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Are You Quizzing me? Your favorite quizzing and
trivia podcast show. Aditya and I are back for
another round of quizzing, and let's start off today's episode
with the audience question. This is a question that I asked
at the beginning of the episode and the answer to which I
revealed at the. End of it.
The question for you, our dear audience today is on 8th of May
2006, the television station BBC News 24 wanted to interview
technology journalist Guy Queenie about the Apple corpse
versus Apple computer legal dispute.
By mistake. The BBC LED Karen Bauman
interview Guy Gomer, a Congolese French business studies graduate
from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, who came to the BBC
for a job interview as a data cleanser.
The incident became one of BBC's most widely reported bloopers,
something which has become very ingrained in Northern Day pop
culture. When introduced by interviewer
Karen Baumann as an Internet expert, Goma realized that there
had been a misunderstanding and was visibly shocked.
Aware that he was on live television and not wishing to
make a scene, Goma attempted to answer questions about the Apple
call versus Apple computer case and it's ramifications.
This, as I mentioned, is an incident which is ingrained in
pop culture. My question has however,
slightly towards left field who owned Apple Cops, which was in a
legal battle with Apple Computers on which Goma was
expected to commentate. So that's the question that I
have for you, my dear audience. Hopefully some of you will know
the answer. So then keep it in mind and see
if you're right by the end of today's episode.
So let's start out regular round of quizzing.
Aditya, why don't you start us off with that question?
All right. Welcome back, Vineet.
This is good to be back in our regular setting.
For our first question, I actually have something that
I've been wanting to ask for a very long time.
It's been in my backup questions, so I'm going to ask
it today. When Sony Walkman in 2014
launched a new model for the earphones, they advertised a
feature in a very unique way, especially in New Zealand, from
whatever I could tell. So they advertise it in their
packaging. The packaging was uniquely done.
To. Exemplify or to emphasize upon a
certain feature of the Walkman. What feature was it that this
new model of earphones had that Sony was trying to emphasize
with that unique packaging back in 2014, especially in New
Zealand, I mean, New Zealand part is not really important.
It just so happened that it was in New Zealand.
OK. And this is specific to the
earphones. Yes.
And the year again, which year was this 20/14/2014 When you say
earphones and Walkman, the first thing that comes to mind, but I
don't know why it would be unique and it's too late for
2014 would be noise cancellation.
Is that the feature? No, it's.
Not OK, I wasn't expecting that to be but OK.
So then what else is it got like an inbuilt hardware equalizer on
the headphones? OK, so when I said unique, I
don't mean to imply that it was the first time that was being
done. I'm pretty sure there were
models that had this feature. It was just something that they
were trying to emphasize in their new model.
It was Sony's W series Walkman, by the way.
You. Know the earphones?
Are those the ones with the kind of hook that go over your ears?
So they don't, you don't drop, they don't drop out of your ear.
No. Then I'll need a clue, OK?
So this particular Walkman was being sold in vending machines
across New Zealand in places like gyms.
Oh was sweat resistant. Not too off, but I'm still
asking about what is the unique packaging feature.
You're kind of there in the vicinity in terms of the
feature, but I'm asking you about what was the packaging
that was meant to emphasize this feature?
Is it like water resistant packaging or something else?
What? OK, perfect, you got it right.
It was a water resistant feature that they were trying to
emphasize as being the USB for the W series.
But what was special about the packaging?
Did they challenge people to pour water on it, on the fact
that it would not become soggy? I don't know.
I'm not particularly very creative when it comes to this
kind of stuff. Soggy earphones I love.
I know. Actually I don't.
I'll take that back. I do not love the sound of that
at all. I have lost an earphone or two
to water so no. I'm talking about especially.
How was this particular thing packaged?
Like I said, it was sold in vending machines in gym so that
should probably give you a hint. Vending machines in gyms.
How was this packaged? Oh, was this in the form of a
can? OK, I'll give it to you.
It's very close. It was basically called the
bottled Walkman. So it was sold in a bottle of
water. So they actually put the
earphone inside a bottle of water to sell it.
It's pretty cool. You can actually go check out
pictures of this. And it is a bottle of water with
earphones inside. And I mean, I don't know, I
guess you throw the water out because nobody is going to want
to drink water which has had earphones in it.
Yeah, I. Don't think you.
For weeks or months. I guess so, but they were
selling it in gyms in a vending machine to emphasize the fact
that these are water resistant. As water resistant as it gets.
Just immersed in water and not soggy.
Very nice. Yeah, But it is that that's
pretty creative. There is no better proof of
concept or at least proof of the fact that it works the other
than, you know, having to be able to show that it is water.
Like you're literally getting it while it's immersed in water.
Nice question. So my next question has.
Absolutely nothing to do with any of it.
So that's going to be my segue moving to something from Sony
Walkman to something that has absolutely nothing to do with
it. So this is a very simple
question and I have to credit Annie, who's been our quiz
Master one on on our previous episode for this question.
So this is the question. Please pay very close attention
to it. AB.
This is a name. It has two parts, hence AB.
AB is the protagonist of the book X, which is not a one word
title. That's just I'm putting X as a
placeholder for the name of the book, but it's not a one word
title. Published in 1958 and it has a
very famous 1961 film adaptation which is also has the same name.
Now when you look at the name ABA is the name of a plant
associated with a certain festival and B is a relatively
uncommon name which if split into two would be a phrase
meaning tread softly. Can you identify the book and
the character? The character features in the
book and the movie, right? Yes, the book and the movie.
And the last name split into two would mean tread softly.
Yes, and the first name, or the first name is the name of a
plant associated strongly with a particular festival.
Did you mention if this is an Indian book or did you not
mention that? I have not mentioned about the
country of publication, no. OK, would that be too much of a
giveaway? Not particularly.
I can tell you it's not India. OK, because the reason is
because I was thinking are these words the name of the flower and
the tread softly? Are they English words or am I
supposed to be thinking in some other language?
No, they are English. They are English.
OK, got it. So tread softly, walk soft, OK?
And you have a flower, a plant. Plant.
Sorry, no context to this at all.
OK, the profession of AB is still a point of debate today.
Very obscure clue, but if you are a movie buff, you would
probably have a hint you are a movie buff.
So that's why I'm trying to make it difficult while at the same
time make you go oh when you hear the answer.
If you don't go oh. Then I failed.
That's a good benchmark. Like, how much do you, how long
is the awe when you hear the answer?
Yeah. Can you tell me the release date
of the book and the movie One more time?
1958 is the book and 61 is the film.
Oh that's not an easy guess then.
No man, I have literally no clue for this.
OK, so the movie is remembered even today for launching a very
famous fashion trend, which is it's one of those fashion trends
which never go out of fashion. I would say launching it, but it
kind of brought it into the public consciousness.
There's one particular fashion choice, or at least fashion.
Oh, Holly Golightly, this is Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Yes, it is. It is Holly Golightly for
Breakfast at Tiffany's what gave me away.
The little black dress. The little black dress, yes.
And the clue regarding her profession being hotly debated
is that there is an ongoing debate as to whether Holly
Golightly is an actual prostitute or not.
Oh, OK. But according to Truman Capote
himself, who was the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Polly
Golightly is not a prostitute. She's more like an American
geisha is his way of. Oh, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, so props to Annie for this question.
He excels at making these kind of questions and I just loved
it, so I had to steal it. Thank you, Annie.
Yeah, Holly Golightly. I like it.
That's pretty cool. OK, Since we are doing questions
that people have bestowed upon us, I will ask you a question
that a regular listener of ours, Parag, who's also a friend of
mine, and I met him very recently when I was travelling.
It was very funny because he's like, you know, it doesn't even
feel like that it's been that long since I met you because I
listened to your podcast very regularly.
And that was a very sweet thing to have said.
And I'll tell you another interesting thing that happened,
but I'll tell you after the question.
So let's do the question 1st. And this has an audio component,
but I'm not going to give it upfront, so we'll play the audio
later. Let me just describe it first.
Are you familiar with VS Naipaul's novel A House for Mr.
Biswas? Yes.
I feel like you already know where this question is going.
Like I see something in your eyes.
Yes, I do know where this question is going.
I already know what the answer is.
I know what the question is also going to be, but that's going to
be too much of A flex, so I'm going to sit here and wait for
you to ask the question so that I can pounce.
Vineet, I'll let you do this. You deserve it.
I will ask the full question. No worry.
But this is a chance for the audience to know just how smart.
I mean, they already do. One more evidence in that.
Go for it. Tell me what the answer is.
OK, the theme for James Bond. Oh God, man, you did not
disappoint ever. This just refuse to let me down.
I love it. I love it.
You know, I do this in with the quizzes that I host where if I
start a question and somebody just raises the placard or
raises their hand before I've even completed the first
sentence, I'm like, you know what?
If you give me the right answer at this point, I'm going to give
you all the points. Every single point I have is
yours and obviously they back off because I mean it as a joke.
I assume that they're not going to be able to answer it, but.
Vineet. I had to mention literally the
first sentence in order to finish that and you already knew
the answer. Yes it is.
There's one theme. OK for Parag's question.
It is a great question, but I'll do credit to you if you need.
This is too smart VS Nepal's novel A House for Mr. Biswas is
set in the Indian community in Trinidad.
There was a musical adaptation of it and there was a song that
was composed for the musical adaptation called Bad Sign.
Good Sign this was composed by Monty Norman.
Monty Norman's composition inspired the iconic theme and
that was going to be the question of what what did
inspire? As Vinit already said it way too
early, It is the James Bond theme.
The iconic James Bond theme is inspired by that.
I guess at this point there's nothing much to do except play
the theme, so here goes. I was born with this unlucky
sneeze and what is worse, I came into the world the wrong way
round Pond. It's all agreed that I'm the
reason why my father fell into the village bond and drowned.
It's a great question Parag. The only problem is you can
blame Aditya. He set it up in a way that I
would know the answer. If he hadn't said audio clue it
would have taken me maybe halfway through the question to
get to it. Still.
Quite the flex, Vinit, Come on. I get very few of these.
I really have to milk every oz. Of you sure, you sure you
deserve it. And the lovely thing is that
Parag mentioned and he set up this question to me.
And this was in person very often when we receive questions,
it's on e-mail or messages. But I met him and he was like,
oh, I have a question for you and you should ask this in the
next episode. I was like, OK, great, hit me
with it. And he plays the music and
initiate took me like solid 10 seconds into the music to even
get because it, it sounds so different from what the team is
obviously. And it uses very classical
Indian instruments. So very unexpected, but I loved
it. And that is bad sign, good sign.
The song that we just played for you, which is from the musical
adaptation of VS Naipaul's novel A House for Mr. Biswas, composed
by Monty Norman and obviously inspired the James Bond theme.
Great question, great question. Thank you.
And please send in more questions.
You know, you can also be my friend and give me questions.
You know, I mean, I don't know why people don't do that.
I would like to stump this fellow once in a while.
Doesn't happen that often. You're not stumped.
I don't get, Oh, you're not even stumped.
Oh, OK. By the way, I was at a party at
a friend's place at the house party.
And this guy looks at me and I don't know him.
So I'm just like a bunch of strangers.
And then you're only a couple of people at the party and I'm just
mingling around meeting some old friends.
And this guy looks at me and he's he's looking at me for a
while. And then he's like, hey, are you
Aditya? And I was like, yeah, I was
like, do you do some stand up and stuff?
I was like, oh, is my stand up gotten popular?
Because I've not read. Wow.
There is no one in the stand up community.
And it turns out he was just checking because he's like, are
you the one who does? Are you questioning me?
The podcast, that's how he knew me.
And the stand up part was just because I think he had seen it
on my profile at some point. So I managed to meet a lovely,
lovely friend of the show, Bala. And Bala was at this podcast and
he's like, Oh my God, I'm such a huge fan.
And and he apparently listens to the podcast on his commute every
day to work. So yeah, it was lovely meeting
somebody out of the blue who had heard of the podcast.
You know what? If you ever see Vineet or me
anywhere, please do do tell us. If you do listen to podcast,
it's lovely too. Unless you're somebody who
visits a laboratory quite frequently, the chances of
running into me are not that high.
That is the other reason is also he's like I have visited both
your profiles on Instagram and vid doesn't really post anything
but you do so that's why I recognize you.
No, because my Last Post I think was from 8:00 or 10 years ago.
That's pretty cool of you, actually, yeah.
I know because I just don't get Instagram.
I am that grouchy old man now. I've admitted it that I have
grown old, but I just don't get Instagram in the way that some
of my younger colleagues and younger friends do.
So I find it difficult to engage over there.
LinkedIn is something that I am on Facebook.
I have a profile which is again dormant.
As you can see, my social media game is extremely bad.
I should probably start posting something, but then my question
is what do I post? I don't want to post photographs
of myself. That seems a little nasty.
So I don't know share it or anybody who actually does that
on Instagram, which is that I'm not comfortable doing it so.
Fair enough, fair enough. Well, I'm glad at least I had my
pictures up there because I got to meet this person.
So thank you. Thank you so much, Bala, for
reaching out. And he did mention that he
wanted to actually send us a question or two.
So while this is a reminder, if you do have a question, you can
send it to Vineet. Yes please.
Well, if you feel like my profile on Instagram is better,
please send it to me. I would not complain one bit.
And that's probably why people do send you questions.
They must be looking at my profile and like Burger hasn't
posted anything in 2015 years or 10 years something.
Probably not a good person to send a question to.
Yeah, but hey, if you send it on the e-mail, Vineet will
definitely read it. So that's that's that's the out
right there. So yeah, thank you to two of
these friends of the podcast, both Parag and Bala.
Yeah, shout out to Parag and Bala.
All right, Vineet, on to you. OK, moving from the literature
from the mid 20th century to something that's quite older,
the question goes as follows. Listen carefully.
Its origins stretch back to Roman time.
It was first documented in the Libere Medicinalis, that is the
book of medicine written by Quintus Serenus Simonicus, who
lived in the 2nd century AD and was physician to the Roman
emperor Cracalia. Simonicus was actually executed
by Caracaria IN212AD as part of a broader purge, but before then
he suggested using X or the term that he had coined as a cure or
prevention against catching malaria, which he called
Hermitageus. Londoners used to paint this
term in front of their doors to ward of the plague in the 17th
century. What am I talking about?
Sorry, was the name of the person again.
Written by Quintus Serenus Simonicus in the 2nd century.
AD, 2nd century AD and then the plague thing that you mentioned
was? Yes, he coined this term as a
cure to cure our prevention against catching malaria.
Londoners used to paint this in front of their doors to ward off
the plague in the 17th century. So I guess this doesn't probably
make a whole lot of sense, but welcome.
No. Is it by any chance the
etymology for welcome? No.
OK. I'll give you my clue I can give
you is that the etymology for this term is quite disputed as
well. This is what we've actually
have. But there are other theories for
the etymology of this term, most of them going back much farther.
Is this something similar to welcome?
Like is it something that you'll see on doors still or something
like that? No.
Well, you may see it in one or two specific places somewhere in
the world. That's an unnecessary clue.
So just forget I ever said that. It's not going to help you.
Yeah, it doesn't help me. You don't see it in front of
doors or anything anymore. OK, wow.
OK again, I'm pretty stumped. I have no idea.
OK, so another clue I can give you is the source of this
trivia. Where did I get it from?
OK. I got it from a book written by
JK Rowling. OK, the the book itself has the
trivia in it, or you found the word in it and then you.
No, I found the trivia in a book that was.
To ward off malaria. Currently the Harry Potter
novels because I would remember this piece of trivia if it was
in the Harry Potter novels. Is it Harry Potter by any
chance? Related to Harry Potter.
Oh, OK, so one of those compendiums.
OK, something that's on one of the doors in on Gryffindor or
Hogwarts or Slytherin, I don't know.
Yeah, I have no clue. This is one of those books which
is written I think Co written by JK Rowling and couple of others
and this had specifically to deal with spells and chunks.
Oh. Oh, so Alohomora, is it like you
open the door or? Good guess that you're thinking
of Alohomora, but it's not. For those non Harry Potter
listeners of our podcast, Alohomora is the spell used to
open closed doors. Hence why this is a good guess,
but unfortunately it's not. Because the other word was the
one that used to lock the door, and I'm guessing that also
probably is the might fit the logic.
No, forgot what that word is. Wow.
It's been a while since I read Harry Potter.
I guess Wow spells. Which is not Aloha Mora.
Something to banish, something to prevent, something to stop,
defend. Oh, I don't know.
I don't know. Stupefier defender was to break
it to kind of. Defender should break it.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and the spell for locking
a door was Cola Portos, by the way.
Coloportis OK, All right. No, I I don't know.
I don't know. OK, one last clue would be that
this is possibly the first spell that Harry Potter is ever faced
with. Oh, faced with I mean one of the
iconic first spells is Wingardium Leviosa, but I don't
know if that doesn't make any sense.
No, no. OK, the first spells, that's the
one that is OK. So if that is the spell, what
would be the actual term? Because here we're talking about
real world. Oh, no way, Abracadabra.
Is that where it comes from? Yes.
Oh. So yeah, there as I mentioned,
there is some disputed etymology.
A lot of people think that abracadabra has its etymology
from anamic or early much earlier languages.
But factually what we know is that it was first documented in
a book called Liber Medicinalis, where Quintus Serenus Simonicas
had coined it as, I don't know, a word that would somehow
prevent from catching malaria. But then they did think it was
because of bad air. So, you know, expelling good air
by saying abracadabra would probably help you not catch
malaria. It doesn't make any sense.
Anyway. During the 17th century
Londoners used to paint abracadabra on the doors to ward
off the plague. So it's like a 17th century
English version of OS3 Kalana. OK, interesting.
So it's abracadabra. You did get a pretty long O from
me, so that that was an interesting question.
I did have a long prolonged O. Oh, OK, cool, cool.
I enjoyed that question. Well, I will move from that
question since you did mention something to deal with
epidemics. I'm going to talk about
something very similar. Wow, I love this was a very
great segue in this country, and the country shall remain unnamed
for now. In this country, X, in 1938, a
national order mandated something to deal with the
outbreak of cholera. It has now become iconic as a
symbol of this country, uniquely to this country, if I may say
so, actually something that people associate almost uniquely
to this country and is also a massive tourist attraction.
What was this national order in 1938 in the country X that was
mandating something to deal with an outbreak of cholera?
Something to deal with an outbreak of cholera, and it's
become a symbol of the country. Yes.
Wow. OK, OK.
Dealing with cholera, obviously you want clean water, but it's a
symbol of the country and it's uniquely a symbol of the
country. Cholera is a fibria, cholera
bacteria that spreads through the water.
It's highly contagious, causes a lot of diarrhoea.
And for some reason, a measure to stop it, a law to stop it,
has become a law has become the symbol of the country.
A little weird, but. A symbol as in like it's, it's a
massive tourist attraction. If you see it, you're like, oh,
this is that country X immediately.
Oh OK, so the law basically caused the construction of
something which is now a big symbol of the country, but it
was constructed to back a cholera?
I have absolutely no clue. OK, I'll give you a clue.
What if I told you the name of the Prime Minister who gave this
order? Maybe that lead you to the
country as well. Wait a second.
Suddenly a thought occurred to me, but I don't know if it could
be because I'm just thinking slightly laterally.
Is it like Christ the Redeemer in Brazil or something?
Oh, that's a great guess. But no, it's not.
It's not. OK, so give me the clue then.
The name of the Prime Minister who did this was Ionis Metaxas
Ionis Ionis. There will be a Greek or Cypriot
name. It's Greek.
It's Greek, yes. So the country in question is
Greece I. Think Greece is one of the
oldest countries with a lot of, you know, iconic iconology, to
be honest. And I don't know White Houses.
Hey, there we go. That's perfect.
Yes. So, OK, so this is one of the
reasons, but it is a big reason, white and blue, obviously
colours of the Greek flag. It has been colours of the
Hellenic Republic for a while. It represents the sky and the
ocean, which is which is basically what surrounds Greece,
right? So it is meant to symbolize
that. As it turns out, they made it
mandatory for the the island houses to be painted in blue and
white because there was also an outbreak of cholera happening
and whitewashing their homes was supposed to help prevent or at
least curb the outbreak. And I'll tell you why.
Because the whitewashed houses used to paint used to contain
limestone, which is a powerful disinfectant.
And there were no other disinfectant as commonly
available at that point of time. So the citizens whitewashed
their homes to help sanitize them and reduce the spread of
cholera. And it so happened that they
were like white and then blue became the colours, which is
what is iconic for a lot of the Greek islands, especially
Santorini, that people very often flock to when they go to
Greece. Very nice.
So yeah, that that a little bit of a epidemic related trivia to
counter yours. OK.
Yeah, that's nice. That's nice.
And it's a complete TI for me and frankly a very wild guess,
which fortunately for me came to be true.
OK, OK, I'm going to give you a couple of names, right?
And I'm not giving you a segue this time.
You know what? I am switching it up.
No sequence. I'm going to give you a list of
names, and I want you to tell me what's the common number.
And I also want your word that you will not find me and track
me down and kill me. So the list of names goes as
follows. Lil Wayne, the rapper, Prince
the musician. Caligula, the Roman emperor.
Napoleon, the French Emperor, Kyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian
writer, and Theodore Roosevelt. OK, there's one more name on the
list, but that's going to be the clue that I would probably give
you, so. And I'm supposed to find the.
What's the common thread among these people?
Wow, did they all have the letter O in their names?
No, like Lil Wayne. You can pronounce it Wayne.
OK, I'm kidding. All right.
OK, Now, that was obviously a terrible guess.
Could you repeat the list again? So there was Lil Wayne, there
was Roosevelt, there was Napoleon, there was Dostovsky.
And. OK, so the list goes on as
follows. Lil Wayne Prince, the multi
talented musician Caligula, the deportion of Roman Emperor
Fyodor Dostovsky, the very serious and depressing Russian
writer, Napoleon, the not so vertically challenged French
Emperor and Theodol Roosevelt who carried a big stake.
Lil Wayne is on this list that is really confusing me.
Obviously this is a non exhaustive list, I wanted
somebody who's quite modern. Oh, I have no idea what connects
these people. No, wow, OK, no, nothing fits
the bill because Lil Wayne is really throwing me off.
I was trying to think of names and etymologies to the names and
something like that. Lil Wayne is obviously.
No, no, this is something common to these people themselves.
It's nothing to do with the name.
That's my clue to you. Common to these people
themselves. There can't be an award that
connects all of them. There can't be AI.
Can't imagine there are places named after Lil Wayne.
No, there are not. At least I hope not.
Yeah, it will be a strange thing.
Sure, why not? Good for him.
But. And you said there's one more
name that you haven't mentioned. Yeah, there are a couple more
names. There are two specific names
which would probably give you a big clue, so those I'm keeping
to the very end. But there are other names I can
give you. Hugo Weaving, who played the
agent on The Matrix. Yeah, right.
And Elrond on Lord of the Rings. He also belongs on the list.
Danny Glover, famous actor who's too old for the shit.
Lethal. Weapon.
Yeah, Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover, he's also on the list.
Lenin would also find himself on this list.
So would Pope Pius the 9th. But that's no clue at all for
you. None of these are clues.
These are all people from all over the place.
OK, Susan. Boyle, the singer who came to
attention during the Britain's Got Talent show.
The one she had the very frumpy appearance and then she opened
her mouth and people were entranced.
On an iconic, iconic moment, and I still remember that.
Oof, goosebumps. Wait, this, this is interesting
because Susan Boyle was, I think, the first woman you
mentioned. And somehow it might lead me to,
I don't know, is it some sort of a physical condition that they
all share? OK, closer.
Like I said, I have two more names, and those names will
probably give you a big clue as to what this is.
So Susan Boyle. I feel like I know Susan Boyle
had something that she was dealing with on the medical
front, so. She had multiple.
OK, so but this would be very like thyroidism, hypothyroidism
or something like that they got. A little more specific, do you
want the last two names? OK, hit me.
OK. Do you want them together or do
you want me to give them one after the other?
So to give you a better chance, or at least be a better chance.
Give me one at a time. OK, the first one I'm going to
give you is Joan of Arc. Joan.
Of Arc OK, second woman mentioned so far Joan of Arc?
No. I have no clue as to what
medical condition affected Joan of Arc.
OK, so then the last person, and probably if you know the piece
of trivia, this is probably the one that you will give it away,
is Flojo Florence Griffith Joyner, the fastest woman ever
recorded. I am familiar with her.
This is the back of my head. I feel like I know this because
especially since you said Susan Boyle, it's just been like Danny
Glover, so I feel like. I would probably ask you to
focus on Joan of Arc and Flojo. Those are the ones that probably
should point you most closely to the answer.
Juno Park is somehow not ringing any bells.
Frojo. Does Susan bond also?
I feel like I read this when I first encountered her on social
media. Say something.
It's not dyslexia. No I don't think this is
dyslexia. Is it by any chance epilepsy?
It is epilepsy, yes. OK.
All right. These are all people who have
suffered from epilepsy at some point in their lives.
Lil Wayne does, Prince did and kept it a secret for the time.
Caligula. Yes, Dostoevsky.
Napoleon is also thought to have suffered from epilepsy.
Danny Glover did for a period of his life.
So did Theodore Roosevelt by the way.
Not a fact that many people know.
And the reason I was pointing towards Joan of Arc and Flo Jo
is because a lot of people suspect that Joan of Arc's
visions were actually the effect of a certain type of epilepsy.
And Flojo, or Florence Florence Griffith Joyner, developed
epilepsy in her 30s and she famously died in her sleep after
she suffered a grand Mal seizure while asleep and died from
asphyxiation. Oh, that's, that's a shame, OK.
These are all very famous people who unfortunately did suffer
from epilepsy, but not something that we may immediately know
about. And I was very surprised when I
heard about Napoleon and Svidor Dostevsky and Lil Wayne.
That should have killed me in Caligula and Napoleon.
I doubt hypothyroidism would be a diagnosis that would fit those
people. Yeah, fair enough.
OK, But great. I love that question.
Oh, epilepsy connects these people.
I, I think it's just because of Susan Boyle, because I think I
might have read it somewhere. Very cool, Very, very cool.
That brings me to my question regarding another famous man.
And this particular man has been featured on our podcast before.
We are talking of PT Barnum, and PT Barnum had something called
the Barnum's American Museum. It was very popular and there
were exhibits of, you know, the those, those attractions of
quote UN quote exotic people, I guess.
You can say freaks. No, that's what they called
them. Let me clarify.
That's what they were called during that period of time.
Time. It's not like you're saying that
people are freaks now. Yeah, quote UN quote freaks.
You're right. That's how they were called and
that's the name that was given to them at that point.
And they were a massive attraction.
So various people like somebody who had dwarfism or this woman
who had a beard, the bearded lady, the bearded lady,
conjoined twins, all of these different individuals were were
exhibited, as it were. So PC Parnam realized that
people were lingering too long at his exhibits.
What was his solution to this particular problem?
What signage did he put up to deal with this problem of people
just lingering around not letting others come in and and
enjoy the well whatever the display?
So what? What did he put up?
OK, this is again going to be something clever.
Which I'm not going to be able to guess.
Did he say that they would be charged for every minute they
stand and watch? That would be that would be kind
of PT Badam style. But no, it wasn't the case that
he was going to charge them. He just put up a very simple
signage to direct the crowds in a certain direction, to direct
the crowds towards the exit actually.
OK. And what did you put up to
direct the crowds towards the exit?
Did he promise that there was going to be another attraction?
Yeah, in a way, that's what it would seem like to an audience
who was not familiar with what certain words meant.
OK. It's pretty close to the answer
I'll I'll give it to you if you don't get it in the next few
tries. It's going to be some kind of
word play. Knowing you, it's going to be
some kind of word play. It's going to be really funny.
In this scenario, it's actually not a word plan.
It's funny because of just what he did, but there's no word play
in this is just happens to be something.
Something this way. I think he would have put
something this way or something. I don't know.
I'm just. This is way too specific of a
word choice that that's unfair to you.
It basically said this way to the egress and egress obviously
means exit, but people not knowing that egress was another
word for exit followed the signage thinking that there was
another exhibit waiting for them in outside of that particular
door and ended up outside. So he just put up signs and said
this way to the egress. Very PT Barnum.
Yeah, exactly. I thought it was really funny so
I had to include it. That is PT Barnum related trivia
I we could actually do if you ever do like a super cut of are
episodes of different topics. I think there could be just a PT
Barnab episode we have done and. I think Theodore Roosevelt also
appears quite often on our questions.
Yeah. That he does.
He does. He does Napoleon as well.
Yeah. We could actually have like,
just an episode dedicated to these people.
OK, that was nice. So moving on.
From. Certain turn of the century
individuals to another turn of the century individual Born in
1856. X was a lawyer who completed a
PhD from Johns Hopkins. X was a prolific author and
ended up as President of Princeton University.
X's book, History of the American People, was used as a
source material for a movie, Y, which was the first movie to be
screened in the White House. Y was almost single handedly
responsible for the rapid rise of a fraternal social club first
established in 1865. I want you to identify XY and Z.
1856, right? Born in 1856, X was a lawyer,
completed a PhD from Johns Hopkins, ended up as a president
of Princeton University. At one point, X's book History
of the American People was used as one of the source materials
for a movie. Why?
Why was the first movie to be screened at the White House and
why was also almost single handedly responsible for the
rapid rise our fraternal social club first established in 1865?
I want you to identify XY and Z. You said lawyer Johns Hopkins
implies America. Yeah, we're going to assume it
is a politician because lawyers ended up following that path.
1856 until unless it's a precedent, it would be. 2.
Out of my reach, so I'm going to guess something like 1856,
probably in the early 20th century.
Is it by any chance Teddy result?
No, it can't be Teddy result. I wouldn't do that to you that
haven't. It's just to like Theodore
Roosevelt coming in two questions on the same episode.
Yeah, OK. He is one of my favorite people.
I have lots of trivia about Teddy which I've not brought to
the podcast, so there is. More to.
Plumb through Teddy's life, but let's leave Teddy aside for the
moment. OK, then I'd have to venture a
guess. First movie.
Actually the first movie. This is something I have I
remember from Black Klansmen where he's pretending to be a
KKK member. This black guy's pretending to
be. It's based of a true story and I
think they speak of Birth of a Nation.
In that side is Birth of a nation.
I remember this was a yes. OK, so the movie Why is Birth of
a Nation? OK.
Which is a very famous movie, and it was the first movie to be
screened at the White House. An unfortunate choice, but yeah.
So then what was the Fraternal Social Club first established in
1865? What is Z then?
Z 1865 Club that was established.
Fraternal Social Club established in 1865.
And but wasn't this guy born in 1856?
Yeah, the guy was born in 1856, but the movie was responsible
for the rapid rise of a fraternal social club, which
was. First of 1865.
Sorry. Right, right, right.
I missed that. I missed that.
OK, so then Rapid Rise is the Ku Klux Klan.
Yes. So it is the KKK.
So you have both of the Nation incredibly racist movie and the
Ku Klux Klan, which is currently having a lot of competition for
racism. So with the KKK.
Wow. Oh boy, that's such an
unfortunate piece of, well, I guess trivia in this case.
So who's who's ex? That's actually stumping me
completely. Am I right in assuming that it
is a prominent politician, presumably a president?
It is a prominent politician, yes.
A president. Yes.
Oh boy. OK, President 1856.
I'd have to assume this is Garfield.
No, not James Garfield, no. So think of somebody who's very
bookish. Early 20th century, apart from
the Roosevelt, Hoover. Hoover was around that time, I
think. No, actually Hoover was much
later. 2 presidents actually. Oh, so not that far apart.
OK, 2 presidents from somewhere in the in the vicinity, is it?
There's there's that guy. I always think of him as
associated to this Larry McKinley.
No, no, no, McKinley was before. OK, McKinley was just prior to
Roosevelt. OK, so it's after Roosevelt but
before Hoover. Yes, I will give you one clue.
When I was a kid, we had these, you know, kind of Model UN
things, right? That means, yeah.
Part of that was learning the history of the United Nations
and whatnot, right? So almost every history of the
United Nations starts with the fact that the United Nations
came into being, and the reason for it being structured the way
it was was because of the failure of an organization that.
League of Nations. Either League of Nations.
Exactly. This person was practically
responsible for the League of Nations.
Wilson Wilson. Woodrow Wilson.
Yes.
Yes, yes. OK, that I remember.
Yes. So all right, all right.
Putting it all together, Woodrow Wilson was a very learned and
prolific author lawyer who was president of Princeton
University prior to becoming president of the United States.
His book The History of the American People, when it was
released, was quite well received in many circles.
But it's like one of those Manoj Night Shyamalan movies where
everything's fine until there's a twist at the end.
So like, the book is completely fine, but until he kind of
portrays the Ku Klux Klan as being the saviors of the people
in the movie Birth of the Nation, which was a silent
movie, by the way, it was a silent movie.
And in that movie, there were kind of cue cards or text cards
which popped up because of the silent movie, right?
So there's no dialogue. So to kind of propel the story
along, they have these cue text cards, and many of them were
practically taken verbatim from Woodrow Wilson's book A History
of the American People. The movie was incredibly
controversial even for its own time.
Many states wanted to kind of ban it, but because there was
this question about censorship, as in how much should be
censored and what should be free speech and whatnot.
And it was only after Wilson himself screened it at the White
House and gave it a review. The other state, all the states,
were like, yeah, if it's good enough for our president, it
should be good enough for us. And that movie was single
handedly responsible for the rapid rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
I would like to apologize to anybody who feels offended with
my description of the Ku Klux Klan as a fraternal social club.
That was the description of the Ku Klux Klan when it was first
established in 1865. But today I think it would be
better to call it as white supremacist, far right terrorist
organization or hate group. I don't say, I won't say to be
fair to Woodrow Wilson, but apparently later on he did kind
of express his horror at what the Ku Klux Klan was supposed to
be and what it turned out to do and turned out to be.
Bare minimum, at least, I guess. All right, pretty cool piece of
trivia. I would not have made the
connection between Woodrow Wilson and both of our nation
and Ku Klux Klan without all those hints.
And so, yeah, great, great piece of history over there as trivia.
And also that reminds you black Klansmen.
Great film. That's my pop culture
recommendation. I'll mention it again in our pop
culture recommendation on Does that bring us to the end of the
episode we need? Yes, yes, that is all the time
we have for our regular questions.
So let's start winding up. So there's the question that I
had asked at the beginning of today's episode.
On 8th May 2006, the television station BBC News 24 wanted to
interview technology journalist Guy Cuny about the Apple core
versus Apple computers legal dispute.
By mistake be the BBC let Karen Bowerman interview Guy Goma, a
Congolese French business studio graduate from Brazzaville in the
Republic of Congo, who'd come to the BBC for a job interview as a
data cleanser. The incident became one of the
BB CS most widely reported bloopers, something which has
become ingrained in our pop culture.
Lot of memes have originated from it and during the interview
itself. When interviewer Karen Bowerman
introduced the person as Internet expert Guy CUNY, Goma
realized that there had been a misunderstanding and was visibly
shocked. Aware that he was on via live
television and not wishing to make a scene, Goma attempted to
answer the questions about Apple Cos versus Apple computers and
it's ramifications. My question to you is this
iconic pop culture phenomenon which happened at that blooper,
which happened at that point of time was all because of this
legal case of Apple Cops versus Apple computers.
Simple question, who owned Apple Cops, which was in a legal
battle with Apple computers? Interesting, I do remember this
interview. It is quite hilarious.
You can find it on YouTube. It is.
It is very hilarious. Don't think this is part of the
whole Steve Jobs exit from Apple and coming come back.
I don't think this is in that. No, no, this is more of a
copyright thing. They wanted to use the name
Apple. Right.
No, I don't think it's any tech mogul for from whatever I know.
So somebody outside of tech, but I have no clue who.
Give me a hint. The hint would be that Apple
have you, I don't know. I mean, like you're an Apple
user, right? We are like direct opposite.
I'm a PC guy. You're an Apple guy, right?
So on your Mac, you may have seen a sound file called Sosumi.
SOSUMI. Apparently, I think the name
slightly changed in the newer versions.
But at least for years, almost a couple of decades, there was a
chime, which is part of the Apple Mac thing called Sosumi
SOSUMI. The original name for that was
supposed to be chime. But the Apple head honchos did
not want the name anywhere near music, any kind of name or term
related to music being used in the Mac software.
So instead they put in because they didn't know if it would
come under the copyright problem or the copyright agreement.
So they quite cheekily of one particular developer used the
name SOSUMI, so sue me as the name.
And that was there on many Macs for I think a couple of decades
until it's it was changed quite recently.
It's in the music industry. So with that clue, do you think
you can crack it? OK, Music industry and it is the
UK, the BBC and knowing you beneath, I'm just going to say
The Beatles. Yes, it is The Beatles.
So Apple Cops was one of the holding companies of The
Beatles, including their catalogue and whatnot.
And then when Apple Computers came up, there was a copyright
battle between the two for the name Apple.
It was finally settled after many decades of multiple legal
battles. And there was a very cheeky
reference to that in many Macs with the chime that was called
Sosumi. None of that.
That's kind of funny. I see it, I see it, I see the
humor in that. But.
I knew you would just enjoy, you know, the moment, the ride off
the bat. How can you not?
So sue me, of course you would enjoy that.
Yeah. OK, that brings us to the pop
culture recommendations. And I since I did mention Spike
Lee, I'm gonna mention a couple of his films that I really
enjoy. Black Landsman was, I think his
latest film that I've seen, but before that I had also, Oh no,
wait, I think I also saw the the five bloods, which is criminally
underrated, I felt, and also I think got an Oscar snub.
If I'm not wrong, deserve better.
I have to mention do the right thing inside man.
Again, I I doesn't get a lot of cred.
I think it's a fun film, a bank heist film as bank heist films
go. And Malcolm X, these are the few
that I'll mention. So that's Black Clansmen, the
Five Bloods, Inside Man, Malcolm X.
And of course, do the right thing.
Nice, nice. So my recommendation for this
week would be a movie I caught on OTT, which I'm told did not
do well and in the theaters, and I'm going to be surprised it did
not. It's called Khel Khel Me
starring Akshay Kumar. It's been a long time since I've
seen Akshay Kumar at the top of his game.
To be honest, I've seen a lot of his inspirational movies and he
for some reason falls short on all of them.
He's back to being a funny guy with very good comic timing in
Kale Kalebay. And I have to also mention that
Kale Kalebay is a remake of a movie called Perfect Strangers
and it's a 2016 Italian movie and it's been remade I don't
know how many times, at least in excess of 20, with it having
been remade twice in India prior to this.
So one of those I have which I have watched is a movie called
12th Man. It's available on Disney Hotstar
for anyone to watch. It is a slight twist on Perfect
Strangers because while that's more of a relationship drama
kind of story, the same conceit or the same concept is used for
a murder mystery in 12th Man. Which is.
Directed by Jitu Joseph, who you may have heard of and you may
not have heard of, but Jitu Joseph is the man who wrote and
directed the first Drishyam, the original Drishyam, so you know
you're in good hands. So that's a movie that you might
want to catch on Hotstar. Disney hotshot.
OK, interesting that I will randomly plug a movie that I
made in college. It was called 1 Beer down to the
short film for the short film competition.
And the central conceit was not exactly the same, but kind of
similar because I think in this movie The idea is that you have
to share your phone calls and messages with your partners.
Yes, yes. The theme for our film was that
the group of friends and you're not allowed to use your phone
except for one phone call and I think everybody in the group
also fine. I've forgotten what the movie.
Would be made. I think that's called going to
jail for most people. Except that you were these were
guys who had who were spending their last day together and the
next day was their last day in college.
So this is the last night. And so they're like, we are
going to spend it with each other, but we are disallowed 1
phone call it. So I don't know why where the
team we just took me back to that.
Don't watch it. Honestly, this is not a.
It's a non recommendation if anything.
By the way, if if somebody did not want to watch it, where
would they not be able to watch it?
I think you should not be watching it on YouTube.
That's that's where I remember last not watching it.
Yeah. So check check out everything
else except that. Just an additional piece of
trivia, Perfect Strangers has been recognized as the most
remade film according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Wow. Yes, so, and this is the best
part, there's an English language stage version.
No, OK. Yeah, there's an English
language stage version which is going to star Neil Patrick
Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing, Constance Wu, among
many others. And I really love the title of
the stage version. It's called Shit Meet Fan.
Nice, I like that. I like that.
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Unfortunately the people who come to my lab are mostly people
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Before I sign off, I think I've said this before, I'll say it
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you think they'll enjoy this. If they like listening to
trivia, this is a fun way to spread the love for trivia.
And Speaking of, there is a quiz that I attended.
So if any of our friends of the podcast live in Mumbai, I would
suggest going for this quiz. It's called QED and it is meant
for medical professionals but also to open to other people.
They already already did the qualifying rounds last weekend.
I was there alone and I sorely felt Vineeth's lag there because
I have 0 medical knowledge as I found out last weekend.
But that was just so meant for you.
I felt I told so many people about the podcast and I was
like, but my Co host would be great at this except he doesn't
live here. So yeah.
In any case, it is open to people to come.
Just watch. And the finals are happening
next Sunday. It's happening in Mumbai, in
Bandra, in Saint Joe's Auditorium.
So if you're around in Mumbai next Sunday, you should go check
it out. I'll be there and come say hi if
you do come for the quiz. And at that note, see you guys
next week. Bye.