1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,760 Welcome to Are you Quizzing Me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,840 Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,920 podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,440 history, science, pop culture, and so much more. 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:22,240 Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode #56 of Are You 6 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,280 Quizzing Me? Your Favorite Quizzing and 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,720 Trivia Podcast Show. Let's get down to business. 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,400 Last week, Aditya had asked us a question. 9 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,280 So Aditya, what's your silly question for last week and 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,480 what's your answer? The question from last week was 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,080 if an Indian airline had to honor a famous Indian celebrity 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:49,200 couple, which airline number or flight number would they choose 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,560 to do it with? My answer turns out to be very 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,080 simple, and the answer is 77. Do you know why, Vineet? 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,200 No, and I'm a little afraid to ask why. 16 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,000 Well, you don't have to, because I'm going to tell you the answer 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,520 anyways. I'm going to talk about a 18 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,440 couple, not in the traditional sense of a romantic couple, but 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,800 a couple that has created some very iconic pieces of work in 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,080 Bollywood, and that is Suraj Barjatya and his muse Salman 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,040 Khan. And what is the movie that you 22 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,720 associate very strongly with them? 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,480 A very iconic film that would be Hum Saath Saath Hai And Hum 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,240 Saath Saath Hai is 7/7. Oh God. 25 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:41,520 So that is how you would honour Suraj Bajati and Salman Khan's 26 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,800 lovely couple or pair, or well, however they identify. 27 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,440 For those of in our audience who are wondering why I'm in pain 28 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,600 all of a sudden, Saath in Hindi can mean the number 7 and also 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,920 mean the word together. So Aditya has just made a 30 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,920 horrible, horrible pun on a frankly very candy floss vanilla 31 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,600 family movie by the name of We Are All Together or Humsat satay 32 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,720 in Hindi. I hope, at least by explaining 33 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:18,680 this joke or pun rather, that it will take the pain out of it for 34 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,440 those listeners who are listening to it. 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,880 I would like to point out two things. 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,840 Firstly, you corrected yourself when it's a joke and you 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,280 downgraded it to a non joke pun. Wow, that's a bit hurtful. 38 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,760 And secondly, by translating this I think you're just 39 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,600 including more people in the misery. 40 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,360 At least those who had not understood it initially were 41 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,560 oblivious to how painful it could have been. 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,080 So. Take some of. 43 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,120 The blame Vineeth honestly take some of the blame. 44 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,120 I don't know what I'm going to do with you. 45 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,000 Oh God. Now that we've got that out of 46 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,120 the way, and like Aditya explained in last week's 47 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,320 episode, let me do the same. This is not indicative of how 48 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,400 hot the rest of the podcast goes, so stay with us if you 49 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,280 stayed here so long. So before we go to the regular 50 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,920 questions that we ask each other, there is the audience 51 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,880 question, which I asked at the beginning of the episode, and 52 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,240 the answer which I will reveal at the end of today's episode. 53 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,600 The Gathi Shakti Vishwavidyalaya is situated in the sprawling 54 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,560 campus of an Academy, let's call that Academy X, at Lalbagh 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,600 Vadodara. The original Academy was founded 56 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,000 in 1913 Dehradun and then shifted to Vadodara in 1952. 57 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,960 The property comprises of 55 acres of garden and wooded land 58 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,720 enlivened by the calls of Peacocks and migratory birds. 59 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,240 This university, which I mentioned, the Gatti Shakti 60 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,720 Vishwavidyalaya, is located, as I mentioned, in a particular 61 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,840 Academy campus. Which Academy are we talking 62 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,040 about? What is unique about it and what 63 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,400 connects it to this podcast? That is the audience question 64 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,280 that I am asking today and I will reveal the answer at the 65 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,800 end of today's episode. So let's get down to business. 66 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,279 Let's start with Aditya. What's your question or first 67 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,920 serious question for today? I have a really fun question 68 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,280 from a piece of trivia that might not necessarily be 69 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:31,680 factual, but is an urban legend. Let's go to the era of American 70 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,440 independence. George Washington had gained 71 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,800 fame not only obviously in America, but across the world as 72 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,560 a pretty strong and influential leader. 73 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:51,880 To honor him, Thomas Jefferson commissioned a statue which can 74 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,320 still be seen in the Virginia State Capitol building in 75 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:01,640 Richmond. 25 casts of the statue were made and spread all over 76 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:06,720 the world, from the Washington Monument in Washington DC to 77 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:12,840 Lima in Peru and also London. However, there was something 78 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,520 unique about the statue in London. 79 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,760 Do you want to venture a guess as to what small change was done 80 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:27,920 to that specific statue? So I'm going to guess that it 81 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,680 has to something to do with the Royal family. 82 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,480 I don't think there's any other particular reason why a 83 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,760 Federalist like a Washington statue would be changed. 84 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,720 I'm guessing it has something to do with the royal family made 85 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,680 something to placate the royal family. 86 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,560 No, actually, this has nothing to do with the Royal Family at 87 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,160 all. OK. 88 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,080 Is Washington on a horse? All of the statues are similar, 89 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,000 so there's nothing specific about. 90 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,160 No, I'm asking the the statue. The original statue was that of 91 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,240 Washington on a horse. Oh, OK. 92 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,120 No, it is not on a horse. It is a Washington standing 93 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,640 upright and all of the statues are the same. 94 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,840 Yeah. Except for the one in London. 95 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,160 The London one, at least in appearance, is the same, if that 96 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:21,520 makes a difference. Oh, are all the other statues 97 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,560 solid while this one's hollow and they've put something in it? 98 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:31,200 No, but you are close in the sense that it has something to 99 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,240 do with its construction rather than its appearance. 100 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,560 OK, is it made of a different material? 101 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,560 The others were cast out of bronze and this is done because 102 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,600 of something, Maybe because of World War 2 and material 103 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:49,880 shortages or something like that. 104 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,280 I'm grasping at straws here, if it isn't already apparent to the 105 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:56,280 audience. No, it doesn't have anything to 106 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:01,080 do with material shortage. However, I would say you are 107 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:06,440 warm since you are talking about a very small change in terms of 108 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,000 a specific material that was used. 109 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,520 So it isn't a different material to save money or any of those 110 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,680 reasons. A very small change in the 111 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,520 material that was used. I am being slightly vague right 112 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:22,920 now. Yes, I can. 113 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,960 Hoping you'll get the answer with even these vacants. 114 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,400 OK, I'm going to go with something straight out of left 115 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,920 field. Did they use a different shade 116 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,480 of paint or something so that birds don't shit on the statue? 117 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,440 Interestingly enough, the statues are differently colored 118 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,040 in different places, so they all of these statues across the 119 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,480 world might be made of different material as well. 120 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,160 But it it isn't the difference in London that I'm looking at, 121 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,840 because based off of some of the visuals that I have seen, 122 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,320 Washington statue, which is outside the National Gallery in 123 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,560 London is black in colour. Whereas there is another one 124 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,440 that I'm seeing and I believe this is the Virginia State 125 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,200 Capital One which is white in colour. 126 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,560 So all of these might be made from slightly different 127 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,840 materials, but the cast of it is the same, like the appearance of 128 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,600 Washington is the exact same same pose as in. 129 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,000 And I'm not talking about the material that has been used in 130 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,080 all of these, because they're all across, all made of 131 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,640 different materials perhaps. OK. 132 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,080 OK. Wow. 133 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,280 Let me give you a little bit of a hint. 134 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,280 OK. This has something to do with a 135 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,440 vow that Washington made during his own lifetime. 136 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:43,280 I shall not tell a lie. Yeah, I think that is associated 137 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,440 with Washington. But no, not the vow that we are 138 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,520 concerned with. Wait, there was something 139 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,120 regarding him in a Cherry Tree, right? 140 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,720 Yes, which is why I said urban legend when this question began. 141 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,640 The Cherry Tree thing is very well documented. 142 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,760 This particular vow is it's sort of an urban legend, and hence 143 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,240 the change in the statue also is not exactly very well documented 144 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,280 in history. I'm trying to think up of urban 145 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,600 legends of Washington. The only other one that comes to 146 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,400 mind is this legend. I heard that at least people 147 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:23,400 thought that he had his dentures made-up of hippopotamus teeth or 148 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,080 something, but it was wooden teeth. 149 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,120 No. People thought it was wooden 150 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,800 teeth, but it was actually hippopotamus teeth. 151 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,200 I don't think that's going to make a big difference in the 152 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,240 statue. Yeah, I don't think they use 153 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,760 hippopotamus teeth in statues either ways. 154 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,800 OK, I'm going to give you one more hint. 155 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,800 It might not be a famous urban legend associated with 156 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,280 Washington, but it is something very strongly to do with 157 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,960 American independence and obviously who they were gaining 158 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,320 independence from. And wow, he took, which is 159 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,800 geographical in nature, if that helps. 160 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,920 Is this something like I'm never going to face the East or I'm 161 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,480 never going to face the King or something like that? 162 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:12,200 You are very close. It has less to do with where he 163 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,600 would be facing, but more to do with where he would be present. 164 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,960 So you're very close to getting the vow, which would help you 165 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,400 get the answer. Not where I would never face, 166 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,960 but where would I never be ever again, or where would I never 167 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,480 set foot again. OK, so he vowed never to set 168 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,600 foot on British soil. So when they made the statue, 169 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,360 they ensured there was American soil at the bottom so that he's 170 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,400 technically on American soil. Oh lovely. 171 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,800 That was a very quick crack from the vow to the statue. 172 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,160 Yes, it is exactly that, he vowed, allegedly to never set 173 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,320 foot on British soil ever again in the course of the American 174 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,840 War for Independence. And the erectors of the 175 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,680 Trafalgar Square statue laid it on a foundation of Virginia soil 176 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,760 to ensure that Washington did not tell a lie. 177 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,240 Which also goes back to what you said about not lying. 178 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:13,480 So yeah, this is how the statue in Trafalgar Square, London, is 179 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,520 different from the others across the world. 180 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:22,600 Very nice, very nice. So I'm going to move to a 181 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:28,960 slightly different field. So this word did not appear in 182 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,040 Webster's dictionary as late as 1957. 183 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,240 By the time of the Renaissance, the origin of the word was 184 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,040 already in doubt, and early linguists were attempting to 185 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,000 guess its derivation by making combinations which meant painful 186 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,960 numbers. Now, some speculated that it was 187 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:54,120 named after a king of the castle, but now we know that it 188 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,000 has been correctly attributed to a native of a region which is 189 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,280 located in the Amu River basin, just South of the Aral Sea, and 190 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,240 something that's very, very relevant today. 191 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,720 This word is practically thrown out almost every day. 192 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,640 You'd hear this word on almost on every daily basis. 193 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,640 Which word are we talking about? I am so lost right now. 194 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,080 Wait, the word has something to do with the number? 195 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,680 Yes, with numbers. Let's say numbers mathematics in 196 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:32,200 general. OK, so not a specific number, It 197 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,480 is used very commonly today. Yes, and though there have been 198 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,320 a lot of speculations and combinations and people trying 199 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,480 to figure out how where the word came from, it has now been 200 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,520 correctly attributed to the native of a region located in 201 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,680 the Amur River basin just South of the Aral Sea. 202 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,080 A native of the Amur region. One particular area, one 203 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,360 particular place. OK. 204 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:07,120 I'm just going to. Quickly verify the Isle Sea is 205 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,960 in Central Asia. Yes. 206 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:13,160 Yes, this is in Asia, Middle East, somewhere around that. 207 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,840 OK, huh. And there's a number associated 208 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,360 with it. Not a number. 209 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,360 Let's say this is a word which is associated with numbers. 210 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,800 It's a part of mathematics, and nowadays you would hear it in 211 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,520 other contexts as well. But it originally came from 212 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,680 numbers, and this word itself was derived from the name of 213 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:37,280 this person from this particular area. 214 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,960 So it is the name of a specific person. 215 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,320 Yes, it's the name of a specific person. 216 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,880 You can just give me the name of the word, or if you're hard 217 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,680 enough even, you can give me the name of the person. 218 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,240 Is it algorithm? Oh yes, it is algorithm. 219 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,280 Do you know who it was named after and which place we're 220 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,400 talking about? So I think the reason I got 221 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,320 thrown off was because of the geography clue, because I do 222 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,560 know this piece of trivia. I know it is Al Kharizmi, yes, I 223 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,640 just didn't know that this has something to do with the 224 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,760 geography. Yeah so har ISM is a place. 225 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:21,480 So the name of the person is Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Musa al 226 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:26,160 Harizmi which basically means father of Abdullah Muhammad son 227 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:31,960 of Moses native of Harizm. So Al Harizmi gave rise to 228 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,800 algorithm. Do you know the other word that 229 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,560 Alquarizmi's work gave rise to, which is also very commonly used 230 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,240 in mathematics? Algebra I think it is. 231 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:50,680 Yeah, which comes from Algebra, which is the book of calculation 232 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,520 written by Alquarizmi or collected or collated by 233 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,960 Alquarizmi. You added onto a trivia I 234 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,480 already knew. I like that. 235 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,880 Very nice. OK, hit me with your question. 236 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,440 OK, I'm going to list a few things. 237 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,320 Tell me what connects all of? Them. 238 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,840 Oh, I hate. These yes, you should, because 239 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,320 this one I hope, is not going to be too easy. 240 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,240 OK. National Museum of Natural 241 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:26,040 History in Washington, DC IKEA stores. 242 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:35,120 The board gave RISK 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, United Nations 243 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:40,640 office at Geneva in Switzerland, Newspaper, Daily Mail. 244 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,840 So what connects these things? And it is a non exhaustive list. 245 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:48,880 OK, just go through that list again. 246 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:53,440 We're talking about the National History Museum, then? 247 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,680 Let me quickly go through them again. 248 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,880 National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, IKEA 249 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,600 stores, the Board Game. RISC 2014, Nuclear Security 250 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,920 Summit. United Nations Office at Geneva 251 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,760 and Switzerland. The newspaper Daily Mail. 252 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,920 Is this an architect who connects all of these? 253 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:24,240 No. OK, no 2014 nuclear summit. 254 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,320 Something to do with naming conventions like names of towns 255 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,360 or something like that. Nothing to do with that, no. 256 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:41,280 OK, I'm stumped. Do you have a clue for me? 257 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,760 It is related to a specific country. 258 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:54,800 Whoa, specific country related. Now do I go keep naming 259 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,680 countries or try to figure out another way of this? 260 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,440 If you do that alphabetically, it'll take some time. 261 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,599 Oh, so I'm guessing it's a latter or something, so let's go 262 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:09,440 with one O R2 Vatican City. Even reverse alphabetical won't 263 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,680 be very quick. OK, so somewhere, it's somewhere 264 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,800 in the middle. Madagascar. 265 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,480 I'm hoping you won't arrive at the answer via this method, but 266 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,800 you are corrected to somewhere in that range of letters. 267 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:34,200 OK, but I'm just trying to guess what the Natural History Museum 268 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,080 Why would the National History Museum be there? 269 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:48,880 And IKEA. Wow, what's the funder that 270 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,840 could explain put all of these together? 271 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,920 Wow. No man, I'm completely stumped. 272 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:13,740 I don't know if this will be a clue, but well associated 273 00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:17,340 factoid. I guess there is a community on 274 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:23,720 Tumblr as well as on Reddit dedicated to finding even more 275 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,520 examples of this across the world, and they keep coming up 276 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,480 with new and new examples all the time. 277 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,960 There are communities for everything on Reddit, that's 278 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,360 true. It's like if there is, if there 279 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:39,160 is even the slightest bit of subculture anywhere, smallest 280 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,640 slub culture anywhere in the world. 281 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,840 They have a subreddit. So that particularly does not 282 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,440 help. Here's where I make a little 283 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,480 plug to anybody who listens to our podcast regularly. 284 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,360 Please go ahead and create a Are you quizzing me Subreddit. 285 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,840 It would be a massive milestone for my life if I had to 286 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,600 subreddit for something I have created. 287 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,800 You know what? I'm just going to do it one. 288 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:09,600 Of these days myself. OK, oh God, so there, it's 289 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,720 something that people search. Is this something to do with 290 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,080 that game? What do you call it? 291 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,120 Geo guessing? Geocaching. 292 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,800 What do they call it? Geo guesser. 293 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,120 Yeah. Is it something to do with that? 294 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,520 No, it isn't a Geo guesser and here's a pop culture 295 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,000 recommendation I guess. If you haven't made the game Geo 296 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,760 guesser, please go check it out. Really fun game. 297 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,920 OK, just run me through the list again. 298 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,440 Let me see if something cracks now. 299 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,400 All right, I'm going to try one more time. 300 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,560 National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, IKEA 301 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:49,080 stores, the board game Risk 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, United 302 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,360 Nations Office at Geneva and Switzerland, and the newspaper 303 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,080 Daily Mail. I'm going to go one step further 304 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,600 and I'm going to tell you it has something to do with the maps at 305 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:05,320 all of these places. The maps at all of these places? 306 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:14,360 Wow, I'm blanking completely. The answer was a country. 307 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:17,880 The answer was a country. Wait, is this something? 308 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,840 Because suddenly when you said that map in a country, something 309 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,080 popped up in my head was a West Wing episode where President 310 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,480 Bartlett gets his historical map of the Middle East in Palestine. 311 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,240 And he's told that he cannot pull it up at the White House 312 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,240 because it technically does not show Israel, even though it's 313 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,920 from the 1800s. And when he tries to argue that 314 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,360 Israel did not as a country did not exist at the point people 315 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,280 were like, yes, we understand that, but you still cannot put 316 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,600 that map up. So is it something like that 317 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,800 where there is a specific geographical feature that's 318 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,760 missing from a map or that's there on the map or something 319 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,480 like that? Beneath in 18th century there 320 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,000 were a lot of countries that did not exist and you could have 321 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,880 used any other example. You chose to use Israel and 322 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,920 Palestine. I just asked people to create a 323 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,280 subreddit for our show and you want it to be cancelled in the 324 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,240 very next breath. No, you will have to blame Alan 325 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,400 Sorkin for that because he wrote such a compelling show that I 326 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,080 still remember episodes of it so many years later. 327 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,360 So it's The West Wing. It had nothing to do with what's 328 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:24,200 currently going on. I'm just remembering an episode 329 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:31,480 that they had like 20 years ago. OK, so wow, dude, I'm blank. 330 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,040 I'm blank. I don't think I'm going to get 331 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,960 this. You will have to put me out of 332 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,480 my misery. I'm going to give you one last 333 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,840 hint, and if you don't get it at that point I will let you know. 334 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,240 The answer and hint I'm going to give you is something is missing 335 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,920 from all of these maps. A specific country is missing 336 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:56,360 from all of these maps. OK, specific country is missing 337 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:00,760 from a map that was there at the 2014 nuclear summit. 338 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,520 Oh, I know. In the United States of Kailasa. 339 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,720 Oh, throwback to a fun episode. Please go hear that as well. 340 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,160 And it's technically not a wrong answer, because none of these 341 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,280 maps have the United States of Callas on it. 342 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,720 I have corrected yes. You could strong arm me into 343 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,080 accepting that answer, but it doesn't fit the. 344 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,560 Yeah, I know, I know, I know. This is a recognized country 345 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,680 that all of us acknowledge is a country and not something that 346 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,640 somebody just came up with one fine day. 347 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,800 It is an island nation. It is an island nation. 348 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:46,560 Well, or a few islands. OK, but why would that kind of 349 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,000 map be in IKEA and the 2014 nuclear Summit? 350 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:55,920 IKEA was just selling world maps and it was a world map available 351 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,920 across IKEA stores and this particular world map did not 352 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,560 have the set country. Wow. 353 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,560 Which would be an easy country to omit from a world map Vineet 354 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,040 take a guess. The Maldives. 355 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,080 Sure, but the Maldives are small enough to. 356 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,520 OK, lot of island countries, actually one who are to the 357 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,760 Micronesian Islands, Solomon Islands, Turks and Caicos. 358 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,680 All of those are obviously island nations, which are 359 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,200 probably omitted from a lot of world maps. 360 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,080 But no, what is an island nation? 361 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,920 That is firstly a quote UN quote first world country that would 362 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,520 fuss about these things and B is sizable enough because a lot of 363 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,560 these island nations that you mentioned are very small and on 364 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,120 a small representation on a small map they would not be 365 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,760 visible. The first world country, that's 366 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,520 an island. First thing that comes to mind 367 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,720 is, of course, the British Isles. 368 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,000 No, British Isles again have to omit from a map. 369 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,160 Wait, is this New Zealand? New Zealand is the answer. 370 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,320 Well done. That is so. 371 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,600 Random Why? Why do these maps not have New 372 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,600 Zealand? New Zealand has often been 373 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,440 omitted from maps of the world and this has caught the 374 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,480 attention of New Zealander because the marketer projection, 375 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:20,320 which is the map projection used very commonly for putting the 376 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,560 world or the globe onto a flat surface. 377 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,640 The marketer projection centers Europe, so hence it is difficult 378 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,920 to forget the British Isles say, or Greenland for that matter. 379 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,440 Greenland is featured very. Huge, yeah. 380 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,680 But you might forget New Zealand because it is tucked away in one 381 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:43,240 corner, right next to Australia, and hence very often forgotten 382 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,160 on world maps. So, interestingly enough, the 383 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,440 National Museum of Natural History, IKEA stores, which used 384 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,560 to sell a bunch of these maps, the board games Risk and 385 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,080 actually even the board game Pandemic. 386 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,880 Both of these do not have New Zealand on its maps. 387 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,240 The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which, by the way, Prime 388 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,360 Minister of New Zealand, then Prime Minister John Key also 389 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:11,040 participated the world seal at the UN office at Geneva. 390 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:12,880 You kidding me? Seriously. 391 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,840 In the magazine Forbes, it hasn't been there at some point 392 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,360 at the Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea, where 393 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,560 they have a big map at the airport. 394 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,120 They do not have New Zealand over there. 395 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,560 It was also excluded from maps promoting the 2015 Rugby World 396 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,880 Cup. Wow, the Rugby World Cup, 397 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,600 interestingly. Enough. 398 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,480 New Zealand was the world champion. 399 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,440 The All Blacks were removed from the Oh my God, that is just wow. 400 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,760 And the last one on that list is Flat Earth Society. 401 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,680 The Flat Earth Society also forgot that on the world. 402 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,520 OK, I did not know this was a thing. 403 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,240 Wow. Yeah, New Zealand has been 404 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,320 forgotten. Related one is in maps of 405 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,680 Australia, where Tasmania is missing very often. 406 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,840 Oh yeah, Tasmania is easy to overlook. 407 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,400 Yeah, and of course there are examples of other significant 408 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,000 features on the map missing, like even, say, Madagascar or 409 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,600 Hawaii. But I suppose those places don't 410 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,200 create as much of A fuss as New Zealand does about this. 411 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,200 There was a very interesting way that New Zealand also paid, I 412 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,800 guess, homage to this problem. Where On the New Zealand 413 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,720 government website on the four OO four page they would feature 414 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:36,240 the world map but New Zealand would be missing in it and the 415 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,960 tagline over there was some things missing. 416 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,080 OK, they know how to take a joke. 417 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:42,680 That's nice. That's very nice. 418 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,640 Yeah, that's a brilliant question. 419 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,000 I had no clue. Absolutely no clue. 420 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,880 I did not know this was a thing at all TIL for me today. 421 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,560 Nice. Great question. 422 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,800 Yeah, I'm going to now move to something little historical. 423 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,000 Have you heard of the Mohor? Not even at all. 424 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,240 Not ringing a bell. I'm not surprised. 425 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,920 The Mohor is a gold coin that was formally minted by several 426 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,360 governments, including British India and some of the princely 427 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,720 states which assisted alongside it the Mughal Empire, the 428 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,480 Maratha Empire, the Kingdom of Nepal and Persia, which is 429 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,360 chiefly Afghanistan at this point. 430 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,760 With regards to this coin, the Mohor coin was first introduced 431 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,800 by Shah Shah Suri during his role in India between 1540 and 432 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,480 1545 and was then a gold coin weighing 169 grains, which is 433 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,960 roughly around 10.95g. The Double Mohor, minted between 434 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:50,760 1835 and 1918 with a value of ₹30, is the highest denomination 435 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,000 circulating coin issued till date. 436 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,560 There has never been a coin with the higher denomination ever 437 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:03,120 issued before or after. An 1835 Double Mohor was sold at 438 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:11,040 a Bangalore auction for 11 point ₹5,00,000 which is roughly ₹1.15 439 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,320 million, making it the highest ever coin bid in India. 440 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,800 The coin features a bare head of the king facing right with 441 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,320 William the 4th king written around it and the reverse side 442 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,520 of the coin features a lion walking left with a tree behind 443 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:35,200 it, something which we see every day Was inspired by this 444 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,280 particular coin. What? 445 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,560 A lion walking towards the left and a tree behind him. 446 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,040 Yes, because the lion has a main, we can assume it's a male, 447 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,600 so I'm going to allow that you called it a him and not a it. 448 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,560 That is true. OK, so I'm just trying to 449 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,440 picture this in my head. The lion is walking out of the 450 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,520 frame towards the left, which means on the right side there is 451 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,000 a tree. Am I correct? 452 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,000 Yeah, roughly around the right side. 453 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,760 Yeah. OK. 454 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,200 And is this specific image what is in question here? 455 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,600 Something that we see depicted wherever we do. 456 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,640 Yes, that lion. Image. 457 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,640 Not the lion image, but you're close. 458 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,280 Oh, not the lion image, but I'm close. 459 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,640 Not the lion, but you're close, yes. 460 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:36,120 So something walking towards the left, a tree on the right, 461 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,480 something or someone walking towards the left? 462 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,400 Give me a hint, I'm quite lost right now. 463 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,400 Oh, you would have to replace the lion with something that's 464 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,720 more representative of India, and you have your answer. 465 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:58,320 So I did guess that much. Not the lion, but the image I 466 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,680 was trying to think of. What else can I picture walking 467 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,640 in that direction is it? That doesn't seem to be the 468 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,400 answer, but I'm just going to take a guess. 469 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,880 Is it the very famous image of Dandy March? 470 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,240 No, no, no. Is a tree. 471 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,080 Featured prominently in whatever the modern day image you're 472 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:19,720 talking. About Yes, the tree is featured 473 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,000 quite prominently. And something that is 474 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,440 representative of India. Are we still talking feline 475 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,440 species? Are we talking the tiger? 476 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,600 Yes, it is a tiger. Oh, that was such a guess 477 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600 because I have no answer in it. A tiger. 478 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:43,840 Yeah. Oh, is it on some currency right 479 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,360 now? Is it on a coin right now? 480 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,920 There are coins with it, but not like currency coins. 481 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,800 You're very close when you said currency with the concept, you 482 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,160 are very close with currency. There are coins which have this 483 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,840 particular image on it, but they are not regular currency coin. 484 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,600 Very interesting currency. Not regular coins, but some 485 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,840 coins. No. 486 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,160 I am still quite lost. I have only arrived at this by 487 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,320 chance and by luck and fluke, so I have no. 488 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:27,520 OK, so you would find this logo on certain government offices. 489 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,040 I think they have branches in almost every city. 490 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,640 So like every major city, they'll have branches of this 491 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,000 particular government office. That's my biggest clue. 492 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,200 Every major city will have offices for this particular 493 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,680 government branch in Bharat. Tourism. 494 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,680 Is it a tourism thing? No, no, no. 495 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,160 They were recently in the news also with regards to a 496 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,080 particular app that everybody uses, especially in India. 497 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,280 App Paytm. OK. 498 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,440 So if it's Paytm then. RBI. 499 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,000 Yes, it's the logo for the Reserve Bank of India. 500 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,840 Oh wow, no, sorry, drawing a blank. 501 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,960 OK. Quickly Google that image while 502 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,800 you explain the answer. Yes, so the original logo, which 503 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,680 was on the double moher, featured a lion with a tree 504 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,080 behind it. So when they were looking for a 505 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,960 logo of the RBI, because this coin has been issued by so many 506 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,560 different kingdoms and so many different people over so many 507 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,600 years, they thought this has value. 508 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,160 And that particular image of the lion with the tree was replaced 509 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,040 with that of a tiger and the tree was made a palm tree. 510 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,040 And that is the official logo of the Reserve Bank of India, which 511 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,520 is the premier financial organization in India. 512 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,440 Cool, so I do have the image right in front of me and now 513 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,920 that I see it, it obviously rings a bell. 514 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,920 Though I will say that in my head I was picturing the land 515 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,240 somehow to my left and the tree to my right. 516 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,720 Whereas the logo for any of our listeners who don't have it in 517 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,360 front of them right now is the tree in the background and the 518 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,360 line in the foreground. So by behind you meant like in 519 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,680 some way it is superimposed on the tree, the image of the 520 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,840 tiger. The tiger is in front of the 521 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,760 tree, yes. Apologies if that came out 522 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,240 incorrectly, but yeah. No, I guess you described it 523 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,760 correctly. I just pictured it wrongly in my 524 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:29,800 head. OK, lovely. 525 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,600 That is a pretty cool question and well, a good useful reminder 526 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,400 for me. I'll also take this opportunity 527 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,080 to point out a little fun conversation I was having at a 528 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,800 coffee shop where well, I guess now that HK has been mentioned 529 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,800 so many times worth mentioning that he was visiting Mumbai, So 530 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,440 he was visiting me and we were at a coffee shop and we randomly 531 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,840 bumped into a bunch of foreigners. 532 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,840 And we were talking about how there are so many words in Hindi 533 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,040 which are transliteration of the English word that we have 534 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:10,080 directly borrowed and perhaps in quote UN quote should Hindi or 535 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,000 pure Hindi. There might be a word for that 536 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:19,520 thing but not in common usage. This particular Japanese lady, 537 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,320 she mentioned that she has been trying to learn Hindi and she's 538 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:28,080 now able to read their Nagri. So she's very curious to find 539 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,360 out in the store names what is the translation of things. 540 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,120 So when she saw the name of a bank, she was excited to see 541 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,920 what it was in Hindi. And she was surprised to see 542 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,840 that the bank in Hindi was also just spelled bank, or our hotel 543 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,840 is spelled hotel and our restaurants are spelled 544 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,280 restaurant. Very rarely do all of these 545 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,400 outlets or spaces have the Hindi word for hotel or Hindi word for 546 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,000 restaurant, Hindi word for bank. None of which, by the way, I'm 547 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,560 very sure as to what they are. And at that point, HK very 548 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,000 confidently said that, oh you know what, let's find out 549 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,160 together. And he pulled out his wallet and 550 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,160 he thought that on the currency note, Reserve Bank of India in 551 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,360 English written in Hindi would be written in the proper word 552 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,480 for banking. Turns out the currency note also 553 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,840 says bank, just spelled in dev nagri script but the word bank. 554 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,160 The English word bank. Did you ever figure out what it 555 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,080 was actually called in Hindi? Now I'm curious. 556 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,920 We use Google Translate to find what bank is and Google 557 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,840 Translate, said Kinara. OK. 558 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,840 Which I think is the riverbank. The riverbank, yes. 559 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,760 So we never found out and we kind of gave up, yeah. 560 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:42,240 Nice if anyone of our listeners can tell us what bank in Hindi. 561 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:46,440 I know this is a very apathetic thing to ask given that we are 562 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,080 both Indians, but if any one of our listeners can tell us in 563 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:55,600 should pure Hindi what the word bank would be, we'd be very 564 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,680 grateful. Or honestly, in any of the 565 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,960 native languages, any of the Indian native language. 566 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,200 I'd be curious to find out what bank is in Tamil or or Punjabi 567 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,920 or Assamese, whatever it is. Yeah. 568 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,240 Oh, nice. Yeah, nice. 569 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:15,600 You cracked that very quickly. I did not crack that at all. 570 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,040 No, you didn't. I just. 571 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,520 I just. Yeah, you got you came very 572 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,520 close you. I came very close. 573 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,360 I described it, but I don't think I cracked it. 574 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,920 But Vineet, I think this goes to show what a lot of our listeners 575 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,840 complain of that we are very nice to each other, even though 576 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,760 we don't get the answer, we credit each other. 577 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,720 So thank you for that very undeserved credit. 578 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,440 OK, very nice. So what's your question? 579 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,000 All right. So you were talking about 580 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:54,320 history in India, and I'm going to move to history in Europe, 581 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,640 but I will start with some geography one more time. 582 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:02,840 So there is a low mountain range in western Germany, also parts 583 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,560 of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. 584 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,720 It is part of the Rainish Massive, so goes to the 585 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:16,920 Rhineland area, and it's part of the Rainish Massive, which is a 586 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:22,560 geologic massive again in the similar region drained by the 587 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,920 river Rhine, which is where it gets named from. 588 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:32,200 This particular low mountain range, let's call it X, was a 589 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:38,120 name that was adopted by two immigrants from the Germantown 590 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,760 of Marmaguen who settled in Paris. 591 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,440 One of their future descendants made this name very famous 592 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,600 through his work. So his work immortalized his 593 00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:00,600 name, and the name was originally used by his ancestors 594 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,360 because they moved from Germany to Paris, and almost in an 595 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,720 effort to remember or or pay respect to where they had come 596 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:13,760 from, they had chosen that particular name. 597 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,160 So do you know which mountain range I'm talking about, which 598 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,840 lies in this particular region in western Germany, eastern 599 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:27,360 Belgium and northern Luxembourg that became famous to the name 600 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:34,200 of a person, and specifically his work a few decades later in 601 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,520 Paris? Wow. 602 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,240 Because when you first started the question, I had a feeling 603 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:44,400 where this may be going. So I had a guess in mind. 604 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,480 And then now I have another guess. 605 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,640 But now that you've finished the question, I'm fairly sure that 606 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,640 neither of these guesses are right. 607 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,520 Let's hear, But I'm just going to tell them anyway. 608 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,240 Yeah, The first one I was thinking of was Alpen Libe. 609 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,040 You were going with the chocolate toffee because Alpen, 610 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,960 you know, the Alps, that kind of something like that, maybe. 611 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:06,960 But now I realize that's not it. The second I thought might be 612 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,480 Toblerone, something to do with the Tobledron chocolates, 613 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,040 because again, there's a mountain and a hidden bear in 614 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,440 the logo. So I don't know, maybe that was 615 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,160 what it is, but I think neither of these are right. 616 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:20,960 No. Like or am I close? 617 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,080 Neither of the questions are right. 618 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,000 And I I you aren't even close though. 619 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,480 The only logical reduction from both of this is that you are 620 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,360 having a sweet craving right now. 621 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,240 I actually have a packet of Maltesers sitting right here. 622 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,320 An ex colleague came down from the UK and brought me a bag of 623 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,760 mixed chocolates, including some Maltesers and Twix and Snickers 624 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,920 and Galaxies. Or I've been munching on those, 625 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,280 so maybe that's why. At this point, we should mention 626 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,560 that we are not sponsored by any of these brands that we just 627 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:58,200 mentioned. Yes, but we would like to, OK. 628 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,080 So it's nothing to do with food, I'm guessing, given the kind of 629 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,440 reaction you had. No, nothing to do with food at 630 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,200 all. OK, so then then my next guess, 631 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,520 but again doesn't make sense would be Mont Blanc, the pen. 632 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 But then that's the name of particular mountain, not a 633 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,640 mountain range. No, not Mont Blanc either. 634 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,480 The name of this mountain range and his work, you said, right? 635 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,400 France? And what's the time frame we're 636 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,480 talking about? When did this person do this 637 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,680 particular work or his life's work? 638 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:40,400 So he was born somewhere close to mid 19th century, died in the 639 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:45,800 first quarter of 20th century. Mid 19th century first quarter. 640 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,040 Not even mid It's 1832, so born in 1832. 641 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,720 Died. Victorian died. 642 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,520 Yes. Wow. 643 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:05,080 I'm just clue please. OK, so his work is famous both 644 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:11,200 in Paris and in New York. Something to do with fashion? 645 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,760 No. Because when you hear Paris and 646 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,320 New York together, the first thing that comes is fashion. 647 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,480 If you had said New York and London, I would have thought 648 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,240 nylon. But but then that has nothing to 649 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:25,400 do with the. I'm OK. 650 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,720 I'm rambling now. Let me try to help you, because 651 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,920 fashion is a good guess, but fashion is a generic word or a 652 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,480 generic thing. I'm talking about something very 653 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,200 specific in Paris and something very specific in New York. 654 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,320 Is it the Statue of Liberty? You are very close, yes. 655 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,680 Wait, what? OK, that was a shot in the dark. 656 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,480 Wow. The Statue of Liberty Mountains. 657 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,560 Is it the surname Eiffel or something like that? 658 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,160 Something related to? I can't remember who the 659 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,280 sculptor of the Statue of Liberty was. 660 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,960 You are. You've gotten, you've gotten the 661 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,480 answer already. Yeah, it is Eiffel. 662 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,120 Oh, it's Eiffel. Oh, yes, nice. 663 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,680 I'm going to claim credit for that. 664 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,200 You should. Let's re record that. 665 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,360 Yes, yes. I knew it was Eiffel all along, 666 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,520 you know, because. Because obviously you're that 667 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,680 smart. It is Gustav Eiffel, the very 668 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,400 famous architect for the Eiffel Tower, who also had a 669 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,120 significant contribution in the building of Statue of Liberty. 670 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:37,720 Gustav Eiffel was born in France and was the first child of 671 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:44,920 Catherine Milane and Alexander. Bonnie Carson did Eiffel, now 672 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:51,280 his father's name, was actually not originally Eiffel as you 673 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,920 would imagine. One of his forefathers was Jean 674 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,800 Rene Bonacoson, who had emigrated from the Germantown of 675 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,680 Marmaguen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the 19th 676 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,160 century. The family adopted the name 677 00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,240 Eiffel as a reference to the Eiffel mountains in the region 678 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:13,000 from which they had come. So going back to the original 679 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,160 geography clue. Eiffel, but in this case spelled 680 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,880 with a single F, is a low mountain range in western 681 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,320 Germany, eastern Belgium, and northern Luxembourg. 682 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,360 Turns out that Eiffel Tower named after Gustav Eiffel. 683 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,520 The word Eiffel itself is based off of a mountain range in 684 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,640 Germany. So Eiffel Tower is not even the 685 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,000 1st and perhaps larger of the Eiffel's in Europe. 686 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,240 The mountain range would claim that credit. 687 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,080 Wow, nice. There's a follow up question. 688 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,040 Can you connect the Eiffel Tower? 689 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,480 OK. And the time period you are 690 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,960 talking about to a famous actress in the current day in 691 00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:00,560 India. Wow, that was not where I 692 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,040 expected that question to go at all, because I do have a bunch 693 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,360 of Eiffel Tower trivia that I came across when researching 694 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,480 this factoid, but none of them had anything to do with Indian 695 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,360 actors or actresses. But let's try. 696 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:20,840 Yeah. Is it by chance a Bollywood 697 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,680 actor that we're talking about? Bollywood actress. 698 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,600 Yeah. I'm not restricted to, yeah, 699 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,560 Bollywood, yes. Predominantly Bollywood. 700 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:35,360 Yes, predominantly Bollywood. This is so random and I'm 100% 701 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,400 it is not the answer, but I'm just going to share it. 702 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,680 It is Shania Kapoor because there is an episode of. 703 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,160 Why? I'll tell you why. 704 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,920 Because there is an episode of The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood 705 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,520 Vibes, and in this particular episode, Sanjay Kapoor and 706 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,920 Shania Kapoor and their mother ire in Paris, and they're taking 707 00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,600 a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower. 708 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,920 And Sanjay Kapoor is very concerned whether Eiffel Tower 709 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,960 is visible in the picture and the way he says it is. 710 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,600 And I'm going to say it in Hindi because it sounds hilarious, he 711 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:17,120 says it is Eiffel Tower. I need a photo which basically 712 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,280 translates. To please. 713 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,040 Make sure that Eiffel Tower is visible in our selfie. 714 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,640 Otherwise people would assume we took it in this location in 715 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,680 Mumbai called Lokhandwala, which is famous for celebrities and 716 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:29,920 and their houses and their residences. 717 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,840 So he wanted to make sure that the Eiffel Tower was visible in 718 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,080 that selfie, which I thought was the funniest line of dialogue 719 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,480 I've heard in a while. And Sanjay Kapoor, by the way, 720 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,920 is hilarious in that show. In general I've heard he's a 721 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,920 very self aware person and quite self aware of all the kapoors 722 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,520 and he's quite a nice person. Yeah, in that little glimpse I 723 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,360 saw, I couldn't find anything wrong with him at all. 724 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,560 I thought he was pitch perfect as the person he was. 725 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,840 But the opposition I Kapoor is not the answer you're looking 726 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:01,720 for. Yes. 727 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,960 Oh boy, I have no clue. So the connect, if you did not 728 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,000 know is the actress Kalki Kaklan. 729 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,120 So Kalki Keklin comes from the famous Keklin family. 730 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,280 Keklin I think it is pronounced Keklin family who are originally 731 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,600 from France. Her great grandfather's brother, 732 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:30,160 if I'm not mistaken, was Maurice Keklin, who was one of the chief 733 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,280 structural engineers for the Eiffel Tower. 734 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:35,280 Wow. OK. 735 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,840 And he was also responsible for building the armature and the 736 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:43,920 lamp of the Statue of Liberty. Wow, that's kind of cool. 737 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,720 Yeah. So Kalki Kaklan comes from the 738 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:51,760 Kalki family through her father. And obviously she was born in 739 00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,400 Pondicherry, which is a French enclave, right. 740 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,240 And so she's a very famous actress in India. 741 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,520 So she's a descendant of Maurice Kaklan, who was one of the chief 742 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,560 structural engineers for the Eiffel Tower. 743 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:09,400 So we have our own connection to the Eiffel Tower through Kalki. 744 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,120 Fantastic actress, by the way. Yeah. 745 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,000 And a fantastic piece of trivia. Thank you for sharing that. 746 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,200 All right, your question we need. 747 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,560 OK, so the last question for this week's episode. 748 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,920 In 1967, the organizers of a performance in Cincinnati 749 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:32,840 approached a man by the name of J Paul Barnett to help out with 750 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,680 the logistics. He had worked as a state trooper 751 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,040 in his youth and also been a teacher for a while. 752 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,640 For about 80 years. The arrangement had been 753 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,920 considered too difficult to get right, but where everyone else 754 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:50,160 failed, Paul Barnett succeeded. He later helped with the 755 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,040 performances all around the world, recreating the 756 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,160 arrangement that had originally been intended. 757 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,480 What exactly was Paul Barnett the first person to set up? 758 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,840 Could you hit me with the main fact again or? 759 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,360 So there was a performance in 1967 in Cincinnati, right? 760 00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:15,640 So the organizers wanted to get that performance accurate in the 761 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,400 way that it was originally intended. 762 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,520 OK. And people had been trying for 763 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,720 80 years to do it in the way it had originally been intended, 764 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:29,480 but nobody had succeeded until 1967 when Paul Barnett did, and 765 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:33,480 then later many times it has then been performed the way it 766 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:39,360 was supposed to. Wow, it was intended. 767 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:44,720 It had never been performed in only 1967 was it performed, I 768 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,920 guess as it was intended. Yes. 769 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:52,040 No, you'll have to give me a hint. 770 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,520 Think classical music. Is it an incomplete Symphony or 771 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,040 something like that? Not a Symphony, but yeah, it's a 772 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,200 complete piece of music. It was something that was 773 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:09,200 written, I wouldn't say under duress, but let's say that the 774 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,720 composer wasn't particularly interested or he did not 775 00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:15,760 particularly like the piece that he made. 776 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:20,400 But it turned out to be one of his most famous works, and one 777 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:26,400 of the things that he wanted done was not possible at the 778 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:31,520 time the way he imagined it. And it finally happened that way 779 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:37,640 only in 1967. The description of the artist in 780 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:43,000 question makes me think Mozart. No, not Mozart. 781 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,080 OK, because I was thinking some sort of tortured genius. 782 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,600 No, he wasn't a tortured genius of any kind. 783 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,440 He was a genius, but not a tortured 1. 784 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,400 OK. And everybody's, I think, heard 785 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,120 this piece of music. If you're in the United States, 786 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:04,800 you've definitely heard this. If you watch movies, our TV 787 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,600 shows, this comes up quite a lot, even though you may not be 788 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,240 aware that this is what it's called. 789 00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,520 This has nothing to do with the American National Anthem, right? 790 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:23,000 No, but it is now almost common accompaniment for a very 791 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,640 patriotic celebration in America. 792 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,120 Huh. Can you give me an error as to 793 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,080 when this original composer was from? 794 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:37,240 OK, so the music, as I mentioned, had debuted in the 795 00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:39,520 1880s. OK. 796 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:46,440 But the inspiration for this went back another maybe like 70 797 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,160 years, 6570 years. Wow, no. 798 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,440 I thought that might help him, but it doesn't at all. 799 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,520 I'll give you one more clue in a recent episode. 800 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,400 I'm not going to mention which one, but in a recent episode we 801 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,840 have come across this composer specifically from one of your 802 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,920 questions. Interesting. 803 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,400 It was an answer to one of my questions. 804 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:16,800 Yes, you can also hear it in the movie Sonic the Hedgehog. 805 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,600 If you had watched the launch webcast for the Electro Air 806 00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:28,560 Force satellite by the Russian Space agency in 2022, they had 807 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,360 used this music in the background. 808 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,600 Russian makes me think. Then Tchaikovsky. 809 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,440 Yes, it is. Piotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 810 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,160 Can you tell me which piece we're talking about? 811 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:47,680 It has to be one of Tchaikovsky's overtures, I know. 812 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,800 I would be hard pressed to remember the exact name though. 813 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,840 OK, so Tchaikovsky has mainly 4 big works that people remember. 814 00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,240 Obviously The Nutcracker which was mentioned in a previous 815 00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:03,360 question by the Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake. 816 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:07,000 And the most famous of all of this, arguably, is the 1812 817 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,040 Overture all. Right. 818 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:10,720 That's the name. Yeah, I was thinking of that. 819 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,280 I I couldn't remember the exact name. 820 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,120 Yeah. I'm going to add a piece of 821 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,000 Overture itself after the end of this question, after we finish 822 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,560 discussing the question. So our audience can also kind of 823 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,320 get that aha movement when they hear it. 824 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,080 And luckily for us, it's not copyrighted. 825 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,240 So yeah, awesome. So what exactly did? 826 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:31,080 Now coming back to the question, what exactly did Paul Barnett do 827 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:37,240 that helped the organizers of this particular performance in 828 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:42,360 Cincinnati, of the 1812 Overture do that Tchaikovsky originally 829 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,600 wanted done in a specific way, but he wasn't able to. 830 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,360 It took 80 years before they were able to bring his vision to 831 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:52,000 fruition. Did you want it to be played in 832 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:59,560 a certain specific, I guess concert hall or or or a 833 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,360 specifically designed concert hall? 834 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,240 No. No. 835 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,360 OK, so I'll basically give you the answer. 836 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,840 The 15 minute overture, it's best known for its climactic, 837 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,520 you know, piece of music, right? The climax of the music is what 838 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:20,040 it's most famous for, and that is actually a volley of cannon 839 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,280 fire, ringing chimes and a brass fanfare finale. 840 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:29,840 OK. OK, and Tchaikovsky actually had 841 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,760 planned when he had envisioned this whole composition. 842 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,960 He had planned to use an electric switch panels to fire 843 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,920 cannons outside the Opera House to achieve the precision that 844 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,840 the musical score required. Wow. 845 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:49,200 But it was not able to be done that way, and he never got to 846 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,640 see it performed the way he had envisioned it. 847 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,120 And that was implemented only in 1967. 848 00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,400 So the final climax of the music has cannons as actual, cannons 849 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,000 as musical instruments. Are you implying that Cincinnati 850 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,400 in 1967 just fired cannons for this particular performance? 851 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:09,960 Yes, they did. Wow. 852 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,040 OK. And they not only did it that 853 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,560 way, they used an electric switch panel the way that 854 00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:19,320 Tchaikovsky had wanted it. The piece commemorates Russia's 855 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,840 successful defense of the French invasion of the country by 856 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:28,120 Napoleon in 1812. It has become a very common 857 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,920 accompaniment to fireworks displays on the US Independence 858 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,560 Day, July the 4th. Right. 859 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,040 And it has become one of the four most popular works that 860 00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,320 Tchaikovsky is famous for, which include The Nutcracker, Sleeping 861 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:47,600 Beauty, Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture, which I will play now. 862 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,920 Pretty cool. There was a very fun piece of 863 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:23,680 trivia. I loved it. 864 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,600 So that's the end of the regular questions for today. 865 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,560 Aditya, what's your question for this week? 866 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:37,280 Oh, my question is very simple. Which Indian famous monument or 867 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:44,280 landmark is named after another geographical feature, just like 868 00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,840 the Eiffel Tower is named after the Eiffel Mountains in the 869 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,920 roundabout way? And that's the answer you'll 870 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,120 find out in next week's episode. OK, nice. 871 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,360 I'd asked a question at the beginning of today's episode. 872 00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,400 The Gatti Shakti Vishwavidyalaya is located on the campus of a 873 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,840 particular Academy which is in Baroda. 874 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,960 The property comprising of 55 acres of garden and woodland 875 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,640 with a lot of Peacocks and migratory birds. 876 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:17,200 The basic question was in which Academy campus is this 877 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,240 university that is the Kati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya located? 878 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,400 What is unique about it and how does it connect to our podcast? 879 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,520 Any ideas Aditya? In Baroda. 880 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:33,120 Yes. Not sure what famous educational 881 00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:34,760 institution? Can you take a guess? 882 00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,040 Can you take a guess? It's called the Gatti Shakti 883 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,360 Vishwa Vidyalaya. So. 884 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,840 Gatti Shakti which is speed and power. 885 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:50,280 No, I'm I'm very lost. OK, so I'll tell you first 886 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,520 what's unique about it. It is the first and only 887 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:58,200 university in India exclusively focused on transport related 888 00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,600 education. OK. 889 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,000 That makes sense. Yeah. 890 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:03,280 So that's one part of the question answered. 891 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,800 What's unique about it? In which Academy campus is this 892 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,120 university located? So which Academy campus and how 893 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:14,160 is it connected to this podcast? Academy campus in Baroda again. 894 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,200 Baroda is what is throwing me off. 895 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,440 I don't know of many famous academies in Baroda. 896 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:21,600 I'll give you one clue before I give the answer. 897 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,000 Think Indian Railways. The Academy of the Railways? 898 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,840 No, I don't know. I have no. 899 00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,000 Idea. Oh, you're very close. 900 00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,040 So it is the National Academy of Indian Railways. 901 00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:35,480 OK. Now tell me how it connects to 902 00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,000 this podcast. I'm channeling you now. 903 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,760 Right now. The National Academy of in the 904 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,000 Middle East is Nair, which is obviously. 905 00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:50,640 Yes. So the Nair pronounced Nair 906 00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,480 National Academy of Indian Railways is the location of the 907 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,760 Gatti Shakti Vishwavidyalaya and my name also happens to be 908 00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,600 Vineet Nair. No relation, but still I thought 909 00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,520 it was fun. Oh, you're not named after the 910 00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,480 Academy of Indian Railways? No. 911 00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,960 This would have been a great question to ask for your 912 00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,360 birthday special episode, which was two episodes. 913 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:19,760 Lovely piece of trivia nonetheless. 914 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,680 All right. So any pop culture 915 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,760 recommendations for this week, Aditya? 916 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,440 I caught the movie Three of Us recently. 917 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,720 I believe I have already recommended in the past, but if 918 00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,000 I haven't, I'm going to say it again. 919 00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,560 The movie The Father. Two really good movies. 920 00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,160 Yes, you have recommended. Both of these movies deal with 921 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,840 dementia. The father in which Anthony 922 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,160 Hopkins deservedly got an Oscar for his portrayal of somebody 923 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,240 going through Alzheimer's disease. 924 00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:56,760 A lovely, beautiful film, and three of Us, A woman, played 925 00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:01,360 Pitch Perfect by Shefali Shah as she does most of her roles of a 926 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:06,920 woman going through dementia. And both of these movies just 927 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:12,040 gut wrenching, heart wrenching and lovely pieces of cinema 928 00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,560 talking about something so difficult and rarely talked 929 00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,480 about and yet handled with finesse and beauty. 930 00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,800 So check out both these films, A double recommendation for the 931 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,200 father and a very strong first recommendation for three of us. 932 00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,720 Very nice. My recommendation, which it was 933 00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,520 pointed out to me that I even though I'm a big fan of this, 934 00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,080 I've never actually recommended it on the podcast, which is 935 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,680 which I find a little weird that I haven't done so before. 936 00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:44,680 So I'm going to make good on that is that there is a show on 937 00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,560 Netflix called Love, Death and Robots. 938 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,920 Yeah, it is a fantastic anthology series. 939 00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,160 It there's there's no one specific genre. 940 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,200 There's comedy, there's horror, there's science fiction, there's 941 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,440 fantasy. The only thing is there is some 942 01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,080 form of robotics or science fiction element to some of 943 01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:08,040 those. But it's just a fantastic, 944 01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,520 fantastic show. The animation is. 945 01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,240 There are some some shots in this which are much. 946 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:19,200 Better animated than many of these hundred $200 million 947 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,400 movies. It's just fantastic and it's 948 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:26,480 definitely has to be on everybody's watch list. 949 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,960 And just right on to that, Love Death and Robots is obviously a 950 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,840 phenomenal series that anybody and everybody should with access 951 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,800 to Netflix should check out. I mean, you've mentioned that 952 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:39,840 it's animation. All of the episodes are actually 953 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,720 different sorts and different types of animation and I believe 954 01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,200 done by different directors and film makers. 955 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,160 So you'll get a flavor of different film makers and 956 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:52,800 different animation with each episode, each one somehow better 957 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,080 than the previous. And while some of it looks like 958 01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,960 animation, there was one particular episode called 959 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:03,600 Jabaro, which is set in an alternate time timeline with 960 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:07,000 conquistadors in Central and South America. 961 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,760 And frankly, for the first few seconds or first few minutes of 962 01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,920 it, I thought it was they had somehow shot it. 963 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,960 Live action. It was so photorealistic and 964 01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,360 then when the visual started getting crazies when I realized 965 01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:24,040 this is animated. So that's all for this episode. 966 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,200 Thank you all for listening in. We hope you enjoyed the show and 967 01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,480 learned something new. If you like what you heard, 968 01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:30,920 please consider subscribing to our podcast and leave us a 969 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,840 review on your favorite podcast platform wherever you're 970 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,320 listening to us. It helps us reach a wider 971 01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,920 audience and allows more people to discover and enjoy the show. 972 01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,560 So take a few seconds after you listen to this to subscribe to 973 01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,160 our podcast and hit the notification icon right? 974 01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,720 We'd also love to hear from you. 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