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UNIVERSITY DEBATING & LITERARY CLUB AMUSMART CLASSROOM,CEC

31-03-2016

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A_______________ is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, a perennial herb that grows 1 to 1.5 m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) tall. The species is native to the deserts of Iran and mountains of Afghanistan and is mainly cultivated in nearby India. As its name suggests, ____________ has a fetid smell, but in cooked dishes, it delivers a smooth flavour reminiscent of leeks._____________ is used as a digestive aid, in food as a condiment, and in pickling. It typically works as a flavour enhancer and, used along with turmeric, is a standard component of Indian cuisine, particularly in lentil curries, such as dal as well as in numerous vegetable dishes.______________ reduces the growth of indigenous microflora in the gut, reducing flatulence.[10] In the Jammu region of India, ____________ is used as a medicine for flatulence and constipation by 60% of locals.It is also known as asant, food of the gods, jowani badian, stinking gum, Devil's dung, hing, hengu, ingu, kayam, and ting.

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BArnold (Arnoul) of Soissons or Arnold or Arnulf of Oudenburg (ca 10401087) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, the patron saint of hop-pickers and Belgian __________.When his see was occupied by another bishop, rather than fighting, he took the opportunity to retire from public life, founding the Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg. At the abbey, he began to ___________, as essential in medieval life as water. He encouraged local peasants to drink _______, instead of water, due to its "gift of health." At the time of the Black Death epidemic, Arnold was an abbot in Oudenburg, Belgium. Rather than stand by while the local Christians drank water, he had them consume his alcoholic ______. Because of this, many people in his church survived the plague. During the process of _________, the water was boiled and thus, unknown to all, freed of pathogens.

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CWhile a variety of theories have been postulated for the etymological origins of ________, the name is now accepted as coming from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word _________, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word _______ to refer not only to that particular village, but the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as _________.From the 16th to the early 18th century __________ referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper _________ and Lower ________ collectively named The __________; until their union as the British Province of ________ in 1841.

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D _________ was founded in 1802 by leuthre Irne _________, using capital raised in France and gunpowder machinery imported from France. The company was started at the Eleutherian Mills, on the Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington, Delaware, two years after he and his family left France to escape the French Revolution. It began as a manufacturer of gunpowder, as __________noticed that the industry in North America was lagging behind Europe. The company grew quickly, and by the mid-19th century had become the largest supplier of gunpowder to the United States military, supplying half the powder used by the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Eleutherian Mills site is now a museum and a National Historic Landmark.In the 20th century, _________ developed many polymers such as Vespel, neoprene, nylon, Corian, Teflon, Mylar, Kevlar, Zemdrain, M5 fiber, Nomex, Tyvek, Sorona and Lycra. ________ developed Freon (chlorofluorocarbons) for the refrigerant industry, and later more environmentally friendly refrigerants. It also developed synthetic pigments and paints including ChromaFlair.

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E____________________, was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, _____________ designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators Salvador Dal and Jean Cocteau. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West. ____________ did not adapt to the changes in fashion following World War II and her couture house closed in 1954.

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FIn number theory, _________________________________ states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n strictly greater than two. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known to have infinitely many solutions since antiquity.This theorem was first conjectured by Pierre de __________ in 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica where he claimed he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin. The first successful proof was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, and formally published in 1995, after 358 years of effort by mathematicians. The unsolved problem stimulated the development of algebraic number theory in the 19th century and the proof of the modularity theorem in the 20th century. It is among the most notable theorems in the history of mathematics and prior to its proof, it was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "most difficult mathematical problem", one of the reasons being that it has the largest number of unsuccessful proofs.

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GThis product was launched in 1960s and was codenamed Project Muscle and marketed as Chemcor. The company sent a film clip of its scientists crazily banging and bending it to 200 TV stations.The product was used until the early 1990s in commercial and industrial applications, including automotive, aviation and pharmaceutical uses, notably in approximately one hundred 1968 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda racing cars, where minimizing the vehicle's weight was essential. Experimentation was revived in 2005, investigating whether the product could be made suitable enough for use in consumer electronics.

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HThis venture was started by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, one of the pioneers of the Akali Movement. Its first editor was Sardar KM Panikkar, assisted by Devdas Gandhi, whose father had inaugurated it in 1924. Today, it is one of the biggest media organizations in the country. Name it.

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IWhat is trypanophobia is the fear of

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KIt is said that he got the vision of building a big futuristic city during a hunting expedition near Shivanasamudra (near Hesaraghatta) near Bengaluru. He envisioned the city to have a fort, a cantonment, tanks (water reservoirs), temples and people of all trades and professions to live in it. He conquered Sivaganga principality, 30 miles from Bengaluru on Bengaluru-Pune highway. Next he annexed Domlur, which is on the road from Bengaluru to the old Bengaluru Airport. Within this vast forest area, with the necessary Imperial permission of the Vijayanagar Emperor, Achyutharaya (Dasarahalli record dated 1532) he built Bengaluru fort and the town in 1537 A D., and moved his capital from Yelahanka to the new Bengaluru Pete.

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LId the organization whose concept had been proposed in 1795 and adopted in 1920. But this failed in its purpose and lasted only for 26 year and replaced by a new body. Id the organisation by its logo ?

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MTelecommunication expert Mordecai Meirowitz from Israel invented a board game inspired by the pencil and paper game Cows and Bulls. He later sold this codebreaking game for two players to a UK-based company, Invicta Plastics. Name the game, otherwise quite familiar to quizzers.

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OOn Thursday, March 4th, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan officially opened to the public. The hub replaces the PATH train station that was destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which if you'll recall was rather a long time ago. Indeed, over 12 years in the making, the new train station is symbol of both governmental waste and architectural excess.The building, designed by Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava and called _________, is a giant oval made up of steel ribs and glass laid out in elliptical shape, reaching for the sky like wings of a bird. The space measures 350 feet (107 meters) long by 115 feet (35 meters) at its widest point, according to Calatrava's website.Initially budgeted at $2 billion, it has spiraled to $3.85 billion according to a spokesperson in Calatrava's office, which would make it the most expensive station in the world.It said that when completed, the transit hub will serve 250,000 people and more than 200,000 commuters each day, making it the third-largest transportation center in the city.

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QThe dictionary lists various meanings for this word: an odd or eccentric person, look curiously at, a hoax, unusually intelligent, to examine or test. What word is this?

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RKarl Marx wrote an article published in the New York Daily Tribune of 8th August 1853, The introduction of ____________ in India would bring results that must be unappreciable. ______________ would break up the self sufficient inertia of the villages by fostering ancillary enterprises. It will become truly the forerunner of modern industry in India. It will dissolve the hereditary division of labour upon which rest the Indian castes, those decisive impediments to Indian progress and Indian power.

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TI was so enamoured of my wife, Ratnavali, that when she left for her fathers house, I followed her. I had to cross a river in spate. As there was no boat, I used a floating corpse to cross it. I reached her house and climbed up to her room using what turn out to be a Snake. On seeing me, she said, Had you loved God as intensely as you do this flesh and bones, you would overcome all mortal fears. I was speechless. I went away to Prayag and renounce the world.

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UAn anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days. So he decided to play a little game with them. He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket. at the foot of a tree. Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said now, the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself. So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said now, all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away. The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves. The children responded: ________. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad? __________ is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as I am what I am because of who we all are.

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VTo commemorate the successful conclusion of negotiations, Mussolini commissioned the Via della Conciliazione, and signed the Lateran treaty along with Pietro Gasparrion behalf of the Kingdom of Italy in 1929. What was established thus?

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X Which company based on the philosophy of this Buddhist concept "a single grain of rice of a Buddhist is as great as a mountain," suggesting X wants to work from the little things, instead of starting by striving for perfection. Id the company ?

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YWhen it comes to the discovery of elements on the periodic table, you can divide the world into two parts- ________, and everywhere else. ________ is a village on a speck of an island outside of Stockholm. But no place on earth has been more important to the periodic table. A few placesif you count Latin namescan brag that two elements have been named for them. ________ has four. And it could have had more, since three other elements can trace their discovery to a modest mine that once supported the community there.There are a few reasons why so much scientific energy was concentrated in such a small space as ___________. First is the type of elements discovered there. All seven of __________ elements were rare-earth elements.

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YYtterbyFour of the names of these elements come straight from Ytterbyytterbium, yttrium, terbium, and erbium. The names couldn't get much shorter rbiumdoesn't look rightso for the rest, chemists pickedholmium, after Stockholm;thulium, after a mythic name for Scandinavia; andgadolinium, after Gadolin himself.

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