JMC Quiz 2014 Conducted by Jorhat Engineering College Quiz Forum

Round 1

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General Rules

1st Rule:The QuizMaster Is Always Right,yes,you heard it right,because the quizmaster is always right :)

2nd Rule:If you have any doubts or feel that something is wrong,then read the 1st rule once again,i.e,the QuizMaster is always right

Rules:+10 for direct questions+10 for passed questions+10/-10 on pounce

Round 1

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• In 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word "X", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.

• Which word??

QUIZ

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Vietnamese gourd is a species of X grown for its fruit. The fruit somewhat resembles a cucumber. The young fruit is eaten as a vegetable and is commonly grown for that purpose in tropical Asia. Unlike the young fruit, the fully ripened fruit is used for a different purpose.The plant is an annual, native to South and Southeast Asia . As a tropical plant, it requires lots of heat and lots of water to thrive. It is a climbing vine and is best grown with a trellis support.The fruits, which are about 30 cm long, hang vertically (unlike their relatives the cucumbers, where the fruits grow on the ground horizontally). Sometimes it is is grown as an ornamental vine. It has big yellow flowers before the fruits form.

This plant is very common in Assam and both the young and ripened fruit is used,although for different purposes.The Assamese name also closely resembles the commercial name used for artificial varities of it which is a very popular skincare product

Give me X,which is also the commercial name .

Loofah

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• This has been a compulsory thing in almost every urban assamese household and government offices,schools and almost every other institution that you can come across.Decades rolled by,but the design remained same.All that changed annually was its internal content.The only last significant change which occured in the beginning of the new milennium was that it changed from black&white to colour.

• However 2014 got a whole new look of it,something that is totally fresh and new.However from this time,till almost the next 20yrs or more,it will be the same as this year.

• What is it?

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• Established in 1996 and based in New Delhi Hospitech Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. has been admired for delivering beyond conventional PMC services to its clients, while constantly driving excellence. Having firmly established its credentials for over a decade and putting it on a steady growth path, Hospitech has been leading multi-disciplinary teams in turning imaginative ideas into engineering and construction marvels.

• Their Mission and Vision is "To be the most sought after Project Management Consultants for the global Construction Industry. To be the organization of choice for Architectural, Engineering and Management professionals."

• One of their projects in Assam is known to all of us. Just name the project.

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• In Hong Kong, X is known better as a café drink than as a sleeping aid. It is served at cha chaan tengs as well as fast-food shops such as Café de Coral and Maxim's Express. It can be served hot or cold, and is usually sweetened with sugar. It is made with warm milk, and ice is added to it if a cold drink is desired.

• X came to India with The British Army; the end of World War I saw Indian soldiers of British Indian Army bringing it back with them. Punjab, Bengal and Madras Presidencies became early adopters of X and many well-to-do Indians took to taking X as a family drink in early 1940s and 1950s. It became a sort of status symbol in upper middle class Indians and rich classes.

• what is X??

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• X’s parents had named him Y,a legend in his own field. Coincidentally enough, he married a woman having the same name as the wife of Y

• He featured in a kid’s programme called ‘Wonder Balloon’ on Doordarshan in 1980. Playing four keyboards on TV was an exhilarating experience for him and people began to recognise him

• A Hindu by birth, X converted to Islam when a Pir called Sheikh Abdul Quadir cured his sister from a fatal illness.

Audience:: Time for some munching :)

• "We trekked alternately through wilderness and hundreds of villages, surviving on the generosity of people, for we were penniless, with no food and few clothes. Occasionally, we met British soldiers who provided us with transport, found us refuge and treated our blistered feet and bruised bodies and fed us. By the time we reached Dibrugarh in Assam, our group had been reduced to half. Some had fallen ill and been left behind, some had died of starvation and disease. My mother miscarried along the way. The survivors were admitted to the Dibrugarh hospital for treatment. Mother and I had been virtually reduced to skeletons and my brother's condition was critical. We spent two months in hospital. When we recovered, we moved to Calcutta"

• Whose words? Think Bollywood

HELEN

SCORES

Round 2

Rules:+10 for direct questions+10 for passed questions+10/-10 on pounce

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CONNECT

• All of them played the role of Gandhiji in various movies

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• Awards

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• the period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (that is, the time period from sunrise to sunset);

• a full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away :)

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• Novels by Robin Cook

• Can we see some real smile here??

• Skip to 1minute 50 seconds

Audience

• Identify this Television celebrity in his younger days

Round 3

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• X was serially published from July 1992 in the pages of Budhbar, the newspaper Y edited. Its first edition was over at the Guwahati Book Fair and the next edition was printed for the Asom Sahitya Sabha’s 59th session at Sibasagar. Due to some tiff between the organisers and the publishers, the book shops were shut in protest during the Sabha. Even during this phase, hundreds of people thronged Budhbar’s stall only to buy X

• Actually, there is no single narrative thread in the novel.. It is about how various sections of the society such as the Assamese tribals and migrant Muslims were excluded from a popular movement and the immense potential these groups had to contribute to it was left untapped by the mainly upper-caste leadership of the movement. In many ways, X reworks the picaresque novel. It rests in the tradition of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling or Kim by Rudyard Kipling by following the escapades of a hero over a range of experiences.

• What is X?

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• Hasnat Ahmad Khan, FRCS (born 1 April 1959) is a British Pakistani heart and lung surgeon.

• Khan was born in an affluent Pathan family from Jhelum, north of Lahore in Pakistan.He is a distant cousin of Imran Khan

• Until 1991 he worked in Sydney, Australia and then began to work in London.He served at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London from 1995 to 1996. Then he began to work at the London Chest Hospital. In 2000, he worked at St Bart’s hospital. Then he served at Harefield Hospital. In November 2007, he resigned from the post and began to head a cardiac hospital in Malaysia. As of August 2013, Khan is working as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon University hospital.

• Khan married 28-year-old Hadia Sher Ali in Pakistan in May 2006. Ali is a Pakistani descendant from former Afghan royalty.

• In July 2008, Khan and Ali filed an application for divorce in the local arbitration council of Islamabad.

• Enough of data,why was this person the focus of worlwide media attention in the later half of the 90s?

• X is a symbol meaning "Y". This symbol originated in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation of the Late Latin verb recipe, the imperative form of recipere, "to take" or "take thus". Literally, the Latin word recipe means simply "Take...." and medieval forms of Y invariably began with the command to "take" certain materials and compound them in specified ways.

• Folk theories about the origin of the symbol X note its similarity to the Eye of Horus, or to the ancient symbol for Zeus or Jupiter, gods whose protection may have been sought in those contexts.

• The fact that a Y instructs someone to "take" rather than "give" is not a trivial distinction, but makes clear it is directed to a specific person, and is not directly an instruction to anyone else.

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Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala

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• The practice of X has been both praised and criticized.It benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours,[but can cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun (such as farming) or to darkness (such as firework shows).

• Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently announced to implement it in Assam, so that people in the state do not have to wait till the rest of India wakes up and starts working

• "It is nothing new. The upper Assam districts had been practising it in the tea estates as well as the Digboi refinery because the sun rises much earlier in this region. " Gogoi said.

• Filmmaker Barua, who has been running a campaign for the past five-six years, has pointed out that even re-introduction of it would immensely benefit Assam. "I am surprised and happy that Gogoi has come up with a proposal that I mooted 25 years ago. "he said.

• What is the practice that I am talking about and what name it has been given in Assam??

• Daylight Saving and Bagan Time

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• "I was faced with racks of terry-cloth robes and ugly floral-print nylon nightgowns, and I always had the feeling the department-store saleswomen thought I was an unwelcome intruder."

• Which famous brand was born after this incident to save men from the discomfort of stepping into that particular kind of clothing

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• Some section of Hindus celebrate X as part of what is called mock-marriage or bel marriage, often also referred to as first marriage. This first marriage occurs before a girl menstruates and is meant to initiate her into adulthood. Through X, the girl is symbolically married to the bel fruit, which is a symbol of the god Shiva, ensuring that the girl becomes and remains fertile and that she will never be a widow, even if her husband dies. Besides this, the ceremony also includes a fire sacrifice. Neither of these rites are part of the ceremony accompanying the girl's second marriage to a human husband. Most North Indian communities however combine the first and second marriage in one ritual.

• What is X??

Round 4

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• "X" was used in a study to train medical professionals to provide the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR. The song has close to 104 beats per minute, and 100-120 chest compressions per minute are recommended by the British Heart Foundation, and endorsed by the Resuscitation Council (UK).\A study on medical professionals found that the quality of CPR is better when thinking about "X".This was parodied in the season 5 episode of comedy series The Office "Stress Relief".

• On 15 June 2011, the song was featured in a Hands Only CPR PSA campaign video from the American Heart Association and featured actor and medical doctor Ken Jeong in the classic John Travolta outfit from Saturday Night Fever.

• Vinnie Jones also stars in a UK version of this CPR video in association with the British Heart Foundation shown on TV circa January 2012.

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• Dulka Road is located in Wandsworth, South London close to Clapham Railway station. A few years ago, it was noticed that a house on this road was attracting a lot of interest from buyers of a particular community. It was sold in 2004 for nearly 50% more than other houses on the same road. Who and why were they so interested?

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• X is an Indian brand owned by Unilever and run by CEO Anil Chopra. X started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills (Tomco), part of the Tata Group; it was named after a French opera, which itself is the French form of an Indian goddess.X was started in 1952, famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indians were spending precious foreign exchange on those products, and personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them in India. Simone Tata joined the company as director, and went on to become its chairman. In 1996 Tata sold off their stakes in X to HLL, for Rs 200 Crore, and went on to create Trent and Westside. Even today, when most multinational products are available in India, X still occupies a special place in the hearts of Indians.

• X please :)

5A girl who is warm and humanly during the dayA classy girl who know how to enjoy the

freedom of a cup of coffeeA girl whose heart gets hotter when night

comesA girl with that kind of twistI’m a guyA guy who is as warm as you during the dayA guy who one-shots his coffee before it even

cools downA guy whose heart bursts when night comesThat kind of guyBeautiful, loveableYes you, hey, yes you, heyBeautiful, loveableYes you, hey, yes you, heyNow let’s go until the endA girl who looks quiet but plays when she

playsA girl who puts her hair down when the right

time comes

A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it allA sensable girl like thatI’m a guyA guy who seems calm but plays when he playsA guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comesA guy who has bulging ideas rather than musclesThat kind of guyBeautiful, loveableYes you, hey, yes you, heyBeautiful, loveableYes you, hey, yes you, heyNow let’s go until the endOn top of the running man is the flying man, baby babyI’m a man who knows a thing or twoOn top of the running man is the flying man, baby babyI’m a man who knows a thing or two

• Gangnam Style

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• In the 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed.Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM.

• What historic development happened after this event??

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• X were Norse warriors who are reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word Y.

Give me X and Y??

• X – Berserker • Y - Berserk

Round 5

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• The inspiration for X came from channel surfing on television. On one channel the writer observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. The sense of loss that the writer developed through her father's service in the Vietnam War was also an influence on the story, with the protagonist having lost her father at age 11, five years before the story begins.the author stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story. She considered the moments where the protsgonist reflects on happier moments in her past to be more enjoyable.

Hunger Games

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• Pal's group now has more than 20,000 members, and the number is growing. Making her way from one far-flung village to another on an old rusty bicycle, she holds daily gatherings under shady banyan trees, near makeshift tea-stalls selling the sweet Indian drink chai and other popular village hangouts to discuss local problems and attract new recruits.

• Pal has a long list of criminal charges against her, including unlawful assembly, rioting, attacking a government employee, and obstructing an officer in the discharge of duty, and she even had to go into hiding.Her feistiness has secured notable victories for the community, however. In 2008, the group ambushed the local electricity office, which was withholding electricity until members received bribes or sexual favors in return for flicking the switch back on. The stick-wielding group stormed the company grounds and proceeded to rough up the staff inside the building. An hour later, the power was back on in the village.

• Which group headed by Pal is in the news these days??

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• X was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939, several months before the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.It had only limited distribution with no public display, and thus was little known.

• In 2000, Stuart Manley,with his wife Mary of Barter Books Ltd. in Alnwick, Northumberland, was sorting through a box of used books bought at auction when he uncovered one of the original "X" posters. The couple framed it and hung it up by the cash register; and it attracted so much interest that Manley began to produce and sell copies. Other companies followed suit, and the design rapidly began to be used as the theme for a wide range of products. "What seemed to the Manleys as just a bit of quintessential British nostalgia has morphed into an international industry.Mary Manley later commented, "I didn't want it trivialised. But of course now it's been trivialised beyond belief."

• What is X?

4• An American drama series takes its name from the title of X• In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book

that Tom catches Becky Thatcher looking at, and which she tears a page of, is implied to be X

• In the episode Episode 6 "Wasiyat" of the Doordarshan TV series Byomkesh Bakshi, one of the murder suspects is reading the book.

• The interior illustrations were adapted by Isaac Marion in his Warm Bodies series from X. Also in the text of the books, one of the main characters refers to it when they see zombies in various states of decay.

• In Dan Brown's novel Inferno, Sienna Brooks, as a child, reads all the 1,600 pages of X in ten days.

• In the Star Trek: Voyager episode ""Message in a Bottle"", Harry Kim attempts to create a new Emergency Medical Hologram, but it is only able to recite the entire text of X instead of actually helping patients.

• Gray's Anatomy

5 Print Ad for??

• Johnson & Johnson

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• Red - Does nothing but does make various battle cries when tapped and does great at popping the targets

• Blue - Splits into three smaller kind of its own. Works best against glass.• Yellow - Picks up speed and distance when tapped. Best against wood.• Black - Explodes when tapped or shortly upon inpact. Best against stone.• White - Drops an egg bomb that explodes on impact when tapped and does

great on wood.• Boomerang - Comes back like a boomerang when tapped and does great

on wood and glass.• Big Brother - No special abilities when tapped, but destroys materials with

ease.• Orange - Inflates to huge size like a balloon when tapped or upon impact,

then deflates a little later. Best against wood.• Pink - When tapped makes a bubble around her, and lifts up objects like

blocks . The bubbles last for about 3 seconds.• Mighty Eagle - You first launch sardines and when it hits the ground, the

Mighty Eagle will come down, destroy everything in his path hit the ground and cause an earthquake, then come back up, while also destroying everything in his path; kind of like a V but wider.

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• The name X comes from former United States President Roosevelt, who was commonly known as "X" (though he loathed being referred to as such).The name originated from an incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier,cornered, clubbed, and tied a Y to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot it himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed it to be killed to put it out of its misery,and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.

• Morris Michtom saw the drawing of Roosevelt and was inspired to create something new. He created the first ever Z and put it in his shop window with a sign that read "Z," after sending a sample to Roosevelt and receiving permission to use his name. It was an immediate success .

• What is the product Z??

1. Ratanpur

2. Vijaypur,

3. Kharound

4. Maro

5. Kautgarh,

6. Nawagarh,

7. Sondhi

8. Aukhar,

9. Padarbhatta,

10.Semriya,

11.Champa,

12.Lafa,

13.Chhuri,

14.Kenda,

15.Matin,

16.Aparora,

17. Pendra,

18.Kurkuti-kandri

19.Raipur

20.Patan

21.Simaga,

22.Singarpur,

23.Lavan,

24.Omera,

25.Durg,

26.Saradha,

27.Sirasa,

28.Menhadi,

29.Khallari,

30.Sirpur,

31.Figeswar,

32.Rajim,

33.Singhangarh,

34.Suvarmar,

35. Tenganagarh

36.Akaltara.

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• X is the name given to the species of fish Garra rufa. They live and breed in the pools of some Turkish river systems and hot springs. In modern times, they have been integrated as a spa treatment, where they feed on the skin of patients with psoriasis. While the X treatment has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of psoriasis, they are not meant as a curative treatment, as no cure for psoriasis currently exists. The use of the fish as a spa treatment for the wider public is still widely debated on grounds of efficacy and validity, as the treatment is not shown to have either positive or negative effects.

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• The X was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, a medical student at the University of California at Berkeley and a police officer of the Berkeley Police Department in Berkeley, California.According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the X was on its 2003 list of greatest inventions, described by the company as inventions that "have had profound effects on human life for better or worse."A X (popularly referred to as a Y) measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions.

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• This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market. Built by a king for his favourite daughter in 1650 AD so that she could shop all she wanted to, this market place derives its name from the canals filled with water that sparkled like silver in the moonlight. Id the place?

• The skeletal remains of several diminutive paleolithic hominids were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. These tiny people, named Homo floresiensis after the island on which the remains were found,reveal a hominid that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child and had proportionately larger feet than modern humans. The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter tall, weighed about 25 kilograms and was around 30 years old at the time of her death. Further analysis of the remains indicated that Homo floresiensis was approximately 106 cm tall far smaller than the modern pygmies, whose adults grow to no more than 150 cm .Thus far, nine skeletons of Homo floresiensis dating from approximately 38,000 to 13,000 years ago have been excavated, suggesting that they would have shared the island with dwarf elephants, giant rats, and Komodo dragons.

• These species were nicknamed X which is a fictional species bearing striking similarities with them.

• Name X

• X first appeared in print in 1881; but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s

• Many have associated the X with the Great Plague of London in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of the Black Death in England…however interpretation of X before World War II make no mention of this.

• Indeed, given the large variety of verses, the global distribution and poorly defined origin of the verse it is hard to say with any certainty that this is in fact descriptive of the rash of the bubonic plague

• The invariable sneezing and falling down in modern English versions have given would-be origin finders the opportunity to say that X dates back to the Great Plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing or coughing was a final fatal symptom, and the ending line described exactly what happened at the end.

• What is X?

• Y fell in love with X. He soon began composing poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. His unself-conscious efforts to woo the girl caused some locals to call him Y (madman). When he asked for her hand in marriage, her father refused as it would be a scandal for X to marry someone considered mentally unbalanced. Soon after, X was married to another man.

• When Y heard of her marriage, he fled the tribe camp and began wandering . His family eventually gave up hope for his return and left food for him in the wilderness. He could sometimes be seen reciting poetry to himself or writing in the sand with a stick.

• X having moved to a place in Northern Arabia with her husband, where she became ill and eventually died. In some versions, X dies of heartbreak from not being able to see her would-be lover. Y was later found dead in the wilderness in 688 AD, near X’s grave.

• X and Y ??

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• . The X company commenced in 1906 as The Haloid Photographic Company. Looking for a term to differentiate its new system, Haloid coined the term Y from two Greek roots meaning "dry writing". Haloid subsequently changed its name to Haloid X in 1958 and then X Corporation in 1961.They sold photographic paper and other similar materials, and later expanded into one of the largest companies in the world

X

• While Gordon Ramsay could only manage one before giving up, Anandita Dutta Tamuli went through 51 of them in a minute, disappointed that she could have done more. The occasion took place in Jorhat, Assam. What did she do? (precise answer only)

• A Greek God or Goddess lends his or her name to the controversial practice of assisting people with incurable illnesses to die with dignity?

• Give me either the name or the practice (or both)??

• Thanatos, Euthanasia