Welcome to Are you Quizzing Me? I'm Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashim. This is a quizzing trivia podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into history, science, sport, pop culture, and so much more. Desk and Quizzing. And we're back with episode #41 of Are You Quizzing Me? Your Favorite Quizzing Trivia Podcast Show Aditya and are back for another round of quizzing. And let's start it off with today's audience question. This question is for you, our beloved audience.
Palm Cola is a discontinued soft drink product from the Tamil Nadu Palm Girl and Fiber Cooperative Federation. Today, it's only remembered for its TV commercial, very unique TV commercial. What was its claim to fame? Let me repeat the question. Palm Cola is a discontinued soft drink product from the Tamil Nadu Palm Girl and Fiber Cooperative Federation. Today it's remembered for its TV commercial, a very unique 3 DVTV commercial. What was its claim to fame? I have a lot of audience.
You have until the end of the episode to try and get the answer. Let's move on now to Aditya's weekly question, a question that he asked at the end of last week's episode and one which we will answer right now and put us all out of our misery. Or at least that's what I hope he'll do. You know what we need. I'm going to actually not just give you the answer to my question. I'm going to run you through my my, my mental process. How how I actually come up with
these gems and pearls of wisdom. So last week what I asked was which Hollywood Walk of Fame star would ideally be on the roof? Because most of them are on the street on the horizontal level over there. Some of them are vertical on maybe a wall, but there's none, which is on a roof. And I asked you which one should be on the roof? Now here's the answer. Let's just do a very quick answer. The answer is there's a band, English Australian band called Sky. Now Sky, the English Australian
band. If it were to ever get a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, it should be on the ceiling. Because Sky very easy, very obvious answer. But to all my dear listeners who are fans of the podcast, just for my answer. And don't really care about the rest of the podcast. Let me tell you that I was thinking of multiple different answers here. I thought about maybe somebody whose name is Ruth and sometimes, you know how they pronounce that name Ruth as Roof. And I was like, oh, that could
be on the roof. Or I actually tried to see if there was any famous Chinese celebrity with the last name Ling and the first name that has the 1st letter C So that would be C Ling or ceiling and that would be on the ceiling as well. And you know what? I went through so much for all of you, all my fans out there. If you are a fan, please reach out and let me know that I'm not completely deluded and I did this for all the fans. And I'm sorry. You know what? I want to apologize that today's
answer was way too easy. Sky, the English Australian band is not my best work. I will come back next week with much better. And that's all for this part of the episode. Let's move on very quickly now. You know, I'm so thankful. I've never been more thankful that madness is not contagious. That's what you think. It just is working. Very slowly, very.
But it will get there. Let's hope not, because in the if that's the case and we would have a lot to answer for, you yourself would have infected God knows how many listeners of this podcast. Indeed, moving on from Aditya's madness to a question, the first question of the day, I'm going to do the honours for today. In 2016, the United States saw a spike in the activity levels of its citizens.
According to Eric Horwitz and his pals at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, this thing added a total of 144 billion. That's billion with AB steps to US physical activity, though there were instances of public nuisances and concerns about security attributed to this as well. What led to the sudden surge in physical activity among U.S. citizens? 2016 So makes me think Trump. Was it like protest marches? Oh no, That would have been a
great one. But no. I mean, like this is 144 billion steps added to the entire US population. That's that. The other option is Pokémon Go. Why do I even bother? Yes, it is Pokémon Go, yes, but I was very fascinated with the fact that 144 billion steps. The fact of the matter is America has an obesity epidemic. I think Pokémon Go might just be the answer to that. Honestly, you know that is not even that bad an idea if it gets people out there.
And I don't know how much the craze was in India. I was in 2016, I was in Singapore, and I saw so many people just out there walking with their phones in their hand and you knew every person was doing that was playing Pokémon Go. So you know what technology, if it can, can create such real world effects, I'm all for it. Why not? Because I work in the, you know, health care industry, and one thing that we've found is extremely difficult is to get people to care about their own
health. People are more than willing to spend time, money and effort when they fall sick. But getting them to put that kind of, or even a fraction of that same time money or effort in preventing themselves from getting sick is next to impossible. It's one of those things getting people to kind of to be concerned about that is very difficult. At this point, this is APSA from us.
You know what if normally you find yourself watching Netflix or sitting in front of your TV and playing a video game, stop doing that. Instead, take out your phone, plug in your earphones, go for a walk and listen to a wonderful quizzing podcast. I don't know, maybe one which has two very charismatic Indian hosts. And and ask each other trivia, which is preceded by a very, very funny joke at the beginning of every episode.
I can't think of any example on the top of my head, but yeah, why not go do that, Try that out and recommend it to family and friends as well. You do realize that there were two major exaggerations in that description. One is the fact that you describe both of us as charismatic. Why that might, you know, apply to you, I would seriously doubt that. It does to me. And #2, you described your joke at the beginning of every episode as very, very funny.
Let me just tell you that it just, it just, you know, reinforces my perception that you do have some level of madness. But the idea is good, even though, you know, with, notwithstanding the exaggeration that he put out there, go for a walk. Listen to us. I mean, like, it's better than dying. I would imagine so, yeah. Listen to the broadcast. It is better than dying. I like it as a tagline. Just listen to Are you pissing me? It is better than dying, yes.
So Aditya, your turn. OK, lovely. Speaking of a podcast, we did have a listener reach out to us, and this particular gentleman in question, I'm assuming is OK with me saying their name, Rupesh. So Mr. Rupesh reached out to us and he sent us an e-mail. So hey, if you're listening to this and you would like to do the same, we would absolutely love that. There was some lovely pointer. Some. Valid criticisms, all of which we would love to take into
account. But the greatest gift were that Rupesh gave us was a question, and now this question is something I can pose to Vineet. So Vineet this one is I have not seen this question. Aditya very dastardly saw it, copied it, and then deleted it from our e-mail so that I wouldn't be able to see it. So yes, I am. I am completely oblivious to this question. I would not be surprised if you crack it very quickly because this is right up your alley. The question and I will read it
verbatim. The gun battle sequence is one of the most iconic elements from the James Bond franchise. Movies often treat the costume, color, aspect ratio, bonds, posture, etcetera. But in no time to die, a major tradition was broken, which could be reason by knowing the ending of the movie. For the first time in the franchise's history, James Bond cannot do something specific.
So what was it that was foreshadowed in the gun barrel sequence that directly led to, or at least at least hinted at, the ending of the film? So let me just break it down, then see if I can guess it. So normally you have the gun barrel sequence where, you know, the music starts playing, right. You see the thing of the gun barrel.
A person or James Bond at least walks in from the right of the screen, walks towards it, and the gun barrel kind of follows and stops when he reaches right in the middle of the screen. And then he turns around in a very debonair fashion and fires with the audience. And then blood drips down the, you know, the screen basically in front of it.
And then you hear that iconic refrain that after having many, many, many, many watch many, many movies I know is the gun barrel sequence now, now spoil that for anybody who's not seen No Time to Die. It's a very misleading title. Yes, Bond does find time to die in that movie. Yeah. If you've not watched it till now, big deal, It's I've spoiled it for you. But so knowing that Bond is about to die, I can't. OK. I've watched the movie, but I can't remember what it was. So does he not?
No, He. He must be. He must fire at the the screen. Does he not turn around and fire Instead? He just. You know what? What? You're right, this is actually part of the question, so I omitted a little bit of it out. You know, this is this is what this is what you audience members should remember that Adhika lies often. It's a symptom of his madness. Because if you remember and you can go back and listen to this, he said, I will read this question out verbatim.
And then what does he do? Not read it out of verbatim. I actually technically read it verbatim and then I just stopped reading at some point. So it is technically. So the question actually was you are absolutely on the mark. It does refer to the fact that Bond dies at the end and that is what the change in the gun barrel sequence was an allusion to. The question still stands, though. What tradition was broken in the
gun barrel sequence? Let me actually describe the answer and I'll I'll stop at where the exact answer is. But here's how Rupesh has spelled out the answer. OK, all the gun barrel intros go like James Bond walks into an enemy's aim that we see through the gun barrel shot gets fired and then enemy's red blood fills the screen. This is the usual gun barrel sequence. What in this was changed? OK, this is on the blood fills
the. It doesn't fill the entire screen, it fills our view of James Bond. I'll give it to you. It's very close, actually. In this case, there was no red blood filling the screen, and the red blood usually means that he's gotten his enemy. In this case, the enemy got him and he didn't survive the end of the movie, which is what the gun barrel sequence change was meant to allude to. And that is a lovely little reference in No Time to Die. Yeah, technically he does not.
He's not killed by the enemy. He commits suicide. Oh well. Bond's enemy is living without love and loneliness, and that's what kills him beneath. I don't know. I've not even seen no time to die. I don't know why. I'm just making some completely out of context with the movie but staying on bond. This is just a bonus thing I've because the original website where I saw it no longer exists so I have no way of confirming it.
I wanted to make it a question, but then when I went hunting for the website years later, I found that the website is closed. I think the website was called Atomic Cocktails or something. I don't remember it was Atomic something something. I had the link stored somewhere. It doesn't exist now, but I remember the the piece of trivia. So if you take in Fleming's books as gospel, what is James Bond's favorite drink? Oh, interesting. So I'm guessing it's not a vodka martini.
Then I don't know what's your answer. The. The movies talk about the vodka martini, right? So I I would have guessed the books. So do the books. Oh, then I would have guessed. Vodka martini. Yeah, no, of course it is not the answer. It is not a vodka martini. Technically he it's introduced in Casino Royale where he describes a martini being made with vodka and what is it called?
There's a specific brand of gin he mentions they I think replicated that entire that scene for the Casino Royal movie and he calls calls the cocktail a Vespa after Vespa look. He calls it a Vespa, but that is not his most go to drink. Believe it or not, his go to drink throughout the books and the series books is a whiskey. Oh, OK, yeah. He doesn't drink the vodka martini that often, but almost every other scene in the book, apparently he saw this.
This particular website had gone through the books and calculated like how many whiskeys he drank and how many martinis he drank and it's whiskeys by a large margin. Are you sure it is James Bond whose favorite drink is whiskey? Or is it James Bond's son? Because that would be a James Son, which would be Jameson Irish Whiskey. That's the free in between for our regular listeners. You know, this is, this is, this is where we should actually put the music of the gun barrel music.
Another gun barrel sequence of this was a visual sign and the blood will fit the screen to show that I have literally died from that pun. No, no, Vineet, please continue living because I am not done with the question. Actually Rupesh actually had a follow up that question as well.
Yeah. And which is why I love this, because it's such a lovely question and it has multiple parts to it. The second part to it is one of the production logos that appears at the end of the movie is also altered and was probably done as a mark of respect for the fallen James Bond. What was this? You said the end of the movie, right? Yes. So James Bond movies are traditionally have been traditionally produced by Broccoli Productions, right, Alfred Albert Broccoli and yeah,
not. The production house in question though. OK, the other thing is that when if I remember correctly, James Bond movies. I don't know if all of them have them, but many of them, when the end at the end of the credits they show that James Bond will be back in something, something or just James Bond will be back. If I remember correctly, after living Let die, they specifically showed James Bond will be back in a man with a
golden gun. But in this case, I'm talking about a production logo specifically, not a title card, not not any of these things. I'll need a clue. It is The MGM logo. Oh, The MGM? Oh, yes, yes, James Bond. Yeah, MGM. It's a blank. There is no line. It's just a blank one. OK, fine, I'll give it to you. It's close enough. Actually there is a lion, but the lion does not roar. Well done, yes. The lion in the MG Robo does not roar during the credits. Oh OK, nice. I did not pick up on any of
these when I watched the movie. Well, in case it's a very bittersweet movie. In case our listeners, I've not watched the movie, it is spoiled for you. But now you can actually look out for these Easter eggs. Yes, James Bond dies. You want me to spoil it more for you? James Bond has a kid. Oh wow. So we have a Jameson. It all ties in together. OK, lovely. So thank you, Rupesh. Thank you for your lovely
e-mail. And if any listeners out there would love to reach out with us, with with suggestions, with ideas, or just tell us how charismatic we are and how funny my jokes are, or to just give us lovely trivia questions, please do so. Or. I hate anybody who's no psychiatrist to give references to Aditya or self help groups, therapy groups. Vineet, Vineet, you maybe. Maybe there's a Partners Anonymous? Yeah, sorry, coming back to this, but if you do send an e-mail, remember to in the
subject line. If you want one of us to ask the other person that question, just put the name of the person who you intend for it to read to be read by. To put their name in the subject. So if you want me to ask Vineet, just put my name in it, say that they're in the subject and I'll read it and Vineet won't. Or if you want me need to ask me the question, put Vineet's name in it and Vineet will read it and I won't. And that way we still get to enjoy figuring it out.
Live for your entertainment. OK. So I am now going to go to another question also related to movies. You I think we'll pick this up pretty quickly. In 2020, on the birth anniversary of a legendary actor, Google added an Easter egg. When asked a question in the search box, a calculator would show up with the number 2 on it. Which actor's birthday are we talking about? You don't need to tell me the birthday or you just tell me which actor do you want me to repeat the question?
No, I got it pretty much a calculator with the number two would appear. This was an Easter egg. And this was an Indian actor I believe, right? You mentioned I mentioned this. I didn't mention Indian, I just said a legendary actor. Oh, legendary actor. OK, then can I? Because I'm not sure who this could be. Can I get a hint of whether it's Are we talking Bollywood? Are we talking India? Are we talking Hollywood? It is an Indian actor. All right. And the calculator with the
number two? Yes. So let me just repeat the question. In 2020, on the birth anniversary of a legendary actor, Google added an Easter egg. When asked a question in the search box, a calculator showed up with the number two. Who's the actor? No, I cannot think of anything that would fit that question. OK, well, I'm going to ask for more clues than any other clues.
OK, I'm going to ask you. I'm going to give you a clue by not giving you a clue, but actually expanding the scope of the question, as in, I will ask you one more question. OK, listen. OK, so this is the modified question with the clue, or let's say not a clue. In 2020, on the birth anniversary of a legendary actor, Google added an Easter egg on its site.
When asked a question in the search box, a calculator showed up with the number 2 on it. Who was the actor and what was the question that resulted in this answer? Oh, so you have to ask a specific question for it to come up as you do not like any question. That's OK. That makes a lot more sense. What was the question? And interestingly, it's calculator calculator though 2. The calculator is just a method of for Google to show the number by itself rather than anything
else. All right, not an image of a calculator. OK, got it, got it. I'm assuming it's a famous in a factor. It's a famous in a factor like that Easter egg is still available. If you ask the question, you will still get that interesting. The Easter egg is still let's say. You can try this after you hear what the answer is. You can try it again. You can go try it on Google. Nope, Vineet, I am quite blank right now. Give me another clue.
OK, OK, let me just put, let me just put give you an added clue, right. To be more specific, obviously they can't do it. But to be more specific, and if my memory serves me right, along with two in Hindi you would also be using the word Sardar. Do Sardar. Do no Sardar. What movie is this? I said you would also be using the word Sardar. I haven't specifically mentioned in which order you would use it. Gadar Gadar. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. Wow.
I can't think of any question which leads to an answer which says no. And Sardar thing is actually not even a clue because it has completely thrown me off. It's all going to make sense. Let me let me let me OK, let me say this question in its original context. In the movie when asked, the person answers says starts his answer with Sardar. Oh, du aadmi take it? Oh my God, yes. What day is this?
I was thinking surely and I was trying to think of what questions were surely and not a single question and it's stupid of me. No, this is Amjad Khan. Yes, this is Amjad Khan. So let me just wrap it up in a little bow. On Amjad Khan's birthday in 2020, Google added the C strike, which you can still access if you go to Google and type in Kitni Aadmi TE Google will answer with the calc with its calculator showing the number
two. It's a reference to this iconic scene from this Curry western very deep cut call back to one of our very first episodes to this Curry western movie called Sholay which released in the 70s in which the bandit king or the leader of the bandits asks his subordinate the question and he replies Sardar do adhmite literally, which means how many of them were there? And the answer is boss.
There were two referencing the iconic duo of Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra for those of our listeners and we do have listeners outside India, I'm very sorry, it's a very Indian question, but please do take the time out to see Sholay. It's a very different kind of Western. You're used to Westerns with of Clint Eastwood. Now you can see Westerns without Cowboys, with people riding bikes, You know, handicapped heroes, and at the same time, a lot of music. You mean to say it is a very
Eastern? Yes, it's a it's an Eastern. It's an Eastern. It is an Eastern. Yeah. OK, your turn. All right, now, Vineet, at the beginning of the episode, I told you I have a little surprise for you, and I did not tell you what it was. And we. I have been told on occasion that sometimes we don't do topical questions or we don't venture too far away from our areas of interest. So to satisfy both those curiosities, I'm going to ask you questions.
The next few questions that I'm going to ask in this episode are going to be World Cup related because the cricket World Cup is going on. I don't want OK, I'm yeah. For those people who don't know me at all, I am not a sports person. I am oblivious to any kind of cricket played post 92000. So this is going to be just a. So the basically the rest of this episode is going to be Aditya asking a question and me just going at. This point we can just record that I put that in instead of
having you live. That's that's all that's required. I'm not going to know a thing, but go ahead, at least we're already in. Sake I. Believe in you. I believe in you. OK. So the first question is, in 2023, the Mumbai Cricket Association put up two seats from the stadium for auction due to its popularity. What is the significance of these two seats in the Wankeri stadium? Yes, two seats on the Wankeri stadium. Are these like Shahrukh Khan seats?
No. Oh wait, is there are these seats where some six or something had landed at some point? Like the ball. Somebody hit a six and the ball landed on the seats. Yes, yes. Can you be a bit more specific? No, because I can guess what it is. But if you're going to ask me who or what did it in which match in which year, I am just completely oh wait, is this the no Dhoni? Is 6 icon? Yes, Dhoni is 6/1 Dhoni is what, six was this match winning? This was the match winning six from the final.
It was the World Cup winning six. It was the World Cup winning 6. From the 2011 Cricket World Cup, the Men's Cricket World Cup in 2011, Vineet, for your information, was won by India Ms. Dhoni. Yeah, I actually didn't watch that match. I just can't remember. No. Did you watch it or you didn't watch it? No, I watched the match. I watched the match. I remember the last scene especially because I also watched it again when I saw the Ms. Dhoni movie starring Sushantin Rat. Put yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I have a poor excuse for Indian. I I know that I'm not a cricket fan. So, you know, excuse me, and please don't stop listening to the podcast, because I don't watch cricket. We'll edit out this part, OK? All right. Lovely. It is the seat. Let me tell you a little bit more about it.
The two seats where Dhoni's famous shot landed are known as the 2011 World Cup Memorial Seats on its website under a section titled Request for Proposal for Buy out for ICC Cricket World Cup 23 matches and 1K Day Stadium. The MC has mentioned that Cricket World Cup 2011 Victoria Victory memorial seats, the two of them will be auction and an auction for these seats will certainly fetch them.
See a few crores of rupees as as well estimated because well, it is very iconic and it is very popular. So yeah, that is my first Cricket World Cup question and you can go for next question. And I will. Hey, you did really well. That was very, very well done for somebody who does not follow cricket at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Such as a pity. Encouragement. OK, I'm going to give you this. You should. You'll probably get this quickly, but what the hell. I'm going to give you a list.
OK. It's obviously a non exhaustive list, and in great Indian cuisine tradition, put funda. OK, OK, so the first name on the list is 82 degrees E the 2nd is K Beauty as in Kay beauty. OK then EDA Mama. That is Ed Space. A space Mama. OK Nush that is Nush. OK. And the rowdy club. OK, so this is a non exhaustive list. Tell me what? Connects them. Did you mention a category or something? No, obviously not. I wouldn't make it easy on you. Why? Why would you do that? Yeah, of course.
OK. Let me guess. Are these brands that are started by Bollywood celebrities? Not exactly. You're very, very close. Let's just remove one word from your answer and you got it. Oh, OK. Are these brands started by celebrities? Yes, yes. These are all brands started by celebrities. Why? Why do I even bother? OK, do you know or can you guess who these brands are started by? So 80 degrees, 82 degrees east. 82 Degrees E sounds very familiar, but no, it's Deepika
Padukone's beauty brand. OK K Beauty, Kay Beauty. K Beauty, Karina. Oh, no. The other one. Katrina. Fair enough, Katrina. OK. And true blue. True blue? No idea. True Blue. I've never even heard of Sachin Tendulkar. Ah. OK, EDA Mama. That's Alia Bhatt, I think. Yes, very good, Nush. Nush is the one that actually gave me the answer, but I can't for my life remember who started Nush. Add some. Add one letter in front and two letters at the end. It's Anushka Sharma.
And finally, the rowdy club. Akshay Kumar? Nope. This is Vijay Devarakonda, Telugu actor, the original Arjun Reddy. All right. It OK is does it have. You might have also seen him in that fantastic, highly critically acclaimed box office breaking movie called Liger. Indeed. That was the high point of Indian cinema. Liger was, yes, what we had been building up to for all these decades. Yes. Cross breed. OK, your turn. Let's have in case anybody did not catch on to it, that was sarcasm.
Liger is not a very good film, but we should have like, a sarcasm klaxon. Yeah. But Speaking of not being very good at things, Vineet, Are you ready for next cricket question? Yeah. Again, this You have to be clued into pop culture and cricket. Maybe you got this, maybe you don't. Let's find out. How do we know Sarim Akhtar? How do we know this Pakistani gentleman called Sarim Akhtar? What is he More famously known as unknown for Shoaib Akhtar's
less famous and slower brother. The Rawalpindi Bullock card? OK. No, no. That's not absolutely no clue. I've never heard of this person before. OK, if I tell you that he got inducted into the Museum of Memes a few years ago. No, wait, this is the disappointed Pakistani fan. There's a disappointed Pakistani fan meme. I know not no cricket, but I do know memes. You do know memes beneath because you do know the memes. Do you want to do a little impression for the Pakistani fan
meme? Yeah, this is an audio podcast. Yeah, so I'm asking for an audio impression. Yeah. Wait, I've only seen the, you know, the gifts of this thing. I don't know what he said. Did he say something? No, it it is that iconic part where he is. Yeah, he is just disappointed. But there is a little bit of a no. OK, OK. You know, you know, OK, OK. OK. So let me just I I think I've understood what's gone going on here. You and I have very different view.
You and I are talking about two different memes, OK? No, no, I'm talking about the one. No, I'm talking about the one where the Pakistani fan has has hands on his hips and is looking very disappointed at the camera. I know I'm talking about that one as well. I just forgot. Are you confident to that? Yeah I know there is no audio component to that. I was trying to save my face. We need to send it this part out. I am not editing that I'm giving it. I'm giving it.
Oh, wow. For a second, I forgot about the fact that this is. I thought you remember this there. There was this really hilarious interview of a Pakistani fan after a match where he's just going mental in front of the camera. So I thought you were talking about that meme when you said the audio or the audio clip. And I was like, OK, we're both thinking of two different Pakistani memes. No, no, no, I was not talking about that.
But since you did bring that up, I will mention that that is also a funny meme, and I'll do an impression of that just to save my face at this point, yes. That guy goes. Yes, but you're right, there is no audio component to that. It is just that disappointed man. And this is from the match, by the way, during the 2019 World Cup between Australia and Pakistan. Oh, OK, nice. OK, I will move on to my next question in an appeal, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
This is turning out to be very Indian episode. Lot of Indian based questions. Today in an appeal, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider including the image of X on currency notes in India to improve the economic situation of the country.
This is already something which was adopted in Indonesia when in 19/7/1997, after all attempts to curb the devaluation of the currency failed, somebody suggested that having X on the currency would bring good fortune. Whether it is because of that or anything else, it apparently worked and X has remained on the currency. On one particular currency note in Indonesia since then, identify X. Sorry, what is the India connecting this? You mentioned something about
the Indian currency. Yeah, so Arvind Kejriwal requested or appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include the image of X in Indian currency note notes to improve the economic situation of the country. Is it? Is it Goddess Lakshmi? Yeah, so that was one of them that he had mentioned. But that's not the one that has the Indonesia connect. So Arvind Kejriwal had suggested Goddess Lakshmi and X. But X already exists on Indonesian banknotes, or at least one specific bank denomination.
Is it also some religious symbolism? Yes. Is it another Hindu God? Given that Indonesia is a Muslim majority country, what do you think? No, fair enough. Because I mean they do have some significant Hindu population. So I thought maybe. I don't know can like is it some some line from the Quran which talks about prosperity? I don't know. No, no. I was just messing with you. It is a Hindu deity. This is. This is nasty. This is nasty. I am the evil.
You're going to the quizzing. Hell, there's a space reserved in hell for quiz masters like this is very simple. Come join the dark side of the Force. Well, that is, that is quite the audio pleasure of the Emperor Alpaty, yeah. Well done, Well done. OK, let me oh, which other Hindu God? Oh boy. Saraswati. Then maybe knowledge, No, We've already had a question on Indonesia and Saraswati way back when, yeah. We have. That was a great question. OK. I cannot think of anything that
would fit the bill then. OK, let me just put it this way. As I mentioned Indonesia in 1997, the after all attempts to curb the devaluation of the currency failed, right, There were huge roadblocks which was preventing their currency from coming back up. So who would they put on the currency on the bank? Yes, it is not Ganesh the elephant. The elephant headed Hindu God.
Ganesh, who is the remover of obstacles and bringer of good fortune, is on the Indonesian 20,000 repair note, if I'm not mistaken. And Arvind Kejriwal had, you know, suggested or appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include Ganesh and Lakshmi on the notes.
Nice. Nice. In the 2011 World Cup final, which was at 1K day, which we just talked about in a previous question, this was between India and Sri Lanka. By the way, what which usually happens only once during a cricket match happened twice. This is the toss. Oh, there was such a quick crack. But since you already got it, I would love. I would love for you to elaborate a little bit if you have any clue as to why the coin
toss happened twice. If it was Rohit Sharma, I could have said that he forgot what he was supposed to do and they asked him to toss again. First, someone who does not follow cricket are very quick to jump on some Rohit Sharma bashing, which I like, which I like. I'm all for it. I'm here for it. No, I mean, like, I find it very endearing that he did that. I mean like, I I know of this from memes and you know, multiple such troll articles that I've read, but apart from
that, I can't. I'm like Dhoni, OK? Did they? Did not? Did somebody not call it in the air? Well, OK, close enough. The toss took place twice as a result of the confusion due to the noise made by the massive crowd. And here I'll quote Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, when he said it was a crowd. The crowd was huge. It never happened in Sri Lanka.
It only happens in India once. It happened in Eden Gardens where I could not hear myself talk to the first slip and then of course at the one KD. I remember calling on the toss. Mai wasn't sure what I had called. He asked, did you call tails? And I said no. I called heads and the master fee said that I won the toss, but Mai said I didn't. So there was a little bit of confusion there. And then Mai said, OK, let's
have another toss of the coin. And that's when the second one went up and it came down heads again. So This is why the coin toss happened twice at the World Cup finale. And you got that very quickly. So kudos to you. It happens only in India. You are. You have had something different to eat tonight and you should tell me off my hair later. No, it's Navratri, so I'm completely vegetarian for the past few days. So it's it's the lack of protein
is getting to my head. The lack of animal protein? Yes, not to offend any vegans out there. We we are. All right. So that was my final question. We need to let us wrap up this episode. Yes. So what's your question for this week? My question for this week is, in the future, if the economy does suffer in India again, what would be a lovely thing to put on the banknotes to perhaps evade that crisis and no religion should be insulted in this answer? Or maybe all religions will be insulted.
I don't know. In next week to find out yes, yes, don't worry, Aditya is an equal opportunity offender. Indeed. OK, so let me go back to the beginning of the episode where I had asked an audience question. The question was Palm Cola is a discontinued soft drink product from Tamil Nadu, Palm Gur and Fiber Cooperative Federation. Today it's only remembered for its unique TV commercial. What was its claim to fame? Aditya, do you have any ideas?
Honestly, I would have guessed some celebrity's first appearance in an ad. And see, this is, this is the thing. You know I can't. I I'm going to have to be very, very brutal in my questions and very dastardly in giving clues because this bugger gets everything on the first try. TK, this is this was their first and only commercial. Can you guess who oh? Only commercial. Oh yes, OK.
Since you are expecting an answer from me and and you did mention that it's not Bollywood, if I'm not wrong, it's not not. Which state did you mention actually? Tamil Nadu. Oh, Tamil Nadu. Then I'm It's easy guess for me then it is superstar Rajinikanth. Yes, it is superstar Rajinikanth. It is his, the only commercial that he's ever acted in his career. There's very grainy footage of, you know, available on the Internet, on YouTube. Which I encourage everybody to
go see. Rajinikanth has not done a single commercial apart from this one. Apparently not. That's insane. Wow. Well, somehow more respect for the man now. Yes, no, but he is. I mean, like, despite all the trappings of his fame, he's a very down to earth kind of person in his interviews. And the way he, you know, you know, presents himself, you know, no makeup, no Jada, nothing.
He just comes in a very simple I've actually appreciated the fact that while in his movies he continues to wear a wig, when he comes in public he comes with his natural hair, which is which is lack thereof rather, and I'd love that. I love that. As a celebrity, he's able to differentiate his on screen persona and and his actual personage as it were. Which is interesting because I feel like a lot of celebrities don't do that.
And there are rumors of a lot of Bollywood celebrities who in their later years wear wigs, both infants and in their regular life, in front of their fans or for interviews or whatever, just because they don't want to be seen in their natural state. Which is so sad because at that age, if you don't have lush hair on your head, nobody's going to be like, oh, you are not attractive. You are a whatever octogenarian. You can't afford to not have hair on your head. Very true, very true.
But yeah, Rajinikanth. Very down to earth person. This was apparently the only commercial that he's ever acted in. Now, before we leave, there was a suggestion by a listener of this podcast that they appreciate some of the recommendations of things that we watch, listen to, or read. And they suggested that we could, at the end of every episode, try and give a recommendation, if we have any, for something that we've seen in
the past month or the past week. So, Aditya, do you have any recommendations for our audience? Well, I'm going to give a podcast recommendation, and this is a niche recommendation. It is for the fans of late night TV in the US because I'm a huge fan of all of your late night shows. It's a dwindling audience.
But hey, if you do listen to them, Strikeforce Five was a podcast which was hosted by 5 late night hosts and these were Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver. This was done during the writers strike which is now over and they did it in an effort to raise money for their for the people who are striking and and their own cast and crew in because they were not earning
the regular paycheck. So this was done as a charity thing I guess, and it's a fun little podcast. So if you do like late night comedy, late night TV shows, and you like podcasts, well, this is something you should not miss. Great. For my part, I just finished watching this four part documentary on Netflix called Beckham, which is a beautifully short and directed documentary about David Beckham's life. It is one of the best or most
engaging. I wouldn't say best, but one of the most engaging document sports documentaries I've seen. Easily within the ranks of the last dance, Senna, the two escobares. So Netflix, great job. Beckham, 4 episodes, 4 hours worth of binge worthy content and it's a lot of insight into the 90s. And you know, Beckham of the 90s brought back a lot of memories for me as a 90s kid. So yeah, Beckham, great documentary. Lovely. And on that note, we wrap up the episode.
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