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And so am I this week after last week's guest quizmaster who did
a fantastic job? Thank you.
H k, life got in the way and I was not able to attend last
week's episode but I still do have the ridiculous question
that other day. I had put forward last week for
the Thea, please. Enlighten us on the Fun With
Flags episode of Antarctica. Fun With Flags and coat of arms,
the idea was the question was what what would Antarctica Port
if there were were to declare independence on their coat of
arms? And I made a mistake, I said,
animal, I meant any living being and here's where the answer
comes in. It would be my ex because she
pretty much personified cold frigid.
Uninhabitable condition and I'm not even on somebody here.
If you if you remember the audience and the last week's
episode he specifically said that he wouldn't want to get
cancelled. Now I am going to have probably
the women's Commission of India after us for this particular.
I know I'm saying the one person who I was, honestly, I'm
kidding. Anybody been kind enough to
date. Me has been a very credible
completely. Yeah.
Okay. Yes.
Yes, yes, yes. That was a joke.
People not the apology. The the original answer was a
joke. Okay, so now that we have that
out of the way, let's start off with a question.
I will start us off this week with something, maybe a little
unexpected. It's a Straightforward question
from the world of movies. So the movie with the highest
return of investment pulse producer, gave a return of 90
thousand percent. This is not an unknown movie, it
is a movie, which is very well, known in pop culture, and is
it's also had its impact on history modern day history as
well. So my simple question, which is
this movie? Which is given the highest
Return Of Interest ever a record which is unlikely to be broken
any time zone with the return of interest of a ninety thousand
percent. I think you said, Return Of
Interest, I believe you meant return on investment, right?
Yes. So I'm so sorry.
Return of return on investment. Yes, return of environment on
investment of 90 thousand percent.
Okay, so instinctively, I want Say deep throat.
This e. This is.
Yeah, I have two things to say. One is the fact that it's a good
thing that he got it so easily because he's a trivia hound and
to, why did your mind go to the throat?
A lot of movies, I'll tell you why.
This is very good reason because I'm sure there's a very good
reason. Let me let me save myself my
skin now. You're doomed.
Auntie, if you're listening this is what your little boy.
Is he sorry? Bob.
No. So the reason being because I've
started watching this Netflix show, it's been a couple of
years that is without Ozark recently and it was argued about
money law. So I was talking to a friend and
I, we were talking about money laundering.
And this example, of the Prophet came up as to how the earnings
from deep throat might have been massively inflated because a Of
the theaters adult film theaters back whenever it came out. 70s,
I believe in the same house is owned by the Mobsters, the New
York mafia. So they used to launder the
dirty money through this move. These movie theaters and hence
the earnings might be inflated, but at least those are the
reported earnings. So the question still stands it
just has this small caveat, then it went on me and really what?
Yes, yes. And he thinks he doth protest
too much, but yes. Blame It on the mob, blame it on
the mob. Yes.
So yes, it is. Deep Throat.
The very famous NC-17 rated pornographic movie from the 70s.
It was made on a budget of 25,000 dollars and made a profit
of 22 million. Two hundred fifty, eight
thousand, four hundred, sixty, seven dollars, which gave it a
return on investment. Of almost 90,000 percent.
Basically, what happens is normally, when a patient in a
movie releases with an X rating or an NC-17 rating, it's a kiss
of death. Those movies don't run all that.
Well, theatrically, but this flick proof very different and
it ushered in an era of what came to be known as porno Chic,
dirty movies that featured real actors, bona fide plot
production value. And as I said, Ted, it's a it
turned 90 thousand and fourteen percent return and interest at
number, which is kept in the top spot for nearly 50 years and
it's unlikely to lose that title anytime soon.
So kudos to idea for getting that very quickly.
Yes, yes. Okay.
So, what if I did his mom's? Listen, Mm-hmm, I have nothing
to say. Speaking of hymns, let me ask
you a non-adult question. I'm going to give you a movie
taglines and you can tell me which movie it's wrong.
Yeah. There's some fun tag lines that
I from movies that have lied over the years.
So, the first one is Checking unpack.
Relax. Take a shower psycho like oh is
right? Yeah, that's the one.
Okay, the next one on the are unaware, on the are unaware.
Good morning Vietnam. No network.
No female suicides in the end. No good guess.
But no on the are unaware. Okay, give me a time frame for
this. I believe it's the 90s 90s over.
This is Connor. No, I would like being a greedy
literal on the air 1998 1998. When I should know this, I was
practically neck-deep in movies. In 1998.
I'd be surprised if you haven't watched it, it's a pretty famous
film. Yeah, on the are unaware.
I can give the active. That makes it easier.
Yeah. I'm you can try is very easy.
So I'll give you that. Okay, I'll give you the actor.
Laura Linney, Laura, Linney on the are unaware.
Wait, okay. That did not make it easy.
I'm blanking Laura, Linney is the Male.
Yes. Yeah.
And male lead is, should I give it?
Should I give it should I give it?
Okay. Yeah, it's Jim Carrey.
It's a Truman true. It's a Truman Show.
Ha ha ha ha hype. The Truman Show.
Yes, Laura Linney. Yes, yes.
On the air. And oh, yes, it's so obvious on
the air and of area. Okay, okay, hit me on the next
one. Let me redeem it.
Fear can hold, you prisoner. Hope can set you free Cape here.
Now here can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
There is a movie with a very young Mark Wahlberg which was
not my call. God fear now.
Okay, interestingly enough that has a connection to dull, but
yeah, here can give hope can set you free Shawshank Redemption.
No Shawshank Redemption is done. Say.
Yeah, right. Yeah.
Right. Yeah, let's do one.
Last one. the longer you, wait, the harder it gets Naughty Boy
Naughty Boy. Okay.
The longer you hit the heart, is it?
It's time frame. I need a time frame for this
movie. Whichever one is it is the
2000's, the hunger. You wait, Nokia, none blanking
we have in the cast. Seth Rogen.
Oh yeah, way it is this super bad.
No, we have Paul Rudd Anchorman? No okay.
Okay, Paul close it close but no not yet, I'm getting flashbacks
about it. It's not the Pineapple Express.
It's it's not gonna lead actors. Steve Carell 40 year old virgin
the 40 year old woman. Yeah it gets Well, that's a very
clever line. That's a very, very clever.
It is, I don't know if you know this piece of trivia, the 40
year old virgin that very famous waxing scene, where Steve Carell
chest is getting waxed, they actually did that for real.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, and that's his actual hair being
waxed of, and so the reactions are all very authentic.
Very, very authentic. But did you know that this lady
who was doing? It had lied saying she actually
knew to do it. Oh, I don't know.
The ha ha. Yes, yeah.
So you can actually even see the reactions when you watch this
movie, knowing the fact that she doesn't know what she's doing
and there's a very dangerous portion.
So, after the first trip is taken off, She lays down the
second strip, right? So he does that with the strip
directly over his nipple. Okay?
So now, apparently Now I don't have much, like this is what
I've read, so experienced waxes and Salon people.
What they do is they put Vaseline or something over the
nipple so that it doesn't affect there's no Nick's no sticking
and pulling of the nipple itself.
This lady didn't do that. Luckily for him the different
drink up of. Otherwise there was a good
chance of bleeding and whatnot. Oh God, I'm just feeling some
sleep. Steve and yeah, I know because
I've seen the scene with the knowledge that this is happening
in real time and actually happening to see Carol and you
can see how much that lady was doing.
The waxing is breaking her character.
Yeah, they can cause, cause she's supposed to whatever Q
was. I don't know what you're
supposed to do but he can pull back and laughter who she's
laughing. This is a very straightforward
question. It's been a favorite piece of
trivia of mine. I'm Joy or get this in like two
seconds. So canonization is a process by
which the Christian Church declares a deceased person to be
a saint during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic
Church. A lawyer is always appointed to
argue against the canonization of the person.
It's usually a cardinal. Like one of the caracal
Cardinals of the College of cardinals.
It was this person's job to take a skeptical view of the
candidates character to look for holes in the evidence and to
argue that any Miracles, attributed to the candidate were
fraudulent. What is the title or name?
Given to this person Devil's Advocate?
See, I say I told you it'll two seconds.
It is the devil's advocate. Right?
Okay, cool. Cool air.
Yeah, it doesn't require any explanation.
It's yeah, the person who basically argues The saint is
the devil's advocate here, but I've always liked the fact that
it came from, you know, that particular source button its
peak you of this, though, I'll just do a quick detour.
I recently was reading about this and I don't know why it
came up as reading about the loving versus Virginia case in
the USA. And this was a case about People
being able to match have interracial marriages, I believe
the loving day, or whatever it's called was very recently.
It was the day that the law was struck down and every state had
to accept interracial marriages as being lawful was before that
some of the southern states didn't have that on their laws.
So I always found it just beautiful poetically.
Just how you said like how Devil's Advocate comes from
actual church. I thought there was also a
poetic in the since that loving was their last name and they
were fighting for the right to marry is anybody regardless of
race color of the skin which is sweet.
Okay. Let's move on to some geography,
speaking of countries. So I'm going to talk about this
country which is a Polynesian island country.
Are you good with the Polynesian countries?
Now it's one of the smaller ones.
Okay, I'll give you the name at some more.
Alright, so some I have heard of some of our.
Yeah, all right, great. So somewhere in 2011, went from
29th, December. Ember to 31st December.
What happened to the missing day that question?
This happened in 2011. Yes.
Hmm. Something to do with the
International Date Line. Yeah.
That's that's pretty close and I will give that to you, but do
you wanna maybe expound a little bit upon?
What? Exactly.
Or maybe I was just guessing because I know the International
Date Line is somewhere over there.
I'm guessing. Yeah, I'm guessing that So they
had to make up for a day. Did it shift the Dateline know,
right? That's never happened.
Like, not that. I'd heard of 2011's not asleep
yet either. So it's not like they were
trying to make up for a day. Actually, you are right with the
first guess the way they want to be shifted the date line, or you
can read through. It's likely what they did was
they were earlier on the east of them International Date Line.
So that was the UTC - 11. Ah, okay.
They'll shift, they wanted to move to the date line which
should align them with New Zealand.
China and other places in Asia, they technically had to move to
the other side of the Dateline. So the Dateline technically had
to be redrawn so it went on their West earlier, the read the
date line now had to be on the East they are In the west of the
Dateline. Oh, okay.
Okay. So the way at the end of
Thursday, 29th, December 2011, some more continued directly to
Saturday, the 31st December 2011 and there was no Friday that you
have for on the 30th of December for someone's.
This is just I think the reasoning.
Is interesting in and of itself, but the fact that this gift
today is pretty cool. I like that.
Just yes, not having one whole day.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay, I have a question regarding dates and times which
I will reserve for another episode not for this one, but
today, I will also go somewhere something related to history.
Let's say history and geography, right?
So Muhammad's Amidala. Is dr.
Ambedkar like figure for Pakistan as he helped them draft
their constitution. He is also remembered for the
free for one of his strange translations of the Quran.
Even though he lived in Paris for a long time.
He never took French citizenship for the French classified him as
a refugee and he remained the last citizen of his erstwhile
state. Where was he from?
Wow, Okay, could you repeat some of the key details?
Okay, so Mama da middle. Ah, one of the architects of the
Pakistani Constitution, he stayed in France for a long time
classified as a refugee and the French considered him as one of
the last citizens of his erstwhile State.
I will add one more Point Key was a citizen of the state when
he went to the UN and while he was there in became he no longer
became a citizen of that particular state.
Okay, so I would assume it is some state which cease to exist.
I would want to guess. Hyderabad, was he under there,
you're on a roll today as it is Hyderabad.
Okay, so if for those who did not know, Hyderabad was one of
the princely states, it was quite a large State.
I think approximately the size of France itself, it will huge
state of one of the richest states in the world and And the
Indian army annexed Hyderabad from the nawab of Hyderabad, the
nizam of Hyderabad. Sorry just after just after
Independence mr. Hameed, the law had gone to the
UN to argue the case for about the when it was annexed and that
state became one that no longer existed and then he was on the
refugee status in France, for some time.
Before, I think he then this I'll have to fact-check, but I
think he left for Pakistan. After that.
Okay, yes, you're a roll today, too.
All right, let me ask my question, which planet is the
closest to the earth? Okay, so this is definitely a
trick question, okay? Which planet is closest to the
earth. I'm tempted to say Mass, but I'm
guessing it's enough Source. It is not Mars.
Yeah, it's not - it's not much. Okay, so then logically, the
next answer should be Venus, but I'm guessing you're going to say
of source. It's not Venus, it's not
technically, it's not Venus, okay?
So unless there is a planet that you, okay, is the moon
classified as a protoplanet because of its size know, No no
planet planet a protoplanet closest.
Okay? Now okay.
Maybe. Are you two saying closest in
terms of distance or closest in terms of size or closes it in
terms of the ability? Just, yeah.
In terms in terms of the number of letters in the name or
alphabetically? No, no.
Okay. Let me let me let me put it this
way. So you are, are you asking about
the closest? Terms of distance in the orbital
plane of the solar system or in some others above and below kind
of thing. Orbital plane orbital plane.
You are right. Your, of course.
You now that I've asked this question, it's obvious that I'm
trying to get at something interesting and perhaps not very
directly intuitive. So Venus and Mars are ruled out
because of it there's a good intuitive answers.
Yeah. The caveat of Hap's.
The little bit of the work that I am talking about is not what
you have gotten yet, but you are right, there is something
specific that. I'm asking, you're not
considering large asteroids to be protoplanets either.
No, no, it is one of the eight planets, it's one of the eight
planets eight planets in closest in distance in the orbital plane
of the solar system. I'm sorry that you cannot have
any other planets knows. I was thinking maybe you were
thinking of Pluto, which had this eccentric orbit.
So if you may be measured from a different plane, that, that
would be the closest. But no, I am sorry.
But if there are no other planets on the orbital plane,
which are closer than either Venus or Mars, let me give you
the small caveat in the question.
Let's see if we can figure it out from there.
Venus does get closest to the Earth, but isn't always the
case. Oh, so your answer is, there is
no one planet Which is closest to the earth at any given time.
No. There is obvious One Planet.
There is one planet, but it's changes keep changing.
So yes. So what would you then say is a
general answer to the closest planet?
To the Earth is whichever, is the closest to the point that
pretty. Okay, let me let me be most
because we don't want it to be time.
I'm specific the question. Would then be slightly refreshed
to on average which planet is closest to the earth on average.
Yeah. Then it would be Mars.
It Isn't So they don't. Well, it is to be fair to you
completely for the longest time. People assumed Venus would be
the answer to even the second question.
But it was discovered not too long ago that no business.
Or some new math that people discovered helped us.
Realize that meanness is not the answer to that question.
And neither is Mars. There is Master.
Okay, now that release time is me how I will tide relock with
some other planet, so that when the hell out of the way, now
we're not tightly lock that. That's a great guess, by the
way. But no, we're not tightly
locked. This answer would remain the
same regardless of what planet. I asked you.
The only planet that would fit. That criteria would be Mercury.
Mercury moves around the Sun so fast, that it gave me
practically no difference. You are right.
Mercury's orbital radius is so small as compared to the other
massive orbital radii of the other planet that on average.
It turns out from any Planet, you measure Mercury is always
the clothes. So it's Not just now it's Mars
Venus it's Jupiter Saturn Neptune.
Uranus which ever one you measure from Mercury on average
is always the closest to them nice because then the plants are
apart. They're so apart that on the
other end of the astronomical distances as we call them.
Yeah. That's that's that's a very good
question that the very unfairly phrased, but still, very good
question. It had to be bad, but yes, you
do. You got there.
Nobody another that attacker of question.
I am definitely stealing that. Okay, I am now going to go to
Linguistics in linguistics prosthesis is the addition of a
sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without
changing its meaning, or structure, the Wikipedia entry
for this prosthesis in linguistics describes a
prosthesis for several languages, including Including
the usage of English words. By the speaker's of a certain
language in India. How exactly is this prosthesis
explain? The language will be the true.
So if you are, if you want. Okay, so you didn't give me.
Yes. But these are the Indian.
Yeah, it's an Indian language. So the prosthesis is the
addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of the word
without changing its structure or meaning.
And one of the examples given is the usage of English words by
speakers of a certain language in India, actually more than one
language. Sorry.
You said at the beginning of the word, right?
Yes, you add, you know, a sound or a syllable at the beginning
of a word. Interesting.
So is it it's a silent prefix or am I misunderstanding it?
No, no, it's not silent. You do actually pronounce it,
but it doesn't change the meaning.
Nor does it change this? Structure.
What do you mean by structure? Like the spelling of the word
doesn't change? Yeah.
So you would still write it with its Actual spelling, okay?
But when you say it, you say it with an additional syllable or
sound. I have no clue here, so I'm
going to make a guess, okay? So I'll give you the there are
examples in other languages as well, in India, in many
different languages. But I think the primary one that
you might have word, And that most people would have heard,
especially for those in India is kindy so the usage of certain
English words in Hindi ends up using this prosthesis certain
English words in Hindi. If I Hindi speakers, let me be
more specific by Hindi speakers. Yeah.
Okay, I figured that I was assuming it has something to do
with the accent and the way Hindi speakers speak English.
Yeah, you wouldn't be wrong. This probably is feels like it's
not the right answer but I'm just going to say it.
Is it something like, say a word like phone but then you spell
you you pronounce the p and the H separately is that something
no, no, no successive inch of prosthesis is like the literal
meaning of the word process is something that the added on it
is added. All right, okay.
Now then I am kind of drawing a blank, okay?
I don't know how to give an additional clue for this.
Hmm. Okay, let's just say think of
certain English words, very common English words, which when
a Hindi speaker, native Hindi speakers is it.
They might add a sound or a particular letter or syllable to
that to the beginning of that, and it doesn't change the
meaning at all. It's still an English word, and
you write it in Hindi, also, without that additional sound,
but when they say it, they say it with the rotational.
Sound interesting so they don't change the spelling and but it's
just said with that sound. I cannot think of a single
example that would fit the bill. I can get you three right now.
Okay, maybe lead me to the word without giving me the word.
I don't know, I'm trying. Okay, so now if I tell you the
word guarantee you will get it in two seconds.
But yeah. So let's start with one word.
School is cool. So like and I that you put
exactly. Yes.
So when native Hindi speakers
they add, I to several English word.
So it's special is school station later.
Okay, that is called in linguistics.
It's called a prosthesis Oh okay there's an actual word for that.
Is there a reason that we do it? Because of course now it's not
just if it's not a phenomenon that restricted to Hindi, there
are many different examples in many different words, I know
that there are certain examples in Malayalam is well certain
dialects of Malayalam parts of Kerala.
Where people say who school instead of solving a new school
There is a you rather than I write some imagining something
like this has some basis in how the language structure exists.
Perhaps vs, any speakers and I have a tendency to not start
words with all. The esker sound is weird for a
so we we put a syllable before that to make it easier for us to
say it. I don't know, I'm just making
wild guesses here but ya know that there are these English
words as for foreign to To Native Hindi speaker.
So these kind of additions make it easier for them to pronounce
the word. Would that then be the reason
that so many Hindi names when anglicized had an R sound added
to the end because to an English speaker ending a ram Rama Ram at
sounded stranger was no no I think that that that that I
think would have to come from the Sanskrit version because The
Sanskrit version would be Rama but sanskritization still drama,
right? It's all right.
So there is no idea n, which means that there is some adding
that is a more often. Again, we both are not linguists
here so they probably just yeah, we were basically candles in the
wind right now. It's conjecture happening, but I
also interesting. Okay, little quirks of language.
I love that. So there are a lot of examples
in Slavic languages in in Persian languages in Hindi some
of the Semitic languages Turkish even Latin apparently but since
I don't speak Latin it's very difficult for me to understand
how that would change it, the dead language, nobody speaks
already. I was just going to say and
maybe I should have saved this for the end of the episode but I
will say it. Now before you said, add it to
the front, I was going to say, if it can be added any point lot
of in these speakers, just put a rhyming.
Like a Chili shy but the yes. Yes.
The pretty good. Like ice cream by scream School
wool. My Hindi teachers.
Not that they're listening to. This would probably kill me for
not remembering this. But I remember there is a term
for this and we were taught it in School soshi, Mom.
I'm very sorry. I don't remember exactly what it
is called. Okay.
I'll admit I'll add it in the facts.
If I find it. Yeah no but it is there is it
there is an actual term for it and we were taught that you
know, it can be done but it's not not used in formal
situations, you can only use it in formal situations and there
was a whole thing behind area you're adding something and your
you won't write it ever. You want right biscuit biscuit,
but you do say? And it doesn't change the
meaning, doesn't equal the same at all.
Okay, cool. That was a mouthful.
Yes, let's move from there to something that it's one of the
best Segways ever. Okay, Hanson Gregory and
American invented this food item, looking of mouthfuls, he
invented this food item in 1847, he claims to have invented
rather. When he was aboard, a lime
trading ship, as a sixteen-year-old aborting about
a what lime training, so lines Limes.
Okay. As in the fruit are.
Yes. Okay lime training ship ship
when he was 16 years old. Okay, I did not like the
consistency of the pre of the existing food product of so he
modified it into the version that we know it now, okay?
With me so far. Yes.
So this fellow what was his name again?
Hanson and Saint Gregory and sin Gregory.
Okay. He was a sailor around 16 years
of age on a ship specifically. A lime trading tip.
While I'm reading part is not very relevant.
Oh but yes, it is trading ship. Okay.
So he was on a trading ship, there was a receiver serving
some sort of food. Didn't like the consistency.
So in 1847, he made something some kind of dish.
Yes, yes. Okay, I'm with you so far.
Okay. So he changed the shape of it
and this allowed the change in shape allowed for it to be more
consistently cooked. So the problematic consistency
was in the center, but have behaving change the shape, it
allowed for it to be more even Only cooked and that to him was
a much more desirable outcome. You you're smiling service.
Umm you know, but before you let you crack this question, I am
going to complete this question because it also has to do with
the ease of eating this while he was navigating the ship while he
was at the wheel of the ship, okay.
The second part doesn't Lend itself to me, guessing it, but
the first part where you mentioned, he's of cooking where
it's cooking evenly, especially when you have something enter.
The first thing you do, is what you create a hole in the center
that leads me to come to two guesses.
The first of which is the Madhubala, but since he is
American, I'm not going to give that as the answer and the
second obviously, would then be a donut, you are absolutely,
right. Donut, the other reason that the
navigating ship thing was at the wheel.
Apparently, the donut was easy to and convenient to put on one
of the real advantages across the board.
It makes sense that it was a teenager who invented this and
came up with that particular usage.
Yeah, makes sense right. So anyways it is to clarify the
donuts. In terms of what the recipe
calls for and how it tastes is something that has existed for
many, many centuries, it isn't as recent as 1847 in various
cultures that has existed but in 1847 Gregory hands and has
claimed to have come up with the idea of punching a hole in the
center. And he says that use the ship's
tin pepperbox. Now I'm not sure what how he
used it in Little Boxes. But that's only the Andy later.
Apparently, taught this technique to his mother as well.
So his mother used to make these deep-fried dough thingies, and
he realized that using his whether it could be done better.
So that's how the iconic donut shape apparently came to be.
No, I like that story. Okay, so I am going to put this
question to you on 20th. September 1878 X was founded.
By what was one what was then known as the triplicane 6
consisting of for law students and two teachers on a borrowed
capital of one rupee, and 12 or Nah.
This was the first of its ilk in India to have a website in 1995
and it was established to protest the policies of the
British. Raj, what am I talking about?
The founding of 1878. Yes.
It the founding was 1878 by six people who came to be known as
the triplicane six. It was founded to protest the
policies of the British Raj and it was the first of its ilk to
have its own website in 1995. First of itself, being maybe the
the type of website was if I do can be one of the first websites
No, turn on one of the first trips, a this x does entity X
which was founded by this. This was the further.
This entity was the first of its ilk to have its own website and
this was meant to protest the British Raj the policies of the
British Raj. Yes.
So I'm inclined to think something along the lines of
Journalism. Hmm.
You would not be wrong. Okay, I don't think that's the
origin for the times of India. It's not the times of India.
I don't think Indian Express, is
that old neither do I know. Is it a ongoing?
Yes, yes. Yes.
Very much so very much so. Okay.
It's an ongoing late 90s and the 32 thousands are quizzes, would
definitely remember this because this particular publication had
their own quite prestigious quiz.
Is honestly the Hindu. Yes, it is the Hindu.
So it's been so a little bit of history about the Hindu.
It is, it started off as a weekly in 1878, and then it
became a daily in 1889. Okay.
It was the second. Most circulated english-language
newspaper in India, after the times of India, okay?
It has been family owned since 1995 when it was purchased by.
The story wrong guy, Anger from the original Founders.
And now, it's the kasturi family.
Which holds the, you know, the which owns the newspaper, the
triplicane six, the people who the revolutionaries who started
is a for law students and two teachers for posterity will be
naming them here. TT rangachari RPV rangachari.
Ah, DK, several panthulu and Subaru panthulu and G subramanya
are along with em. Veera recover, we recover
terrier and they started in order to support the campaign of
Sir, T muthu Swami are for a judgeship at The Madras high
court and to counter the campaign against him.
Being carried out by the anglo-indian press, it has a
very rich history, the Hindu newspaper has a very rich
history and it's also considered as one of the, you know,
newspapers of record in India for those Don't know, newspaper
of record is a major new large newspaper with a national
presence. In the large circulation, whose
editorial and newsgathering functions are considered to be
authoritative and independent write the code.
That's the founding of the Hindu newspaper.
So I guess we are down to the last question of this episode
with you as. Yeah, let's do that.
Let's do something alcohol-related.
Oh, always fun. Yeah.
Do you know what? And I use the word cocktail a
bit Loosely here. Okay.
What the cocktail three wise men has, what does it have as in?
You're asking about the ingredients.
Yeah. So three wisemen, I would say
frankincense myrrh and but then obviously wouldn't put that in
drinks form. Guess what?
Now, Give me the wise men of, obviously, is a reference to the
Magi the biblical. Yeah, magi the wise men.
Okay, I need some sort of a clue here, okay?
So when I said, I use the word cocktail Loosely, it's because
cocktails technically the technical definition of cocktail
needed to have certain things in it.
And while this drink three wise, men is informally called a
Cockerel. It does not mean the usual
definition. Nishan as it only has alcohols,
but it doesn't have any other ingredients.
So there are no mixers basically.
Yes, I'm guessing there are three ingredients.
Right thing is in should be correct?
Yes. Okay, all of them are all three
are different spirits? Well, they are not, no, they're
not. They're the same kind of spirit,
same kind of spirit. So you are.
That's a great guess that? You, you got there on your own.
Let me actually help you a bit further.
Do it. These are always Keys.
Okay, okay. So then I'm guessing we are
talking about the names of the Whiskey's because I'm guessing
one of them will be Johnny Walker.
Yes. All right.
And what are the two? They are also alliterative.
Let me give you one last. You there are iterative.
Also then it will be Johnny Walker, Jack Daniel's and Jim
Beam. That's right.
Yes, it's Jonah point of order point of order here.
Jack Daniels is okay. It is technically taking
Tennessee, sour mash whiskey. But it's a very serious really
missed this concrete whiskey, Kentucky, bourbon whiskey.
So what are the proportions? Like I'm interested.
This is a, this sounds like quite it's quite the you drink
it only if you really want to get completely hammered.
Anyway, there are, there are Group of cocktails, which I'd
call Cocktails, which are basically the most cost
effective and easiest ways to get drunk Long Island.
Iced tea is one of those. Oh yes.
Yes. Yeah, those will hit you very
quickly. This I think would definitely
make for something that would be.
Okay. What are the proportions like,
how would you make one of these? It's literally equal parts.
So one part Johnnie Walker, one part Jack, Daniel one part, Jim
Beam. I'm not sure that will taste so
great. You can make variations on it
and there is another variation called the three wise, men,
visit Mexico and there you add one particle as well.
And that's the Jose Cuervo. Okay?
So then what we do is we will say three miles men, visit
India, and we add John Paul whiskey, as well.
Yes, it fits or those who In don't know, John Paul is a as an
Indian brewed whiskey. Brewed right here in Goa, it's
got a lot of awards and it has a range of some really good, Smoky
whiskey. And it will also fit the
alliterative theme. You have Johnnie Walker, you
have Jim Beam. You have Jack Daniels, and you
have John Paul. So, the three wise men have
visited India, love that. Okay.
Well, that's my question. Yes.
So now know that we are not off the hook that Quickly, you have
another question to ask Aditya, you cannot escape this cage of
your own making. Okay, so I'm going to ask you,
ask me which movie has had the greatest return on investment
ever in the history of filmmaking.
I'm going to ask you when you do you know, which movie has had
the worst return on investment in the history of filmmaking.
And that's a question that I'll only answer.
My next episode. Mmm.
Okay, he's going to keep us on. I don't want to say pins and
needles because that is a compliment to pins and needles.
But yes, oh-ho, yeah. So that is the episode.
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Which legalized interracial marriages in All American
states. The princely state of Hyderabad
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in area. A closer comparison for the
state of Hyderabad would be slightly smaller than the United
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Both of which cover an area of roughly 240, thousand square
kilometers. Schwa deletion is a phenomenon
that sometimes occurs in Assamese hindi/urdu Bengali
kashmiri. Punjabi, Gujarati and several
other Indian languages with Schwarz, which is the,
midcentral wobble of a, which are In the written scripts, this
deletion leads to Sanskrit words like Rama being pronounced as
RAM in Hindi when translated to English.
It is written with an a at the end.
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of a word or even the whole word is repeated.
Exactly. Or with a slight change
examples, in English include Boogie Woogie, hanky-panky,
super duper In Hindi and other indo-aryan languages.
It is often used to mean at cetera, in casual conversation,
like chai chai shopping whopping Road War.
The Single Malt whisky distilled in Goa is called Paul John
whiskey, not John Paul whiskey, it's named after all P John, the
founder of the manufacturing company, John distilleries.
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