0:55] to the answer to, or rather suffer through the answer to.
[0:58] We will put your misery very quickly, Vineet.
[1:01] So the question last week was just as in a helicopter there is
[1:05] a Jesus nut which is the Hail Mary, which is what you rely on
[1:10] when there is nothing else left, no other hope left.
[1:13] I asked what would you do when there is no hope left in a in an
[1:17] aeroplane? And this is going to be a joke
[1:21] in Hindi, but I will try to translate it as well.
[1:24] Viman me Chardwar rotehei. Dhwagi kedwar or dopiche kedwar
[1:29] or Kohibi Dhwar nakule, then you rely upon Haridwar and that's
[1:36] ladies and gentlemen of the Hindi speaking community was my
[1:41] joke for the day and for anybody who doesn't speak Hindi.
[1:43] Haridwar is actually a religious place and and some place where
[1:47] people go, especially when they've lost someone dear to
[1:50] them to pay their respects. So I guess that's what I'm
[1:54] saying. When you have no Dwars left, no
[1:56] doors left, you go to Haridwar. Let's move on very quickly.
[2:00] Pass that joke. Let's pretend that the pain we
[2:03] are. So let's let's run, let's run.
[2:06] Let's get on a plane and get away from that joke.
[2:08] I Aditya, it's your turn this week to start off the
[2:10] proceedings already. Which country, Once Upon a time
[2:16] had the third largest inventory of nuclear weapons in the world?
[2:21] And today? As none, so they went from being
[2:24] the third largest 0. The OK, that's the obvious
[2:29] suspects for the number one and #2 are obviously the US and the
[2:32] USSR, the Soviet Russia. Given that your question says
[2:40] that this these people, these but this particular country does
[2:43] not have any nuclear weapons now leads me to suspect it's not one
[2:47] of the other suspects that I would think of something like
[2:49] Israel or. Some of the other countries,
[2:52] which officially don't have any programs, but I'm fairly sure
[2:55] that they they do have nuclear weapons.
[2:57] I'm going to guess that this is going to be one of the former
[3:01] Soviet Socialist Republics. I I can't even, I don't even
[3:07] know what to say at this point. I feel like I come up with
[3:10] questions and I think of the hints that I would give and then
[3:14] you just don't don't need any of it you.
[3:16] I feel like next time we're just going to predict my questions
[3:18] before I even say that. Complete my questions for me.
[3:23] You're very much on the right track.
[3:24] You're on the right track. Yeah, but but there are so, so
[3:27] it's one of the stands I'm my first guess is going to be
[3:30] Uzbekistan because of the. OK.
[3:33] So no it's a Baikonur is in Uzbekistan right.
[3:36] That was their space program that's why I guess that first.
[3:40] Sure, but no. It's not AS because it's not
[3:43] Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan. Was it a part of that?
[3:48] No, right? I'm not sure.
[3:49] Not Kazakhstan either. Belarus.
[3:53] Okay. So let me help you a little bit.
[3:54] So you were obviously on the right track.
[3:58] Yeah. The only hint that I would give
[4:00] at this point is that it's ironic that they gave up all of
[4:05] their nuclear. It's Ukraine.
[4:07] It's Ukraine. It's Ukraine.
[4:10] I thought Ukraine first, but then I wasn't completely sure.
[4:14] I was. I think I was confusing Ukraine
[4:16] with Poland at that point. I was like, was it part of the
[4:18] USSR? Was not part of the USSR?
[4:20] So I was having a Yeah, OK, got it, Ukraine.
[4:24] Ukraine was very much a part of USSR.
[4:26] Ukraine was where more than 3000 nuclear warheads were stored
[4:33] right around the time of the USSR splitting up.
[4:37] And so when USSR did split up and Ukraine became an
[4:40] independent country, they were the third largest.
[4:44] In terms of nuclear arms in the world country to possess nuclear
[4:48] arms after EU, after Russia and the United States of America.
[4:52] Interestingly enough they did sign the Non Proliferation
[4:55] Treaty which meant that they gave up their nuclear weapons
[4:58] and it was under the condition that their boundaries would be
[5:02] respected. And I guess people have very
[5:04] short term memories, especially certain Russian autocrats.
[5:11] Leaders, yeah, we're not going there, we're not going there.
[5:14] The last thing you want us to be in the targets of Russian
[5:16] hackers. So yes, no.
[5:20] But the interesting fact now that you mentioned the nuclear
[5:23] non proliferation treaty if again you may have to factor
[5:28] this, but if I remember correctly, do you know what
[5:32] particular episode or what particular event?
[5:36] Prompted the countries to, you know, start thinking of a
[5:40] nuclear non proliferation treaty.
[5:42] I would imagine I was first going to say Cuban Missile
[5:45] Crisis, but no, that does not make sense.
[5:47] I would say one of the events where, and I know there have
[5:49] been a few where accidentally there was some reading which
[5:55] went wrong in their in their radars and whatnot.
[5:59] And they were going to accidentally launch a nuclear
[6:01] strike on their enemy. I think it was either the US or
[6:04] Russia and somebody who was right at the forefront that
[6:08] soldier or general or whoever it was, they decided not to, even
[6:11] though they've gotten orders to. I'm assuming it's one of those
[6:14] instances. Actually, no.
[6:16] Again, as I mentioned, this is just a vague memory I have, but
[6:19] if I remember correctly, it was India.
[6:22] So India's explosion, a test explosion of an atomic bomb at
[6:26] Pokhran under. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was
[6:30] one of the one of the fueling factors towards the West
[6:34] deciding enough is enough. We need a a non Proliferation
[6:37] Treaty, something they're very good at.
[6:39] You know, they start the race and then when somebody starts to
[6:42] catch up, they're like no, no, no, no more racing, no more
[6:44] racing. That is rude.
[6:46] They were all happy doing their explosions all over, beginning
[6:50] at all. And just because we chose Pokran
[6:52] and we decided to do it now no more.
[6:54] Oh, it's not cool anymore. Wow, Rude.
[6:57] US. Your turn beneath.
[7:00] So let's go from nuclear weapons to chemical weapons.
[7:03] Although World War Two so saw no British mustard gas attacks
[7:08] World War One date. Thus respiratory masks were
[7:11] introduced in response to this kind of chemical weapons.
[7:16] A certain fact often questioned, was discovered through the
[7:20] account of 1 Alexander Moritz Free, a young medical assistant
[7:25] at the Bavarian Infantry Division.
[7:28] During World War 1A, pale, tall man tumbled down into the cellar
[7:33] after the first shells of the daily evening attacks had begun
[7:37] to fall, fear and rage glowing at his eyes.
[7:41] At that time he looked tall because he was so thin.
[7:45] I'm leaving out the rest of the quote.
[7:48] OK, now what I want you to understand is that these masks
[7:53] prohibited certain kinds of. Facial adornments and facial
[7:58] hair. But this was the reason behind
[8:01] what particular fashion followed by what particular individual.
[8:06] And I made it extremely vague. So let me just recap it for you.
[8:10] During World War One, chemical weapons were introduced.
[8:12] Mustard gas, you had to wear respirators, right?
[8:16] So there is this very famous individual with a very famous
[8:20] kind of fashion. Which we came to know was due to
[8:25] the use of these respiratory masks during World War One, and
[8:29] what I read to you was one of the quotes from that person's
[8:32] account. My question is, who's the
[8:35] individual and what's the fashion choice?
[8:38] So the person being spoken of is not the gentleman in question.
[8:43] The person being spoken of is the person whose fashion choice
[8:47] I'm asking about. OK, not the person who's doing
[8:50] this speaking. No, no, no.
[8:52] But we know this from this person's account like Alexander
[8:55] Moritz way. He's the one doing the speaking.
[8:57] It's his quote that I read. We know about this because of
[9:02] this person's account, that this person's fashion choice was
[9:06] because of the masks used during World War One for.
[9:12] So when you say World War One, I am tempted to say Hitler and his
[9:17] mustache, but you also described the person as being tall.
[9:21] Which Hitler decidedly was not. I don't think Hitler was very
[9:26] short, because the answer is Hitler.
[9:29] You are right. It is Hitler.
[9:31] And really the entire quote, Yeah.
[9:33] A pale, tall man tumbled into the cellar after the first
[9:36] shells of the daily evening attacks had begun to fall, fear
[9:39] and rage glowing in his eyes. At that time.
[9:42] He looked tall because he was so thin.
[9:44] A full mustache which had to be trimmed later because of the new
[9:48] gas gas mask. Covered the ugly slit of his
[9:52] mouth. I see so.
[9:54] And look from that. Because he was.
[9:56] Yes, that's part of the court. So because we now know that his
[10:02] particular mustache style was because he had to wear the gas
[10:07] masks and before that he had a much longer mustache, the people
[10:12] always wondered as to why Hitler wore those wore that
[10:15] particularly ugly style of mustache.
[10:18] It was survival which prompted it to do it first.
[10:21] Ohh, but that man used survival to justify a lot worse things
[10:26] than just a weird mustache. Very true.
[10:30] Very. Just just Hitler things.
[10:34] Okay. So since we're talking about the
[10:37] early 19th century, wow, I love how our segues are going so
[10:40] smoothly today. 20th century, early I would speak good.
[10:48] I was Speaking of the early 20th century.
[10:51] I just went. No, I am also Speaking of the
[10:52] early twenty 20th century. I just misspoke.
[10:56] Yes, misspoke. Yeah.
[10:58] So technically the segue works since we are talking about the
[11:01] early 20th century. Here's my question from around
[11:05] the same time period. OK.
[11:08] This year is going to be 100 years since X was born.
[11:14] X has been described as quote. Ideal Japanese citizen and also
[11:20] quote having unquestioning devotion.
[11:24] There have been 3 movies made, a Japanese version in 1987, an
[11:30] English version in 2009 and also a Chinese version recently.
[11:35] Who is this ex that I speak of? Ideal Japanese citizen correct
[11:41] and 100 years ago as in 1923 then.
[11:45] November 1923. Is when X was born.
[11:49] So OK 100 years since he was born in this November.
[11:55] You know, I wouldn't be surprised if there are many
[11:58] people who fit that field, because Japanese people have
[12:01] notoriously long lived. A lot of them live above the age
[12:04] of 100, but I don't think that many of them have movies named
[12:07] after them. Let me clarify.
[12:09] This person is not alive anymore.
[12:12] OK, let me repeat that. Let me repeat that.
[12:14] Let me clarify. X is not alive anymore.
[12:18] I'm guessing it's a fictional character then, But then is it a
[12:22] fictional character? Can you give me that or do I
[12:23] have to keep guessing on that? No, it's not a fictional
[12:27] character. OK, and a movie was made.
[12:32] A Japanese movie followed by an English in one in 2009.
[12:37] Yes, and followed by a Chinese one.
[12:40] Yes. But that's really surprising
[12:42] because China and Japan do not get along, historically and
[12:45] otherwise as well. And somebody born in 1923 would
[12:49] have been born right in the middle of Chinese Japanese
[12:53] hostilities during the 1930s. Is it one of those survivors of
[12:58] both atom bombs? I forgot if there are many of
[13:01] them, but I I I is it? Am I anywhere close?
[13:06] No. No.
[13:08] And when was the Japanese movie released the Japanese?
[13:11] Movie. The Japanese movie was released
[13:13] in 1987, the English one in 2009.
[13:16] And the Chinese one was released in 2023.
[13:19] OK, I'm going to need some other clue.
[13:22] Of course. There is a very famous statue
[13:24] devoted to X. Wait, describe the person again.
[13:29] Ideal Japanese ideal. Japanese citizen unquestioning
[13:34] devotion. OK.
[13:36] I will give you one more hint. The Chinese tagline for the
[13:39] movie is translated to. I will wait for you no matter
[13:43] how long it takes. Ohh, yes, this is that.
[13:47] This is the dog. What's?
[13:49] No, no, not Hibachi. No.
[13:51] What? This is the Richard Gere movie,
[13:53] right? No.
[13:54] No. What is this?
[13:55] No, wait, Hachi. No Hochi.
[13:58] No. I'm sorry.
[13:58] I'm pushing this. OK?
[14:00] I'm gonna get hate made from people now.
[14:02] I would no, I would have corrected you earlier, except I
[14:04] was just laughing so hard at. Nobody.
[14:10] You know what I'm talking about, right?
[14:13] You I can't fault you also because you got the 1st letter
[14:15] right. It's Hachiko.
[14:17] Hachiko. And that's the name.
[14:20] This is the dog who used to wait for his master after he passed
[14:23] away at the railway station or something, right?
[14:25] That's right. That's right.
[14:27] And Hibachi is, by the way, a heating device.
[14:31] It's a grill is used. In cooking, so it's.
[14:35] Just the worst. Possible connection of brain
[14:40] could have made hibachi. Oh boy.
[14:47] It's like just naming a dog tandoor.
[14:49] Like it just making things really worse for the dog.
[14:54] OK, yes. No.
[14:55] But let me let me just clarify and very well done.
[14:59] You got it pretty quickly. I thought I would have to give
[15:01] you more hints. Hachiko is the name of the dog.
[15:04] There are multiple movies made, a Japanese one.
[15:07] You were right, it's a Richard Gay movie in 2009.
[15:10] Yeah, and there was a recent Chinese film as well.
[15:13] And for the descriptions by the way of this of Hachiko include
[15:19] loyal, reliable, obedient to a master, understanding without
[15:24] relying upon rationality, their place in the larger scheme of
[15:28] things, Hachiko, for anybody who might not know, is this famous
[15:31] story of a dog. Who once their owner died, still
[15:36] went and waited for them at the same train station where they
[15:39] used to come while they were alive every day nine years after
[15:44] that person passed away. So for nine years the dog still
[15:48] went back to that same station and waited.
[15:50] And now at that station there is a very famous statue of this dog
[15:54] because which I have seen by the way and it's a very cute statue
[15:57] and I imagine the dog was very cute as well, so.
[16:00] OK, that was a great question. You you really had me going
[16:05] there with that, with my mind was going in all different
[16:07] directions. Until you know the last clue,
[16:11] let me just shift to something a little more related to business.
[16:16] X is a model village on the South side of Birmingham,
[16:19] England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury
[16:22] family and chocolate. 120 acres of land was bought by George
[16:26] Cadbury, on which a model village was built.
[16:29] Designed by resident architect William Alexander Harvey, the
[16:33] houses were traditionally designed, but with large gardens
[16:36] and modern interiors. These were for the employees who
[16:39] worked in the Cadbury factory located there, as Cadbury
[16:42] himself was a Quaker. No public houses or pubs were
[16:46] ever built in X. The district surrounding the
[16:49] factory has been dry for 100 years or more, with no alcohol
[16:53] being sold in pubs, bars or shops, and with residents
[16:56] constantly fighting to maintain this.
[16:59] Name the town X. Interesting.
[17:03] So related to the Cadbury factory, no public buildings you
[17:08] mentioned and no alcohol. No.
[17:10] So basically, public houses are publicans, which are called
[17:12] pubs. Basically.
[17:14] That's where pubs come from. Okay.
[17:17] All right. Wow.
[17:17] New fact that I did not know. Okay.
[17:20] Great. So no pubs and no alcohol.
[17:24] And. But there were houses for people
[17:26] to live, there were schools and other things.
[17:28] Basically everything. The houses sounded, and the
[17:30] houses sounded kind of fancy. You said something with the
[17:32] glass. Yes, they were.
[17:34] They were, yeah. They were designed by architect
[17:37] William Alexander Harvey. Traditional designs, but with
[17:40] large gardens and modern interiors.
[17:42] Very progressive for the time. Which time frame are we talking
[17:46] about? Let's say this was in the
[17:49] century prior to the 20th, so around the 19th century, late
[17:53] 19th century. But the name is something you
[17:55] would be familiar with. I'm trying to think of Cadbury
[17:58] products that I would know, so my first instinct was to say
[18:02] Dairy Milk, which obviously doesn't sound like the right
[18:05] answer. No.
[18:06] The next thing I'm gonna say is, is Eclairs Cadbury.
[18:10] No. But eclair it is Cadbury though,
[18:13] I think. Eclairs is Cadbury, though,
[18:15] right? No, eclairs are actually a kind
[18:17] of pastry. The dessert.
[18:19] Yeah, it's a pastry. Yeah, OK.
[18:23] Wow, this is reminds me, I've not had chocolate in a very long
[18:25] time because I can't think of Cadbury products right now.
[18:30] For those who don't know, Aditya is a bit of a fitness week.
[18:35] But I've also a massive sweet tooth, so within every man that
[18:39] resides a wolf. An Angel and a devil on his
[18:42] shoulder. I would say 2 wolves, one of
[18:45] whom wants to have six pack abs. The other wants to eat really
[18:47] sweet stuff, OK? Drawing a blank, but am I on the
[18:53] right path? Is it something to do with the
[18:55] Cadbury? Product.
[18:56] Yes, I would, yes, yes I would. I would advise you to think of
[19:00] Cadbury products, which may have names that sound like a place.
[19:06] So I will have to make guesses and for that I probably need a
[19:09] clue. So am I in the chocolate space
[19:11] or did some other? You're in the chocolate space.
[19:14] OK, I would say think of the premium chocolate space.
[19:19] Oh, is it Bournville? Yes, it is born Will.
[19:23] OK, well he's a premium and that's it.
[19:26] Stuck. Because I was just thinking
[19:27] Cadbury Silk and silk doesn't sound like the name of a town.
[19:33] Weird name for a town silk. The town is called Born Will,
[19:37] and it's one of the first model villages built around a factory.
[19:43] And it's again a fascinating story, a long story with a lot
[19:47] of. Listen turns in it, which I will
[19:49] relate in a mini episode coming forward because I will not be
[19:54] able to give it enough justice if I'm going to just rush
[19:56] through the details in the next two minutes.
[19:58] But rest assured, ladies and gentlemen listening to this
[20:01] podcast that you will hear more about Bond will coming in.
[20:04] That's right cuz I am very excited to hear our mini
[20:07] episodes. We have recorded a few.
[20:09] We shall be releasing them very soon.
[20:11] I am quite excited. Actually, we'll be releasing one
[20:13] with this episode. We'll be releasing one with this
[20:16] episode as well. It'll be found the same day as
[20:19] this episode. How exciting could your Thursday
[20:22] get? I mean, I don't know.
[20:24] What else do you have planned on Thursday?
[20:26] I said, just canceling all of it and just devoting your time to
[20:30] our podcast. Now that was easy.
[20:33] That that was easy to the Max. That was like one of those big
[20:35] cheese wheels at Virat Kohli's restaurant.
[20:37] Come on, man. People will listen.
[20:39] We don't need to be cheesy, just trying to.
[20:43] Keep trying really hard. OK, All right.
[20:49] Speaking of the UK and stories that you perhaps want to release
[20:54] in a short episode later, this satisfies both those criteria
[21:00] that I'm gonna get here. And this will be one of the
[21:03] types of questions we haven't done.
[21:04] I realized it's a connect question.
[21:07] So I believe. I believe this might be a
[21:10] slightly tough connect if you don't know exactly what I'm
[21:13] talking about, but it's just such a fun little fact that I
[21:17] had to do a question on it. OK, OK, hit me.
[21:21] So connect these three things. Tech when who wants to be a
[21:25] millionaire? Trans frontier.
[21:28] You know what? I'm going to throw in a fourth.
[21:30] I'm going to throw in 1/4 trademarks.
[21:34] That's part of this list, not a yes.
[21:37] No, no, it's not a clue trademarks.
[21:40] I mean, technically every connect list, yeah, that is a
[21:43] clue. So yeah, so call it a clue, call
[21:46] it a connect. Okay, so the first option that
[21:50] you mentioned is tech. When how do you spell that just
[21:54] to so that I can understand what what?
[21:56] Wen it's the name of a person. That clears it up.
[22:03] Seriously. I mean, like, I think you were
[22:06] expecting like, oh, take when? Like he's the No, no, I've never
[22:10] heard of this fellow. Who wants to be a millionaire.
[22:13] What was the third option? Trans Frontier?
[22:16] That's right. Is Trans Frontier a game?
[22:22] No, Trans Frontier Limited is actually in the space of
[22:26] pharmaceuticals. Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
[22:29] Trademarks. Tech Quinn and a pharmaceutical
[22:33] So there's a guy named Tech Quinn, Trademarks in general Who
[22:37] Wants to be a millionaire? And pharmaceuticals.
[22:41] Yes. Is it anything to do with the
[22:44] quizzing scandal where there was a major child, somebody who came
[22:49] and cheated using coughing on who wants to?
[22:54] I don't know what the connect is but.
[22:56] I am. I am sufficiently impressed,
[22:59] teller. Me sufficiently impressed,
[23:00] Vineet. Because I really did not expect
[23:02] you to get this so quickly, I was going to give you one more
[23:04] hint. Let me give you that hint.
[23:06] But you. Want to give me the connect.
[23:07] This is just a case, I have no idea how this connects to
[23:09] anything. You you have connected it well,
[23:11] even if you haven't gotten exactly how that connects.
[23:14] Tech when? Relief with the log line.
[23:17] One answer, one choice. OK, so let me tell you exactly
[23:22] what this is, and I will. Expound upon this in a short
[23:25] episode sometime in the next few weeks.
[23:28] There was a cheating scandal in Who Wants to Be A Millionaire
[23:31] back in 2001. Yeah, there was this individual,
[23:36] Major Charles Ingram. Ingram.
[23:39] Yes, who was participating and was assisted by somebody in the
[23:45] audience called Techwin Vitok. OK, so he's the guy.
[23:50] He was the guy who was coughing, OK?
[23:52] Tecwin would cough every time the right answer was said out
[23:56] loud, and that's how apparently Ingram got $2,000,000.
[24:01] Now, a couple of days after this whole cheating scandal blew up
[24:04] and then there was a court case and what not.
[24:07] Trans Frontier, a pharmaceutical company, decided they wanted to
[24:11] release a cough syrup and they wanted to call it Tecwin Relief.
[24:18] Tecwin Relief was supposed to be.
[24:21] Branded as one answer, one choice, one sub solution.
[24:27] Coughing. Apparently this individual take
[24:31] when we took was so taken by this idea.
[24:34] Sorry rather than take it. Was so annoyed at this idea
[24:37] apparently, that he decided to trademark his own name, just
[24:40] that nobody else could use it. And that's how this never came
[24:45] to be, that that of solution never came to be.
[24:49] But Techwin Relief was, for the briefest of moments, gonna be
[24:51] one of the best possible outcomes of a cheating scandal
[24:55] that I've ever heard of. Oh my, it pops it up.
[25:01] There is a there is a, I think a miniseries, a three episode
[25:05] miniseries of this. I don't remember the name, but I
[25:08] remember I remember Major Charles, that name Ingram from.
[25:12] That particular watching that particular series and I, my
[25:16] other guest, my first guest in this entire round was when you
[25:19] told me tech. When was a person I was like
[25:22] okay. Then maybe Who Wants to Be a
[25:24] Million? And Transfrontier are both
[25:26] games. In which case this guy has won
[25:28] both of them or something like that.
[25:30] But then he told me the pharmaceutical company and the
[25:33] only other thing I could think about for Who Wants to be a
[25:35] Millionaire? Is OK, Chalo, this might be
[25:37] something to do with the. It was a wild guess.
[25:39] I will not take credit for it, but it was a very wild.
[25:41] Oh no, no, you should. You should.
[25:43] That was a wonderful world guess if it was one, and it is just
[25:46] such a fun story to read. No, in fact, this man this
[25:51] manner to trademark his own name, which I think is
[25:53] hilarious. No, not just that, the the
[25:56] entire lead up to this cheating scandal.
[26:00] It is just fascinating. Yes, I will be very looking
[26:04] forward to bitter breath for that mini episode.
[26:08] Coming very soon. Yeah.
[26:09] All right, your turn. Minute.
[26:11] OK, so let's stay in the UK. Let's stay in the UK.
[26:15] Flower of Scotland is a Scottish song frequently performed at
[26:20] special occasions and sporting events as an unofficial national
[26:24] anthem of Scotland. The song was composed in the mid
[26:28] 1960s by Roy Williamson of the folk group The Corries.
[26:33] It was first heard publicly in A1967BBC television series.
[26:38] Although there is no official national anthem of Scotland,
[26:42] Flower of Scotland is one of a number of songs which are used
[26:46] along with the older Scotland the Brave.
[26:48] However, some believe that the song should not be used as a
[26:52] national anthem because it cannot represent Scottish
[26:56] culture to the fullest extent despite being anti English.
[27:01] Why specifically do they feel it's a poor choice?
[27:05] Yeah, I have no clue to begin with, but let me just try
[27:09] something very, very stupid. Is it just because the flower of
[27:12] Scotland implies that there is A and Scotland is a cold country,
[27:17] so I'm just guessing that flowers wither away and so they
[27:20] don't want to associate that imagery Or maybe half the year
[27:23] they don't have flowers. It's not.
[27:25] It's not anything to do with the composition of the lyrics or the
[27:28] meaning of the song. They don't want it because of a
[27:32] more practical reason, a silly, but you could understand why
[27:36] they wouldn't want to do have that song.
[27:39] Scott speak English only, right? I was just going to say is it
[27:42] like because? Yes, they speak a version of
[27:45] English. As in their accent is extremely
[27:49] difficult to understand unless you're Scottish.
[27:53] So yeah, but it's still English in a different accent.
[27:57] So yeah, it's not even the language.
[27:59] Concern. No, but I again, we'll have to
[28:01] Fact Check this. But I do think the Scots and the
[28:04] Irish do speak different variations of Gaelic as well.
[28:08] So I know Welch is definitely something that is spoken in
[28:12] small parts. Welch is English without the
[28:14] vowels, I'm guessing, and much longer words.
[28:17] Perhaps that was a joke. That was a joke.
[28:21] I do that. Seriously, Vineet.
[28:23] You can see stuff like that on a trivia podcast.
[28:27] OK, ready? So language is not the concern
[28:30] in this case. As well, it's not the language.
[28:34] Were the quarries an English group by any chance?
[28:38] No, it's not. It's nothing to do with that
[28:39] either. It's nothing to do with its
[28:42] origins. It's nothing to do with the
[28:43] content of the song, or the language of the song or the
[28:45] lyrics of the song. But they feel that it can't
[28:49] represent Scottish culture intrinsically.
[28:52] It is unable to represent Scottish culture to its fullest
[28:56] extent. People aren't drunk when they're
[28:59] singing this and not drunk on Scotch whiskey.
[29:01] I don't know. I don't know much about.
[29:04] I'll I'll give you, I'll give you a clue.
[29:05] I'll give you a clue. This is a this is a question way
[29:07] out of left field. I have no expectations of
[29:10] anybody being able to answer this, but I would suggest you
[29:14] think musically, musically speaking, it can't represent
[29:19] Scottish Scotland to the fullest extent.
[29:22] Oh, OK. Is it because they don't have
[29:24] bagpipes in the song? You're almost there if you want
[29:29] to modify your answer a little bit.
[29:31] Nobody's wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes.
[29:37] No, I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you.
[29:38] See, The thing is, it can't be played on a bagpipe.
[29:42] Oh, OK. OK.
[29:46] It contains A flattened seventh note, which cannot be produced
[29:50] by bagpipes. Oh, OK.
[29:53] OK. So it simply cannot be played
[29:56] properly with bagpipes and it's heresy to think that a national
[30:00] anthem of Scotland cannot be played on a bagpipe.
[30:04] It reminds me of a joke from one of the TV shows, I believe it is
[30:07] Arrested Development and one of the characters is in a band
[30:12] which plays on bagpipes and this guy is going to watch how
[30:16] perform and he's like, I'm not sure.
[30:19] If that was good music played badly or bad music being played
[30:22] really well because he just could not appreciate bagpipes.
[30:26] And I gotta say, I I I don't know much about much about
[30:30] Scottish culture and I'm sure it's a great country and a great
[30:33] people, but my God, bagpipes, I just am not able to appreciate
[30:37] those. Funnily enough, I am.
[30:40] I'm of the opposite camp, mainly because we had a school band.
[30:46] Which had backpipes. So I actually had friends who
[30:48] learned to play the backpipe because it was part of the
[30:52] school band and we had a band master.
[30:56] That sentence is an oxymoron Vineet.
[30:58] If they had friends that they didn't need to learn the
[31:01] backpipes, you don't know. Those two things don't go
[31:04] inside. Oh, that's so insulting.
[31:07] That's so insulting to all band people, to everybody who's ever
[31:11] played in the band. No, but.
[31:13] Yeah. So we had one of those
[31:14] traditional kind of military bands, and we had a band master
[31:18] who was from the Indian Army, who's retired from the Indian
[31:22] Army. So he was the one who set up the
[31:24] entire thing. And maybe because I was exposed
[31:27] to it at a young age, but I've always had a soft spot for
[31:30] bagpipe music. Interesting.
[31:32] It's got a certain kind of melancholy, almost bittersweet.
[31:39] Don't do it. I've always felt it's never you
[31:41] can play happy tunes on it, obviously, but there's always
[31:44] some kind of underlying sadness, which I feel is like a metaphor,
[31:48] you know, even from the even if when you're playing a really
[31:52] happy tune, even the best happiness and the best comedy
[31:54] comes from pain, you know, something like that.
[31:56] I'm waxing philosophical at midnight over here.
[32:00] I will. I will make that connection more
[32:02] obvious to our Indian listeners. Backpipes are like the Arijit
[32:05] Singh of instruments. Like you give them whatever
[32:07] song. There is always that pain, that
[32:11] emotional pain in that voice it. Doesn't matter how you realize
[32:14] he's got a lot of fans, right I. I'm saying he's a great singer.
[32:18] He brings pain into the most simple of lyrics as well.
[32:22] I love it. I'm a bigger Arijit Singh fan.
[32:24] I'm not. I'm not.
[32:25] OK shitting on Arijit Singh at all.
[32:29] Alright. OK.
[32:30] You're done. I do not have a segue for this
[32:33] question, so let's just jump right into it.
[32:35] And you're going to love it because it's sports beneath.
[32:40] Oh, OK God. Very simple question.
[32:44] The live golf series has how many holes in it?
[32:49] Wait, what? The live golf?
[32:53] You mean live golf? Live so Liv golf.
[32:58] Is actually a new Golf league that has come up very recently.
[33:03] OK. It is funded almost entirely by
[33:07] the royal family of Saudi Arabia and it came up almost in
[33:12] opposition with the PGA, which is what was the established
[33:17] golf. Yeah, Body, Arnold Palmer and
[33:20] all those people. Yeah, everybody who knows
[33:23] anybody. Anybody who knows anything about
[33:25] golf knows that PGA is where the actions at.
[33:28] But now live golf is also this upstart which is trying to do
[33:33] things in a new and interesting way.
[33:35] There are a lot of fun things that they're trying to do,
[33:37] including like having people watch and cheer along so they're
[33:41] making more lively and interesting in those ways.
[33:43] They're also how do you cheer? God, don't ask me, I've never
[33:48] watched golf too, so I have no clue how anybody watches golf
[33:52] also in the first place. But for those of them who do
[33:56] penalty, you can, and they're also abandoning the whole like
[33:58] attire of being very sophisticatedly dressed and
[34:01] stuff. Anyways, all of that is besides
[34:03] the point. My question was very simple.
[34:06] How many holes are to be played at these events?
[34:10] My first guess would be to give the obvious answer, which is
[34:14] like every other golf course, there'll be 18 holes, but I'm
[34:17] guessing you're going to say of course it's not 18.
[34:20] It is not that it is not the answer.
[34:23] OK. So then I'd say that they would
[34:25] have made it a T20 kind of version, which would put it at
[34:28] nine holes. No.
[34:30] So do you want me to keep guessing every number between
[34:32] one and 18? Now you're gonna give you a
[34:34] clue. So The thing is, any clues is
[34:39] just going to give you the answer.
[34:40] So I'm trying to think of a good clue for it.
[34:42] The answer is in the name. OK, 5454 is the answer live.
[34:50] Liv in Roman numerals is 5454. That refers to the number of
[34:56] holes that are to be played at live events. 54 holes are to be
[35:00] played at live events, and that's where live golf gets.
[35:02] Its name so like, so that's that's like 3 full courses then
[35:06] 18 into 3. Yes.
[35:10] And they're playing this in Saudi Arabia.
[35:12] No, not necessarily. They're doing it in multiple
[35:14] places across the world. It's just sponsored by.
[35:17] The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.
[35:20] And that's why they called it live golf.
[35:22] Because of the number of holes, yeah, OK.
[35:25] But I don't know if they came up with the name first or the fall.
[35:29] That's exactly what I was trying to figure out.
[35:31] You know, Did they came, come up with it and then they would
[35:33] decide or somebody was being exceedingly clever and was like
[35:36] live in live golf, like live golf, live golf?
[35:41] Well, it could have gone either ways, but I just found that to
[35:43] be interesting that there's golf league.
[35:46] That is an interesting fact. So I'm so just just out of
[35:48] curiosity, do they play all 54 holes on the same day?
[35:52] Oh boy. You're asking somebody who has
[35:54] no idea how to play a single hole on a on a golf course.
[35:59] I I've played a lot of golf on my phone.
[36:01] To be honest, I I. Enjoy playing golf.
[36:03] On my phone. No.
[36:05] So you are. You are perhaps much more of an
[36:08] expert than I am then at this point so I have no idea.
[36:12] I will try to Fact Check that for later, but for my questions
[36:16] purpose all I can tell you is that there are 54 holes to be
[36:20] played at these events. OK, that's a great question,
[36:25] something, but it was a great clue frankly.
[36:29] The number is in the name itself.
[36:31] The second I was stumped to put that I remembered L4.
[36:35] Yeah, so great question. I am going to move to Italy, not
[36:41] me personally. My question is going to move to
[36:43] Italy. In July 2016, a justice of the
[36:48] US Supreme Court was summoned to a S European city to preside
[36:53] over a mock appeal of an old verdict between X&Y.
[37:00] On the 500th anniversary of the foundation of arguably the
[37:04] world's first ghetto in the city, after two hours of
[37:08] arguments and 20 minutes of deliberations, the revamped
[37:11] verdict was to restore back the property and religious freedom
[37:15] to X, although what he required in the original trial was not
[37:21] promised to be given. As for Y, who was declared as a
[37:25] fraudster? She was sanctioned by having to
[37:29] attend law degrees at universities where the other two
[37:33] judges thought who was X&Y what? OK, I'm just going to what?
[37:40] OK. Yes.
[37:41] So I'm going to repeat the question.
[37:43] I want to repeat the question. Let me just put this down.
[37:45] So in July of 2016, a justice of the US Supreme Court was
[37:50] summoned to a S European city. I'm giving you clue in the
[37:52] beginning itself. It's in Italy.
[37:54] Steve the the Supreme Court Justice, was brought to the Sea
[37:57] City to preside over a mock appeal of an old verdict between
[38:02] X&Y after two hours of arguments and 20 minutes of deliberations.
[38:09] The revamped verdict was to restore back the property and
[38:13] religious freedom to X, although what he required in the original
[38:18] trial was not promised to be given.
[38:21] As for why? Who was declared as a fraudster.
[38:25] She was sanctioned by having to attend law degrees at
[38:29] universities where the other two judges taught Who were X&Y?
[38:34] OK, maybe I didn't quite catch this part.
[38:36] Was this new verdict in opposition to the original
[38:40] verdict from 500 years? Ago.
[38:41] Yes, it was. It was.
[38:42] It was the IT was the almost the exact opposite of the original
[38:45] verdict. So in the original verdict Y1.
[38:49] Yes. OK.
[38:52] And you did use the pronouns he and she.
[38:54] But are these people or are the organizations?
[38:58] Are the organizations by any chance?
[39:00] I was also. No, no.
[39:01] I'm very particular about my pronouns.
[39:03] No. No, as in like a she could also
[39:05] be like a country. I don't know.
[39:07] Or a ship okay. Or a ship, Yes.
[39:10] All right. No.
[39:11] So we're talking. About No.
[39:12] But these are people. These are people.
[39:14] Italy 2016 500 years ago. That makes it 1516 ooh.
[39:22] First instinct was to say Galileo, but no, that doesn't
[39:26] make any sense. No, that's a great guess
[39:29] actually, Galileo. And so then that would be the
[39:31] Galileo and the Vatican, but I wouldn't be able to refer to the
[39:34] Vatican as she. She which is also what I was
[39:37] going to say, is there somebody of Vatican which is referred to
[39:41] with the female? And I don't think any the balls
[39:43] to declare the VAT as a Vatican as a fraudster.
[39:47] Because that would have to be. A very very bold sort of an
[39:52] event or or a stance to take. OK, so 1516 something that X
[40:01] required was not given. Y was declared to be a fraudster
[40:05] and was told and was supposed to attend law.
[40:08] Degrees yes to a sanctioned by having to attend law degrees at
[40:13] universities where the other two judges taught.
[40:16] I'm going to give you a clue which may you may get, you may
[40:19] not get, but this is like just a very silly clue.
[40:22] Think Ellen degenerates. Nothing to do directly with
[40:28] this, but tangentially you may get an answer for this.
[40:33] I have not followed Ellen's career.
[40:35] I'm assuming it has something to do with some.
[40:37] Nothing to do with her career. It's with her personal life,
[40:39] actually. Yeah, again, it's too obscure a
[40:41] clue. I'm going to give you another
[40:42] one more how to solid clue. A more solid, more substantial
[40:47] clue. I would not look at historical
[40:49] figures for this. In fact, I wouldn't look at real
[40:52] people at all. Ohh yes, we're talking about in
[40:56] some fictional character. Wait, so was this fictional
[40:59] character created in the 16th century or or the character is
[41:06] from 16th century but perhaps created in a more modern time?
[41:10] I would go with your first guess this.
[41:13] Character is 500 years old. Yes, from Italy.
[41:17] Oh God, I have. Oh my God, I have no clue.
[41:21] Literature from back then. I have a I'm fairly sure that
[41:26] you at least have heard of these people.
[41:28] Maybe a given, because I know what our education systems like,
[41:33] so I would have not, you know, bet my life on it.
[41:36] But I'm fairly sure you of all people would have heard for
[41:39] this. Given your ponchon for drama and
[41:42] the stage. Oh, OK, OK.
[41:44] Sorry. Before he said all of these
[41:46] things, the first thing that did occur to me was Shakespeare.
[41:48] I'm trying to think of it. Can't be Romeo and Juliet.
[41:54] Nope, there's no court case in Romeo and Juliet.
[41:58] That's true. Hamlet is not in Italy.
[42:03] That's Denmark. Merchant of Venice.
[42:06] Yes, it is Merchant of Venice. So then, who's X and who's Y?
[42:10] Oh wow, I have. I will be hard pressed to say
[42:13] these names of the OK. Yeah, I will give it to you.
[42:15] Got The Merchant of Venice. Yes.
[42:16] So X is Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, and Y is Portia.
[42:23] Porsche. Porsche.
[42:26] Ellen So. Now you get the connection to
[42:27] Ellen DeGeneres. Yes.
[42:28] Yeah. Her wife's name is Portia.
[42:30] Yes, so in the original. I'm going to give you the two
[42:35] second version in the original, Antonio says.
[42:38] Antonio, who's Porsche's fiance, is being sued by Shylock, who
[42:45] insisted on collecting a pound of flesh from him.
[42:50] Porsche basically comes in disguised as a lawyer.
[42:54] She's not another lawyer. She's actually Portia, disguised
[42:56] as a man, find Shylock guilty of conspiring against Antonio and
[43:00] rules that he must hand over half his property and the other
[43:03] half to the state. Antonio says that I will forgive
[43:06] you if you convert to Christianity, right?
[43:09] If you convert to Christianity and give his estate to his
[43:14] rebellious daughter Jessica, who has run off with a Christian
[43:18] boy, Shylock is humiliated but agrees.
[43:22] Now when we when they rerun the case in 2016, they issued an
[43:27] unanimous ruling to remove the question of the pound of flesh,
[43:31] to restore Shylock's property and to restore the 300 ducartes
[43:35] that he had lent to Antonio and to nullify the demand of his
[43:39] conversion. Hence the religious freedom
[43:41] aspect of it. Right, right, right, right.
[43:45] And Portia was sanctioned by having to attend law school at
[43:49] the University of Padua. Where one of the judges stopped
[43:53] there, she would then she would have to pursue a Master of Laws
[43:55] degree at Wake Forest University, where another of the
[43:58] judges is a professor and Dean. Now I've mentioned all of this,
[44:02] right? Which US Justice, Supreme Court
[44:04] Justice, do you think they brought in for this case?
[44:09] Oh wow, Ruth. Bader Ginsburg.
[44:12] Bang on, it is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[44:17] She She seemed like the fun times.
[44:20] Yes, yes, The Notorious RBG, RBG, yes.
[44:25] So I think that's all the time we have for today.
[44:29] But before we leave, we have the matter of Aditya's question for
[44:34] this week. Of course yes.
[44:36] And my question for this week is quite simply based off of the
[44:42] question that we need to ask about the Scottish song Which.
[44:48] Song would be the most inappropriate when it comes to
[44:51] India and its national anthem. Of course we have beautiful
[44:56] national anthem, so not taking that away.
[44:58] But in parallel universe, if we didn't have a national anthem
[45:01] and we were trying to choose one, which would run, which song
[45:04] would be the single most inappropriate song for that?
[45:07] And the answer shall be revealed in the next episode.
[45:10] Yes, and for which we all wait with dread rather than beated
[45:14] breath. Yeah, it's now time to come.
[45:18] It's now come time for us to finish this episode.
[45:20] But before we go, there's the matter of the audience question.
[45:25] The question, just to remind everyone, was sandwiches,
[45:28] bechamel sauce, beef stroganoff, nachos, Earl Grey tea,
[45:33] Pattenberg, cake pizza, Margareta and beef Wellington.
[45:37] What connects all these Aditya? Do you have any guesses?
[45:42] I do know this answer and I'm quite sad because you have taken
[45:46] three of my questions potentially that I could have
[45:48] asked in the future by asking this question.
[45:52] It has to do with being named after people.
[45:56] Yes, exactly. These are all these were all
[45:59] named after people. Just to have some fun with
[46:02] Aditya. Because we did spoil his
[46:04] question, so let's spoil his mood as well.
[46:08] Can you name, can you name the characters of the people after
[46:10] whom each was named? So let's start with first one.
[46:13] It's the sandwiches were named after.
[46:16] You know, the Earl of. Sandwich.
[46:18] Yes. Specifically John Montague, 4th
[46:21] Earl of Sandwich. Bechamel sauce.
[46:24] I mean, I'm just gonna assume, Mr. Bechamel, I have no.
[46:28] Idea It was the marquee, the Bechamel Stewart to Louis the
[46:32] 14th Beef Stroganoff. Again, no idea, but.
[46:37] It was the Russian noble win count Stroganoff Nachos.
[46:42] That one I don't know. That was going to be one of our
[46:43] questions. Fun fun fact.
[46:45] Yeah. Nacho the man Nacho has nachos
[46:48] especiales. I believe it was the name of the
[46:51] dish and that's which got shortened into nachos.
[46:55] Yeah, so that it was named after Ignacio Nacho Anaya, who was a
[46:58] Mexican chef Earl Grey tea. Earl Grey Tea, I imagine.
[47:05] The Earl Grey, The Great Earl Grey.
[47:08] I don't know. It was Charles Grey, the second
[47:11] Earl Grey. I was also the British Prime
[47:13] Minister Battenberg Cake. This one sounds very familiar,
[47:18] but no, I'm not able to recall right now.
[47:20] So Battenberg cake is named after one of the Battenberg
[47:23] family. And do you know the connection
[47:26] of the Battenberg family to India?
[47:28] Oh no, I don't know that. OK, so the Battenberg family
[47:32] obviously was of German extraction, but was based in
[47:36] England and during World War One, when the when England was
[47:39] at war with Germany, many families of you know German
[47:45] extraction changed their name to sound more English.
[47:48] One of them was Sacks Kober Gotha who became the Windsors.
[47:55] The Windsors. Yes, the British royal family
[47:58] and similar to that there was the the Battenburg family who
[48:02] then became the Mount Battens. Oh, wow.
[48:08] Yeah, exactly. So that's the India connection,
[48:11] Yes. So then pizza Margarita was
[48:14] after Queen Margarita of Savoy, who was presented with this
[48:17] pizza in the corners of the Italian flag.
[48:19] And finally, beef Wellington. Any ideas of beef Wellington?
[48:24] Again, familiar, but no, I'm not able to recall right now.
[48:28] Sir Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.
[48:30] The Iron Duke, the man who went toe to toe with Tipu Sultan, the
[48:35] man who beat Napoleon on the battlefield at Waterloo.
[48:40] He himself is actually deserving of a completely separate mini
[48:42] episode, which we will do it sometime in the future.
[48:45] Fascinating character, Fascinating.
[48:48] But again, that's all for this episode.
[48:51] We've taken your time quite enough for this week.
[48:54] Aditya will be back after the musical Sting for the fast you
[49:00] know Fact Check. In the meantime, thank you all
[49:02] for listening in. We hope you enjoyed the show and
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[49:42] And here's the Fact Check for the episode.
[49:45] Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, not Uzbekistan.
[49:49] The Non Proliferation Treaty. Was launched in 1958 as a
[49:53] process code name Smiling Buddha.
[49:56] The first nuclear device test in India happened much later in
[50:00] 1974. However, the Indian test did
[50:04] result in the formation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a group
[50:08] of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent
[50:11] proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment
[50:14] and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
[50:18] Hitler was 178 centimeters, or five feet 8 1/2 inches tall.
[50:24] An average German man of a similar age in that time would
[50:27] have been 168 centimeters or five feet 5 inches tall.
[50:32] Hitler was, by most accounts taller than average.
[50:36] Teco and Vitok was also a contestant on Who Wants to Be a
[50:39] Millionaire and Not an Audience Member.
[50:42] Scottish Gaelic is a language native to the Gaels of Scotland.
[50:46] The quote from Arrested Development regarding backpipes
[50:49] is it was hard to tell if it was good music played horribly or
[50:54] horrible music played well. The 54 holes in live golf league
[50:59] are played out over 3 days and that's all for the Fact Check.

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