Health Quiz F.A.Q 2015

Health QuizF.A.Q 2015

F.A.Q 2016Question and Research by Dr Partha Sarathi Ghatak

QUIZ

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Prelims

Rules25 Question PrelimsTop 8 teams to qualify for the finalsQuestion 1 and multiples of 5 are star marked questions and will be used to break ties.Prelims scores will also be used to break ties in the final.All questions and/or answers will have a direct/indirect/sometimes far fetched connect with the world of Health/Medicine/Doctors.Please switch off all electronic devices connectable to the internet for the duration of the prelims.

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Question 1*Francis Rawdon-Hastings (marquess of Hastings) was the governor-general of India from 1813 to 1823. He held a number of titles in the English peerage, for each of Rawdon-Hastingss titles, we have a street in Calcutta.Even X Street was named after his wife, who was the Countess of X, named after X in Ayrshire,a Peerage of Scotland. X Street has been renamed in 1967 as Y Street after one of Indias most brilliant scientist and medical practitioner. Give me X and Y.

Answer 1X Loudon StreetY U.N Brahmachari Street.

Question 2Timed light exposure is the treatment of choice for which relatively modern condition ? Preventively, special glasses, provide light to the eyes, thus inhibiting the production of melatonin in the brain. This treatment is particularly important for athletes who attend many competitions worldwide.Timed melatonin administration, timing of exercise and food consumption have also been suggested as remedies.Medically referred to as desynchronosis what is the most commonly used two word term for this condition.

Answer 2

Question 3

Identify this physician honoured in this East German postage stamp

Answer 3Salvator Allende

Question 4The most famous patient of this disease who died from it about 45 years back said that the name of the disease is fit to be announced on Vivid Bharti.According to him,it sounds like the name of a viceroy and if an Indian lady had this disease it would sound like she has adopted an English boy.What rather deadly disease am I talking about?

Answer 4Lymphosarcoma of the Intestine.

Question 5*This is a 2010 HBO original movie based on the life of X. Al Pacino plays X and won a Prime time Emmy and a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor for his role. Identify X

Answer 5Dr Jack Kevorkian

Question 6Alfredo _____ born in 1932 in Modena, nicknamed Alfredino or Dino, was the son of X. Alfredo suffered from Duchennes muscular dystrophy, a severe and progressive gene linked disease which results in muscle degeneration and premature death. He designed the 1.5 L DOHC V6 engine for F2 at the end of 1955 which would be named after him and used in the Fiat Dino sports car, the _____ Dino sports car, and several F1 cars . Alfredo would never see the engine; he died 30 June 1956 in Modena at the age of 24 from DMD. FITB or give me X.

Answer 6

Question 7This is a fanciful term for self-mutilation such as amputation of an extremity, enucleation of an eye or auto-castrationwhich may be associated with dysmorphic delusions, disturbances of body image or psychosis. It is named after a famous personality who once indulged in similar things(X syndrome).Give me X

Answer 7

Question 8Though he has been sometimes criticized for his ruthless moneymaking attitude in relation to the activity he is most famous for as a physician he was always kind and considerate. Working as a medical officer and Public Vaccinator near Bristol in the 1870s, he is reported to have treated all poor families without charging money and was extremely popular even among people who didnt know about his primary fame.The cardiothoracic surgery recovery ward at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he worked earlier has been named in his honour. Who are we talking about?

Answer 8

Question 9Though this word_____ has been derived from the Latin for to prune, the Latin word has never been recorded in a surgical context, being reserved to indicate punishment for criminals. The English word_____ was first applied to surgery in the 17th century by Peter Lowe, but by the end of the 17th century ______ had come to dominate as the accepted medical term for the purpose and is still most common word used in the context. FITB

Answer 9 Amputate/Amputation.

Question 10*

Late 19th century advertisement for ?

Answer 10

Question 11X is a 2006 movie starring Aaron Eckhart based on a 1994 satirical novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley . It follows the machinations of Nick Naylor, the chief spokes person of a certain industry who spins on behalf of his industry while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son. It shows how money is used to buy over people suffering from diseases relating to the industry among other things. The title X is a play on one of the standard messages used to appreciate people who have abstained from using the products of the said industry.

Question 11 contd

Answer 11

Question 12This word was coined by Samuel Hahnemann from the Greek for other than the disease/suffering in 1810 to highlight the fact that conventional medicine in his times concentrated upon treating the symptoms rather than the root cause of the disease. Which much misused term am I talking about?

Answer 12Allopathy.

Question 13Which disease did the lead character of the movie the song is from, suffer from?

Answer 13Cerebral Palsy

Question 14X is a group of diseases known for many centuries usually characterised by fever,chills ,headache and flu like symptoms and named after the Greek word for smoky or hazy, describing the state of mind of those affected with this disease. Y is a disease caused by an unrelated microorganism whose name means X like due to some similarity of symptoms with X. X and Y please.

Aanswer 14X Typhus.Y Typhoid.

Question 15*Which 18th century work of art is named after the sobriquet given to the illegitimate son of Dr. Bartholo and his maid Marceline, who was kidnapped as a baby by the gypsies and after getting disgusted with their ways left to become a surgeon in Madrid , where he began dabbling in a literary career, but angered the censors with several of his works, and was briefly imprisoned. Eventually he set himself up as a _____ surgeon and set up shop in the largest city of Andalusia.

Answer 15

Question 16According to Xs perhaps most celebrated biography X proposed _______ as the name of his company because he was inspired by the Fruitarian diet he was then following. Identify X and the company.

Answer 16Steve JobsApple

Question 17These are two of the more prominent examples of what specific defence used in criminal cases which led to non guilty verdicts as the courts felt that the accused didnt know what they were doing? 1991, R v Burgess: Burgess was accused of hitting his girlfriend on the head with a wine bottle and then a video tape recorder. Found not guilty, at Bristol Crown Court, by reason of insane automatism.

2008, Brian Thomas, was accused of killing his wife while he dreamt she was an intruder, whilst on holiday in West Wales.

Hint These killings occurred at night after the accused and the victims had retired for the night.

Answer 17Somnambulism or sleep walking.

Question 18John Langdon X was a 19th century British physician who worked in the neglected field of idiocy. In 1866, he wrote a paper entitled "Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots" in which he put forward the theory that it was possible to classify different types of conditions by ethnic characteristics.He listed several types including the Malay, Caucasian and Ethiopian types. In the main the paper is about what is known as X syndrome, named after him, but which he classified as the ______ type of idiot. X and the _____ please.

Answer 18Down (syndrome)Mongoloid.

Question 19Trailer of season 2 of which TV series about a hellish menta assylum?

Answer 19

Question 20*The Wall Street Journal has given Dr Debi Shetty renowned surgeon ,the sobriquet of X of cardiac surgery ,because according to WSJ, just like X , Dr Shetty has revolutionised cardiac surgery through a simple premise that works in other industries: economies of scale. By driving huge volumes, even of procedures as sophisticated, delicate and dangerous as heart surgery, he has reduced costs to one twentieths to one fiftieths of what it costs in the US. Just like X did so many decades ago in his industry, Dr Shettys innovations have brought cardiac surgery within the reach of the common man . Give me X.

Answer 20

Question 21Sokoowsko is a village in Poland (previously part of Prussia) situated in a deep forest-covered hollow traversed by many streams, and surrounded by mountains. It was visited in 1849 by Countess Maria von Colomb from Prussia. The countess, delighted by the scenery and the weather, persuaded her brother-in-law,German physician Hermann Brehmer , to establish the first ______ in the world there. By the end of the 19th century ,such establishments had become very popular and many were set up in Europe,North America and elsewhere.

Question 21 contd

Answer 21Sanatorium

Question 22This is the statue of a famous physician, biologist, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate at the university of Pavia where he lived ,worked, made his important discoveries and died. The inscription says outstanding pathologist / of histological science / precursor and master / the secret structure / of the nervous tissue / with strenuous effort / discovered and described / here he worked / here he lives / here he guides and enlightens future scholars / 1843 1926).

Question 22 contd

Answer 22Camilo Golgi

Question 23In the 1991 film The Addams Family, the character of granny or grandmamma played by Judith Molina , true to her personality, is shown making new potions and recipes by combining normal cookbooks with which iconic book, in publication for over 150 years,and not usually used for this purpose?

Answer 23

Question 24Who is this slightly redacted Google doodle in honour of?

Answer 24Karl Landsteiner

Question 25Identify the movie .

Answer 25