CULTURAL QA 11-2021-11 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 Whoshould not eat papaya? A1 Lucia GarciaTue Papaya is rich incarbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, papain, organicacids, and minerals such as iron, calcium, potassium, and phosphorus. Eatingpapaya can supplement some of the nutrients the body needs. But papaya is akind of cold fruit, which means that it decreases our body's internaltemperature. Therefore,papaya is not suitable for people with stomach cold or weak body. Pregnant womenshould not eat papaya. Modern medical research has found that papaya containspapaya glycosides. Papayaglycosides may cause uterine contractions, which is not conducive to thestability of the fetus, and even lead to miscarriage. Q2 Whatare some money lessons you have learned from your frugal parents? A2 Aishwarya DhaigudeFormer StudentNov5 Always live below your means. ALWAYS. Do not buy stuff toimpress people. Our family never spends a lot of money on clothes, accessories,travels, etc. No unnecessary furniture in the house either. We were allowed tospend enough money on food and education though. Use an item untilit can be used. We still have a CRT Television box which was bought in 2004.Because, well, it still works and we do not feel the need to buy a LED justbecause everyone has it. Same goes for cell phones. Use publictransport. My college was 22kms away from my home. I have always used publictransport to commute. Not once do I remember traveling by cab or bike. Now that both I andmy brother are earning, I am grateful that my parents have instilled financialdiscipline in us. Q3 Isit possible that an object on the Earth's surface is so heavy as to alter themovement of the planet? A3 Sangram SagarBlogger, Content Writer| Ecommerce Business Advisor Tue Yes, but it might change the rate of Earth's rotationby slowing it down Here is the ThreeGorges Dam: The world's largestdam is located in China, The total surface area of thedam is 1,045 square kilometers, and will flood an area of 632square kilometers. The dam will contain approximately 39.3 cubic km (9.43 cubicmiles) of water. The water will weigh more than 39 trillion kilograms (42billion tons), so there will be a mass shift that slows the rate of rotation ofthe earth called the phenomenonof inertia. But according toscientists, the slowing effect does not mean that it only slows down the rotationof the earth by 0.06 microseconds per one rotation the earth, a very smallvalue, isn't it, if it iscalculated it takes 1 million days or 2,740 years for the earth to loserotation by 6 seconds when accumulated. Q4 Whyis it called the Dead Sea? Why can't people drown? A4 Shadi Barham Living for 19 years andcounting Nov 5 The reason why theDead Sea is called the DeadSea is because well…It’s really salty… To the point where it’s notsuitable for fish and other aquatic life. If I recall correctly, it’s about five times as salty asthe ocean. I once tried to goswimming in the Dead Sea while having some recent mosquito bites on my legs andlet me tell you… That was a really bad idea. Q5 Whyis oil found only in the Middle East? A5 Alesha Harrison Nov 1 The biggest knownoil reserves in the world are under Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. It’s just thegovernment there is so incompetent and corrupt that they have no clue how toget it to market. For many years Norway’s government budget was financed by oilfrom under the North Sea. Alaskan citizens still get a $1500 check every yearfrom oil revenues for the north slope, i.e. Prudoe Bay. Kazakhstan has become amajor producer but the Peoples Republic of China are their major consumer soyou never hear about it. Pemex, (Petroleum del Mexico if I get my Spanishright) has been producing since before WWII. Then there is Russia whichproduces huge amounts of oil from the Baku oil fields and the new fields inSiberia. Finally because of novel production techniques between the PermianBasin in Texas and the Williston Basin in North Dakota the U.S. is selfsufficient in the oil department. Q6 What arethe differences between the Arctic and Antarctic? A6 Cesar Alcaraz Updated Tue The main differencebetween the two is that: The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded bylandmasses, while the Antarctic is a frozen landmass surrounded by ocean. The North Pole istypically warmer than the South Pole, with temperatures around -40°C duringwinter in the North while temperatures reach around -60°C in the South duringwinter on average. Main reason as towhy the Antarctic is colder is that it’s a landmass of pure ice while theArctic is an ocean surrounded by land, while the waters of the Arctic arecertainly incredibly cold, it’s still warmer than the ice which warms up theair a bit, but the ice sheet of Antarctica is thousands of meters thick and hasa high altitude, hence why its colder. Another difference between the two is it’s life forms,the Arctic contains polar bears, walruses, reindeers, snowy owls, foxes, etc,while the Antarctic contains penguins, leopard seals, petrels, etc. Both are though,wonderful and fascinating places. Q7 Whereis the Garuda Sanjeevani water root found, and what are its uses? A7 Hari Priya Nov 6 Where it is found?GarudaSanjivani is a rare herb found in the dense forests at the foothills of the Himalayan mountainrange. It's uses?It is a medicinalherb, used predominantly in Ayurveda for treating deadly snakebites and other serious inflections,which if left untreated will result in certain death. It is a herb thatflows against the flow of water. Q8 Whatis the history of jungles? A8 Françoise Marie 43m Jungles have no history,except for those who use them as metaphors for the darkest place on earth wheretime stopped and nothing remarkable ever happened. Toni Morrison quote#2030458 „Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, underevery dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigablewaters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for theirsweet white blood. In a way, he thought, they were right. The more colored peoplespent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how cleverand loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites ofsomething Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangledthe jungle grew inside. But it wasn’t the jungle blacks brought with them tothis place from the other (livable) place. It was the jungle whitefolks plantedin them. And it grew. It spread. In, through and after life, it spread, untilit invaded the whites who had made it. Touched them every one. Changed andaltered them. Made them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, soscared were they of the jungle they had made. The screaming baboon lived undertheir own white skin; the red gums were their own.“ - Toni Morrisonhttps://quotepark.com/quotes/2030458-toni-morrison-whitepeople-believed-that-whatever-the-manners-un/ My people, theNkundu-Mongo, are the largest ethnic group in the Congo Rainforest. No-one has everlived in a jungle as it is tangled vegetation and an impassable zone of arainforest. I still wonder whyEuropean colonizers and slavers fabricated the whole history of the “junglestatic primitives”, that is, people living in a place where no-one can live.Even the Tarzan Saga of the White King of the Jungle does not make any sense. Q9 Whatare some of the rare fruits you know? A9 Hitesha RathodNov 1 Wood apple(Koovalam Ka) It appears greenishbrown in colour from outside and have sticky brown pulp with small whiteseeds.. Wood apple isnative to India,Bangladesh and Srilanka.. It containsconsiderable amount of protein, carbohydrate, iron, fat, calcium, Vit-B & Cetc. 100 g of ripe fruit pulp contains up to 49 KCal. It tastes sweet andsour..(amazing with and without masala❤..) Khirni/Rayan Manilkara hexandrais a tree species in the tribe Sapoteae, in the family Sapotaceae. It is nativeto much of south Asia.. It’s locally knownas the khirni tree in parts of Bangladesh and India..It tastes sweet likeberries.. Ice-apple/tadphali(Nongu) Borassusflabellifer commonly known as wine palm is native to the indian subcontinentand southeast asia. The fruit (palmyrafruit) measures 10 cm (3.9 in) to 18 cm (7.1 in) in diameter, has a black husk,and is borne in clusters. The top portion of the fruit must be cut off toreveal the sweet jelly seed sockets, translucent pale-white, similar to that ofthe lychee but with a milder flavor and no pit. The sweet jelly seed socketsoccur in combinations of two, three or four seeds inside the fruit. The jellypart of the fruit is covered with a thin, yellowish-brown skin. These are knownto contain watery fluid inside the fleshy white body.The soft orange-yellowmesocarp pulp of the ripe fruit is sugary, dense and edible, rich in vitamins Aand C. Q10 Forwhat reasons does IRCTC take convenience charges? A10 Prasanna Bhalerao Knows abouttrains.23h The charges aremainly for “convenience”: You save on commuting cost - going to thenearest ticket booking centre - usually the main railway station You save on parking charges You save time - not just commuting time butalso the time to stand in queue Yousave on frustration. Imagine standing in queue for 1 hour (at the minimum) onlyto be told by the window clerk that the train has no seats/berths on thedesired date of travel. So IRCTC charges for this convenience. Also, it isrecovering money for the infrastructure cost - servers, network, bandwidth, apphosting, maintenance of servers, maintenance ofsoftware, personnel involved at the data centre, etc. They don’t get this at thewindow counter. All the above QA are from Quora website on 13-11- 2021. Quora answers need not be 100%correct answers Compiled and posted by R. 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