# Episode 006 - Video Games, Atom Bombs and the Theatre

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 9 Feb 2023, 48 min.

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Do you know the word from the Chinese game Go which gave a video game company its name? Do you know which modern day phrase came from the Eisenhower government's policy on reducing military spending? Do you which hugely popular movie has a design element inspired by a sushi recipe? Tune in to find out as Aditya and Vineeth discuss all this and more on Episode 6 of "Are you quizzing me?"

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to. Are you quizzing me?
[0:03] I'm very tired with my co-host, Aditya kashyap.
[0:06] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show, where we ask each
[0:09] other questions, and share what we know and learn with you,
[0:12] though, in a quizzing format, it's not competitive.
[0:14] The questions are simply a way of sharing, our love of trivia.
[0:17] So sit back, relax and join us as we explore the depths of
[0:20] human knowledge. Here's the format, we ask each
[0:23] other questions alternatingly as many as time permits, while
[0:26] giving as many Clues is needed to help each other get to the
[0:30] Sir, let's get quizzing and we're back for another episode.
[0:35] And as usual, before we start the proceedings, we have some
[0:40] unfinished business from the previous episode I did.
[0:44] Yeah, I was about to Enlighten us all to.
[0:46] What would the band Nickelback be called if they were from
[0:51] India? I did.
[0:52] Yeah. India wants to know what would
[0:55] Nickelback be called if they were from India and India
[0:58] whenever you ask somebody for Change.
[1:01] There's least it should turn a so I think there'd be called
[1:05] handmade gas like Johnny gasps. Oh my God, that's so bad.
[1:10] I think you can establish to do, like, got there.
[1:12] I definitely had like business people.
[1:14] Killing over dead listening to a podcast tomorrow.
[1:18] And I, you know, this way that I was struggling, I did struggle
[1:22] with the questions. I was really struggling with the
[1:24] punch line to this joke, for those of you who don't know
[1:27] this, I don't think of it, so great.
[1:30] For a substitute. So, it's quite the quite big
[1:34] hassle to come up to the punchline budget and deliver
[1:37] every time as that was a David Hasselhoff of a question, okay?
[1:44] All right. Let's get to the action
[1:46] entertaining part apart. Yes, let's get to the meat.
[1:50] I believe it's your turn to start of the proceedings with a
[1:53] question now that. Yeah.
[1:54] So, okay. All right, let me do this.
[1:57] So, I'm in Whitley is a Action designer from Australia, but
[2:02] he's known very famously for one of the specific production
[2:07] designs this empowered because his wife, who is Japanese had a
[2:12] cookbook for sushi recipes and he had been struggling to design
[2:16] this very, very iconic thing for the longest time and the
[2:20] directors will not happy with what he was coming up with.
[2:23] So he went back to the drawing board and if took inspiration
[2:29] randomly from, Um, his wife's cookbook and an iconic design
[2:33] was born from it. What InDesign am I talking?
[2:36] And when I say, director of the say, I mean, from the movie, so
[2:39] it's the production design in a movie sot production design in a
[2:42] movie that was inspired by a sushi.
[2:47] He said, so she could hear F of x's white cookbook and Japanese
[2:54] cookbook, his wife at this kettlebell.
[2:57] It's not killable, no, no, okay. All right, there was just a shot
[3:01] in the dark because it Japanese it was trying to imagine what
[3:04] movie. Okay, I'm going on with the
[3:08] assumption that there's some kind of Japanese element to the
[3:11] movie as well, which is probably why he was inspired to the
[3:15] inspiration. For the movie did have a
[3:17] Japanese manga in a big way. They were the respiration was
[3:23] lot from that space, But in the final product, you won't see any
[3:30] Any overt shapley. So it's not like it's set in
[3:33] Tokyo or you see an iconic Japanese character is indeed a
[3:39] Japanese. Is this Scott Pilgrim?
[3:42] No, it's not Scott Pilgrim now. So I thought you had it when you
[3:45] said a manga inspired first movie that came to mind was
[3:50] caught with great Moses movie. Great.
[3:54] Fantastic, very good. No Mom inspired.
[4:00] I'm going back to Tarantino for some reason, my head, but he
[4:04] hasn't done anything over to your mother inspired since kill
[4:06] you. Let me hand you a little hint.
[4:10] Yes, this is an animated sequence, the movie is not
[4:15] unlimited, but this specific thing was computer-generated
[4:19] imagery, computer-generated animation, in a otherwise
[4:24] live-action stuff. Okay, again, my mind is flashing
[4:28] back to Kill Bill, which does have an Dated action sequence in
[4:31] the middle of the we that do it set in Japan, a report is going
[4:35] on. Okay, now it's not set in Japan,
[4:38] it's not that in Japan, animated Sprites of I'm guessing it's a
[4:42] fight sequence. Is it a fight sequence?
[4:45] And know it is, you would call it a stylistic choice for all of
[4:50] the entire movie. It appears in multiple points in
[4:53] the movie of the three points in the, like I said, okay, let me
[4:57] give you more. Yeah, it is very, very big
[4:59] stopper. Because it is animated, even the
[5:04] design, even the movement of this particular animation was
[5:08] inspired by how Japanese is little traditional Japanese
[5:12] dirty. Initially, the movement is going
[5:14] to be left to right? But now they've made it top to
[5:17] bottom. They made it top to bottom.
[5:19] That's that's where the designer knew that he had.
[5:22] Hit it on the mark. This is the Matrix.
[5:24] This is the Matrix code. This is the following board.
[5:28] Yes yes, okay. Comes from a sushi recipe, okay,
[5:35] how did he get from Sushi? The cascading characters are
[5:40] actually in Japanese. It is written in Katakana and
[5:46] that, yeah, which I did feel. It's Android yet.
[5:50] Probably feel so small and it's I thought those who random
[5:54] symbols. Yeah, it is not, it's actually
[5:56] Katakana and the reason being that the house key, Disciplines
[6:01] were inspired by manga in a break.
[6:04] I said they were made and they had asked the designer to come
[6:09] up with something from that specific culture.
[6:12] So he went back and he was, we put his mind, is ahead.
[6:16] He put the mind to the drawing board and he decided that a
[6:19] sushi recipe cascading across the screen would put, which is
[6:27] name again, the name of the guys.
[6:30] Whitley and interestingly he still has not revealed what the
[6:33] recipes. Specifically me know.
[6:35] It's a sushi. They speak what Sushi
[6:37] specifically he has chosen not to be so straight away is that's
[6:42] a that's a cracker of a question to start with.
[6:44] That's a cracker of a question to start with.
[6:47] No, because I had to be honest, when you were mentioning every
[6:49] cat kept thinking is he purposely misleading.
[6:53] It has to be killed build. It fits everything in Kill Bill.
[7:00] Cracking of a bitch to death. Okay, let me see if I can match
[7:04] that this question is from a completely different area of,
[7:09] you know, trivia Dwight D, Eisenhower, famous General.
[7:14] And some time president of the u.s.a. pay something of a
[7:17] dilemma in 1953. He was a military man and was so
[7:22] inclined to augment defense because of the perceived
[7:26] redcurrant, you know, the Communist threat posed by the
[7:30] The erstwhile USSR. But at the same time, he was
[7:33] also a Republican president and one of the main pillars of
[7:38] Republican ideology is to cut State spending.
[7:42] So he was in a bit of a dilemma. His solution was simple,
[7:46] increased the Armed Forces but then decrease their budget.
[7:50] Now ordinarily, this would be impossible to do the solution
[7:54] that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff came up with which they
[7:58] called the new, look what's up? Policy of using nuclear weapons
[8:03] in any conflict bigger than what they called.
[8:06] A brushfire work. This allowed them to radically
[8:09] reduce the number of servicemen and replace them with
[8:12] comparatively inexpensive atomic bombs.
[8:16] Now, all of this was described in a story in the venona,
[8:20] Republican Harold, a newspaper on 21st, December 1953 the story
[8:26] also reports Admiral, Arthur Radford, Well, as describing the
[8:31] policy, as the blank fill in the blank Theory, okay, he called
[8:37] this policy as the blank Theory or X Theory.
[8:41] I need you to fill in the blanks with this common phrase, which
[8:45] has now got nothing to do with nuclear Armament.
[8:50] So any conflict more than a brush fire that would use.
[8:55] The idea was the new you could have a small Weapons made quite
[9:01] inexpensively as far as they were concerned.
[9:04] So even if it's a small War rather than commit troops and
[9:09] other infrastructure on the ground, just bomb them with a
[9:12] nuclear weapon, very simple solution to come up with two
[9:19] strange world. We live in where atom bombs are
[9:22] considered a cheap and easy solution and this is 1953, you
[9:26] know, why? All right, and this face Is no
[9:30] longer used exclusively in the military context.
[9:33] Yeah, it's called it's completely lost its nuclear
[9:35] implications. Okay.
[9:36] They Admiral the honor of lateral other Radford described
[9:41] it. As the plank Theory, this entire
[9:44] policy. He described it as the bank
[9:46] policy of the blank Theory and it's used quite often even
[9:51] today, but people use it in a completely different context.
[9:55] Most of the time blank, very know I'm and I absolutely By the
[10:00] way, when I say blimey it's not just one word that are multiple
[10:03] words, it's a phrase, okay? But yeah, anyways, I'm still
[10:07] lost. So give me a hint.
[10:09] Okay, this is a give me because it's very difficult to get
[10:11] clothes for this particular phrase without giving it away,
[10:14] but I'll just give it. So nowadays, this is used in
[10:17] association with a financial implication rather than anything
[10:21] else. Most of the time.
[10:23] Wow, don't market crash recession think for ground.
[10:30] Well, don't go away. High level.
[10:31] You know, it's not very large philosophical.
[10:35] Kind of use, it's used in daily life is but enough financial
[10:39] economic sense. Yeah the implication is used.
[10:42] Well is mostly Financial. It doesn't have to be
[10:44] macroeconomics. It can be you know,
[10:46] microeconomics home economics. I'm being a little big so that I
[10:49] don't give it away. Yeah.
[10:51] You know what I mean? You know, I still have no clue
[10:57] who might have to. If you don't have any other two,
[10:59] you might have just given Look, I can give you one more clue so
[11:03] you know how there are certain things certain Concepts in
[11:07] different languages. Some require many many words to
[11:10] describe while certain languages have just one word to describe
[11:15] or two words to describe the same thing, right?
[11:17] Okay. Now if this race which is an
[11:20] English has multiple words, the same thing could be described in
[11:25] Hindi for example into words something like But the two words
[11:32] here are gonna tell, you know, the other two Hindi words would
[11:35] be pass up to describe the same concept button, just two votes
[11:39] for soap. As our school is the Hindi
[11:42] translation of that English, Patient in the transition.
[11:45] But yes, you could definitely use a similar context to our
[11:52] changing know. They just think of the context
[11:56] again, as I mentioned, right? He is a new creature.
[12:00] He threw a. So, and this was for any
[12:03] conflict where they basically wanted to cut down on costs.
[12:08] So they were removing the expensive military men and
[12:12] replacing it with nuclear arms, it is cheaper.
[12:15] Yes, and this is widely Eisenhower.
[12:17] And what is the name of the guy who named the theory Admiral a
[12:21] Thor? A know, his name is not
[12:23] significant, okay. Way.
[12:25] Is maybe those actually kind of summed.
[12:27] It up quite well, having these nuclear weapon.
[12:30] It would cut down on cost so just rephrase that sentence
[12:33] which you just told me and you have the answer.
[12:36] Of course, because cost-cutting measure.
[12:40] I don't know, I was very surprised when I came across I
[12:45] had no idea. This was the origin of this
[12:47] phrase. I do know I'm a greedy lost
[12:49] please prepare remember the real no idea what dear friend of.
[12:53] So basically this is the origin of the phrase more bang for your
[12:58] buck ah More bang for your buck. Oh God, I would not have gotten
[13:07] their plate. So this was actually when the
[13:11] article was written, this was actually an adaptation of Pepsi
[13:15] Cola slogan, which was more bounce 2 the ounce which is
[13:19] introduced in 1950. Okay?
[13:21] Okay. Most sources credit us defense
[13:24] secretary, Charles wins Wilson as the source of the expression
[13:28] but these invariably Point him Um, to have point to him, having
[13:31] used the face in 1953. However, Wilson wasn't the
[13:34] person who coined the phrase although it's increased use in a
[13:38] military context. During the time of Eisenhower,
[13:41] Administration did bring the expression to a wider use, okay?
[13:44] Because from mobile for your partner to be devolved yell of
[13:50] that. Okay, fantastic.
[13:51] All right, my question. So this particular practice is a
[13:58] little too big Yes, origin stories Etc, practice that
[14:03] happens normally, in today's work but version of it is not
[14:08] very well decide. I'm gonna give you some of them.
[14:11] Let's see at what point to figure out what I'm talking.
[14:13] Yeah. Keep to appease ghost is one of
[14:18] the superstitious Origins. Okay.
[14:21] Do you want to be moving? No, no.
[14:23] I have a, I have a sneaky suspicion, but I just want to
[14:26] keep hearing the rest because I don't want to jump the gun and
[14:28] look like a fool. Okay, so there's no looking like
[14:32] a fool in this Square. Hand is forecast to be okay.
[14:40] It is also sometimes part of appeasing boost.
[14:43] It is also almost on the other end of the spectrum.
[14:45] It is used to care. Goes away the real superstitious
[14:49] reasons. It also has maybe a practical
[14:52] origin where gas leaks or prevented with this particular
[14:58] practice a massive gas leak. Might be prevented by doing
[15:01] this. And perhaps the most rational
[15:05] reason for this practice is to prevent injury.
[15:08] Okay, bye. Okay.
[15:10] That's a good thing. I didn't guess on the first try
[15:12] because the first try was going for, you know, God bless you or
[15:15] something. When people sneeze God bless you
[15:18] as a thing. No, no, this is not a, not a
[15:22] Relation track, not something. It's not, it's not a bodily
[15:25] function also. Okay, but it doesn't assembly.
[15:28] People see. Okay.
[15:30] So it can be used to protect against post to drive away
[15:34] ghosts, to prevent gas leaks and to prevent injury.
[15:40] And we don't know whether practice actually came from,
[15:43] right? Yeah, there is no specific
[15:45] origin that is definitive because gas, you know, the kind
[15:50] of compressed natural gas that we use is actually odorless but
[15:55] the new add the substance to give it odor.
[15:57] So that's what I was know that car Let's admit grid, that's a
[16:01] good guess, but no, this eldest case it's not the right answer.
[16:05] In fact, gas, leaks, word, something that would have
[16:09] happened, maybe a few decades or maybe even a century or so ago.
[16:14] In today's world is probably very unlikely that there will be
[16:17] gas leaks in this context, but the original perhaps, but I've
[16:20] been careful to prevent is this practice of hanging a canary in
[16:25] the mine. Larry in.
[16:27] Am I know? That's that's also a great
[16:29] guess. But, no, no.
[16:30] The right answer because I think that's the thing base to hang a
[16:33] canary. And if carbon monoxide came in
[16:36] and the canary died or something, you'd know that
[16:39] right? Yes yes you are.
[16:45] I'll give you a clue which I actually got what you just said.
[16:50] This, this practice is specific to a specific kind of place
[16:55] claw, there was such a big sentence.
[16:56] When we try to rephrase that this class This this activity of
[17:02] this thing is done in a particular type of place.
[17:06] So a mine would be an example. So, indifferent, mind this, what
[17:10] if it my word that right answer in all the miles you'd be doing
[17:14] this or all the zoos of the world you'd be doing is or all
[17:18] the schools in the world. You'd be doing something wrong,
[17:20] but if it's possible, I'm more confused.
[17:24] Okay. This was something that became
[17:28] very symbolic. Week during covid-19.
[17:32] So while we were on lockdown, yes, clapping hands.
[17:35] Oh no, not nothing else. No, no it became symbolic.
[17:39] Let me, let me narrow it down to an industry as well.
[17:41] It's in the entertainment industry in the theaters in the
[17:44] theater space. So that's what the location I
[17:46] was saying. So in theaters across the world,
[17:49] this is the practice of gas leaks.
[17:52] Gasping, perhaps An Origin. But yeah, in today's context it
[17:59] would just be to prevent Engine. That is the most rational
[18:01] reason. No, dude, I'm not getting
[18:04] anything. I'm just staring into space
[18:07] right now. Okay, after space to prevent
[18:09] injury. Yeah.
[18:11] Okay. Now I just lost it.
[18:13] You'd have to put me out of my misery.
[18:15] No worries. I will tell you this was a very
[18:17] very big question. Very specific to perhaps those
[18:19] who are interested in theater spaces.
[18:21] It's the practice of the tradition of having the
[18:24] Ghostlight in a theater. I'm not familiar with a ghost.
[18:28] Like what's a ghost lied? Okay, Okay, so let me tell ya
[18:31] that I assume that you did not know of this particular path.
[18:33] This isn't the only reason your department goes.
[18:36] Light is a light that is left on on the stage and this is meant
[18:41] to be so small light, it's not supposed to be very bright.
[18:44] Like, the idea being the safety is very obvious because in a big
[18:47] theater space. When the crew members come in,
[18:51] or we will doing the production designer, who is doing the
[18:53] setup, whatever. They don't know where the
[18:56] orchestra pit might be aware, there may be problems.
[19:00] Pointless case. Yes.
[19:01] So you just keep a light always on in the database.
[19:05] Now that is the most practical reason for having a boost.
[19:08] Like the other reason that some people think it might have been
[19:12] the Virgin was in gas-lit caters these to have a did gasps like
[19:17] just to relieve the pressure on the gas walls, just are there is
[19:20] no buildup of the gas and there won't be a gas heat eventually
[19:23] causing a massive catastrophe but this is obviously back in
[19:27] the day, you don't have gas with theater.
[19:30] As anymore and the ghost related reasons.
[19:32] As you would know more, a lot of theaters have the Superstition
[19:35] of be haunted. So very, very famous Example.
[19:39] The Palace Theater in London, they keep two of their balcony
[19:43] seats, always voltage, open, you know, how the usually theater
[19:48] seats fold up automatically, they keep closest, he's always
[19:51] bolted open and these seats are reserved for goes to sit on to
[19:55] enjoy the show. Anyway, always have, I don't
[19:59] know. It goes in mind to the, do it
[20:02] falls, but Paris cable, and release that for them.
[20:05] Sometimes it goes, light is also meant to be like a do this at
[20:09] night when nobody is there. The ghost can perform and
[20:12] satisfy their Cravings of performance and which would then
[20:16] not make them sabotage. The actual performance that is
[20:20] to appease the goose or to scare away, potential goes to the
[20:23] little ghost light is and during covid-19 a lot of theaters just
[20:27] to symbolize that o we are alive and In some way, it seemed that
[20:33] one goes like that was on, like, in the theater.
[20:36] For those few months and that was symbolic of like, oh, we'll
[20:40] be back this isn't over yet. Now, just this is a to pil
[20:44] forming today. I learned, I had never heard of
[20:48] the Zuko and for those in the audience are the Thea is a child
[20:53] of the theater theater, Greek. Yes.
[20:57] The to me to me this feels right at home.
[21:00] I'd like to take this opportunity to ask him.
[21:03] Do you subscribe to the Scottish play Superstition, or do you
[21:09] just say the name out loud? Oh, I have, I have known some of
[21:14] my directors and choreographers to do that.
[21:17] I have never really cared that much, but I like any other
[21:21] performer. I do have my own superstitions
[21:23] are always say, break a leg. Before somebody goes on stage
[21:26] and things like that. Which When you don't know the
[21:31] origin of it did so strange and yet, it's almost like this, you
[21:35] know, religious thing. Just because somebody has said
[21:37] it to you so many times you start saying it to other people
[21:40] and then when you Google it and then you realize, oh, that's for
[21:42] the reason of break a leg comes from this random trivia of
[21:46] anybody's interest for those in the audience.
[21:49] The question, I asked him was another question.
[21:52] The inquiry I made to him was there is a huge Superstition
[21:56] around the world regarding Shakespeare.
[22:00] Play Macbeth that, it's very unlucky to say the word Macbeth
[22:04] if you are performing that play in a theater.
[22:07] And so to prevent that apart from, India are actually
[22:12] performing the play. They use the term, the Scottish
[22:15] play so that they don't accidentally say Macbeth in the
[22:19] theater, which can cause a catastrophe on the production.
[22:23] You meant specifically you make that because I know that the
[22:25] origin of it, but I have seen directors who refused to say the
[22:28] names of places Not even but bed.
[22:31] They will not hate in the performance space.
[22:33] I have known some directors will just not say the name of the
[22:36] play in the performance piece. Oh okay.
[22:39] Now that that is fascinating. Here is the storm with me taking
[22:43] it to a whole new degree of Macbeth superstition.
[22:46] Told you to get what do they call the play?
[22:49] Then in that case, do they have like other days?
[22:51] They can get the comments. The play.
[22:55] This is if you should see the name out loud in the theater
[22:58] space, I've known a few Make doesn't make that the Living God
[23:01] said the name. So first session is indeed
[23:05] powerful. Very, very strong, very strong.
[23:08] Yeah. All right, we need the
[23:10] operation. Okay, I'm going into sports Men
[23:13] Tournament, as it was originally called, was the name given to
[23:18] the sport founded by William G Morgan.
[23:20] These Port Roots can be traced back to Holyoke Massachusetts.
[23:25] When William the director of the local YMCA created the spot, As
[23:30] an alternative to the more physical basketball at the 2008
[23:36] Olympics. A variant of this game was the
[23:40] most viewed spot at the Olympics which sport I'm a talking about
[23:45] 2008. Olympics of variant of this port
[23:48] was the most viewed sport. Yes.
[23:51] Is it a sport to the ball because you said it's the
[23:53] service, whatever. It's the replacement for
[23:55] colleges for to the Bonnet safe to say it is a sport with the
[23:58] ball. Okay, is it a team sport?
[24:02] Yes. Okay.
[24:03] The original name for the game, was ment tournament internet.
[24:08] Is there a fluid in in there? Because you get you to the
[24:12] answer it? Coded, maybe, maybe, maybe not
[24:16] depends upon how you see it. Let me the netball.
[24:19] No, it's not at all. So I'll spell it out for you
[24:21] mean, tonight is Mia nt0, n e. TT e.
[24:27] Okay now that doesn't believe me.
[24:28] Anyway. Sorry, When did you say was the
[24:31] reason that from? I didn't say the year.
[24:33] Oh, you did not see the arrow. Hmm.
[24:36] I see this whole recording of information needs.
[24:40] Could you give me that as a hint where it is?
[24:42] The particularly in frankly? I don't think that will help you
[24:45] much. I would suggest that you focus
[24:47] on the old name or the original name, which is mint tournament.
[24:51] And also the blue that a variant of the sport or a very close
[24:56] relative of the sport. Was the most watched sporting?
[25:00] The 2008 Olympics? I don't think that has been
[25:03] replicated since it does have its popularity still but it
[25:07] reached its peak at that point of time, especially in
[25:09] viewership numbers. So I'm guessing it's a
[25:12] mainstream popular sport. It has that almost physically,
[25:15] definitely. I would be very surprised if
[25:17] you've never played it before so it's not like dress card or some
[25:20] fish. Now it's not just a Nothing
[25:28] equestrian. This is a sport that's played
[25:32] quite often in schools throughout the world there, I
[25:36] say, yeah, it's okay. So I guess we're going to be
[25:40] football and I was thinking variant could be like, a caged
[25:43] football but I don't think that is an Olympic sport.
[25:46] No, it's not a thing for its dedication to basketballs.
[25:53] Without losing our basketball was a false positive.
[25:57] Oh, who is it? Beach volleyball is.
[26:02] It is intended to replace the most
[26:17] physical sport of basketball. The All Pro players are still
[26:21] preferred for this game right now.
[26:23] That would have been a yeah, pretty good.
[26:26] So a little bit Ground on this basketball was becoming popular
[26:30] the time but William G, Morgan wanted to create a sport at his
[26:35] physicality where members did not have to run.
[26:38] Okay, so he strung a badminton net in the gym.
[26:44] Oh okay. And using the platters of an old
[26:49] soccer ball invented volleyball, very lovely, the sports origin
[26:55] term. Internet are rooted in the fact.
[26:57] Fact that the original sport was much like badminton.
[27:00] So Minton to internet about that, what a great.
[27:05] Great piece of trivia internet. Yes.
[27:08] Okay, internet, my turn. All right, yes, let's move
[27:13] towards the world of business in my question.
[27:17] Interesting you y do not plan this but I just realized even
[27:20] this has a Japanese origin. So the name of this company is
[27:26] the Japanese word. From a famous Japanese game and
[27:31] the logo is also supposed to symbolize.
[27:35] Well, most iconic natural landmarks in Japan.
[27:39] What company am I talking about iconic?
[27:41] Landmarks in Japan that can my first choice would be Mount Fuji
[27:47] so I'll blow go reminiscent of Mount Fuji, sure Acura the car
[27:53] brand known of electronic and so also from a job Please name is,
[27:58] right? It's a car company for some
[28:00] reason. I'm thinking cars.
[28:01] Is it a car company from? Do we know it's not know who
[28:06] that is reminiscent of Mount Fuji.
[28:09] I'm a writer not Yugi. Yes.
[28:11] The the logo is a strong resemblance to Mount Fuji.
[28:16] Those Origins might not be the mountain cell but the logo is
[28:20] strongly resembling boxes. Yeah and you said the name came
[28:24] from Japanese won't write the trauma game.
[28:27] Yeah. Japanese game is key.
[28:30] Don't think of many Japanese games.
[28:34] Sudoku is one that comes to mind.
[28:39] It's a board game. Actually wait.
[28:41] So the board game might be Chinese in origin, but as
[28:44] popular in Japan, as well as it goal.
[28:47] When you said Chinese their game is go.
[28:49] Yes, yes. Yes, you are very much hope,
[28:51] right? No, it's our Go Pro.
[28:54] So the word itself doesn't have go in it.
[28:57] The word itself has a term that is used in Gold.
[29:01] A Japanese term that is used in both, almost an equivalent of a
[29:05] check in chess of or I can't remember how I used.
[29:09] I tried my hand at go of Cub. Few years ago, found it insanely
[29:13] difficult. It is it is.
[29:15] Well I I was flummoxed by this spring game, I can't remember
[29:20] the term. Like I just felt like if we
[29:22] can't remember the tub. Okay, so let me tell you.
[29:25] Yeah, so if you don't immediately get it It might be a
[29:29] bit difficult. So let me tell you what.
[29:30] This company is. They are in the technological
[29:35] space. That's it.
[29:37] That's the clue is game Nintendo.
[29:42] No, it's not a Japanese computer, generate, a Japanese
[29:44] company, right? Nintendo is the Deputy Company.
[29:46] But as for the answer in this case, okay, so I was hoping go
[29:50] might have gone to Door. Nintendo's Wii coconut.
[29:53] This word is the word is not. Go are so take out.
[29:57] No, it does take a technological video game company.
[30:01] Wait, how many video game consoles and games from
[30:05] computers EA games? I want to start the game.
[30:17] Obviously not be less than 0 is the very words, you hear the
[30:21] name? You'll realize, it's obviously
[30:23] very Japanese, I'm fairly sure going to kick myself.
[30:27] It. But it is in a slightly Dave,
[30:30] every Activision that has howling, very Japanese words.
[30:40] Anything can sound too happy? If you say it right though,
[30:43] dude, I'm sorry. I believe in you.
[31:33] The logo is the field lines which are converting upwards.
[31:36] Yeah. And that's the letter A but also
[31:41] of Mount Fuji. Yeah.
[31:42] And maybe the word itself is Japanese and it is used while
[31:47] playing the game book. So it means to hit a Target in
[31:53] Japanese and is associated with Good Fortune.
[31:55] Hmm. And it's almost an equivalent of
[31:58] like sketch Check in the case being like the open to be able
[32:02] to make a will be able to capture one of the stones in the
[32:05] next move as I live and breathe and that's where the company's
[32:09] origin comes. That was a good one.
[32:13] I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't think of Atari in the
[32:16] beginning. It says, it's so obvious.
[32:18] Now that you pointed out, you know, I feel like today's
[32:21] episode both of us have been traveling and I think it's lame.
[32:29] Going to give us a justification and we'll top out with a nice.
[32:33] Just know that be recording this video late at night.
[32:36] Yeah, it's not us. It's not as it's good it's a
[32:38] time of microphone. We should have our own
[32:41] Superstition never recorded night.
[32:43] We never get the answers right? Yes.
[32:47] Okay. I'm going to stick with folks.
[32:49] All right? The first iteration of this
[32:52] trophy was known as the field cup.
[32:55] Okay? I see a small smile.
[32:56] I think you may only know it was one in In perpetuity by William
[33:01] Renshaw. After he won three successful
[33:03] findings, its replacement, which was called The Challenge cup
[33:07] quickly became ranchers to as he extended his win by another
[33:11] three consecutive years. Since the replacement cup cost
[33:15] more than 15 thousand dollars of today's money, the organizers
[33:19] then stipulated that the trophy would never become the property
[33:23] of the winner. Since 1949 on Champions have
[33:27] received a replica of the trophy to Keep the original field cap
[33:31] is now. As in museum, the whereabouts of
[33:33] the second trophy are unknown but the third iteration is well
[33:37] known to us or which trophy am I copying about.
[33:42] So the main branch oh and fill cup, it leads me to Cricket is
[33:48] Cricket's every right to think that I was wishing.
[33:51] You would ask that question, serve dinner to answer.
[33:53] No, it's not Cricket. How it's not gonna do
[33:56] interesting in this thing. Hello guys.
[33:59] Connected the Rancher. Okay, I know this.
[34:02] So anyways crickets to doesn't mean that can be ashes anyways
[34:06] and I know their original Ashley's different.
[34:09] Let's see. Is it do is it will bring
[34:11] building Vengeance. Yes it is forbidden.
[34:14] It's the Wimbledon men's singles trophy we watered.
[34:21] It was a long history behind it. I'll just go through that for
[34:24] the sake of Their audience you know.
[34:26] The so that they also understand the the gentleman Trophy, is
[34:30] that we currently knows the third iteration.
[34:33] The first one was donated by the field newspaper and hence was
[34:37] known as the field cup which was won in perpetuity a by a branch
[34:41] off. After he won three successive
[34:43] finals from 81 1881 to 1883 its replacement.
[34:47] The challenge cup also became his when he extended his winning
[34:51] run to 1886 having spent fifty guineas which as I mentioned is
[34:56] around 13 to 15 thousand dollars in place.
[34:59] Terms. They decided that this trophy
[35:01] would never become the property of the winner.
[35:03] To the current trophy is made of silver, Gilt stands, 18 inches
[35:07] high, and is inscribed the all England.
[35:10] Lawn Tennis Club single-handed Championship of the world the
[35:14] names of all the Champions since the first are engraved on the
[35:19] trophy though, a lack of space means.
[35:21] Now Champion since 2009 are commemorated on a black, blind
[35:25] with a silver, automated band that now, accompanies the cup.
[35:31] That's the men's single trophy is she right?
[35:35] And I'm assuming every time you've been at your name gets
[35:39] engaged severe multiple wins. It will be.
[35:48] Yeah I can't take too much. Can't forget.
[35:50] It was the guest. It was a guest, just the whole
[35:57] idea of it being a rolling trophy was icon.
[35:59] The only thing I can think of is similarly if I don't see only
[36:03] thing you can think of, I think, the first thing I thought of was
[36:05] probably, we did. You could probably think of many
[36:07] other trophies. I'm sure.
[36:10] I'm sure. Yeah.
[36:11] Probably the first thing that I thought about let's go don't be,
[36:15] I guess you get lucky at their. Okay, you're done.
[36:21] Alright. So my turn this material was
[36:25] initially meant to be wallpaper this Maria, which is no longer
[36:30] used as a wallpaper was initially conceived to be a
[36:34] wallpaper okay at Speedy, wallpaper.
[36:37] If I may, I'm gonna stop right here because giving anything
[36:41] else would be too much of a giveaway quick, what that's it,
[36:47] any wallpaper whatever being for lateral walls, not like multiple
[36:52] fires Queen, so wallpapers for actual walls, this supposed to
[36:56] be vulgar, let's this material supposed to be 3D Wallpaper.
[37:00] Yeah, 3 p. V paper third of all the way
[37:03] question. If you ask me, this is like the
[37:04] vaguest of the model especially gun, this is the only way, let
[37:08] me be kind. No, so like I said, it was the
[37:13] 3D wallpaper. The two guys who came up with
[37:16] it, an engineer, and the Swiss inventor, I'll Fielding another
[37:22] guy was called Moksha Venice. They were trying to create a
[37:25] textured wallpaper. So 3D wallpaper, what they did
[37:28] was this You to shower curtains together in such a way that it
[37:34] became 3D. Giving the wallpaper textured
[37:37] appearance to shower, curtains were sealed together and the
[37:41] listeners of his be conceived. That we need can see me, just
[37:43] beginning wildly. So imagine to our burdens in
[37:47] this deal together, but in a specific way, such that the
[37:52] wallpaper now has a textured appearance, they realize that
[37:56] there is a much better use for this particular.
[37:59] Material. And since then it has been used
[38:03] in this other way and not as wallpaper, this is star wanna
[38:06] deal with Apple. No, that's not apologize, but a
[38:13] protective material. Yeah, I'm guessing because I
[38:15] need to shower curtain. Shower water resistant so it's
[38:21] something water-resistant, two of them combined together to
[38:27] create textures. These are not Bag that I placed
[38:30] on his not sleeping bags. No, it's not a secret.
[38:37] I'm just thinking of anything that can be made with two layers
[38:40] is water, resistant material. So the water is in party.
[38:43] You might be an important feature, but it's not the
[38:45] crucial feature. For this particular material.
[38:48] What is important? And what I said, then I was
[38:50] slightly vague about what the specific way that received it,
[38:54] such that it retained. A textured appearance, it was a
[38:57] CD. Because if you seal it just flat
[39:01] to Services it would not be tedious to don't be textured.
[39:06] Yeah yeah that makes sense doesn't vacuum same do something
[39:11] now right? Nostril like is healed.
[39:14] No I need a job. I need another gift.
[39:17] It was almost made into an official toy given how much
[39:22] people enjoy playing with it. It was just playing with it.
[39:26] Yeah, almost made it to a toy bubble wrap.
[39:29] It is double that. Okay?
[39:35] So the reason I was being vague was because the to shower
[39:39] curtains are sealed in the way that it left are between them,
[39:44] which would give it a texture it up.
[39:45] So the air bubbles are left in between and the wallpaper is
[39:49] self wasn't popular. But what they realized was that
[39:51] come up with the packaging material and give it to that,
[39:55] and toy part of the trivia comes from actually bubble wrap.
[39:59] Made it to the National toy Hall of fame's finals in 2016.
[40:04] Oh it was amongst the top contenders given H people like
[40:08] to play with very addictive. Once you start popping, you
[40:12] can't stop that that that that that was even though very vague.
[40:18] That was a brilliant piece of trivia.
[40:22] Thank you. They don't obey go for you but
[40:24] they're eventually. Yes, yes, yes, you helped me
[40:26] along the way quite a bit but yes, we can.
[40:29] Okay, this is a favorite question of mine.
[40:32] I think you may get it quickly. It's very it's a favorite of
[40:35] mine so I'm going to ask it anyway ended on a high.
[40:38] Yes, the restaurants Palm Court, Cafe Parisian and Veranda Cafe,
[40:44] were all Grand eateries that were launched in the early part
[40:48] of the 20th century. But they all provided service
[40:52] only 45 days. Why did they stop service?
[40:55] I would, I don't know. I'm thinking What's obvious
[40:59] answer is Saturday Sunday but that would be boring.
[41:07] No, it's not because in this habitat or the weekend or
[41:10] anything to that list of permanent Theta temporarily for
[41:14] the PK. Okay.
[41:15] Okay. That the.
[41:16] Oh and now I get the question right now I'm leaving this and
[41:23] I'm not editing them out. Please.
[41:29] Excuse my foolishness. It's very late in the night.
[41:33] Hmm. So they operated for five days.
[41:36] Yes. And then they shut down
[41:38] permanently. Yes.
[41:39] They start operating after five days.
[41:41] Wow. That is because it's so
[41:43] interesting will love this trivia because I have no clue
[41:45] right now. Much found, really interesting.
[41:48] Know, you'll have to help me. Okay, I would advise you to
[41:50] focus on the timeline. As I said, the early part of the
[41:54] 20th century early part of the 20th century, And I would also
[42:00] say that there is a very, very good chance.
[42:03] I'm fat piggy, Almost sure that you may have seen a
[42:08] representations or reproductions of this of these eateries in
[42:15] popular culture. You must have seen go to the
[42:18] name, s Veranda kaffe, fassett, Parisian Palm Court and Veranda
[42:23] Cafe. Good friend, if it pays IAM.
[42:28] Yes. And I've seen a representation.
[42:31] Yes, I'm of approximately given, you know, the fact that we both
[42:38] came through the 90s and fairly sure that you must have seen.
[42:42] At least what you may. Not have paid attention.
[42:44] Let me just clarify that you may not have paid attention when it
[42:47] was on screen, but you have seen reproductions of these.
[42:51] I'm 90% sure you feed from screen.
[42:55] A reproduction of because I was thinking reproduction like
[42:59] Museums or something. Okay, so now on screen,
[43:02] reproduction of the names, may not mean something bigger, but
[43:07] hopefully, I understand because I was supposed to say something
[43:14] about the world war, literally zero point five days before
[43:18] World War started and all three of them.
[43:21] It is. But no, I am going to say is it
[43:25] is caught anything to do with the Titanic.
[43:29] I was hoping you would not going to go there anyway.
[43:31] Yes, these are the tire. These are restaurants on the
[43:35] Titanic. Oh boy, okay, okay, yeah, but
[43:38] the screen thing give it a very honestly BooBoo and that I
[43:41] would. Yeah.
[43:43] So are in the 1997 film they don't show all three but Veranda
[43:47] Cafe is shown very well wow, nice place.
[43:52] Yeah, I don't know because the couple of to use the barren,
[43:54] Desert Eagle balcony and stuff. So if not I want to ask this
[43:58] question to somebody and They had an answer which kind of just
[44:02] you know blew me away in that day they actually went with the
[44:07] world war theme but what they went on with was when Arctic
[44:11] Ferdinand was assassinated, his assassin, had actually given up
[44:16] on the first assassination attempt and had gone to have
[44:18] coffee or something, apparently and yeah.
[44:21] Yes. So the keyboard the thing he
[44:24] asked me was was this the cafe from which he saw the US
[44:27] Buchanan stepped out of rooted and I I was like I really want
[44:31] to give you points because of that answer actually GD,
[44:34] assassin, the GPS. Do you his answer?
[44:37] But yeah, that's unfortunate that true.
[44:39] Brilliant crack at it, was this the cafe?
[44:42] That Hitler decided he's going to be a mass murderer, something
[44:47] completely out of the left field.
[44:49] No but they I don't know. That's not Cafe.
[44:51] That's actually a beer hall. If I my memory serves me right
[44:56] where Hitler was I only sent as a an observer to observe certain
[45:04] elements of what would eventually become the Nazi party
[45:08] and then he kind of started speaking out and then he was a
[45:12] good orator and they adopted him into the party if I were basing
[45:17] this off some documentary, I saw some time ago but yeah there was
[45:20] a there's a beer hot involved it.
[45:22] So if it's if I'm not mistaken for the restaurant because of
[45:24] they are all involved, there you go I was making a really
[45:27] terrible joke but So I did. Yeah.
[45:34] You know what it's time for now. Oh God.
[45:36] I have I should stop this. I have no, you can't stop it.
[45:41] Now, it's a tradition. It's tradition.
[45:43] However, just like go slides actually.
[45:46] You know what they are. Speaking of go slides, what kind
[45:51] of ghost would not be deterred by a ghost like, which course,
[45:55] would not be deterred by a ghost?
[45:57] It's my question and we shall find out the answer.
[45:59] In the next episode. Okay, so there you have it.
[46:02] Ladies and Gentlemen, The Puzzler of the week that it had,
[46:08] it has given to you. So that's all for this episode.
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[46:59] Coughs. Thanks, go bye-bye.
[47:13] And here's the fact, check for the episode until the success of
[47:17] Harry Potter and the cursed child Palace Theater in.
[47:20] London did have two seats permanently bolted open for the
[47:23] theater ghosts. However, for the aforementioned
[47:27] play those two seats were Sold to the public.
[47:30] There are two ghosts in the president's and unknown
[47:32] ballerina, who has been known to pirouette across the stage and
[47:36] the famous actor, Ivor novello, who apparently watches
[47:40] performances, from the Magnificent, dress Circle
[47:43] gavrilo princip, the Assassin of Archduke.
[47:46] Ferdinand purportedly was eating a sandwich in a cafe.
[47:51] When his to be victim ended up in front of him and he shot him.
[47:56] However, the story is not, Stan, she dated and corroborated by
[48:01] historical sources and might be a popular urban legend and
[48:05] that's all for the factor.

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