In 2009, X caused a huge media frenzy when they kicked off their Y sacrifice. It was a scheme where people had to make sacrifices to get a free product from Y, especially the eponymously named product. Facebook users were getting a free coupon for Y by removing 10 Facebook friends. Even better, the app would then alert each of these ten friends that they had been sacrificed for the product YY.
The name of the product and the campaign also describes the magnitude of the sacrifice that the company X was asking for. So my question to you, my dear audience, is identify the company X and the product slash campaign Y. I will give you the answer for this question at the end of today's episode. This was our audience question and we're back for episode #118 yes, 118 and cue the music.
Welcome to Are you 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 Aditya is looking smug for some reason. I don't know why. Probably he's wearing because he's wearing a Targaryen sweatshirt for no reason. I I do random pop culture references with my T-shirts. That's my my jam.
No, it kind of seems a little, I don't know, ironic, or should I say count counterintuitive, The fact that it's a comfy, warm sweatshirt which is meant to protect you from the cold, and it's called a dragon on the front. It is the fire, part of the Song of Ice and Fire, supposed to keep you warm. Yeah, and the ice, apparently, because I'm wearing blue. That's it. I don't have AII. Need a direwolf sizzle here somewhere. We'll do it in post. You know, put a direwolf sizzle right here.
Vineet, I love you, but there is not any more effort left in me for post production. Just cutting out our pauses and our random meanderings is enough post production for me. OK, so enough fluff. Let's get down to the hardcore quizzing. Perfect. So since we are doing some classic quizzing, I'm going to start us off with one of our favorite topics. We have covered it a few times the future Aditya and Vineet.
Whenever they make the supercut of a single topic, we will make an episode on Academy Awards and this will be another question in it. OK. So this is an Academy Award related the Oscar related trivia. Can you tell me, Vineet, Which person has gotten nominated in the most number of categories at the Academy Award? Who has been nominated for the most number of. Categories. Most number of categories. If it were India, I would have said Vishal Bharadwaj. He does everything.
Cinematography, direction, script writing, screenplay, music direction. Sanjay Leela Bhansali also does quite a few things. Yeah, but I think Vishal has got a beat there. Probably. Probably. Vishal also edits, right? OK. So somebody like that in Hollywood or maybe, I don't know, for some reason, Walt Disney, was he nominated in a lot of categories? Nope, no, OK. Not Disney. The most number of categories. Then the next person that comes to mind is James Cameron. It's not James Cameron.
OK? Let me give you a hint to start you off on the right foot, OK? This person is not American. It's a British person. Is a man a British man? It's going to be some sort of googly. I can't think of a British man would I've heard of this person. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. British person nominated the most number of categories. OK, let me just try and break
this down in a logical fashion. I'm guessing there is some acting nominations along with some directorial ones, some actor director so Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth Branagh is the right answer. Wow. That was much faster than I would have expected. That is pretty cool. Yeah. OK, great. Can you tell me what categories has he been nominated in? You see, the guy does everything. He's a director. He directed Mel Gibson's Hamlet. He's directed and acted in the new adaptations of the what do
you call Agatha Christie books. So I'm guessing directing, best actor, best supporting actor, screenplay, most probably best original adaptation or whatever one of those was. I don't think he has any music related ones but. OK, editing. I will give it to you. It is Best picture, Best director, Best original screenplay, Best adapted screenplay, Best actor, Best supporting actor, Best live action, short film.
These are the seven categories that Kenneth Brenna has been nominated in. But here's a catch, he's not the only one who has been nominated in seven categories. There is another gentleman who has been nominated actually more number of times in seven categories. You know, I was wondering why when I got the answer, you weren't excited enough or you weren't giving me enough credit because I got just heart half the question.
He's like, oh, let him be all smug that he's got in Brenna, but I still have somebody else in my pocket who else does a lot of stuff. Same kind of categories. Or is it a little more technical field? All right, I'll tell you no acting categories for this man. No acting categories for this person. Also British. No, but not American. OK, not American. It's not somebody like Fellini, right? No, it's not Fellini. No. Is it OK?
Are you throwing a googly at me? As in, this person's not American, but is they've worked mostly in America or something like that? This person has worked in Hollywood a fair bit, yes, but they are very much not American. Roman Polanski. No, not Polanski. He's technically Polish and he's no longer allowed inside the US. Absolutely yes. No, not not Roman Polanski. No, I need a clue here. OK, what's interesting is Kenneth Berner has been nominated for quite a few
awards, but has won only once. This guy, on the other hand, has won four awards. 4 Oscars non American, has won four Oscars, Worked in Hollywood as well. No, you'll have to give me something else. OK, here's a fun piece of trivia related to one of his very acclaimed films from 2013.
OK. He apologized for his poor English, especially to the star of his film, because on one occasion he scared that star on location during production when he said what sounded like I'm going to give you herpes, when he actually had said in his accent, which is slightly thick, I'm going to give you an earpiece. So the star of his film was a little scared when they first heard that that turns out you're saying I'm going to give you an ear. PS.
Wait, is this Bong Joon Ho? No, this is not Bong Joon Ho. But you're right in the way that this person does have a strong accent and he was apologizing for his strong accent to his lead star. I'll tell you it was a female star. So there are unfortunately probably narrows it down slightly. Wait, is that Spanish director? What's his name? I always get his name wrong. OK. So there are three of them, OK. And three of them were winning at the Oscars pretty consecutively.
If you remember, like I think there were three years that these were three Latino directors who won. I think one of them is Mexican, two of them are South American. I'm forgetting exactly where they're from. Oh God I'm blanking completely. Almodovar. No, no, no. This is a very recent. This is extremely recent. Central American. It's not Inuatu, right? Like what was his name like? I'm very sorry. I should know his name properly. Alejandro Inaritu. Inaritu is how I'm spelling it,
yeah. Inaritu or something like that. Yeah. It's not Alejandro. Yeah. Who else? Who else? Who else? Who else? Who else is this? Deni Vignere, But he's French. He's not Spanish. Then he will live as not Spanish. OK, I'll tell you the three of them. You mentioned Alejandro Inarritu, and there is one more guy who's also won an Oscar, and the third one was won the four Oscars that is in question. Three of them have a production company called Cha Cha Cha Films.
OK, I should know this. I should know this. I can't think of any names right now man. OK, I'll tell you the name of the actor that he apologized to in the film where he said I'm going to give you her piece. It's Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock, Spanish director Spanish speaking speaking director. Oh this is the guy who did Alfonso poem. It is Alfonso Cuaron. Well done. Yes, Alfonso Cuaron. Oh nice thick this is gravity.
Gravity. Exactly. OK Nice nice Roma was a film that also won that he had directed. This guy has won four Academy Awards. He has been nominated in multiple categories. He has gotten 11 total nominations. Very, very well-rounded as an as a filmmaker. Interestingly enough, he would have been technically the winner in this trivia. Like you would have gotten one more over Brenna, except that his film Roma also won the best international feature Film.
But the director does not get the award for that. The award is given to the to the producers. It's to the country, actually. Country. Oh, OK. Technically, that would have been an eighth category. It is that in this case, he's not the one who's entitled to that award. The seven categories, 11 nominations has won four Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Live Action Short Film. OK.
Two very, very talented men, yes. I just love the idea that they've, they've done so many things. Yeah, it's pretty cool. But they know Vishal Bharat Watch because it's infinitely more difficult to do that. All this plus music. That is true. That is true. And the importance that Indian cinema places on music, it's it's quite the art, yeah. The fact that Vishal Bharadwaj can compose such emotionally resonant music right direct at the same time, it's, it's, it's mind boggling to me.
Like I can understand somebody like James Cameron or Kenneth Prana who can write, who can act, who can direct, who can adapt more screenplays, make short films, all of that. But to also create music, and not just create music, but create really really good music and also lyricist. The importance that Indian cinema places on music and the fact that he does it, that aspect so well, pretty cool. Yeah, I agree. I'm on your side. OK, so great question. I'm going to go to something
that's very indulgent. So let me, you know, ask for apologies from the audience in advance. This is a very indulgent question. It's a question. It's a piece of trivia that has been in my pocket for many, many years. I am fairly sure I must have mentioned it to you at some point, but I'm going to hope that you have completely forgotten it because it's not the kind of trivia that you usually carry, carry around. OK Right now it's more in the
mainstream. So I'm hoping it's not as intelligent and people will be like, oh, OK, so that's what it's called. So Mike Rousseau from Rhodesia, which is the earlier name for Zimbabwe, present day Zimbabwe, was working in Mozambique. There at the airport at Maputo, he had a somewhat surprise encounter. He relayed the encounter to Jeff Cooper, who included Rosu's results, instinctive response to the surprise encounter into his teachings and it became widely known as the Mozambique drill.
It has been extensively featured in movies over the past two decades with Tom Cruise once spending months mastering it and executing it perfectly on screen. So my question to you, Aditya, and I'm hoping you can be as specific as you as possible, but even if you're in the ballpark, I will probably give it to you. What is the Mozambique drill? OK, yeah, this is not trivia that I have part of, or at least is not ringing a bell. Tom Cruise, my man. Tom Cruise leads me to my first guess.
Something to do withholding a breath. Good guess considering that it's Tom Cruise and he's held his breath multiple times, but no. OK. And is this a film making related drill or is it just Tom Cruise just happens to have done it? No, Tom Cruise learnt it for the movie. Oh, OK, so it's something that he did for a film. And he executed it so perfectly. OK, this is probably a giveaway, but then he executed so perfectly that now footage of him doing it is used as a teaching aid.
Is it a Mission Impossible film? Oh wait, it's a drill. It has to be a Top Gun thing. OK, it's not a Mission Impossible film and it's not Top Gun. Oh OK, interesting because I was going to go with some sort of maneuver he did with the planes. I'm blanking on Tom Cruise films. Just feels like I've only seen Mission Impossible and Top Gun. You know, there is a more obvious clue, but the moment I give that, the answer becomes very, very obvious. Tom Cruise is known for his
insane dedication, right? So he must spent months practicing this for and he executed the film maybe for a total of 20 seconds. There are other actors who've employed this throughout a series of films, but the moment I say their name, you know exactly what this is. So which is why I've gone with Tom Cruise as my cloak. Is some sort of a fighting style like Krav Maga or jujitsu? You're close. Keep thinking in that same direction. Then it is a gun related thing.
I think it's like a reloading or gun or something like that. Not a reloading, but think of Tom Cruise and which movie. If you're talking about guns, I'll give it to you. It is a gun related thing. I don't expect you to get the exact thing. OK, Because I remember speaking to you about this. I think it was a few years ago, like when we first started the podcast and I told you this and you were like, why is it even called that? And at the time I was, I think I didn't remember exactly why it
was called. I just told you that it was related to Mozambique in some way. And then you were like, oh, that's interesting. And as I hoped, it's not one of those things that you would keep in mind because it's not your kind of trivia. No, no, not at all. I am blanking on it and that's killing me. OK, which movie if you can give me that you. Can't related thing. I'm trying to think which movie has he used? Oh, Gun Zen, that is not Mission Impossible.
And I mean, yeah, there are probably a bunch of them. Let me tell you something else. The director of this movie has specifically also used this technique in some of his other movies and he's known. OK, this is again almost a dead giveaway. This director is known for making some of the most realistic looking and sounding gun battles captured on film. We're not talking about heat, are we? Who's the director of Heat? What is the name of that kind? Now I'm forgetting the
director's name also. You're going to kick yourself. Michael Mann. Michael Mann. We have spoken about Michael Mann so many times. OK. Michael Mann. Tom Cruise. Oh, my God. Michael Mann. Tom Cruise. Which film is Michael Mann? Tom Cruise. Yeah, I know. No, I'm. I'm lost. I'm lost. What? OK, I'll give you. OK, This is this is me gigging out a little bit. If you take the name of this movie, which is one word, and you add another word to it, it becomes the name of an Arnold
Schwarzenegger movie. Recall, Total Recall. No, the Arnie movie, but a Tom Cruise film? Just one word. But what? Cruise man? Collaboration. Am I black? Oh, can you give me a year or something? My God this is just embarrassing. Forget the year, I think Blonde Cruise. Don't do this to me, man. Now I'm just. I feel like I've or maybe I don't. I don't know this. You know what? This is a blank spot in my. OK, OK, OK, OK. No, You know this film.
You know this film for sure. For sure, For sure. You know this film. It's just you're blanking right now. I'll put you out of a misery. The movie is Collateral. Collateral, of course, I have seen collateral and he's blonde in it and it's Michael Mann and Jamie Foxx. Oh my God, I can't believe I didn't get that. Yes, it is collateral, but what did he do that was, I don't know this maneuver that you're talking about though. OK, so basically, again, this is
a very niche one. I wanted to apologize to the audience. The other example I was going to give is John Wick. Obviously Keanu Reeves is master at this. He does this a number of times throughout the John Wick movies, the Mozambique drill. So I'll just tell you the story about Mike Russo. So Mike Russo, when I was like, cleverly referring Tim Ham as a Rhodesian, was a Rhodesian mercenary. OK. And he was taking part in the
Mozambican war of independence. So when I said that while he was at his job at the airport, he was literally engaged in combat at the Lorenzo Marquez airport in what is now Maputo, Mozambique. So he was, you know, having his gun and he was rounding a corner and when suddenly he came across a freedom of fighter who was armed with an AK47 roughly around 25 feet away. OK, instinctively Rosso fired 2 rounds to his chest. Interesting.
OK, Guy didn't go down, so his third round was to the head. So it's the idea of like taking two shots and then headshot. A headshot. So he a few years later, he was speaking to small arms expert Jeff Cooper, who's the founder of the Gun Sight Academy shooting school. He developed it. He incorporated what he then called the Mozambique drill into his modern shooting technique. OK, LA SWAT basically started using it.
And then this basically because they called it, they've thought that Mozambique might have some kind of racist connotation. They called it the failure drill failure because you shot them twice in the chest. They didn't go down. So they have to shoot them in the head. So they've now this has been expanded into movies quite a lot. It's been used in John Wick, It's been used in Miami Heat, it's been used in Collateral and any number of movies that you see nowadays.
You can see this where two quick shots to the chest and one follows that up with one to the head, SO2 to the chest, one to the head. It's called the Mozambique Trail. Or Mozambique. Very interesting. And you've spoken about this. I've forgotten. Yes, we have. Actually, you know what? It's now maybe falsely reminding me of a memory, but it feels like yeah. For those who are keeping count, the movie that if you add one word to Collateral that becomes an Arnie movie is.
There's a very little known movie of Arnie called Collateral Damage of. Course. Yeah, yeah. And so this is what is known as the Mozambique drill. And Tom Cruise perfectly executes this to where he kind of shoots on the hip. He shoots somebody twice in the chest and then follows it up with one of the head. And it's so perfectly. Now, he apparently spent months practicing or with live ammunition to learn that, and then he executed it.
As with all Tom Cruise things, he executed so perfectly, people are like, oh, that's exactly how you should be doing it. OK. When it comes to Michael Mann, the bank, the fires, fight outside, the bank heist with Val Kilmer and Robert De Niro, that sequence is so very well shot and done that military schools and the FBI and Quantico and other, they still use that film to show how you should strategically retreat from a disadvantageous position. Interesting. OK, OK.
Go watch that sequence again. It's fantastic and it's the most realistic sounding. You can actually hear the gunshots echoing of the buildings around it. We have spoken about that part definitely in the past, yes. Yeah, so Michael Mann, Heat, good recommendation. So Heat and Collateral. Collateral. Fantastic movie. That is a good film, Tom. Cruise a terrifying Tom Cruise because he plays a bad guy.
Every time Tom Cruise does something out of his typecast character, I think he does a great job. Yeah. Les Grossman, Tropic Thunder, can't, can't, can't forget that character. Yes, you mentioned collateral as well. So yeah, there is just some iconic things that he has done. And I love, I love Tom Cruise stepping out of his comfort zone whenever he does. So that leads me to my question because you're talking about stepping out of your comfort zone and we are talking about films.
And one of my favorite films we have talked about is Rush. Rush, as you would remember, because I think you've also seen it, is a film about the 1976 battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. I'm always very conscious of saying his name. It is. I know I. Know. Given what his last name means in Hindi, but it's fine.
Let's let's power through. So Nikki and James were having an epic battle of battle for the ages in 1976 for the title of the world champion in F1 and it came down to the final race. It's it's an epic, epic story which was really well done in the movie Rush. Now you'd imagine that James Hunt being British would be very popular in Britain and he was, but his races were not being televised back then. Not all races were televised, but main popular ones like
Monaco over televised. But somehow in 1976 specifically they decided that they're not going to televise any of these races in British TV's. So my question is, why did that year turn out to be an unlucky coincidence that the races were not shown to the British public? I was thinking maybe it clashed clashed with the Olympics and the BBC had only limited number of channels and bandwidth so they showed the Olympics instead of the the races. Solid guess, but no, not the reason why. OK.
Was it because they were on strike or something? I remember it was something like that during couple days, 183 or not out during the World Cup. So one of the matches in the 83 World Cup was not televised, not the finals, but one of them leading up to the finals where a couple they've had an absolutely amazing performance was not televised because of BBC strike. You're right. But no, this wasn't the case that BBC was on strike the whole year. Yeah. So why that year specifically?
I think apart from the final, final race, they didn't televise any of the races. Because James haunted a party mount. OK, so you are on the right track, pun intended, going towards the idea that it it violated the sensibilities of what is acceptable on British TV. Oh, long hair. No, no, no no no. They weren't that Victorian. Also, this had nothing to do with either of the racers. Racers, or any of the racers specifically. OK, this had to do with one of the groups or one of the teams
in the championship. The Suertes racing organization. Now they're not very famous because they were only there for that decade. In the 70s they decided to get a sponsor on board. OK, what sponsor forced BBC to kick F1 off of the channels? Or British TV in general. What would the BBC enough to stop televising it? In the past decade I would have said Jeremy Clarkson. Is it like a rival company? Broadcasting company? No, like I said, it had somewhere offended that
morality. Offended the morality. Oh, like a condom. Very cool, very cool. I'll give it to you. It was Durex, Ha ha. London Rubber Company decided to sponsor this particular group, this particular team, and which meant that Durex was emblazoned on the car. And they just thought that was unacceptable. British TV should not see Durex. Oh, God, this sounds so quaint. But I guess that was a different time. That was a different era.
Yeah. Unfortunately, perhaps one of the most iconic F1 seasons of all time and definitely for a British fan. They could not see James Hunt doing all the crazy stuff he did that year because they were not showing the races on TV because Durex was there, not even on one of their cars and some other random. Car. Somebody else's car. They're not going to show the race. The British, I tell you. OK, that was a great question. I am going to not move very far away geographically.
The question is related to London and 10 years before your incident. So in 1966, X was a relatively unknown guitarist, while Y was a rock legend so revered that the slogan Y is God was widely popular. During his first visit to London, X met Y at a club and boldly requested to perform with him. He played a blistering rendition of Killing Floor, a song Y himself admitted was too difficult to play live.
So impressed was Y that the moment became famously known as The Day X Killed God. I want you to identify X&Y, OK? When was this? What was the era? 1966. 19660 God, why do you do this to me? I would suggest that you play the player, not the game with this particular question. Are we talking about Rolling Stone? No, OK, that's not, I said to the sound. OK, not everything in the 60s is about the rolling. Stone, wait, Listen.
When I'm saying guitarist. You are the one who has claimed that The Rolling Stones were the soundtrack. Soundtrack of the 60s This is the soundtrack of the 60s. My dream of what this was like, just you say, Rolling Stones is the soundtrack of the 60s again and again and again. So it's not The Rolling Stones, but you do like British rock'n'roll. Yes. I don't know. I don't feel like this is one of The Beatles. No, none of them were.
Like, except for maybe George Harrison, nobody was a guitar virtuoso among them. Right, that's what I was thinking, and I don't think I've ever heard of George Harrison as God. No, he's not. He's maybe on the right hand of God while my guitar gently weeps and Norwegian Wood is enough to make him. That is true. That's a very both of those songs are composed by him, Is it?
While my guitar gently weeps was the one where he composed it and he wrote it. Norwegian would, if I'm not mistaken, was one where he played a sitar instead of a guitar, right? Right, right, right, right. So we are talking about somebody who was already established and I'm assuming gone on to gain recognition as a guitarist. Oh yeah, you definitely know both of them. Are both of them British? I'll give you a clue. Why is very famously self-taught.
Nobody taught him. He didn't go to any kind of school or teacher to learn the guitar. He taught himself the guitar. Why? He taught himself the guitar. Yeah, very famously. First name that came to my head when you were talking about English British rock guitarist was Clapton. Eric Clapton. Very good. Why is Eric Clapton? Oh, why is Eric Clapton OK? I was just going to say X is Eric Clapton OK? Why is Eric Clapton? Oh dude, seriously? In 60s, Eric Clapton was. Right.
That is true. He was already at this peak, Yeah. He was the guy The Beatles called when they wanted an uncredited person on this on While My Guitar Gently beats Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton was already famous. Already famous? Young young emerging talent X was in 1966, not that well known. At the time maybe you know, especially not in England much. OK, so where is X from? He's from America, I can tell. I can give you that. American. Yeah, think fire fire rock guitarist. Come on.
This is like an iconic thing. It happened a year later. Fire rock guitarist. This is definitely not Prince. It is too early for Prince. It's too early for Prince. OK, I will tell you exactly a year later, this guy burnt a guitar on stage. He set a guitar on fire, a Fender Stratus. Oh, burnt a guitar. That's what you meant by fire. I'm just thinking what Like I'm thinking of fire related song that is the the the the Jimmy Hendrix. That's Jimmy Hendrix.
Yes. So it is Jimmy Hendrix who was still relatively unknown, relatively unknown in 1996, especially in the London music scene. He came on to a club and played Killing Flow, which was so hard. That clip. Clapton himself had said that it's almost impossible to play live. Captain at the time was already worshipped as a guitar God. And if you don't know why, listen to the opening riff of the song Leila by Derek and the Dominoes.
He was the lead guitarist of the band at the time, Leila Layla by Derek and the Dominoes. One of the best rock songs of all time. And that opening riff is literally fire. OK. He was worshipped at the time with the phrase Clapton is God. He was stunned. And the day that Hendrix did this became known as the day Hendrix killed. God. Very cool, Very cool.
The reason why I was pantomaming very poorly, you know, fire flames with my fingers, was because Jimi Hendrix famously on multiple occasions set his guitar on fire after a performance. That's pretty cool. OK, I I Yeah, I got to give it to you. This was unexpected, but I like it. OK. My question for you, Vineet is since we were talking about fire, I'm going to talk to you about water. Blasphemy. You're a Targaryen. Another classic trivia question.
When we speak of rivers, we often talk about the longest river, the largest river, or maybe the highest river or whatever. I just realized that there is categorization of rivers by age. Do you know which is the world's oldest river? Oh, and I would love for you to tell me which is the world's oldest river by continent. OK, so for each continent, which is the oldest river?
Yeah, I'll, I'll help you out for most of them because they might be a little difficult, but if you want to give it a shot. Wow. OK, I have no context clues for this because this is not something I've explored, but I'm interested so I'm going to try. Let's move from West to east. Let's start with North America. I'm thinking the Rio Grande. You know what? We'll come back to North America at the very end. Let's go to some other continent. OK, Europe, the Volga.
It's not the Volga. It starts in France. It goes to the Netherlands and goes into the Nazi. And this is the the Rhine. Actually, I'll give it to you. It's part of the same system. Is the Rhine Muse, Muse, Muse MEUSE. OK, so Muse River is the oldest river. Yeah, you better put that in subtitles. Here, that is the oldest river, and Rhine is the second oldest river, so fine. Wait, you got Europe. All right. OK, Do you want to take a shot at another content?
See, technically, since Europe and Asia are the same land mass, I'm going to claim victory for both. OK, well, actually Asia is also interesting. Do you know what is the oldest river in Asia? I would guess it's either Euphrates or the Tigris. Neither, OK. By the way, just to give you a sense of how what, what time frame you're talking about the Moose or the Rhine, both are around 300 million years ago. Wow. Yeah, that's how old the river
we are talking about. So is it the Chinese river, one of the Yangtze or something in Asia? It's an Indian River and which is why I love the fact that I would not have expected it. I'm OK, people are going to kill me for not saying the Ganga. Well, the people would be wrong. Then my next option would be the Narmada. Narmada, very well done. Yes, because the Himalayas are younger than our plateau. The Deccan Plateau, yeah. The Deccan Plateau is older than the Himalayas.
So Narvada was formed, actually when Gondwana broke up. That's how old that river is. Wow, That's 160 million years ago. That's insane. Yeah. It flows into the Ribbon Sea, the oldest river in Asia. All right, great. So you got Europe, You got Asia. I don't know if you'll be able to get Africa or Australia, but right. OK, I don't know any rivers in Australia. I'm very sad. Sorry. Sorry I missed my geography teacher but I don't remember any rivers in Australia. Is Victoria a river in
Australia? No, right? No, no, it's it's a difficult 1. Australia is actually the world's oldest river. Oh finky finky finky FINKE is 400 million years ago. This is numbers. That is mind boggling at this point. Yeah, at this point it's. Close to half a billion years ago is when this river was formed. That's just. I don't even know how to wrap my head around that. It's about an eighth of the age of the Earth itself. It's about 4.5 billion years,
right? Yeah. So around just around an eighth or slightly less than that. Slightly less than that, yeah. My God. OK. That's really, really old, especially considering how much the continents are moved around. That's a very old river. Yeah. OK. So that's Australia. You got that as well. Can you take a guess as to Africa? This is a little actually pretty difficult. I don't know if you've even heard of this. This is around 200 million years ago. This river is called, it's
pronounced or it's spelt SAVE. So I'm going to say Savi, Sabi, Sabi, something like that. Oh, Savi. Flowing through Zimbabwe in Mozambique. OK, wow, call back. Nice. Exactly right. And tell me which one is the one in South America? The Amazon. Amazon is the oldest river in South America and comparatively a child it was only 11.8 to 11.3 million years ago. So, baby, when it comes to rivers. Yeah. Now we got all of them except North America. Now, why did you not let me
answer North America first? Exactly this is I don't even think you'd probably know this, but do you want to take a guess as to what is one of the oldest rivers in North America called? Yeah. So I've already tried to. So it was neither than the Colorado, than the Rio Grande, right? Vineet, Vineet, my friend, my friend, my friend. This is not a time to flex your knowledge of geography. This is a time to laugh with me at things that are funny and ridiculous in this human
existence of ours. OK, it's not a Hudson Vineet. I'm telling you again, don't. Don't bother trying to remember the famous rivers in America. Tell me, what would be a really funny name for one of the world's oldest rivers? One of the world's oldest rivers in North America to be called. The funniest name I could think of is probably calling it the New River or something. It's called the New River. Fucking kidding me. Seriously. The New River is probably the oldest river in North America.
This whole question was just just the build up to this question was just for this piece of trivia. Frankly, I didn't really care about. The rest of the rivers. Not that much, it's just that fact that New River is the oldest river in North America is really funny. OK, where is this river? First of all I have no clue. I was guessing. I mean, like, obviously you said, what's the worst possible name you can give the oldest river in North America?
I was like, you can call it the newest river. Yeah, but where is it? To be very fair, New River is potentially tied with French Broad River, or maybe one of them is slightly older. These are obviously not very exact sciences. OK, but around the 320 million years ago mark is when both of these rivers are dated to. New River is the river that flows through the American states of North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, and it eventually forms the Kanawha River. OK. That's the river.
What's the etymology of that? So the etymology, the origins of the name are unclear, and it's possibly because that was not on the Fry Jefferson map of Virginia, and so they probably just named it New River whenever they decided to name it. And that is the New River. The French Broad River is the other contender, and this one is in North Carolina and Tennessee. In America. The New River, or is, despite its name, one of the five oldest rivers in the world.
Oh God, so amused when I thought of the piece of river. Something like this. Seriously, I don't know where you find these things, but seriously? This is pure chance. I didn't know that that's what it's called. I was like, oh, this is an interesting fact. Perhaps I've never thought of rivers in terms of age, so let me see, what is the world's oldest river? I just thought that to be very funny. Oh, God. OK, OK, OK. Moving from rivers to the Pacific Ocean. Great segue.
Today you've gone London to London. You have gone river to ocean. You're you're really nailing it. Yeah. Same again, Blue House stock. OK, so you've heard of Vanuatu? I have heard of Vanuatu. Very good. So that makes it easier. Vanuatu is a small island nation located about 1000 miles east of northern Australia. And over the past few decades
it's seen a surge in tourism. Part of this popularity comes from the fact that it's been featured on a lot of reality TV show like Survivor and celebrity Survivor and all those things, right But another major tourist attraction is for a world first innovation that was introduced in 2003. OK, it actually started off as a light hatred idea over drinks between a local resort owner and his friend, but it became.
A very real attraction, so much so that other countries like Japan, Norway, Malaysia have replicated it. So what is this attraction that gives tourists fun and memorable story to take home? Something to do with an adventure sport? Some sort of scuba diving? You don't need to scuba dive, but diving is involved the. Only reason this came to my mind is because recently I read somewhere that old decommissioned 73 sevens are being purposely sunk. But to form coral reefs?
It's a common interesting spot for scuba diving, but OK if you're saying it's not necessarily scuba related but diving is involved. The only reason I know 1 water is because when you try to do the name all the countries in the world, it's one of those countries that you have to remember. No I have no idea at all. Give me a hint. OK, so when you go to say a place like Rome, you would go to or you go to London, you might
visit a museum, right? Or you might visit some other major institution just like that. That's a ridiculous clue. What does that even mean? Yeah, you literally just described tourism to me. Like when you go to a place, you visit famous places in that city. Sure. Yeah, because the concept of tourism is new to me. OK, maybe when you hear the answer the clue will make sense. Deliver on that promise. What?
It's some sort of diving. It's maybe some some sort of a hotel that is underwater, but that's pretty common or not pretty common, but at least it's in multiple places. Not a hotel, but you're on the right track. Some restaurant, some sort of activity that otherwise normally you wouldn't do underwater, something like that. Yes, this would probably be thought of as the worst thing to have underwater. Or dragon, no.
What's it do? And Dragons and Targaryens in bloodshed and black sweatshirts today. I can. I can see my video and I can see the Targaryen sigil. OK this has to be something that is terrible underwater. Only thing that comes to mind honestly is fire. Some sort of a? No, let's just say that the major product or thing that's handled in this place would be horrible underwater. Is it related to food? No, it's not related to food. Not food or drinks. No, I think this.
Today is not my day to get my answers. You give me give me the answer. It's a very clue proof question. That's the problem you have to kind of get to. So I'll basically you've got the diving part and you're very close with this. So I'll just tell you what it is. It's the world's first underwater post office. Interesting. Interesting. I think I've read this somewhere. Yeah, pretty cool.
Pretty cool. So in 2003, they established the world's first underwater post office of Hideaway Island. It was conceived as a humorous kind of idea between friends, but it became a reality when tourists could actually dive or snorkel. Which is why I said not specifically scope, but everything could snorkel down and to main waterproof postcard. Cool, that's actually pretty good. I would love to do that.
It's novelty and appeal led to similar underwater post offices being launched in Japan, Norway and Malaysia. So one what 2 but however was the first to do it underwater post office. Yeah, have. I probably won't have gotten it, but now that I know don't remember it. OK, so I guess that's all the time we have for our regular round of quizzing. Which brings me back to our audience question.
So the audience question was back in 2009, XA Company caused a huge media frenzy when they kicked off their Y sacrifice campaign. It was a scheme where people had to make sacrifices to get YY being the name of the product as well as the campaign. Facebook users were getting a free coupon for Y on removing 10 Facebook friends. Even better, the A would alert each of those 10 friends that they'd been sacrificed for the product Y.
Why? The name of the product as well as the campaign also describes the magnitude of the sacrifice that the company X was asking for. My question to you, dear audience, was what is X&Y? Before we go towards answering this question, let me give credit where it's due. This credit question was sent to us by Aryan Chandra from IIT Kanpur. So Aryan, thank you for the question. So Aditya, you want to take a crack at it?
I. Don't know why it immediately felt like a board game kind of a deal to me. No, no, no. Not a board game. So then it is something that people would have to sacrifice for. That would be some sort of advertisement. No, it's very silly. Oh, it's not. It's not like something deep and meaningful. No, absolutely not. Oh I was thinking something like which is in person connections so you should be not making online friends. OK, nothing like that. No, no, nothing like that.
I'll give you a clue. It's food related. OK, food. Related and you said it to the magnitude of it also. Yeah. So the name of the product will actually also signify or describe the magnitude of the sacrifice, hence using that same name as the campaign also because it's the name of their major product. Oh, OK, interesting magnitude. Say, for example, I'm describing something to you and I'm like, guess how much it cost a blank ₹5000? I'm being very dramatic. A blank ₹5000.
A devastating ₹5000. No. A ginormous ₹5000. No. Port Lord of ₹5000. OK. A staggering. Staggering would fit. Staggering would fit, but think of something more American. The brand name would be the word that would use that you'd use here, right? The product name, yes. Food items. So it's like some FMCG thing. Fast food? OK, a whopping whopper. Exactly a Burger King. Yes, it was Burger King and the
Whopper sacrifice. You'll get a coupon for a free Whopper if you sacrifice 10 Facebook friends. This seems like very bad marketing. No, the idea being that the Whopper is so good that you would be able to so you would wouldn't mind I'm guessing sacrificing 10 Facebook friends. I guess, I guess it has a virality component to it, but I was thinking something that would make sense with the idea of giving up friends. Like, why would Burger King want to be associated with the idea
that you've given up friends? Because it's so tasty. Again. I'm think I'm talking from the no, no, I'm talking from the mindset of the marketing genius who made this, not as a consumer. Let me make that clear. Like it generally is just reinforcing the idea that oh come eat some fast food which is not very good for you, and oh also at the process, lose friends because you don't deserve friends, just unhealthy food. Frankly, Burger King.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I gotta, I gotta stop you on that. It is fast food. It is unhealthy. I like Burger King, and for somebody who loves his meat in the food, I love Burger King vegetarian burgers. I think they're pretty good vegetarian burgers. I'm not saying this is because one of my closest friends who works at Burger King and it's like one of the hot shots the company that's just a lovely thing to have to get some free burgers once in a while when I
meet him. But otherwise also, I think BK has good burgers. But hey, listen, I I it never endorse fast food until unless they're paying me. If Burger King wants to come on as a sponsor, I will sing praises to the high heavens. But till they don't, you know what? Avoid fast food if you can. I'll be very honest with you, none of the major mainstream burger chains can make a decent burger.
Oh. In India, let me put, let me put that caveat in India. In India because the same brands you go outside, they'll give you excellent burger. I wouldn't say excellent, but good burgers. Like outside India, they'll give you good burgers. This is this is a very random tangent have gone down, but since we're here, I would say the price point actually probably is a big factor also. Maybe, but also the fact that most burgers outside India are made from beef.
That also I think beef is a classic meat for a burger and here you have to do a chicken and a vegetarian. The Burger King tried to make a like they've gone by the lamb root like a lamb Whopper. Shout out to my friend, I don't know if he wants to be named but he's a trivia buddy as well. Dude I love you. Next time I meet you please give me some free burgers. I love you, I love working. Or better, get sponsor the podcast. Yeah, that's a possibility. BK sponsored.
Are you quizzing me? OK, let me just put it I my principles are for sale. Absolutely, 100%. I would eat a burger on like I will literally have a Burger King logo, wear one of those silly hats and have put this on video if you will sponsor this. If I was around 100 years ago I would have been happy to take money from like a guillotine manufacturer. OK, no comms at all. It wouldn't have to be 100 years ago, because, fun fact, the last guillotine execution in France 76.
Yeah, you beat me to it. It was the 76th year. Same year that Durex sponsored car in British Grand Prix. Yeah. Well, lovely, lovely and very neatly packaged. And wrap it up for us, Vineet. Pop culture recommendations. I have only one pop culture recommendation today. That is the show adults.
And the way I'm going to sell adults to you is the way that it was sold to me. If somebody cuts out just this clip, like the way you know I'm going to sell adults to you is the way it was sold to me, it makes you sound like some kind of human trafficker. I think slavery is perhaps where I draw the line when it comes to sponsorship deals. Like I don't know if I want to be sponsored by slavery and
human trafficking. I I love the show because a friend of mine posted about it online and he said if you love the show friends, you're going to love adults and if you hated the show friends, you're going to love adults. And what he was trying to say in a pity way was the fact that it is the classic 20 year olds in a big city scope of living together and all of that. But it it compensates for the the shortcomings of friends. Like when you watch it, it does
feel outdated. Some of the the gay jokes and all like just are a little quaint and and of a different era it. Was true. It was 30 years ago. That is true. I'm pretty sure back then maybe showing a lesbian woman was was considered progressive. I don't know. And I wasn't really very much aware of what is happening then. But today to today's years and today's moral centers might be a little lacking. And adults feels like it has done a very refreshing take on it.
It is. It is loud, it's brazen, it is crass. The first opening scene of the pilot episode is one of the most cringe funny episodes I've ever seen. Cringe funny scenes I've ever seen. But wow it was hilarious and I have laughed out loud multiple times in multiple episodes. So comedy show for, you know, the sitcom lovers who love a 20 year old bunch of 20 year olds figuring life out kind of shtick. This is your show and I also have a book recommendation. Now this book recommendation.
Here's the deal. Read the first 2/3, the last third because I, I don't know what happened to the last third of this book. It really broke my heart because the 1st 2/3 were phenomenally funny. I was, it doesn't happen very often when you're reading a book and you're laughing as you're reading out the book. But there were multiple occasions where I was like, oh, this is just generally very funny. Whatever is written here, there's a fraction of the whole and it's by an Australian author.
Just, I don't know. I don't know. I think he he ran out of gas somewhere, I guess because the last third of the book is just weird. I didn't, I didn't get it. I don't know what he was trying to do, but the beginning 66% great. Those are my 2 recommendations. I just realized I recommended a fraction of the whole of a fraction of the whole. Yeah, you can't make this shit up. Great recommendations. My recommendations?
I've already mentioned 2, which are the 2 Michael Mann movies and Collateral. Definitely go watch both of them. My other recommendation since you mentioned the show, Adults is probably the only other show where I've spent half the time like laughing, like belly laughing. But I don't know for this generation whether it stands up because it came out in 2000 so it's around 25 years old. The show is called Coupling. It's got three seasons. It's a British sitcom.
Do not watch the American version. Watch the British sitcom. It was created and directed by Simon Steven Moffat. For those who were more familiar, he's the guy who created Sherlock, and he was also the writer for Doctor Who for a long period of time. But Coupling was one of his earliest works and it's fantastic. Really, really good. Again, surprisingly, I would say the first two seasons out of three this so 2/3 of that show is great.
Yeah. So the third season kind of went off the rails a little bit, yeah. But coupling is funny. Coupling is funny. Funny. Yeah, probably. Again, I've saw it many years ago back in college, so I don't know if it feels like it's a little outdated in its humor, but it was also meant to be irreverent and crassy. Very, very crass. Unlike like a Friends where the intention was not to be crassy, Coupling was all about just crass sexual humor. And somehow they just nailed.
It and one other alternative show again, if you like friends but were like what if I had friends but the people were directly the opposite and like horrible people in general. It's always sunny. No, no, it's not OK. It's always suddenly in Philadelphia is fantastic, but it's not It's doesn't have a friend's vibe. It's got more of a very nearestic vibe. In Philadelphia is a little too cold. The the show is going to recommend is happy ending. Oh, I've not seen this. OK.
OK, happy endings. I think it's three or three seasons or Four Seasons, something like that. People are horrible. The characters are horrible and nice, just like most human beings.
The gay character in the in the show was what see probably the most see, most of the time what happens is there is this kind of pitfall whenever they depict gay characters on screen is that they tend to make them either very refined and, you know, very prim and proper and stylish like, you know, Captain Holt in. Brooklyn 9/9. Yeah, Brooklyn 99 or then you go the other kind of camp route like you had in. Cam in Modern Family. Cam in Modern Family.
So you can you go on one of those two routes. This is directly the opposite. This guy's gay, but he's scruffy, he's masculine and he's very you wouldn't like he's not the typical kind of gay character and he's very open about his sexuality in the movie, in the entire show.
The show is it's an acquired taste, but if you want a kind of slightly different, less saccharine sitcom, I would say you can watch Happy Endings Coupling if you want to just belly laugh again, maybe funny to an old guy like me, but try it out. So those are my pop culture recommendations for this week. And that's all the time we have for this episode. Thank you all for listening in. We hope you enjoyed the show and learn something new.
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