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Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode number 98 of RU
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
as usual without any further ado.
So the audience question for today.
This is a question I ask at the beginning of every episode and
the answer to which I reveal at the end of it.
So you have roughly 40 to 45 minutes to guess what the answer
to could be. Audience question for today is.
The Title X was originally a term of abuse rather than a
description of an official role. It implied that an individual
subject had risen improperly above others within the royal
circle and had echoes of a political institution imported
from France, England's great enemy.
Identify the title X. Let me repeat the question.
The title X was originally a term of abuse rather than a
description of an official role. It implied that an individual
subject had risen improperly above others while within the
royal circle and had echoes of a political institution imported
from France, England's great enemy.
Identify the title Egg. I will reveal the answer to this
at the end of today's episode, but now it's time for the I
don't the dark forest of quizzing.
I was going for something there. I just kind of, it fell apart
halfway in my head, so Aditya hit me.
OK, so this question has to do with an invention.
A team of researchers at the University of Florida led by
Robert Cade invented X. It was originally meant for the
school student athletes and was also named after them.
Do you know what X is? Greater read.
Was that too easy a question, Vinit?
Did you have to make a mockery out of my first question like
this? You know I'm going to.
Edit this so I can just remove. It and ask you another.
First question and I can sound smarter now because.
This is ridiculous. How could you have?
Done it so bigly. And I just spot somewhere I read
this somewhere, which is kind of, you know, click.
Fine, fine. Yes, yes.
You are right, it is Gatorade. I thought Florida it will.
Take you a while to give you a hint as to Florida alligators
Gatorade. Florida that kind of gave it
away because in my head I knew this trivia, something wrong
with Gators and, you know, Florida sports drink.
So then we mentioned it just kind of clicked and I was like,
it could be this. I've nothing to lose except, you
know, my pride. All right, so the Florida Gators
are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the.
University of Florida, which is located obviously in Florida and
their symbol is an alligator. The most common animal, I guess,
of Florida, or at least the most popular.
Animal that comes from Florida that's and Gatorade was named
after the Florida Gators and that was a very quick crack let
us just. Move past that embarrassing
question into hopefully. A much more challenging 1.
So this is hopefully something somebody has well travelled to
Aditya will probably crack very quickly, but it was something I
found very interesting and I'm hoping to share it with the
audience. So the question is as this in
one specific part of this city in India, it is mandated that
all commercial signages be hand painted black text on a white
background. Even logos are to be in black
and white and hand painted. The only colour allowed on
signage is are for religious institutions which will be in
maroon and white to distinguish them from shops.
Which iconic city am I talking about?
Hand painted black and white signage except maroon.
And white when it is. Religious Right.
Yes. Just saying no, I have no idea
what's ever. I don't think I've even seen a
picture of this ever. Oh, I'm.
Fairly sure you have. The problem is it's not
something you notice immediately, or at least I.
Didn't. I at least.
Think of myself as somebody who's pretty observant.
But I visited the. City at least three times before
I kind of noticed and then I. Dug up this trivia?
Oh, OK. You know, visited a few times.
I'll need a hint. Ah OK, this city also has color.
Coded rickshaws. Color-coded rickshaws like
every. Yes, so there are.
They have white auto rickshaws, light yellow, saffron, sky blue,
light green, pink. Different rickshaws for
different zones. Oh, which part of India is this?
That might be a little giveaway. But let's say North India.
I'm going to put it that. I'm going to make it as vague as
possible north of the northern half of India.
That sounds like a. Raj is tiny thing somehow.
I'm going to take a wild guess as initially I was going to say
Udaipur but I have. I have been to Udaipur a few
times and I don't think I've noticed.
Firstly color code rickshaws and only black and white signage.
So then maybe Jaipur? Can you be more specific?
More specific than Jaipur. OK, you have the city, but like
where in Jaipur? Oh, so there's a specific?
Zone in Jaipur where this is. Where the signage part is true
for one particular area in Jaipur, it's an easy fix.
You just have to think of the menu here.
Jaipur. What's the first thing that
comes to mind? Hawa Mahal.
The first name that comes to mind.
Jaipur City. Palace Jai Jai Singh the.
First name First name Sobrikwe? What Sobrikwe does Jaipur have?
The Windy City, right? No, we're not the windy Pink
City. Pink City.
Yeah. It's a pink city, so the Waldorf
portion. Right, right, right.
Yeah, I've. Seen this?
Oh my. God, never mind.
This is embarrassing. I can't believe I took so much
time. But it doesn't kind of hit you
like when you're walking through the streets of Jaipur.
Like it was on my third visit that I actually realized like
I'd just gotten out of the Hawa mail and I was just walking the
strikes of road. And I've gone to do some
shopping for my wife. And then I realized that all the
sign boards are in black and white.
And then a little Google search told me that it's an actual city
mandate that within the walled city, the walled Pink city
portion of Jaipur, the city of Jaipur is huge, but there is a
very iconic historical quarter of the city, which is called the
walled portion of the city, which is what we traditionally
think of when we say the pink city of Jaipur.
And you can actually download the city mandate which mentioned
this, but it does mention that all commercial signages have to
be hand painted black text on a white background.
Even logos have to be black and white.
So if you go to the walled portion of the pink city of the
major outer city of Jaipur, you will notice that even banks like
HDFC Bank has a black and white board.
Interesting you. Move outside the Vault City And
Colour reappears. They want to maintain this
because they want to maintain the pink, even though it's more
of a kind of rusty brown, The pink.
Colour scheme of the city. They don't want to have any
contrasting colours in it, so all commercial signages are in
black and white, religious signages in maroon and white.
Interesting, interesting. I'm embarrassed.
Yes, I have been there and as soon as you said Jaipur Pink
City, I figured I've I've walked through those very lanes and I
have noticed that signage being. Exactly what you mentioned.
OK, after that embarrassment of a second question, let's.
Move on to the third question. Speaking of embarrassment,
actually. So Dave Grohl during one of his
shows at London Stadium. Dave Grohl, obviously, of Foo.
Fighters fame was throwing a little bit of shade or I guess
trying to embarrass another artist, and he made a little
play of words on that artist tour.
So that artist X, let's call that artist X, has had a very.
Famous tour touring their famous hits.
And songs and Dave Grohl was kind of mocking them for.
Using. Prerecorded music and mentioned
how. He never uses prerecorded music.
Everything they do. The Foo Fighters do is live
played on stage in front of the audience.
What? Play of words, did he use to
mock? X.
Oh, this is tough. Dave Grohl's a pretty nice guy,
so I don't know who would be mocking.
And you've mentioned this was in which year?
I did not mention that actually. That should help you.
Perhaps both X and Dave Grohl were playing in London at the
same time. This was in 2024.
Prerecorded music and X is a band or is it like an artist?
X is an artist. X was playing at Wembley
Stadium. Foo Fighters were playing at
London Stadium. Is this Taylor?
Lovely X is Taylor Swift. He implied that.
Taylor's music is prerecorded or she's lip syncing or singing.
Over a track and. And he survived on social media.
He got massive backlash. From the Swifties, as would be
expected. But the fun is in how he made
fun of Taylor Swift. What did he use?
What did he say when he was mocking?
What is the play of? Words is my actual question.
Dude, I cannot. You know I'm very bad with play
on words, right? OK, so you obviously know what
Taylor Swift? 'S concert has what?
Name have they been using? What was it?
Eternity. No, something like that, right?
I don't remember right now. You literally said this in the
previous. I know that's exactly what I'm
trying to remember now I have amnesia.
When we were talking about the artist.
That made the debut. In 2024.
With a concert in India. Yes.
The answer to which was Rihanna then.
Yes. I was just editing the episode
so I know you said the name. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
I said the name but then I had to delete some things in my hard
drive. Sherlock over here.
Yeah, I am Sherlock. No, that's too much.
I'm not Sherlock. I don't remember things.
I don't have a photographic memory.
No. Do I have a mind playlist?
Yeah. What was it called?
Yeah. OK, I'll give it to you.
Era store the. Era store.
Not eternity. I'm thinking eternity.
It's the era. Yeah, I knew it was something.
Yeah. Era.
The era store. Yeah, yes.
Era store. Let's let's.
Spread the embarrassment around. Let's all have a fair share of
the embarrassment. OK?
So Eras Tour by Taylor Swift. What do you think Dave Grohl
jokingly called his tour? Because they play live, they
might make some. I don't know, this will be
something really obvious and people are going to think I'm
stupid for not thinking of it. Eras.
The only thing you know, honestly the only thing that's
coming to mind is like eras Peras.
Did he like light the fire and go around it 7 times on stage?
I don't know who that would mock.
I'm I'm sure he would get backlash.
You know dude, this is not about my brain thinking clearly.
This is the way my brain works. Fair.
That's fair. Just get hooked on something and
then I cannot think of anything else.
So eras, eras era fair. OK, I I think you're going down
the wrong path. Obviously as I know I'm going
down the wrong path. Dave Grohl said that because we
play live, we might do something.
We might do whatever, fill in the blank.
They might improvise. They might improvise, or they
might make something, make some. Mistakes some.
Synonym for mistakes. It sounds like errors.
Errors. There we go, the error store.
Oh God. He jokingly referred to it as We
like to call our tour the error store.
We have had more than a few errors and more than a few.
Effing errors as well. Just a couple.
And the old implication was unlike Taylor Swift, who has a.
Backing soundtrack. They play their music live and
they. Obviously make some errors and
then Gore obviously paused and said.
Cheekily, that's because we play live and he did not want to
invite the wrath of Taylor Swift and her fans.
And. Which eventually did anyway, so
that. Very, very bold statement from
Dave Grohl. I thought it was funny enough to
be included in trivia. It is a funny question.
Error store.
To mock error store. Ah, very good play on words.
Let me see if I can match that question with another one.
Stanley Dunham. Have you heard of Stanley
Dunham? No, I have not.
So Stanley Dunham was an American anthropologist who
specialized in the economic anthropology and rural
development of Indonesia. In the late 2000s, interest
renewed in Dunham's work. The University of Hawaii LED a
symposium, an exhibition of Dunham's Indonesian batik
textile collection toured the United States, and in December
2009 the Duke University Press published Surviving Against the
Odd Village Industry in Indonesia book based on Dunham's
original 1992 dissertation. What was Dunham's claim to fame
which led to this renewed interest?
Is it something in the pop culture?
Not necessarily, no. No, I wouldn't say pop culture,
though tangentially related to pop culture.
Sorry, which country did you mention?
The US the US American anthropologist specialized in
the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia.
Did you mention which year, Which decade are we talking
about? Dunham did their work mostly in
the 90s. However, interest was renewed in
the late 2000s. And let's be honest, this is not
a very exciting or, you know, it doesn't make your pulse race or
anything. You know, economic anthropology,
the book that we're talking about, is Surviving Against the
Odds Village Industry in Indonesia, which is based on
Dunham's original 1992 dissertation.
No, you'll have to give me some other clue perhaps.
OK, so the. Clue, I'm going to tell you is
first of all, think the late 2000s in America and think
Indonesia, Indonesia. Late 2000s Late 2000s I can
only. Think of the banking crisis.
No, What else? What else?
What major historic things
happened in the late 2000s? Late 2000s, something historic
that happened. Oh, is it some sort of, I mean
terror attacks was obviously 2. 1001.
I can't think of anything. The wars were ongoing in the
Middle East, but that was not necessarily just the late 2000s.
No, I need a clue what what was happening in late 2000.
And you said Indonesia? Yes, that's my second clue.
Indonesia. No, I don't.
Know. OK, I will give you one more
clue. Throw your mind back to the
depths of time around 9095 episodes ago and I think if I'm
not mistaken, this may be a question which we had, which we
Barack Obama. OK, so what's the connection?
He spent some time in Indonesia. Is he related to?
Is that his mother? Yeah, Stanley and Dunham to
Stanley Dunham was by the that's that's the fact that kind of
Copic my interest that Barack Obama's mother was called
Stanley. OK.
Interesting, interesting. Stanley Ann Dunham was Barack
Obama's mother, and obviously Barack Obama did spend some time
in Indonesia. And there was once a question
which we had, I don't remember if we actually made it to the
final cut, but I think it might be one of our trial episodes.
But there was a question about the statue of Goddess Saraswati
outside the Indonesian Embassy in the US And at the base of
that statue, our two kids, two or three kids, if I'm not
mistaken. And one of those is modelled
after a very young Barack Obama because he did spend some time
in Indonesia. So Stanley Dunham, Stanley.
And Dunham was Barack Obama's mother, and she was an American
anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and
rural development of Indonesia. And obviously the event that
picked interest in her work again was the 2008 election of
Barack Obama. Yep, Yep, Yep, that makes sense.
That makes a lot of sense. Wow, lovely question and lovely
throwback to that very, very old episode.
We. Have come a long way, haven't
we? Yeah.
OK, so Speaking of books, since Stanley Dunham wrote a book I'm
going to move to which is not technically a book, I'm going to
move to Macbeth the I. Don't know how many people have
heard of it. It's one of William
Shakespeare's plays. Who's William Shakespeare?
Who's William Shakespeare in DADS?
This up and coming author. Very obscure up and coming
author William Shakespeare wrote this very obscure piece of work
called Macbeth which is first performed in 16 O 6.
In. Act 2 Scene 3 The Porter is very
hungover from the previous night during his monologue.
He uses a refrain which has now become a very common pop culture
staple. What happens in Act 2 Scene 3IN
Macbeth that has now become a pop culture stable?
Act 2, Scene 3 of Macbeth. Porter is drunk by the pricking
of my thumb. Something wicked this way comes,
but that's much earlier in the play.
Now you'll have to give me a hint here.
It's been a while since I've read Macbeth in its original.
Actually, it's been more than a decade, so you'll have to
refresh my memory here. OK.
So let me give you a little bit more of a progression of.
This pop culture staple writing in the Oakland.
Tribune merely, McAvoy recalled. The style of this particular pop
culture staple from around 1900 where a person would ask a
question such as do you know Arthur?
And then it would proceed from there.
Wait, this is a knock knock joke.
That was very well corrected. How did you correct that I?
Don't know, because when you mentioned, do you know Arthur
something, it just clicked. It's one of those things they
just clicked. Don't ask me how I made the
connection, it just clicked. Wow.
OK, because that was entirely unexpected that you would.
Crack it because the statement. Goes Do you know Arthur?
The unsuspecting listener responded with Arthur, who and
the joke teller answered our thermometer.
I don't know what is funny about our.
Thermometer Our thermometer. What is our thermometer?
Our thermometer. My thermometer.
Your thermometer. Our thermometer.
That makes no sense. Do you know, Arthur, our
thermometer? That makes absolutely no sense.
But I guess most knock, knock jokes don't make any sense in
this case. I will.
Yeah, Move past trying to make sense of that.
Though in. Act 2.
Scene 3. When the Porter is very hungover
from the previous night. In his monologue, he uses.
Knock, knock. Who's there?
As a constant refrain, and that might be a possible source for
the knock knock jokes. Oh, nice.
Nice. OK, that was a interesting kind
of segue to the Scottish play, as it's very famously known and
it's a very dark play. A lot of dark themes and murder
and betrayal and traitors of Gallard.
So let's move from something that to something similarly
dark. On 27th July 1890, a man walked
into a field near Auer Sur Wase, a village a few miles north of
Paris, and died of a bullet wound in the chest.
The 7mm Le Faucher revolver which fired the shot had limited
power and it took days for him to die from his injuries.
The gun was found by a farmer in 1965 near the village where the
man had spent his final days. It was approximately the right
age and used the same caliber of bullet the gun.
Was sold at auction. For $182,000 who was the man?
Sorry, when was the death? 27th of July 1890 was when the
man was shot and it took days for him to die from his
injuries. This sounds like a Vincent van
Gogh thing, but I'm not sure about the timeline.
Oh. You you you incorrigible man.
Yes it is Vincent van Gogh. I actually kind of also tried to
trick you by saying that he was shot, when actually he himself
kind of shot himself. He shot himself in the chest.
So this gun basically is called the most famous gun in the
history of art. And the most commonly accepted
narrative is that Van Gogh committed suicide in a field
near the deer town of Aber Suevoise in France in 1890.
But there is some evidence pointing to his death being a
case of manslaughter. A local boy who was delighted in
bullying Vincent by the name of Rene Secreto was well known
around our wares for carrying A7 millimetre Lafosha revolver, the
same gun discovered in the fields Vincent loved to paint
and matching the seven millimetre slug doctors removed
from his bullet. Secreto supposedly loved to
drunkenly brandish people while imitating an American cowboy.
I remember reading about this, yeah.
Yeah, so we don't know if he actually killed Vincent van Gogh
or Van Gogh shot himself, but yeah.
So this is the gun that was the cause of Van Gogh's death?
Such an underappreciated genius. True loss.
If people have not seen it, I would say that one of the most
touching portrayals of Van Gogh comes from, ironically, a Doctor
Who episode. Oh, I love that episode.
I love that episode. It's such a nice, nice clip.
Yeah, so that's, that's a pop culture recommendation.
If you haven't, if you have access to Doctor Who, or if you
don't know, or if you don't have access to, you find access to
Doctor Who and. Watch the episode that centers
around Vincent. Van Gogh when the doctor goes to
visit him in the past. All right.
So. Moving from somebody who died in
the relative infamy, I moved to a Polish family.
Whose lives? Were awarded or given
recognition after that passing. OK, I.
Don't know if you already made sense out of that, but.
They were. Venerated in the Catholic Church
as martyrs followed their beatification by Pope Francis in
2023, their feast day is celebrated on 7th of July, That
is the day of the anniversary of Joseph and Victoria's wedding.
Joseph Ulma and Victoria Ulma were the parents in this case,
and the Ulma family entirely has been blessed and beatified by
Pope Francis. OK.
The reason that they're beatified was because at least
21 Polish Jews survived in Markova during the occupation of
Poland by Nazi Germany thanks to their help despite and they were
actually murdered because they helped these families,
unfortunately. Now, what is special about this
particular beatification? What was unique about this
beatification? They were Jewish.
No, no, no. They're not Jewish.
We're the Catholics. OK, you can't beatify.
Anybody who's not Catholic? There was something really
special about their beatification.
Something that happened for the first time ever.
First time ever. Is it like a fast tracking of
their bed? No, but it's not going to be
fast tracking. It's been no.
No, it was OK. So what happened was actually a
very unfortunate story is that they attempted to rescue Polish
Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the
Holocaust. OK, Yeah.
Both the parents and all their kids were summarily executed on
24th March 1944 for doing so. A horrible, horrible tragedy,
obviously. Yeah, but they gained, I guess,
some recognition in their death and the Pope beatified them in
2023. They're recognised and venerated
as martyrs by the Catholic Church.
What was special, or what was unique, or what was something
that happened for the first time ever in this particular
beatification? Wait, you mentioned multiple
members of the family. Is it like the family got like
normally would beatify a single person right?
But like they did multiple people together.
They did. That isn't what I'm talking
about in this case though. OK, no idea, you'll have to give
me some other clue. The first clue, which might not
be there most obvious of clues is that the beautification was
for the parents, as I mentioned, and their kids.
And that's somewhere where the clue lies.
All the kids that will be defined.
I don't think it's the first time that children, or at least
yeah, children have been beautified before, so it's not
that. They have, but that is a pretty
warm guess. OK, who was like one of them?
A baby or something? Very close actually.
Much, much warmer. So it's an infant.
Warmer and warmer. Something to do with the age of
the babies. Of one baby specifically.
One baby specifically. So it's like a newborn,
practically brand new, and the first thing it becomes is a St.
I'll give it to you. It was actually an unborn child.
So oh shit, she was. Pregnant with this executed her.
Yeah, yeah. So, OK, Yeah, there's a little
bit of a dispute. So what happened was there are
obviously reports which suggest that the unborn child, their
seventh child, was unborn and they had six children before
that. Wow.
And unfortunately, we're all execute for it.
And when they were beatified, beatification was for all of the
seven children. A lot of news reports suggested
that the beatification would represent the first time that it
was happening for an unborn or pre born child.
However, on 5th September 2023, the Catholic Church did release
a statement saying that the unnamed son was delivered at the
time of his mother's martyrdom based on the evidence that his
remains were found immersed from his mother's womb in the
original grave. So.
It's it's it's a little bit of a grey.
Area. We're not quite sure, however it
was. Presumably the first time.
Ever that an unborn child was beatified by the Catholic
Church. An unfortunate story, a rather
sad little piece of history. But yeah, that's that's what
trivia is I guess sometimes. Wow, yeah, that that was dark.
And that was very dark. You know, we are coming up on
what it's like, I think, the 80th anniversary of the end of
World War Two this year, right? We should probably do a couple
of episodes on just World War 2. That would be fun.
People shouldn't forget. Never forget.
Yeah, OK. Let me move on to something to
clear the palette, so to speak, with a lighter question maybe.
You know this maybe you. Don't.
I don't know if I can get any clues on this.
This is just a piece of very interesting fact that I came
across, or at least I think it's interesting, so bear with me.
It's a little indulgent. Tip Toes is a 2003 American
comedy drama film starring X Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale,
Patricia Arquette and Peter Dinklage.
It has found a place on many lists of the worst movies ever
made. Oldman was included in BBC
critic Mark Kermode's great acting in bad Films.
In 2012. The film actor attracted
controversy for the casting of non dwarf actor Gary Oldman as a
dwarf. Oldman plays the twin brother of
X's character despite being 11 years older than him in real
life and in the movie, X is an average sized individual.
So I'm just asking you, Aditya, film buff that you are, who do
you think they got to play? Gary Oldman's twin brother,
whose regular size while Gary Oldman plays a dwarf.
Hi. So the entire trivia is who was
cast as Gary Oldman's twin, and I'm assuming the answer is
ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's once you once
you get to know who played him, it's like you couldn't get
somebody more opposite. OK, trying to picture Gary
Oldman. I'm trying to picture somebody
who would. Like a direct opposite of a
dwarf Gary Oldman. That's my question.
If you're going on the height factor, I guess some really tall
actor. Oh my.
The most ridiculous answer I know that comes to mind is Will
Smith, but I doubt they push their luck that much.
No. Can imagine Will Smith would.
Fit the time frame though, because you said 11.
Years younger to Gary Oldman, right?
Johnny Depp kind of looks like Gary Oldman.
No, this guy doesn't look anything like Gary Oldman.
That's the entire point. Like I said, it's nothing very
it's like one of those tiny pieces of useless trivia that,
you know, the very bad movie. Apparently I haven't watched it.
When I saw the trailer for this I was like, is this a comedy
sketch of some sort? OK, now you'll have to give me
another. Clue.
OK, so just like I said, direct opposite of Gary Oldman, right?
So Gary Oldman is a what nationality is he Irish?
No, he's English. Yeah, obviously.
So Gary Oldman is English. OK.
This guy is directly opposite the pond.
Oh, so American. That doesn't help me.
He started acting in the early 90s and his very, very, very
first words on screen have defined him throughout his life,
throughout his acting career. Oh, this is Matthew McConaughey.
Yes, all right, all right, all right.
Yes. So.
Get this, they got big, tall, blonde Texan Matthew
McConaughey. To play the twin.
Brother of a dwarf brunette, Not, I wouldn't say brown
haired. Gary Oldman.
Oh, that is embarrassing. That is actually embarrassing,
yeah. Yeah, and it's an actual movie.
No, I don't get. What I don't get is they had
Peter Dinklage in the cast. Why do you get Gary Oldman to
play a dwarf when you have Peter freaking Dinklage in the cast?
A question for the ages. Absolutely.
OK, your turn. OK.
Since you spoke of all right, all right, all right, I must
mention. That that part is.
Improvised in Wolf of Wall. Street and Dicaprio's expression
where he looks a little. Confused where?
He looks a little dazed and confused.
A. Little bit of a reference there.
Is him actually looking towards Martin Scorsese to gauge whether
should he continue acting or is he going to contact?
The chest pumping scene. The chest pumping scene.
Yeah, nice. And that entire thing is
something that Matthew McConaughey actually does as a
warm up before he does his scenes.
He just gets his energy going. So he just used that in the
actual scene. And Dicaprio's expression is
actually a very legitimate response to.
What is my? Co actor doing right now OK.
Nice, nice. OK, so I think that's all the
time we have for today's episode.
Before we wind up, let's answer the audience question which I
asked at the beginning of today's episode.
So the question was the title X was originally a term of abuse
rather than a description. Of an official role.
It implied that an individual subject had risen improperly
above others within the royal circle and had echoes of a
political institution imported from France, England's great
enemy. What title am I talking about?
Aditya. Any clues?
Some sort of a French sounding political.
Not French sounding it. The term was derogatory.
It was a derogatory term which now is an accepted terminology.
Is it for a rank? Or for a it's.
An official title if it's an official role.
OK. Now it's for an official role in
those. Days it was used.
In not so nice context. OK, because I was going to say
something like Colonel. Or Lieutenant.
No. But it's it's a title, not not
an rank. It's an official role.
Role. Role in what context?
Role where? Is his role political?
Obviously. Like the whip?
No, something more common than that.
It's available like it's in India.
You would find it in England and many, many other countries.
No, I'll need. A hint OK, I'm.
I'm floundering for clues here because this is supposed to be
an audience question. OK, so let's say if.
You. At least in some parts of India.
If you're playing chess. What is the Queen also known as?
Wazir. And what would that translate
as? Wazir.
I don't know what does Wazir translate as.
Wazir is supposed to be what? What's that position?
What would that position be like?
Say OK. Put it in the English.
Context, right, The Queen or now we have rather the King Charles,
right? So King Charles and who would be
King Charles Wazir? Oh, so is that Vizor Vizir?
Vizir is it? Vizir, Yeah, that's the Vizir is
it comes from Persia. But no, I'm just like, just look
at it politically. Like a minister.
OK, So what terminology are we talking about?
The Prime Minister. Yes, Prime Minister, very well
done. Oh, what?
Yes. Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah. So it was actually a term of
abuse. Basically, in those days you had
all ministers and the terminology of Prime Minister
was our first among equals was a term of abuse.
Because if one of them feels like OK, that or they put on
airs and that they have present improperly above the other
ministers within the royal circle, they were called prime
ministers. It was a sarcastic.
Derogatory. Way of referring to them and
because the similar position occupied in France was called
premier, which was, you know #1 and from there comes Prime.
So, Prime Minister. Wow, that's so cool.
Who would have? Imagined that Prime Minister.
For the most venerated positions.
Actually was a derogatory term. Yes, it at least started off as
a derogatory today. It's not OK Radhithya, what was
your problem for pop culture recommendation for this week?
OK. Since you mentioned France.
I'm going to mention a French film that is one of my absolute
favorites and I can't believe I haven't already recommended it,
and I'll take this opportunity to rectify that mistake.
This movie is called The Intouchables in English or Lis
into Shar Lis or Pardon My French and it is one of my
absolute favorite films. Absolute favorite films.
It has been remade. Into a Hollywood film as well
though, from what I heard. The remake did not live up to
the original so I would say just go for it.
What's the original? It is so worth your time and
more a generally touching, beautiful, wholesome film.
Listen to Shah bliss. Oh, I see is.
Actually a lovely. Actor and I had no idea how
talented he was because I had seen him in some Hollywood
productions, did not know that he was a French actor.
Saw him in this French. Film and realized that he's
actually a pretty talented powers of an actor, so watch it
for some great performances, a touching story and an overall
wholesome experience. The Intouchables.
That's a great recommendation. I 2nd that.
It's a fantastic movie. I would again be partial and
frankly speaking Malayalam cinema is hit is.
On a roll. Since the beginning of 2024,
they've been cranking out some amazing films, and there's one
that's in theaters right now, just released at the time of
this recording. It's called Rekha Chitram.
It's a murder mystery and it explores a particular genre
which I feel is quite unexplored in Indian cinema is alternate
history. So it combines real events with
some fictional events to create a very, very riveting murder
mystery. So go catch Rekha Chitram in
theaters if it's still running while we are when this episode
releases. So, or maybe it's not and by the
time you can watch it on OTT. But it's a fantastic film.
You should definitely try and catch it.
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