CULTURAL QA 11-2022-30

BEING  A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY  BE ERRORS

Q1           Are people working in food factoriesallowed to eat the food for 
free? For example, can a KitKat factory worker pickup a bar and eat it? If not, 
is there a punishment?

A1           Jon Wisbey, Lives in Bristol, UK(1984–present) Nov 17

I used to work forCadburys in their Keynsham factory near Bristol. Snacking off 
the line wasn’t allowed, at leastofficially. After all the factory employed 
around 3500 people at thetime, so if every one of them swiped a couple of 
Double Deckers or Curly Wurlysa day that could beknocking on 10,000 bars or so, 
a shedload of chocolate worth a lot of money.

Insteadthe factory had a workers shop, which sold the products at very very 
cheapprices, 1p a bar or thereabout , and as at the time Cadbury owned other 
companies and brands includingmr Kiplings Cakes, Shwepps soft drinks, Chivers 
jams etc. all those products were for sale at stupidly low prices as well.

In theory snackingoff the line was punishable by a system of warnings and in 
the end dismissal,but it was never really enforced. Sure, my first week there i 
scoffed a fewbars, but after that… well I spent a lot of time makingFudge bars, 
15,000 of them a day came out off the line and into the packingdepartment, the 
whole place stank of chocolate, it got into your clothes andhair and you smelt 
of chocolate. OK my girlfriend loved it, but you gotsick of it, and for the 
three year I was there before redundancy and joining Maggies Millions 
mychocolate intake fell to near zero.

Q2           How long does blood stay in the heartbefore being pumped out to 
the rest of the body?

A2           Ken Saladin, Former professor ofhistology (microscopic anatomy)23h

The moment the ventricles (lower, main chambers) of theheart fill with incoming 
blood, they begin to contract and expel it with nodelay. The time interval is 
essentiallyinstantaneous, less than 0.1 sec. It takes about 0.4 sec for 
theventricles to complete that contraction, cease to pump that load of blood, 
andbegin to relax and refill.

However,the heart never pumps out all the blood it contains. When one is at 
rest, ittypically ejects only about 54% of the blood in each ventricle.The rest 
remains behind for that cycle, and mixes with fresh blood whenventricular 
filling resumes for the next cycle. Therefore, much of the bloodthat remains in 
the heart on one cycle therefore doesn’t get ejected until thenext contraction 
about 0.7 sec later (at a resting heart rate). Even then, anygiven RBC may or 
may not be part of the fraction that gets ejected next. The time one particular 
RBC remains in the heart is therefore quitevariable in theory.

The percentageejected in one heartbeat is called the ejection fraction. During 
intense exercise, this can rise as high as 90%; in diseasedhearts, it can be 
less than 50%. 

Cardiologists canuse a sonography technique called Doppler echocardiography[1] 
to observe thisblood flow and valve actions and assess degrees of cardiac 
health orinsufficiency.

Footnotes[1] dopplerechocardiography - Google Search

Q3           Which is the tallest temple in India?

A3           Dr Geeta S Kaimal, Former ContentWriter. Nov 21

The tallest temple in India is Murud eshwara temple inNorth Canara district of 
Coastal Karnataka. It is famous forsecond largest statue of Anantadrishti, 
another name of Lord Shiva. The statueof lord Shiva is 123 feet tall. This is a 
fort covering 4.1 hectares. This was built by RaniChennabharadevi also known as 
PEPPER QUEEN in 1609-1640 AD.

Q4           What is the Jammu Tawi railwaystation? How many platforms does it 
have and which trains halt there?

A4           Ankit Barnawal, Former Student atDoon Business School, Dehradun 
(2017–2022) Mon

About Jammu Tawi railway station

Jammu Tawi railwaystation is a railway station in Union Territory of Jammu & 
Kashmir which serves JammuTawi. The station code is JAT.

The total number of platforms at this station is 3.

The station fallsunder the Firozpur division of Northern Railway zone.

The station lies on the Jalandhar - Jammu Tawi line,Amritsar - Jammu Tawi line 
and Jammu Tawi - Baramulla line.

Jammu Tawi railwaystation gives direct connectivity by trains to big cities 
like Agra, New Delhi,Ludhiana, Vijayawada, Bhagalpur, Chennai, Rohtak, Mathura, 
Nagpur, Jalandhar,Jhansi, Bhopal, Warangal, Ernakulam, Indore, Amritsar, 
Tirupati, Gwalior,Coimbatore, Katni, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Jabalpur, 
Tirunelveli, Gorakhpur,Katihar, New Jalpaiguri, Guwahati, Kanpur, Prayagraj, 
Jharsuguda, Raipur,Patna, Kolkata, Pune, Asansol, Dhanbad, Bhavnagar, Gaya, 
Varanasi, Ayodhya,Bhusaval, Mumbai, Bathinda, Firozpur, Darbhanga, Sitapur, 
Kota, Jaisalmer,Jodhpur, Meerut, Barmer, Bikaner, Chandigarh, 
Thiruvananthapuram, Rishikesh,Salem, Tiruchchirappalli, Ahmedabad, Hisar, 
Madurai, Haridwar, Abu Road, Ajmer,Ranchi, Ratlam, Hazur Sahib Nanded, Durg, 
Bilaspur, Rourkela, Ranchi, Surat,Vadodara, Lucknow, Gandhinagar, Tatanagar, 
Jaipur, Sambalpur, Ujjain, Jamnagar,Rajkot etc.

Premium trains like Rajdhani Express for New Delhi,Duronto Express for Delhi 
Sarai Rohilla, Humsafar Express for Hazur SahibNanded, Tirupati and Sealdah 
originate and terminate at this station.

Vande Bharat Express (Train-18) for New Delhi and Shri MataVaishno Devi Katra 
halt at this station.

Similarly, manymail express trains and superfast express trains for different 
cities halt,originate and terminate at this station.

Q5           What is the healthiest food we caneat?

A5           Rimon, Health Advisor Updated Nov 10

Top 10 healthiest food we can eat:

1      Water-Drink 8to 12 cups of water daily.

2 Dark GreenVegetables-Eat dark green vegetables at least three to four times a 
week.

3. Whole Grains-Eatwhole grains at least two or three times daily

4.Beans and Lentils5. Fish 6. Berries 7. Winter Squash

8. Soy  9. Flaxseed, Nuts and Seeds  10. Organic Yogurt

Hope everything arecleared in the above mentioned points.

Q6           Was Indira Gandhi Hindu?

A6           Aashish Kumar Dimri, One who lovesIndia Nov 22

Hindu : IndiraPriyadarshini Nehru was born in a Kashmiri Brahmin family in 
Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Hindu : Being aliberal, but also religious family ; it observed all Hindu 
rituals andfestivals.

Hindu : She wasmarried to Feroze Gandhi according to Hindu rituals.

Hindu : She herselfperformed last rituals of her husband according to Hindu 
culture.

Hindu : She treatedAnandmayi Ma - a great Hindu mystic- as her spiritual mentor.

Hindu : Sheregularly put on 108 rudraksh bead mala -dedicated to Lord Shiva .

Hindu : She oftenparticipated in Hindu rituals and visited many Hindu shrines..

Hindu : Her twosons- Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi- got married according to Hindu 
rituals.

Hindu : She wascremated according to Hindu rituals.

Well : She was a Hinduby birth; marriage and death. 

Prayer : Om Shanti!

Q7           What are the advantages anddisadvantages of trams?

A7           Tomaž Vargazon, Practicing atheist Nov15

Trams arelight trains that can share the street with other vehicles.

A tram in Berlin

A tram is what you get when a mommytrain and a daddy bus love each other very 
much. The resulting offspring has advantages and disadvantagesof both trains 
and buses. 

The disadvantages are obvious, it can only run on tracks,this limits their 
deployment to only areas that have tracks.Adding new line or routing a line 
around a temporary obstacle (i.e. roadreconstruction) can only be done on 
existing tracks, or else if you build newtracks. They’re limited by other 
traffic, although usually not to the sameextent as buses are. Theyusually need 
electrical infrastructure to move around, although modern designsat least got 
us rid of overhanging wires. 

They can’t go veryfast either and have no utility beyond moving people on their 
daily business.

City buses can be used to move large groups of peoplebetween two arbitrary 
points, if there is a significant event in the city orelse the city needs to be 
evacuated in an emergency,you can use buses for that role much more easily than 
you can use trams. Clearly there are very good reasonsto opt for buses rather 
than trams and most cities will likely need buses inaddition to any tram 
network as a result.

Evacuation of Pripyat, 1986. City buses do what tramscouldn’t

Advantages of trams exist too, they just aren’t asobvious. First of all there’s 
pollution and noise. Buses use an internal combustion engine for themost part, 
this adds noise and exhaust. Battery buses aren’tcommonplace yet, I expect this 
advantage will wane with time. The next advantageof the tram is virtually 
unknown, but takes second place - air pollution fromtires. It turns out amajor 
pollutant in a city environment are microscopic pieces of rubber thatflake off 
the many tires and the problem increases with the weight of thevehicle much 
more rapidly than with their number. 

A bus may be worse for city air than ten cars (but notfifty cars it hopes to 
replace). Trams run onsteel wheels and don’t pollute the air nearly as much. 
Furthermore, trams are asunk cost, so once the city has trams, it will have to 
work to keep itoperational to justify previous costs, this will add to the 
quality of publictransport. With buses there is less incentive to do so, so 
they may face budgetcuts a tram wouldn’t experience. Trams also offer a more 
comfortable ride than a typical bus does.

Trams are whathappen when you really want quality mass transit and aren’t 
worried aboutgetting the most economically sound solution. They improve the 
quality of transport at a marginallygreater expense than the most obvious 
alternative. I personally liketrams better than I do buses, but I can see why 
many cities opt for busesinstead.

Q8           Do you prefer a double kitchen sinkor a single kitchen sink?

A8           Anonymous, 2y

It depends on the usage. How large the family is and howmany dishes you have 
for wash at a time.

There are various types in double bowl or single bowlkitchen sinks as per the 
need.

Let me explainthem:

Single bowl with drain board Sink: if you have asmall kitchen platform, less 
vessels or dishes at a time, 1–2 people stay athome, this should suffice your 
need. The drain board ismeant to drain the water directly to sink, and does not 
accumulate water onplatform, helps keeping the platform clean.

Double bowl with drain board sink: Ifyou have a large family more than 4 
people, that is lot of vessels/ dishes at atime, double bowl should be a 
perfect fit. 

The purpose of two bowls is one is forsoap water or where you keep soaped 
vessels/ dishes and the other is to washthe soaped vessels. It makes the 
processfast and effective. You have options in these categories where you can 
choosewith or without drain board.

It also depends onwhat budget you are looking for. There are various materials 
that comes in sinks that is Stainlesssteel, Granite, natural stone, quartz, 
copper and way more. 

If you want thesink to match the kitchen interior and you want to fit your 
basic need you canhave a look into this Futura kitchen sink website that I came 
across, they havepretty good range of kitchen sinks. Hope this was helpful.

My note- In my kitchen one large size stainless steelsink and in work area 
another sink of the size is installed. Now I feel the drain board could have 
been installed in work area. The vessels cleaned are kept on a vesselstray of 
stainless steel rods with ample space to drain water. But the drain water falls 
on granite working table and get stained andrequire period cleaning of stains 
on the granite  working table. The purpose of drain board was not properly 
feltby me at that time. 

Q9           Can India bring back kohinoor fromEngland?

A9           Prasanna Bhalerao, Follows politicsin India1h

Let us Indians stop having Mungerilal ke haseen sapne(beautiful day dreams). 
Whether we like it or not, believe it or not, theBritish claim:

The Koh-i-noordiamond passed on from king to king. It was previous owned by 
Maharaja Daleep Singh of Punjab. It now belongs toEngland because the king 
gifted it to Queen Victoria.

Maharaja DaleepSingh’s claim is itself dubious because Maharaja Ranjit Singh 
got it as a giftfrom Shuja Shah Durrani.

There was no Indiaat that time. Neither there was any Pakistan.

The diamond was thus a private propertyand passed on king to king and queen.

The diamond isas much Indian as PM Rishi Sunak.

My note-I enjoyed the comparison.

Q10         What medical advances were due todesperation?

A10         Luise, Worked at Own Business Mon

It was the first successful cesarean section that we knowof.

It was about the year 1500 and the wife of pig castratorJacob Nufer was in 
labor.

She had beenstruggling for the birth of her baby for days now. Thirteen ( I 
cannot believe that number, buthistory says so ) midwives had been already 
called to help and none couldcomplete the process.

Nufer basicallyknew how to help his wife because he had acquired extensive 
knowledge andskills through his work.

Pig castrators had long performedC-sections on difficult births of animals such 
as mares, cows, bitches, sheepand sows.

They did this tosave the young when it was feared that the mother might die.

Midwives were alsofamiliar with this technique, but until the early 16th 
century, cesareandelivery was allowed only on dead mothers.

What we do today-saving the mother'slife at the risk of the baby's death-was 
strictly forbidden.

Jacob was desperate. He finally managed to get urgentpermission from the 
authorities to perform the procedure on his living wife.

He used a razorblade to do the procedure.Mother and child survived.

Themother later had five more children born by natural childbirth.

This means that Jacob must have been able to sew up theuterus very well.

And with hiscourage he saved not only his wife and son, but millions of others 
later.

It always takespeople who have the courage to fight against the existing rules. 
Otherwise wewon’t go any here.

My note- An informative answer for  me about the orgin of cecerian operation 
andbringing out the child safely and  keeping mother safe

Q11         Who was the first Indian RailwayMinister who resigned due to a 
train accident?

A11         Suraj Barnwal, Studies MagadhUniversity & Magadh University at 
Jeevan Jyoti Public School, Nawada(Expected 2023)22h

Lal BahadurShastri was the first railway minister who resigned from office 
following amajor train accident as he felt moral responsibility.

The foundation stone of Bal Vidya Mandir, a distinguishedschool of Lucknow, was 
laid by him during his tenure as the prime minister, on19 November 1964.

Q12         Which country surprised you the most?

A12         Areej Musaed, Administrative Analyst atAir and Missile Defence 
(2020–present) Thu

Saudi Arabia surprises every visitor as they step into thecountry. Here’s why:

Saudi Arabia is not all desert!Saudi Arabia is a very large country (the size 
of all the countries in WesternEurope). The southern region is quite green and 
mountainous andenjoys great weather even in summer (18–25 Celcius).

Despite beinggoverned by a monarchy, the Saudi people are ranked the21st 
happiest nation on earth. This is due to the high living standardsand the fact 
that each Saudi is entitled to free education (from kindergartenthrough 
graduate school), free health care and subsidized water and gas prices.

Despite being inthe Middle East, Saudi Arabia is ranked the safest country 
among the G20nations — safer than the US, the UK, France, China and Russia!

My note- In spite there is no river in Soudi Arabia

All the above QA are from Quora  website  on   29-10-2022

Quora answers need not be100% correct answers .

Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan,former ITS, 79 years,  on 30-11-2022

 

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