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Petscat quizzing. Alright, welcome back everybody,
to another episode of Are You Quizzing Me?
As you can tell by my introduction that Vineet is not
around. And this is Aditya Kashyap
introducing the show today. We do have of course a guest
joining us and that would be our recurring quiz master, Hari
Krishna. What's up HK, I think.
I'm going to call myself Hari Krishna, Old faithful weather
Indian because I feel like whenever when it is done with
something, I seem to be the reliable replacement.
So those are massive shoes that you are expected to fill and you
do it brilliantly. So if anything that is a
compliment to you and your quizzing skills.
HK Anyways, so back to the usual programming.
And of course that means I have to start with answering last
week's question. The last week's question was how
would we in India celebrate a royal wedding as was celebrated
in Europe when the Russian Princess Marie married into the
British royal family? And that's how the Marie biscuit
came to be. So how would we do something
similar in India? And of course in India?
Royal weddings in today's world obviously mean Bollywood
weddings and I was thinking of which biscuit in India qualifies
as a good celebration. And I realized hide and seek is
a brilliant example because the entire time leading up to the
wedding, the couple is trying to hide from media.
And all we are trying to do as faithful followers of Bollywood,
the the royal family of India. All we are trying to do is seek
them out. So hide and seek is how we
celebrate royal family weddings in India.
And that is the answer for last week's question.
But let's move on to some actual trivia for this week.
HK, do you want to start us off with a question?
Insider note he came up with. That answer literally 5 minutes
before the show recorded, so yeah.
So I'm not even going to try to understand that answer, but OK,
my first question hopefully a fun one which has a filmy link
as well. So Starship, the 165 foot tall
spacecraft that SpaceX developed to take people in cargo to Mars
and other distant destinations, was supposed to have a
relatively blunt head. But of course, the SpaceX chief,
whom I shall not name, told his engineers to make the Starship
head more sharp. What 2012 creation from the
entertainment world served as the inspiration for him to
change the shape of the rocket head?
2012 cinematic inspiration? And did you say this is
Bollywood or was it just cinema? No, I just said cinema.
Yeah. OK.
So 2012, I'm trying to think of Conehead kind of character.
Oh, I know there's another movie that came out in 2012, I believe
was The Avengers. The Headquarters.
It it was conical in shape. No, it was not The Avengers.
Also, your thing is way too seriously.
This is we're. Talking about the head of SpaceX
chief, and the key thing to lookout for is that it was it
had a blunt head and then it, you know, was made to become
more sharp. Which movie was an inspiration
for this? Yeah, So OK, let me clarify
then. Does the movie itself have
something sharp and and shaped like what were sharp headed
rocket would look like or is it something else?
So there is a scene, a very famous scene in the movie, where
a character in the movie makes that same request.
So that was the inspiration for this.
Oh, interesting. Can you make this sharper?
Can you make this pointier? I cannot think of anything which
comes close to that. Was it Dark Knight Rises by any
chance? Yeah, they need to see this.
Think of comedy movie. Yeah.
If you think of comedy and character comedy, who's the
first actor who comes to mind? Do you think of character comedy
in Hollywood? Character comedy Sacha Baron
Cohen. So at 2012, what movie did he
make? Oh, is it the dictator?
Yes. What did he?
But I don't. I generally, I'm not.
I don't even think I've watched the movie entirely.
I've only seen scenes from the movie.
So what? What is the dialogue?
OK. Go look at this scene,
basically. Obviously in that movie, he's
the fictitious head of his dictator of this kind of Middle
Eastern nation. And so his scientist comes up to
him saying that we have developed the nuclear bomb and
then the bomb looks like. Rounded.
And then he's like, you know, everyone will laugh at me if it
is not pointy. And then there's this whole
exchange about where he got that inspiration from, which is
basically from Road Runner comics or from Dafida comics.
And that is apparently supposed to be the SpaceX rocket, you
know, became more pointy and sharp.
Yeah, so the SpaceX redesign initiated by the head of SpaceX
was done based off of this movie.
Is allegedly true or or is it like a verified?
I think it's actually true. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I. Think it was actually true?
Yeah, I am not surprised. Why am I not surprised?
OK, great. All right.
So I will move from all this modern technology and stupidity,
if I may say so, to something more historical.
This place was a landmark in London and tourists would
actually visit it alongside Westminster Abbey.
It started functioning in 1676 and it appeared so opulent that
it was compared to none other than the Palace of Versailles.
This place gives its name to a modern word which would be
synonymous with mad or lunatic. Can you tell me which place I'm
talking about? So it's near Westminster Abbey
1676, is it? You said.
What do you think of Downing St. 10 Downing St.
Because 1676 also is I think around the time when I think
1666 was when Charles the second was beheaded and I think the the
whole Cromwell era was happening.
I'm not missing, you know, maybe I've got my English history a
little wrong. Does it have something to do
with historical event? Or no, not at all.
No, I would not focus so much on any specific historical event.
In fact, I don't know if the year will lead you to it.
I would in fact encourage you to think more along the lines of
the word format or lunatic that is inspired by this particular
institution or building. Crazy, crazy, or what else is
there for mad or donatic? I mean asylum, but that's like
an institution because you said asylum.
Actually, let me give you a bit more of a clue.
So this place was an asylum hospital for those with mental
health issues. It was considered very opulent
from the outside. However, the inside, the
treatment of the patients and as it were back in the day was very
subpar and and in poor, poor conditions, right.
So that's where the word actually comes from.
OK, so let me actually also clarify this.
The word itself would not directly mean mad or lunatic in
the sense of an individual, but more of the setting, lunacy or
madness. OK.
Yeah. But so like doghouse, is that
something like, is it like close, getting close or
something like that? Or that's a good guess.
But no, no, no, it's not very close.
It's not. OK.
Like I remember, because he said outside, inside, through the
looking glass, and thinking of like all these kind of Mad
Hatter, I'm thinking of like all this Alice in Wonderland, but
then like, I don't know, probably going cold at this
point. No, no, not not that.
Yeah. Is it a place?
That is, if you've been to London or something, Is it still
around? Basically is that is the name
still used in London? OK, so this particular place is
still in operation. It is still a psychiatric
Hospital in London. OK, and it has such a famous
history. It has inspired several horror
books, films and TV series. So it is ingrained in pop
culture. Perhaps not very well known, but
it is there. And it's near Westminster Abbey.
No, it isn't near Westminster Abbey.
What I said was people used to visit it alongside Westminster
Abbey in the sense that it was as famous in London as a
landmark. Right, right, right.
OK. OK, it is in London though.
It is in London. OK, so probably some sort of
hospital, right? It is a hospital.
Yeah, helping one someone. Yeah.
So like I said, I think not mad and lunatic in the sense of a
person, but more of the exact definition actually I can give
you is a sense of uproar and confusion in a place.
A scene of uproar and confusion in a place that kind of madness
or lunacy. Has it lent its name to disease
as well or no, it's not a disease.
It's not a disease. It is specifically just that
uproar and confusion kind of a scenario.
Pandemonium. You're very close in terms of
the word. But no, it's not the exact
synonym that I'm looking for. It is tough if you haven't heard
of it, and if you're not able to get the word immediately, it is
a bit tough. So it's OK You know what?
I'll give you the answer. The answer to this one is
bedlam, and it comes from the Bethlem Royal Hospital or Saint
Saint Mary Bethlem. And bedlam is the word that you
get for pandemonium or a scene of confusion and chaos and
madness, right? So Bedlam comes from, yeah.
Oh, wow. OK, the good question.
Anyways, give me your next question HK.
I'm going to follow you with another etymolity question hit
me, although we think of X as something that is swift.
At the heart of the word's origin is the notion of slowness
and paralysis. So the electric ray, which is
probably the inspiration you'll see, produces a shock to capture
prey and for difference. Its Latin name was X, meaning to
be numb or sluggish. And then in the late 18th
century, an inventor named his creation after the Latin name of
the eel, but the only difference was that his creation was
actually not slow. What is this word X?
The Latin name is for that quality of the electric heel
that that particular property of.
No, it's just a, it's a species name is there.
So the the, the taxonomical name is actually this this word X and
that's and that that word comes from the meaning to be numb or
sluggish. And that word is also used, you
know, for this this creation by this 18th century inventor, in
the late 18th century inventor. But of course even though X
needs to be numb or sluggish, the creation is anything but
numb or anything but slow. It's not electric eel actually I
think it's electric race. So slight different.
I think I I meant I think the eel is misspoken.
But yeah, but I mean it's it's a race.
They're not eels. If it helps, yeah.
Got it. So electric race doesn't really
help. Yeah, I know it is the wrong
answer. I know already it is the wrong
answer. But I wanted to say Taser.
But I also know Taser's etymology is not this.
Taser has a different etymology. I think Taser has is an accurate
and if I'm not mistaken, but yes, yes.
The hint is that the like pink portion rated, so that's
probably a hint for you. The creation is something that
is very closely associated with the water as well water
invention. And you, which year did you
mention? 18th century, late late 18th
century? And does it have to do with
electricity? Like does it have to do with
some sort of electric charge and current?
No, not necessarily. There is nothing electric about
it, though. Now it's a It's a weapon.
Oh, OK. I would be very surprised if
this dancer would torpedoes. Yes.
Invented back then. Yeah.
Oh, wow. Late it is OK.
Interesting. Is is I think Tor fitness or
something like that. Yeah.
They they call torpedoing me, torpedoing me forms.
That's the order of electric rays.
And the genus is torpedo. Fascinating.
Wait, what torpedoes are that old?
Yeah, gunpowder. Right.
Now that I think about it, gunpowder makes sense.
But I only somehow imagined, probably because I've watched
whatever Pirates of the Caribbean and stuff that I
always imagined. Naval warfare was more to do
with cannons. Yeah, And back in, back in the
whatever, sixteen, 17th century. But 18th century?
You're saying that they already had invented torpedoes.
That's interesting, yeah. Yeah.
I mean, there's some demonstrations that happened,
but I think probably it got refined over the 19th century.
Great. So now I will move on to my next
question. You spoke about something very
fast, right? So here's my segue into
something at the diametric opposite end.
So this question actually has to do with my life recently.
So I was traveling, as you might know, in Europe.
I was also having the time and space to think about life in
general, about feelings about emotions and about the human
experience. And this has a little bit to do
with all of those things combined.
So there's a Dutch grocery chain called Jumbo Supermarket.
It has 700 stores worldwide. So it is a pretty big chain.
And they started something in the Netherlands, which is called
the Kletz Casa, Kletz Casa. So that is the name in Dutch.
Now the objective of this Kletz Casa was for people who felt
like that day could be improved by a nice quiet conversation or
a slow moment. What was Kletz Casa
specifically? So what does Kletz Casa mean?
And it's related to moments of silence.
You said that's going to help someone.
Or like a quiet conversation. Yeah, like I said in the
introduction, slowness more than that.
Not silence as much as a slowness.
Slowness. OK, so what's the meaning of
this? Is it Kletz Casa?
So what was Kletz Casa? This is something implemented in
a supermarket chain and the project or the initiative is
called Kletz Casa. What is Kletz Casa do?
They make their trolleys slower. Or they, like, you know, make
that is such a that is such a cute initiative.
But no, no, that's not the answer.
No. OK.
Is it something to do with the supermarket itself, like the
design or the space very much within the supermarket
physically OK, a change in how supermarkets normally function?
I'm reminded of like I care like thing.
Where do they like make it like a house, Where you they make the
rooms, like they make like the sections, like houses or
something like that. No, no, no, nothing like that.
So okay, let me actually expand a little bit more.
So the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics claims that 33% of
adults over 75 in the Netherlands feel moderately
lonely. Right.
And this was meant to try to help them.
Specifically, it was the target group for this initiative.
They were trying to help the seniors who felt lonely and who
felt like they did not have anybody to connect with.
So they needed that slowness. And I I emphasize on the words
low. Yeah I'm thinking is it with
something to do with I know the deadlines that are like dementia
villages but I mean like where like you know they they they
things that help you remind and stuff.
But here I think like is that is they like someone accompany them
when they're shopping. There's some robot accompany
them when they're shopping or it you would be surprised.
This is actually much simpler than that.
This doesn't even have any technological breakthrough or
any advancement along those lines.
If anything, this would be what you already see in supermarkets,
just turned on its head. So supermarket, you go and pick
up the stuff. In this case that's like you
know, do you give the list and the someone else like and then
you chat around or something like that while someone is
shopping for you or that would that would be lovely I imagine.
But no. In this case let me again give
me give you a hint which would probably lead you to the answer.
What I said was supermarkets already have a function which is
along these lines and that is fast and you just have to.
The slow version of it basically is what they implemented.
Check out Yeah in the checkout lane, right?
Yes, So that that is basically the answer.
The fast checkout lane, they actually opened an alternative
to a slow checkout lane and this is meant for people who want to
take their time with it, who want to, who dont mind waiting
for a while quietly and then when they reach the counter they
can have a conversation with the person over there.
So the person behind the counter is somebody who would be willing
to have a conversation and to chat and do more than just their
billing and and you know bagging of groceries.
So this is what was implemented in this Dutch supermarket store.
It's called Let's Casa, which apparently in Dutch literally
means slow check out. And it was.
It became viral, I think, on social media a while back
because it was this little nice initiative for people who might
feel lonely and it's not even that difficult to implement.
Yeah, it's very wholesome. So on that note of
wholesomeness, I'm gonna go on to this question, so I hope so.
In an interview, the writer of the number clarified this
intentional misspelling. He cited the following as the
reason. The why is there to denote that
it's about you and what makes you happy.
The same misspelling was continued and it was adapted
into an acclaimed movie of the same name.
Now I'm not telling the year of the movie because maybe that's
the giveaway. But, you know, can you guess the
name of the movie? Slash memoir.
The movie and the memoir both have.
The name is misspelled. Yeah, yeah, intentionally.
Specifically, like he said, the Y is there to denote that it's
about you and what makes you happy.
Do you mean the letter Y is there because it is about you?
Yeah, OK. I know what this is.
This is the pursuit of happiness.
Yes, it is. OK Yeah.
I did not know this, though. I did not know that was the
intentionality. I assumed it was intentional
because that is a very obvious spelling misspelling, but that
is very cute. Wait, so who wrote this?
I have no context to that. It's written, it was written by
Chris Gardner. So it's written by, I think it's
kind of a real, it's based on his life story, right.
So he's an American businessman, more digital speaker.
So yeah, so he's the one who's featured in the movie also.
So I will first characterize Chris Gardner.
Yeah, I remember that it's based off of someone's true life
experience. Also, that movie featured A
Rubik's Cube and I think I was inspired to.
I already had Rubik's Cube, but after watching the movie, I was
like, OK, now I'm going to figure out how to solve it now,
which is what I did. And yeah, it's a very wholesome
movie. I love it.
Great movie, great movie. OK, now that you have opened up
the Pandora's Box of pop culture and books also, let me go into
something related to that. I imagine you would know this
because it seems like a space that you are very familiar with
and you are very interested in. So this particular famous author
was an OED lexicographer, an Oxford English Dictionary
lexicographer. I hope I'm pronouncing that word
right. Lexicographer.
Yeah, apparently he use his experience there Later on when
he became published author. It inspired his style a lot.
And let me give you some examples of that, right.
So there are some scholars of his work who argue that his
literary technique was specifically inspired by his
experience working as a lexicographer because he drew
the language of his books directly from etymological
research. So he was given a lot of
etymological research when he was working there.
And he was working for this Co editor of OED called Henry
Bradley, who has mentioned that all the words which were
particularly difficult in their etymology were assigned to this
particular person because he was so good at his work.
So which author am I talking about?
Who worked at the Oxford English Dictionary?
The first name that comes to mind is it Jared Tolkien.
Oh brilliant, Crack easy one for you.
It is Tolkien. It is JRR Tolkien.
Yes, he did work at the OED and I assume you have read some of
his work. Yeah, I've read the trilogy, and
I've also read The Hobbit, but I haven't read the What is the
other one? Samarion.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I have to confess, I have
only read a part of The Hobbit and I have basically watched the
movies for the rest. So I am nowhere close to being a
Tolkien enthusiast. But I do respect the kind of
impact he has had. In fact, very interestingly, and
he's known to be super humble and he refused to take credit
for the invention of the word Hobbit for decades.
Apparently he just refused to take credit for that and
everybody would assume he came up with the word.
But as it turned out, an obscure list of mythical beings which
was published in 1895 came to light in 1977 and it included
the word hobbits. So he had in his research
somewhere encountered the word perhaps, and that is why he
refused to take credit for it. Humble guy who obviously changed
literature and writing in the modern English literary sphere.
Probably changed the fantasy genre in many ways.
So, you know, definitely like set a very high bar for what
counts as world building. Yeah, I I very interestingly, I
feel like the fact that he created a world and treated it
almost as if it is the most natural thing was perhaps a big
leap forward from fantasy before that phenomenal, phenomenal
author. Yeah.
Anyways, your question next HK. This might be a relatively easy
one, so, but also it's a book related question.
I'm gonna write it out and we're probably gonna get it quickly.
But let's see, it's a long question.
At least let me read out the question.
Don't do a Vineet. Yeah, so, oh, we're calling
Vineet out on this. Poor guy did that once.
Yeah, OK, the code goes. I tried to write that book for
almost 10 years. Ever since I worked as a
chaplain. I would go back.
I was trying to work on what I called the Children's Hospital
story. Although in all of its previous
incarnations it started. This 20 year old hospital
chaplain was like surprisingly handsome and like hooking up
with doctors. It was very embarrassing.
I hope. That it was just terrible.
But, you know, I would go back to that story and go back to it
and go back to it. Then in 2010, a good friend of
mine died of cancer. A young friend and I went back
to the story and I went back to it angry and needing to work.
The author who's quoted is talking about their novel
written Violent Residents in Amsterdam.
So I'm going to stop there. If you know what book I'm
talking about, you can let me know.
Otherwise, there's like a couple of other hints about this as
well. Yeah, right now I have no clear
answer in my head, but I would just like to clarify.
So this was a book that was inspired by some hospital that
this person was working at and the chaplain was having an
affair with the doctors. Is that it?
No, no, no, no. So the initial kind of.
The, the book was being written for almost 10 years, right?
So the the author was trying to write the book and every time he
would end up with the story of the chaplain who would go about
whose hands someone would go about, like picking up with
doctors. But then the kind of the
precipitating incident was this good friend of the author who
died of cancer was a young friend.
And then the author went back and kind of wrote the story that
we know quite well now. OK, interesting.
And another clue was that was written in residence in
Amsterdam. That's actually kind of a big
clue. Dutch novelist or a Dutch novel?
I I'm blanking. I did not say to the Dutch
novelist author violent residence in Amsterdam.
I did not say to the Dutch novelist.
Fair enough, Fair enough. No.
I'm just trying to make connections.
But right now I don't have anything to go off of.
Yeah. Can I get the publishing date,
perhaps, of this book? When was this book published?
Yeah. So the book was published in
2012. OK.
So inside the book there's a there's a fictional book within
that book, and the Bandit 2 books served as inspiration for
that. The Blood of the Lamb by Peter
Devrius and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
OK, oh, but 2012 might be the wrong year for this.
But I'm, I want to say fault in our Stars.
It's The Fault in Our Stars. Kmart in 2012.
The book? OK, it did OK, lovely.
And Amsterdam makes sense because there is a whole part of
the book which takes place in Amsterdam.
Yes, that's very nice. So John Green wrote the book
because a friend of his passed away.
Yeah, yeah. So the young friend who died was
Esther Earl, who was apparently named in the book's dedication.
I see. And as the avid listener of the
Are You Quizzing Me? Another John Green book was
recently mentioned, I think a few episodes ago.
Paper towels as well, I did. I did mention Paper Towns.
I believe Vineet has not read John Green books enough, but I
have read most of his stuff. So yeah, this is a question that
that I really, really appreciate.
Thanks. That is lovely.
Now let me move to something else.
There was a company called Washburn Crosby Company, which
was a flour milling company and it was started in the late
1800s. This eventually actually became
General Mills, which is a lot more famous.
The product Gold Medal Flower Kick started a specific thing.
OK, so let me actually clarify more a little bit more, OK, Gold
Medal flower ad was placed in a Saturday Evening Post in 1921.
This ad featured a puzzle and contestants were encouraged to
send in the response to this puzzle.
There was an overwhelming number of responses.
Apparently, more than 30,000 people responded.
Along with the responses, which were the solutions to the
puzzle, people also sent in a lot of questions about baking.
So what came out of this particular incident?
So there's a tradition of recipes being printed on flour
boxes and stuff like that. Is this something related to
that or no? That would not be the answer
here, no. OK.
Or the other one I think of is like I don't conflicts or
there's like on in in cereal boxes there's just again a
tradition of like either asking questions or solving something
and sending the box back and getting something returned.
No, no. OK.
So I think my question could do with the slight clarification I
said what did give rise to let me change that slightly to say
who did it give rise to. So it's a person in question
here. 1921, Yes, OK 1921 who? Some sort of mascot.
Is that what we're looking at? You would not be incorrect, OK?
Is it is it like a television baking show or a cooking show
person? Something like that?
I'm not sure if this this particular person has had a
baking show and television show, but OK, they are very closely
associated with baking. Is it the Pillsbury Dough Man?
No. No, no, that's an Indian thing,
is it? Perhaps it is some
anthropomorphic character. Is it like, is it an actual
person or is it like it's a human being?
It's a human being, OK. I like how you said human being
OK and this was to answer kind of baking related questions,
right. So they're just it's like a
character that someone like in in the papers or something that
you ask an expert sort of thingy.
You are very much on the right path and which is why I said the
human being, because what you had asked me was is it an actual
person. So let me clarify, it's not an
actual person, but it is a human being.
Like it's a fictitious human. See, I I don't know about these
columns that much, but is it like some?
I'd ask him how this. I don't know all these kind of
columns, but I don't know which one specifically.
There's probably a famous baking one, but I'm frankly like I
don't have that much knowledge. But yeah, so the intention was
to answer the questions for your customers, but that is not what
is exclusively the domain of this character today.
So it is more generally linked with baking and the world of
baking. Do you think I would know of
this person like you have definitely heard of it?
You might have even consumed something associated with this
person if I could be excused for being weak.
Right. I'm thinking of what sort of
baking companies have, like people's names on them and
things like that. Is it some?
It's an American company, yes, and that is the right path to go
down. OK, first on Pepperidge Farms,
but I presume no. What's that?
What's that baking based thingy? Graham's crackers?
Is it? Is it something to?
Is it? No, no, no.
Again, I assume you would have consumed it, but I remember the
first time I saw it was when I was going to study as a student
and I had no access to a kitchen.
So all I had access to was a microwave.
And this particular product was very easily microwavable, gave
this wonderful little cake, instant cake kind of a deal.
And that was with this. And this was something very new
for me. Right, right, right.
Talking about brownie mixes, right?
And let this like, yes. I don't know if that is the that
is the thing that they're most famous for today, but that is
what I first encountered and I have consumed the most also.
I know the company. You're right, I've seen them,
but the name is just. I will give, I'll give you the
hint that it's a two word name. So it's not like just one word
or something like that. It's not grams, crackers,
something like that. It's a first name and a last
name. And I'll give you the initials,
it's B&C. Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker is
the answer. Betty Crocker is the answer.
Yes, yes. I assume you have you have heard
of Betty Crocker? If not, had Betty Crocker at
least? I don't think I've had the
premix and Betty Crocker is not an actual person.
Interestingly enough, back then, as a lot of workplaces were,
this was also all male. But when they had to answer
these questions, they would ask women for their expertise.
The department manager, Samuel Gale, would never feel
comfortable signing his own name to the advice because he's
suspected that women would rather hear from other women who
knew their way around the kitchen.
And for some reason, instead of getting an actual woman, they
created a woman called Betty Crocker who would answer these
questions. And that's how Betty Crocker
came to be, because that was the name that was signed at the
bottom of these responses to customers.
The name Crocker, interestingly, was from the recently retired
director of the Washburn Crosby Company.
His name was William G Crocker. And Betty was chosen just
because it's a wholesome, cheerful name, apparently.
So that's how Betty Crocker came to be.
OK, hit me with the next question.
Under the handle Chang Sumat 666, this 34 year old Taiwanese
math teacher basically has a verified account that has netted
over 1.7 billion views and features the slogan Play hard,
Study hard. He appears in every clip
carefully explaining things like the differential methods in his
native Mandarin. The goal is for viewers to sign
up to Changshu. Jancture's online course, which
Nets him over $250,000 a year, which he uses to pay his stuff
and produce the math videos. The question for you is where
does he upload his math videos? Oh OK.
I had assumed before you asked this that it was YouTube, but
now that would seem too straightforward.
So my next guess would be TikTok.
No. Oh, interesting.
Not YouTube. Not TikTok.
He's uploading videos online. Instagram.
No. So OK.
So there's a couple of words you have to latch on to 1 is that
it's a verified account. So there are certain platforms
that use this term verified. So Instagram is one of them, but
it's not Instagram. And also the slogan is play
hard, study hard. So you know, I hope these will
inspire you to think slightly out-of-the-box for this, you
know, website. HM interesting.
Play hard. Study hard.
Verified accounts. Verified account makes you think
of Twitter. But then that probably is also
not the right answer. Play hard, study hard.
Oh, is it a oh boy, is it Pornhub by any chance?
It is Pornhub. Oh God, What?
What's the logic? Why?
Why upload educational videos to Pornhub?
I mean, it clearly gets viewers to sign up for his online
course, and that's apparently helps him sustain this business
that he has. Wow.
I guess there is a niche in
every market in the world. I guess you have people who are
interested simultaneously in adult entertainment and in
mathematical education. That is fascinating.
I was thinking play hard, work hard.
And I was like, what do you mean by play hard, work hard.
As a hint, play hard, study hard.
By the way, sorry. Study hard, not work hard, play
hard, study hard. OK.
The the juvenile nature of that humor is is tickling my funny
bone. Well done, well done.
OK, that's a brilliant question. And I'm tempted to end it here.
You know what? I'm gonna end this episode on
that question, because that is a really, really fun question.
Thanks, HK. That brightened up my day.
We hope we don't have any under 18 listeners, you know, so I
they are. I don't know if there's any
setting that you have to do to mark this podcast as not safe
for work, but well, here's what. Here's my opinion on this.
I feel like we did not say anything explicit, and I imagine
a lot of lot of people under 18 also know of the existence upon
up, but they are not allowed to visit it.
So hey, you do what is legally and morally OK with you.
I have nobody to tell you what to do anyways.
So yeah, that is a wonderful, fantastic, hilarious question.
One of the best questions I've heard on this podcast.
I loved it. OK, before we end this episode,
as usual, I have to ask a question for next week's episode
and that will be which Indian movie has apparently, in my
opinion at least, is misspelled intentionally.
And why was it misspelled so? What was the intention behind
that misspelling in that Indian movie's name?
And the answer for this question will be given next week at that
I have to sign off. Thank you so much HK for joining
us once again for this episode. You have been as usual a
wonderful quizzer and I will see you very soon.
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Are we only on Instagram, Madhi? Are we not on any other
platforms? It seems like there are, you
know, featured. So you know, yeah, I I feel like
we haven't launched the video version of a podcast yet.
But now that this is something that you have planted the seed
off in my head, I'm going to consider at some point
convincing Beneath to launch our video version of the podcast on
an adult entertainment website, which is not even legal in
India. So I don't even know why I would
do that. OK, signing off, See you guys
next week. Bye bye.
And here's the fact. Check for the episode.
Charles the First was beheaded in 1649.
The earliest recorded usage of modern torpedoes in both warfare
and even as a demo was in the very early 19th century.
Betty Crocker has appeared on both radio and television shows
in the United States of America, and that's all for the Fact
Check.