# Episode 031 - Felafel, Vaseline & Electronic Murderers

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 3 Aug 2023, 38 min.

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Do you know which movie was known by the alternative title Vaseline in Argentina? Do you know which famous tea-time snack was invented to celebrate the wedding of one of Queen Victoria's children? Do you know the only two heads of state during WWII who are still alive today? 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? Join us as we dive deep into
[0:03] I'm Vineet Nayar with my cohost Aditya Kashyap.
[0:06] This is a quizzing trivia pod. Pet skin quizzing and we're
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:18] back. Welcome to Episode #31 of Are
[0:22] You Quizzing Me? Aditya?
[0:24] And are back for another round of non competitive yet confusing
[0:29] quizzing at the beginning of the episode, let's start off with my
[0:34] question for the audience. In 1956, when Prime Minister
[0:39] Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated India's first nuclear reactor,
[0:44] he saw the blue Charanka radiation and likened it to the
[0:48] beauty of a group of female spirits of the clouds and
[0:52] waters. These beings are referred to as
[0:54] Feishan in Chinese and feature prominently in South Asian and
[1:00] Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist culture.
[1:03] Which mythological group of characters am I talking about?
[1:07] Let me repeat the question. In 1956, when Prime Minister
[1:11] Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated India's first nuclear reactor
[1:15] built at BIRC, he saw the blue Charankov radiation and likened
[1:20] it to the beauty of a group of female spirits of the clouds and
[1:24] waters. These beings are referred as
[1:27] referred to as Faishan in Chinese and featured prominently
[1:31] in South Asian and Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist
[1:34] culture. Which mythological group of
[1:37] characters am I talking about? We will reveal the answer at the
[1:41] end of the episode, so stay tuned to all the end to the very
[1:45] end of this episode to to hear the answer.
[1:49] And now for the low point of every episode where we listen to
[1:56] Aditya try to get us cancelled. You almost sound.
[2:00] Like you don't secretly enjoy it.
[2:01] I think there is a, there is a masochist part of you vineet
[2:05] that really enjoys being put through this.
[2:07] Because let me remind you the fact that I was very happy doing
[2:11] this once and once only in the first episode and never doing it
[2:13] again. And you have insisted every time
[2:15] that I continue it. So you do not get to complain.
[2:19] Our listeners might, but you don't.
[2:22] OK. The last time the last episode
[2:26] out of the question I asked was $0.50.
[2:29] Who chose his name as a metaphor for change?
[2:32] What name would he have chosen if he was Indian?
[2:36] And this would be a name that would not be considered
[2:38] classically Indian, but it makes a lot of sense.
[2:41] And do you know what the name is?
[2:42] It is Annette. Have you heard the heard of the
[2:45] name Annette? Yes, but.
[2:50] But did you realize it also is 50 paisa?
[2:53] Because it is. Anna 88 Anna's which is 50
[2:57] paisa. So Annette would be oh.
[3:02] My God. Indian name.
[3:03] Oh God, how are you still alive? How is it that nobody shot you
[3:08] in the middle of the street for this?
[3:10] Yeah, yeah. I also wonder.
[3:12] Sometimes I do. And with that bombshell, to
[3:17] quote Jeremy Clarkson, let's move on to our round of quizzing
[3:21] today. Aditya, will you start us off?
[3:26] I shall do that on us. I shall do the honors.
[3:29] OK, so I have done a version or a slightly similar set of
[3:33] questions earlier, and I'm gonna do another one.
[3:37] The last time I did was I asked you what the movie was based off
[3:42] of its tagline. These are famous Hollywood
[3:44] films, and I gave you the taglines and you were supposed
[3:46] to. Yes, I remember that well.
[3:49] Today we're gonna do the foreign titles of English movies.
[3:55] OK, so very often they directly translated and it would be, say,
[4:01] in Japanese. The name would be exactly what
[4:03] it is in English except just translated.
[4:05] But sometimes things are lost in translation or they choose to go
[4:08] a different way, and that leads to some very fun titles.
[4:12] So let's start with some easy stuff first, OK?
[4:15] Reign of falafel. Reign of Falafel.
[4:20] Yeah, is this you don't mess with the Zohan.
[4:23] Oh, no, no, no, no. Literally think of somebody
[4:27] trying to translate a movie but changing it slightly.
[4:30] So in Israel, this English movie or this American movie was
[4:33] called Rain of Falafel. Oh wait, this is cloudy with the
[4:39] Chance of meatballs. Cloudy with the chance of
[4:42] meatballs is called Rain of Falafel in Israel.
[4:45] OK, OK, Falafel meat. OK.
[4:48] Nice. Nice.
[4:50] OK, in in Argentina, the movie was called Vaseline.
[4:55] In Argentina, it was called Vaseline.
[4:58] Yeah, is this and I may get, you know, cancelled for this, but is
[5:04] this Brokeback Mountain? Oh no.
[5:08] Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. It was not think literally
[5:12] tried. It's not like it's making some
[5:15] subtle point or making some inside joke.
[5:17] It is trying to translate it. But just doing it in a quirky
[5:21] way. All of these movie names.
[5:23] So Vaseline. Vaseline is petroleum Jelly.
[5:28] It's it's some kind of Jelly or? Very close, very close.
[5:33] Think John Travolta. It's Greece.
[5:36] It's Greece. Oh my God.
[5:39] Greece becomes Vaseline. Ah, Argentina.
[5:44] What do you do? Why you do this?
[5:48] In Poland, this movie was called Electronic Murderer Terminator.
[5:54] I'm guessing Terminator. Yes, Yeah.
[6:03] In Italy this movie was called. In Italy, this movie was called.
[6:06] If you leave me, I delete you wait.
[6:11] Fatal attraction. No, no, this is.
[6:16] I love that you're going to Fatal Attraction, but no, this
[6:19] is very much talking about the plot of the film.
[6:23] Oh my God, Eternal sunshine of the.
[6:26] Spotless Mind, Spotless Mind. Yeah, it's such a beautiful
[6:31] movie. And they named it.
[6:32] If you would leave me, I'll delete you, OK?
[6:38] Let's do one more He's a ghost. Ghost.
[6:42] No. This is a spoiler, so I don't
[6:47] know why China did this, but it's a spoiler.
[6:49] God, it's a Sixth Sense. It's a sixth sense.
[6:52] It is The Sixth Sense, yes. Oh.
[6:56] God, another another beautiful one from Israel.
[7:00] Love is in the sky up. No, this.
[7:04] I don't even know why it went with this title, but love is in
[7:07] the sky. Love is in the sky.
[7:11] I have no clue with with that one.
[7:14] Tom Cruise, Top Gun. Yes.
[7:19] Oh my God, love is in the sky. They basically took the movie
[7:25] and took like what, 510% of the plot?
[7:29] Yeah, I have one last one, which is, OK, so easy, but it's
[7:34] hilarious. So this is again back to Italy,
[7:37] and this one is called Dawn of the Dead Idiots.
[7:40] Wait, this is this? This is the Coneto Trilogy one.
[7:43] This is what is it called? This is Simon Pegg's movie.
[7:48] You know, Sean of the Dead Sean of the Dead.
[7:50] Sean of the Dead. Sean.
[7:51] Of the Dead in Italian became Dawn of the Dead Idiots, Which,
[7:59] frankly, is I actually a better title, Dawn of the Dead Idiots.
[8:06] I love it. I absolutely love it.
[8:10] Wow, I'm thoroughly blown away by those.
[8:13] Unfortunately, my next question is going to be much of A downer
[8:16] because I have nothing remotely as entertaining as that.
[8:20] OK, I'm going to ask you a question about printing.
[8:23] OK, in printing terminology, what is also known as a shriek,
[8:31] a bang, a screamer, A slammer or a gasper.
[8:38] So when you say printing technology, you're talking about
[8:40] like, printing press. Yeah, what is also known as a
[8:43] shriek, a bang, screamer, slammer, or a gasper.
[8:49] Or if you're an American, Gasper.
[8:52] Is it an exclamation mark? You got that very quickly.
[8:56] Yes, it is an exclamation mark. Why do they use that, these
[9:00] different terms for that? I'm not exactly sure the origin
[9:05] of these terms, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the
[9:07] fact that, you know, you put them after shriek, a bang,
[9:11] scream, slam or gasp. So I'm guessing it's evocative
[9:15] of the emotion or the the situation in which it's used or
[9:20] it just might be some inside terminology.
[9:23] But yeah, is it all other new or printing terms for the
[9:27] exclamation point, exclamation mark?
[9:29] Yeah. So that's a great crack.
[9:32] Lovely. It's no Electronic Murderer, but
[9:35] still. It's tough to beat Electronic
[9:39] Murderer Electronic. Now I'm gonna ask you something
[9:45] to do with the epidemics and pandemics that we have,
[9:50] unfortunately, as a species, become very familiar with.
[9:54] But let's not talk about COVID. Let's go back to 2009.
[9:58] I'm sure you remember what was happening in 2009.
[10:00] Beneath that was the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.
[10:04] Find flu pandemic. In the same year, something in
[10:09] pop culture commemorated this H1N1 pandemic.
[10:16] What do I speak of that is very big?
[10:18] Because I'm sure there are other things as well which
[10:20] commemorated the H1N1 pandemic. So let's be a bit more specific.
[10:25] What in the space of gaming? Commemorated my first guess when
[10:31] you say gaming and when we say Pandemic would be to go to
[10:34] Resident Evil. Good guess, but no, I'm not a
[10:38] big gamer. I will have to work.
[10:40] You have definitely heard of this game.
[10:43] I would be surprised if you have not also played it.
[10:46] Ohh OK is it like a mobile game or a proper console video PC
[10:51] game? Both, but it was initially on
[10:55] mobile, so then I would say it will be Angry Birds then because
[10:59] you have pigs as the the antagonists of that particular
[11:05] game series. Perfectly cracked.
[11:09] That is exactly what the answer is.
[11:11] So the game was first released on 11th December 2009 on iOS,
[11:16] and at the time the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news.
[11:19] So the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies for the Angry
[11:24] Birds, and that's why. Those iconic pigs were used
[11:28] because everybody was kind of mad at the pigs, which is not
[11:31] fair. But it's not really the pigs for
[11:32] it's not fair. It's not fair.
[11:35] You shouldn't be mad at something so delicious.
[11:39] Yeah, that's not what I was employing.
[11:40] But sure, anybody who has had bacon can never be mad at a pig.
[11:48] At least not for long. We need your question.
[11:51] So in the 1990s, Oleg Kuzovkov, I hope I'm pronouncing that
[11:58] right. It's a Russian name, was on
[12:01] holiday when he saw a little girl on the beach.
[12:05] The child was so genuine and open that she could easily walk
[12:09] up to a stranger and play chess with him, or pick up his
[12:12] flippers and go swimming. However, after a few days, the
[12:16] vacationers began to hide from the girl.
[12:19] She was too active and intrusive.
[12:23] This was the inspiration behind which TV series the most watched
[12:28] in its category in the world in 2021, and which has over 100
[12:35] billion views across all videos on YouTube.
[12:38] Oh, you said YouTube. That changes things.
[12:41] Because you were saying chess and what sounded like Russian
[12:44] names and I was thinking Queen's Gambit, but perhaps not also
[12:49] then no. Surprisingly, you'll also find
[12:51] this show on Netflix. It's not just on YouTube, but
[12:54] you can find it on Netflix. You can find it on.
[12:57] I think it's also available on Boot Kids, to be honest, again,
[13:01] I'm not sure if you may have heard of it, but I'm sure a lot
[13:05] of our listeners have. Definitely.
[13:07] You have an unfair advantage. You need you.
[13:09] You have a child, Yes, I know, and I I plan to use any kind of
[13:14] advantage I have. No, I will need a hint or clue.
[13:18] OK, it's about the character is of a very young girl and the
[13:23] other character is a retired circus bear.
[13:28] No, that does not strike a bell at all.
[13:30] No, I know, I know I have. I had a feeling when I was
[13:32] asking this question. This may be outside your
[13:34] wheelhouse, but it is one of the biggest shows in the world.
[13:39] So if nothing else, you will get a TIL from this today.
[13:43] I always love those. If there is another clue, I'd
[13:46] love that. If not, tell me what the answer
[13:48] is. OK, there.
[13:50] I don't think I can give you a clue because I don't know if
[13:52] you've heard of it. Have you heard of the show
[13:54] called Masha and the Bear? Very vaguely.
[13:58] I don't even think I can picture what it looks like, but I have
[14:01] heard of the name. Yes, yes.
[14:02] So Masha and the Bear is the number one preschool show.
[14:07] Worldwide it is wow 36 times more in demand then the average
[14:14] show and it puts it in the top .2% of all TV series across all
[14:23] platforms that. Is insane.
[14:26] That is just bonkers. My son has already watched like
[14:30] five seasons of this back-to-back and his on 3rd or
[14:33] 4th iteration of this, I mean he.
[14:36] Just keeps watching. I like the fact that children
[14:39] are such a captive audience and have very high rewatch ability.
[14:44] Yes, I mean he can watch the same episode like 15 times and
[14:47] be perfectly fine with it, and he'll keep laughing at it the
[14:50] same time again, I don't know what that says about his
[14:52] attentions, man, but he he enjoys the heck out of it.
[14:58] Your turn. So for my question, there is a
[15:01] religious order of Franciscan Friar.
[15:05] Which I think is how it's pronounced Friars within the
[15:09] Catholic Church. This order arose in 1525.
[15:13] They have a very specific garment that they wear, which
[15:19] everybody is familiar with, except not as a garment, but
[15:23] instead something that we consume or do I speak of.
[15:28] Beneath they have a garment which we are familiar with as
[15:34] the name of something which we consume.
[15:36] And by consume, I don't mean like entertainment that we
[15:38] consume with their eyes. I mean consume.
[15:40] No, no, I get it. I get it, I get it.
[15:43] So obviously you're talking about the monks, hood and robe
[15:51] or whatever. I I mean like for nuns, they
[15:53] call it a habit. I'm not sure what they call it
[15:55] from for monks. Well, technically it would be a
[15:59] habit, even for monks, but there is something very specific about
[16:02] them. Franciscan monks, right?
[16:05] You said Franciscan fryers. Yeah, OK.
[16:09] I did not specify this by the way, so let me clarify that
[16:12] again. The name of the consumable
[16:15] product actually comes from the name of the order, So what they
[16:21] wear is what is directly related to the consumer product.
[16:26] But the name of the product comes from the name of the
[16:28] order, and the name of the order is the Order of Saint Francis of
[16:32] Assisi, I'm guessing when you say Franciscan.
[16:35] I did not give you the full name, I said.
[16:37] It is a religious order of Franciscan Frey.
[16:41] Okay, then I'm just asking you directly, is the order we are
[16:45] talking about the Order of Saint Francis of Assisi?
[16:49] No, it's not. Let me tell you what the name
[16:51] is, and I'll leave the part relevant part as blank.
[16:54] So it is order of frayer minor dash Order of fryer minor
[17:00] something. No.
[17:02] Yeah, you will have to give me some kind of clue.
[17:04] I am. I'm not familiar with this
[17:07] particular order. I said a consumable product,
[17:11] let's be more specific. It is a drink.
[17:14] It is a type of drink. It's type of beverage.
[17:17] It is something a lot of people have in the morning.
[17:21] Is it coffee? Coffee.
[17:23] But we have to be a bit more specific.
[17:25] What type of coffee you will have to put me out of my misery
[17:29] or give me a clue which will make it obvious for somebody
[17:31] even as stupid as me. The name of the order was order
[17:34] of the Frere minor capuchin, which I thought there were mean.
[17:39] I know I've heard of the Capuchin monks, but I thought
[17:42] that was related to, you know, capuchin monkeys.
[17:45] There was, there was a monkey, there's that.
[17:47] Are there some kind of monkeys, capuchin monkeys or something
[17:49] like that? Well, that would be new trivia.
[17:52] We can always Fact Check that, but in the context of this
[17:55] particular piece of trivia, they wear habits which have a very
[17:59] specific color and that color resembles A cappuccino very,
[18:04] very, very closely. And that's how the cappuccino
[18:08] gets its name, the Capuchin Monks, and the color of their
[18:12] habits. Oh, OK.
[18:15] Yes, it actually comes from the Latin.
[18:19] Capotium. It is the diminutive form of
[18:22] cappuccino in Italian, which means hood or something that
[18:26] covers the head. Cappuccino literally means small
[18:30] capuchin, and these habits that they wear have hoods attached to
[18:36] them and they have that very specific color which resembles A
[18:42] cappuccino. I did not know this.
[18:45] Yeah, no, because I I always assume that the capuchin
[18:48] monkeys. If I not, if I'm not mistaken
[18:51] again, we'll have to Fact Check this but the the the monkey on
[18:53] friends is a capuchin monkey. You might be right.
[18:58] I think I remember. I did not know, by the way, that
[18:59] So I I read that and then I read something about the order of the
[19:03] Capuchin monks. Yes.
[19:06] they were called Friar minor Capuchin.
[19:08] I just thought of the most, you know, as a Capuchin monks.
[19:11] But OK, so they are also Franciscan monks who are an
[19:16] order called minor cappuchin and.
[19:19] Fascinating question. Fascinating question.
[19:22] And this would be a beautiful visual question, so I would
[19:24] encourage any listener to who has access to a device right now
[19:30] where they can view this. Please go Google what those
[19:33] frays look like and you'll see the closed resemblance to the
[19:36] color of a cappuccino. Also apologies for
[19:39] mispronouncing. Frayer.
[19:41] Fray. I still don't know the entire
[19:44] question. I think it's Friar.
[19:45] I'll tell you why I think it's Friar because I used to watch a
[19:48] lot of Robin Hood. That's yeah, cartoons and videos
[19:52] and they all said Friar Tuck. I have always read Robin Hood,
[19:57] so pronunciation was always up to me, but I still not sure how
[20:03] I pronounce it. OK.
[20:04] No, that that was a great question.
[20:06] That was a great question. This, I am fairly sure, is a
[20:12] question that you will knock out of the park very easily, very
[20:17] quickly. When Led Zeppelin landed at the
[20:22] Singapore airport for their concert, government officials
[20:27] did not let them get off the plane and the tour had to be
[20:32] cancelled. What was the reason?
[20:35] Long hair. Yes, it is.
[20:39] It was because of long hair. As I said, veteran of Singapore
[20:43] for many years. I knew you would crack this, but
[20:45] it's a lovely piece of trivia and I just wanted to use this
[20:48] chance to get it across. Yes, So the Singapore government
[20:51] had introduced a law in the 1960s to prohibit males from
[20:56] growing long hair because they felt that it encouraged the
[20:59] hippie culture, which was not good for the development of the
[21:02] nation. So when Led Zeppelin famously
[21:05] long haired that particular band when they landed in Singapore,
[21:09] the government refused to let them on because of their long
[21:12] hair. I think that, curiously enough,
[21:14] I'm Is that loss still in place? I would hope not, otherwise I
[21:20] have been doing a lot of illegal things in Singapore.
[21:23] I had long hair at one point, so.
[21:27] That would have made me on the wrong side of the law.
[21:29] I believe I was part of a theater group in Singapore, and
[21:33] me and another friend of mine who are meeting very soon, the
[21:37] Greek friend, the Greek geek friend that I've mentioned in
[21:39] the past as well, both of us at the same time had long hair.
[21:43] And the other, the Singaporean person in the theater group.
[21:47] He told us about this particular law and how I think his father
[21:52] once. Was was questioned a little bit
[21:54] at the airport when he was coming back from somewhere
[21:56] because he had slightly longish hair.
[21:59] How do you even define law? Like, at what point does it
[22:02] become long hair? You can't, No.
[22:04] I think given Singapore, there probably have a certain number
[22:07] of centimeters or something in the law, yeah.
[22:12] Yeah. So yeah, that we would have been
[22:14] on the wrong side of the law if we were there a few decades
[22:17] earlier. So yeah, that is how I know
[22:19] this. Particular Do they have this?
[22:22] Was it only for long hair or do they have it for beards as well?
[22:24] Because a lot of hippies had a lot of belong beards as well,
[22:27] right? Yeah, interesting.
[22:29] I would imagine that beards, though, to be fair, maybe beards
[22:35] or after a certain length, Yes. But I'm also thinking, they've
[22:38] also had a very significant Muslim population for a while.
[22:42] And religious Muslims usually do grow out.
[22:45] They do, yes. They when they observe those
[22:47] certain customs, yeah, they do grow out.
[22:49] Beard. And I'm not sure if the
[22:51] Singaporean Muslims do that as well.
[22:52] But yeah, I I would, I would imagine that there was some laws
[22:55] at some point. I wouldn't be surprised.
[22:58] So you cracked that as expected very quickly.
[23:00] So again, the baton, I'm passing the baton to you.
[23:03] Please ask your question. So Alfred was the Sovereign Duke
[23:09] of Saks Keborg and Gautha from 1893 to 1900.
[23:14] He was the second son and 4th child of Queen Victoria and
[23:18] Prince Albert now. On 23rd January 1874 he married
[23:24] the Grand Duchess of Russia, the second and only surviving
[23:29] daughter or of Emperor Alexander two of Russia.
[23:33] To commemorate the occasion, something special was created.
[23:37] What was created beneath? Is this some kind of food item?
[23:41] I feel like you're going to crack this very quickly.
[23:43] No, no, no. Because I'll tell.
[23:44] I'll tell you why. Because the British
[23:47] traditionally have this thing where did they create something?
[23:51] If I'm not mistaken, they created coronation chicken for
[23:54] King Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
[23:57] So they have this thing where they make like special cakes and
[24:00] things like that. You'll have to give me some kind
[24:03] of clue. I'm nothing's coming to mind
[24:05] immediately. OK, there are two clues to be
[24:07] had. The second clue will be a very
[24:09] give, very strong giveaway. So let's start with the first
[24:12] one, OK? To commemorate the occasion,
[24:15] this particular food item was created in a small English
[24:18] bakery. The name of the bakery was Peak
[24:21] Freins. Nope.
[24:24] I'm just not. Nothing's clicking.
[24:27] Alright, hopefully the second clue gets you there very
[24:30] quickly. I did not mention the name of
[24:33] his wife and that was Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of
[24:38] Russia. You told me this is a giveaway.
[24:41] Is this the Mari biscuit? No.
[24:43] It is the Mari biscuit, it's the Mari biscuit.
[24:48] Is the Murray biscuit? Yes.
[24:51] Oh, OK. So the Murray biscuit was
[24:53] created by the London bakery Peak Frames in 1874 to
[24:58] commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna
[25:02] of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred of the House
[25:06] of Saks Goba Gota. And that's how we get our
[25:10] popular Murray biscuit and they printed the name of the Grand
[25:14] Duchess on the biscuit as a mark of respect.
[25:16] And that's why you're. And and has the iconic name on
[25:19] it is. I am going to link directly from
[25:22] that to another member of the House of Saks Kobagota Simeon.
[25:29] Saks Kobagota was born in Sofia in 1937 and became the ruler of
[25:36] his country at the age of 6 in 1943.
[25:40] He was the last reigning monarch of this country, as he was soon
[25:44] overthrown by a communist revolution in 1946, after which
[25:49] he lived in exile with his family until the 1990s, when he
[25:53] returned to his country. In an extremely interesting turn
[25:57] of events, in 2001 he contested and won parliamentary elections
[26:03] to become the democratically elected Prime Minister of his
[26:06] country for a full term between 2001 and 2005, thus becoming the
[26:14] first and only monarch of a country to get democratically
[26:19] elected to the top political government job.
[26:22] He is belong. He also belongs to a very
[26:26] exclusive club, that of people living today who were heads of
[26:32] state at the time of the Second World War.
[26:37] There are only two people in that club today.
[26:40] One is obviously Simeon Sachs, Coburg Kota.
[26:44] Who's the other? And also tell me which country
[26:47] we're talking about, Which country is Simeon Sachs, Coburg
[26:50] Kota? It was.
[26:52] In which country was he the Prime Minister and erstwhile
[26:54] monarch? OK, so there's a two-part of
[26:57] first question I have to answer is Simeon Sachs Coburg Kota, the
[27:01] only person who has ever been a monarch and has also been
[27:06] elected to the highest office. Of the country democratically
[27:09] elected. Fairly democratically elected
[27:13] and is the only person I've ever achieved that.
[27:15] And you're asking me which country is that for?
[27:18] And the other question is who is the other leader who was who was
[27:21] alive at the time of World War 2?
[27:25] The Second World? Who was the head of state at
[27:27] during the Second World War and is still alive today?
[27:32] Head of. State and still alive.
[27:33] Boy, that must be very old person.
[27:38] A head of state could still be a monarch or a commemorative
[27:41] position, right? Yes.
[27:43] Break it up. Try the country 1st and then you
[27:46] can try for the the other person.
[27:49] This is a very broad guess, but I would assume that the country
[27:53] is a European country. Yes, the country is a European
[27:57] country. Is it by any chance Denmark?
[28:01] No, not the Denmark still has a royal family, right?
[28:04] Oh, so they abolish that monarchy?
[28:07] Yes. So I'll just repeat those points
[28:09] again so that you clear. Clear here.
[28:10] He was born in Sofia in 1937, became the ruler of his country
[28:15] at the age of 6 in 1943. He was the last training monarch
[28:20] of the country as it was overthrown by a communist
[28:23] revolution in 1946. He lived in exile, came back in
[28:27] 1990s and in the 1990s he returned to the country.
[28:31] And in 2001 he contested and won elections to become the Prime
[28:35] Minister between 2001 and 2005. So which country are we talking
[28:40] about? So it was having a communist
[28:42] government for some period of time.
[28:44] I'm not sure about this country's history, but because
[28:48] you said Sophia, I'm going to guess Bulgaria.
[28:50] It is Bulgaria. OK, alright, that was like a
[28:54] reverse red herring I kept in there.
[28:56] So that's Bulgaria. That's easily out of the way.
[28:58] But the more interesting part is he is, as I mentioned, a member
[29:03] of a very exclusive club, that of heads of state during World
[29:08] War 2 who are still alive today. So who was the only other person
[29:12] who was the head of state during World War 2 who is still alive
[29:15] today? By any chance was the Emperor of
[29:18] Japan no Hirohita was dead? Yeah, yeah, fair enough.
[29:24] And all of the major powers would fit the bill.
[29:28] Or am I incorrect? Is it?
[29:30] No, no, you're right, you're right.
[29:31] None of the none of the major powers would fit the build, yes.
[29:34] But this is not an unknown quantity.
[29:36] This person is not an unknown quantity.
[29:38] I guarantee you a lot of people have heard of this person.
[29:42] You absolutely know this person. Is it a democratically elected
[29:47] leader? Is it a monarch?
[29:48] No, not a democratically elected leader.
[29:51] Technically, you couldn't even call it an election of any kind
[29:53] of sort. So it's a monarch.
[29:56] Yeah, it is a kind of a monocular position at least, but
[30:01] it's a very weird way of selecting at least the head of
[30:06] state is. The way the head of state is
[30:08] selected is quite strange and unpredictable.
[30:13] Predictable, but still very unpredictable.
[30:16] The first example that would fit that would be Vatican.
[30:20] But I know that the Pope is not alive, so the Pope is definitely
[30:25] not alive. Plus he's also elected.
[30:28] Hopes are elected. It's a conclave, yeah.
[30:31] And yeah. Just by a very interesting group
[30:35] of people and not citizens of Vatican.
[30:37] You are actually quite close when you said the Vatican, but
[30:41] in the wrong direction. You are in the right part of it,
[30:46] this group of people when you say the Vatican, but wrong
[30:51] continent. Ohh Iran.
[30:54] OK, I was thinking that Ayatollah because the kings that
[30:57] the Shahs was still in power during the World War 2.
[31:00] Right. That Ayatollah came only after
[31:02] the Iranian Revolution, yes, So the Pahlavi dynasty was still
[31:06] ruling Iran at the time. Nope, I have no clue.
[31:10] OK, this person has a long connection with India.
[31:15] It doesn't really help me. OK, one more clue.
[31:18] This person has also is also a recipient of the Nobel Peace
[31:23] Prize. Wait, this person was a head of
[31:25] state during World War 2? During World War 2, still alive
[31:30] today as a Nobel Peace Prize and a very strong connection to
[31:34] India. Good God, that must be somebody
[31:38] I definitely would have heard of, because that sounds like
[31:39] very interesting. Oh yeah, I'm guaranteeing you,
[31:42] you know this person. No, but I'm very stuck right
[31:45] now. So please give me a hint or give
[31:47] me a clue or give me the answer. Then I'm just going to tell you
[31:50] one word and you will immediately tell me who the
[31:52] person is. I want to tell you one word, the
[31:55] name of one place in India, and you will tell.
[31:58] Lots of lots of pressure, but let's try Dharamshala.
[32:03] Oh, OK. Nice Dalai Lama?
[32:08] Yes, it is the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama was technically
[32:12] the head of state of Tibet, even though he was very young at the
[32:16] time. He was the head of state of
[32:19] Tibet during World War 2 when the Chinese invaded Tibet.
[32:23] He had to flee and he has been a refugees ever since then.
[32:27] But he is still alive today and was a head of state during World
[32:32] War 2, making him and Simeon Sachs Kovalgota the only two
[32:37] living heads of state today, heads of state during World War
[32:40] 2 who are alive today. That is absolutely insane.
[32:43] And I know that he's old, but I didn't realize he's that old and
[32:47] that he became the Dalai Lama at such a young age.
[32:50] Wow. OK, so that I think is the end
[32:53] of today's episode because we are all out of time for any more
[32:57] questions. So Aditya, what is your question
[33:00] for this week? OK, so the question that I'm
[33:04] gonna ask for next week's episode is gonna be.
[33:07] Based off of the fact that the Murray biscuit was used to
[33:10] commemorate the the royal wedding and if there was
[33:17] anything I can do a royal wedding and I don't know what
[33:21] specific wedding I'm talking about today, but I will have
[33:23] something specific in mind by the next week's episode.
[33:27] How would that be commemorated? So this is a question in
[33:30] progress that is going to be resolved by next week.
[33:33] Yes. OK, fair enough.
[33:36] So I can be wait with bated breath for next week to hear the
[33:42] answer to that very vague question from Aditya was vaguer
[33:46] than usual. But yes.
[33:48] So let's go to the audience question that I had asked at the
[33:51] beginning of today's episode. In 1956, when Prime Minister
[33:55] Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated India's first nuclear reactor,
[33:58] he saw the blue Charan Cov radiation and likened it to the
[34:02] beauty of a group of female spirits of the clouds and
[34:06] waters. These beings are referred as
[34:09] referred to as Faician in Chinese and feature prominently
[34:13] in South Asian and Southeast Asian Hindu and Buddhist
[34:17] culture. Which mythological group of
[34:19] characters am I talking about? Forgive me if I have pronounced
[34:23] that wrong, which I'm fairly sure it's either Faician or
[34:27] Faician, but you get the idea. So Aditya, as like you dear
[34:33] audience, Aditya is also hearing this question for the first time
[34:36] during this episode. So Aditya, do you have any
[34:39] answers or any ideas about what the answer could be?
[34:42] No, I am actually quite blank because I was thinking mermaid,
[34:46] but then you said it's SE and Southeast South Asian and
[34:50] Southeast Asian literature, which is not exactly mermaid
[34:54] territory. So no, I don't know.
[34:58] So this is if you do know the if, your dear audience.
[35:03] If you know what the reactor at the first ever nuclear reactor
[35:07] at BARC was called, the answer becomes obvious in itself.
[35:12] The reactor was called because of Nehru likening the reactor
[35:16] and the beauty of those of the blue Charankov radiation to
[35:20] Apsaras. Oh, OK, there's the Apsara
[35:25] reactor and Apsaras are not unique to Hindu mythology.
[35:29] It's also seen in Buddhist mythology.
[35:31] There are forms of Apsaras even in Chinese mythology as well,
[35:37] with the actual spirits of air and clouds and waters and
[35:40] whatnot. On seeing that blue,
[35:42] terrifyingly blue, you know, Charankov radiation, Jawar
[35:47] Lanaru compared its beauty to that of Apsaras.
[35:49] And that's how the reactor BARC got its name.
[35:53] The absurd reactor. And that is all we have for
[35:57] today's episode. Thank you for listening in.
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[36:44] today and it's a bye from me. See you guys next week.
[37:03] And here's the Fact Check for the episode.
[37:05] The capuchin monkeys were named after the Order of Friars Minor
[37:09] Capuchin because of the monkey's physical resemblance to the
[37:12] monk's robes. The long hair banned for males
[37:16] in Singapore defined long hair as.
[37:20] Hair falling across the forehead and touching the eyebrows, or
[37:24] hair covering the ears? Or hair reaching below an
[37:27] ordinary shirt collar. This ban was lifted in the 90s
[37:32] and that's all for the Fact Check.

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