Welcome to RU Quizzing Me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture and so much more. 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. 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 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. And that unfortunately is all the time we have for this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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