#6 From Dalgona to Dilip Basu
Grab your bowl of ram-don 🍲
Our 10th weekly quiz was a mouth-watering affair - all about food and travel. We contributed all proceeds from the quiz to Feeding India. You can do your bit and help daily wage earners by making a donation here. Many thanks to our expert panelists - Ajit, Meha, Anusha, Shirin, and Vaidehi.
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We are taking a short break and will be back soon with a blockbuster billion dollar quiz about Hollywood on June 14th
Push-ups to help you prep for future quizzes:
We have Korean actor Jung Il-Woo to thank for the Dalgona Coffee trend. On a show called Stars’ Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant featured the actor order a coffee in Macau. The taste reminded him of a honeycomb candy that was quite popular in South Korea called Dalgona.
Speaking of Korea, the dish seen in the Oscar-winning movie Parasite, Ram-don is made up. The term “ram-don” was invented for the film by subtitle translator Darcy Paquet, as the actual Korean name for the dish, jjapaguri—a combination of two types of instant noodles—was too difficult to translate for an English-speaking audience.
On the subject of The Oscars, the man who gave Satyajit Ray his Oscar is Dilip Basu, who was professor emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He traveled to India in March 1992 on a first class ticket, with the Oscar award in his hand baggage and was accompanied by a cameraman. Ray found it difficult to hold the award, and Basu supported him while the cameraman recorded the speech. Watch this historic moment here.
Things we’re reading / watching / listening to:
30 animals that made us smarter - 30 short episodes as to how we have taken inspiration from animals for everything that we have built - how a blood sucking pest inspired a needle and how the kingfisher inspired the bullet train.
Guftagoo - The only uninterrupted personality-based chat-show on Indian television, hosted by television anchor Irfan, it can be best described as unhurried. Check out the interview of Tom Alter where he mentions - "If one has interest in poetry and test cricket, his or her life will be really happy." Truer words have never been spoken.
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Team #9