Medi-QA general quiz with a medical touch

Date: 6th April, 2016Venue: GMCH Auditorium Conference Room

QM: Bibhuti Handique

DISCLAIMERAll the questions included in this presentation are purely a result of a week’s research by the quizmaster. Any resemblance to slides, blogs or other similar sources is purely coincidental. Most of the questions belong to novice mode, hence the quizmaster are pinning high hopes on getting correct answers. I m neither a God nor the boss here, I am just a normal person who have a high tendency on making mistakes. So kindly have pity on me.

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THE FORMAT36 questions in total.5 normal rounds of alternate clockwise & anti-clockwise

rotation.(5x6=30)1 round open on pounce.(1x6=6)Direct and pass (+10). Infinite pounce (+10/-10).

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1Zamenis longissimus is a species of non venomous snake native to Europe, a member of the Colubridae family. They are dark, long, slender and typically bronze in color, with smooth scales that give them a metallic sheen. However, these species of snakes are more commonly known by a different name due to their association with something. Either tell me the common name of these snakes or tell me what is so special about these snakes in the field of medical science?

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AnswerAesculapian snake. It refers to the classical God of healing ‘Greek Asclepius’ around whose temples the snakes were commonly found. It is surmised that the typical depiction of the ‘Rod of Asclepius’ features this species of snakes.

2Which often used medical term basically traces its origin to the Old French word ‘_______’ meaning lack of ease, inconvenience ? The word was first recorded in English in the late 14th century.

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Answer‘Disease’ from des-(expressing reversal) + aise

‘ease’

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It is an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization (NGO) and 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Founded on 20 December 1971 in France, the organization actively provides health care and medical training to populations in about 70 countries and frequently insists on political responsibility in conflict zones such as Chechnya and Kosovo. Id this world famous organisation.

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5‘Dr. Kotnis ki Amar Kahani’ is a 1946 Indian film directed by V. Shantaram and starring V. Shantaram and Jayshree in the lead roles. The film is based on the life of Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, an Indian doctor who was sent to China during World War II to provide medical assistance to the Chinese troops against the Japanese invasion in Yenan province. However, his main triumph was curing a deadly disease, but eventually he succumbed to the disease himself. Which deadly disease is being talked about?

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AnswerPlague

6 The red colour of the whole background indicates a certain type of danger. The spread of the knowledge (in a particular field) throughout the world is denoted

by the two green coloured wings. The green colour also signifies the evergreen hopes and faith to the profession in this world.

The spreading wings from the stick and the snake are the symbols of Mercury. A map is depicted in white to signify truthfulness and purity. The rising sun and a

dot represent the rays of sun falling on the city. The surroundings of the map are in yellow, to signify the courage and sacrifice. At the bottom is a symbol indicating that we are brave and strong.

The outline of the Badge is designed artistically to show that it is an art to lead happy life and there are ups and downs in the life.

Finally the white colour of the flag with yellow border represents truthfulness & purity and courage & sacrifice.

What am I talking about?

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7He received his training in 1977-78 in otology, neurotology and microsurgery of the ear under Prof. G.E. Shambaugh Jr. and Prof. George A. Sisson at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. He has also undergone training in otology under Prof. Nager at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1996, he went to Australia to undergo training in cochlear implant surgery at the Melbourne University and the Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne. He is best known for performing his country’s first bilateral cochlear implantation surgery. Who?

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AnswerDr. Ramesh C. Deka, an alumnus of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and Ex-Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi

8Charles Richard Drew was an American physician, surgeon and medical researcher, born in 1904 to an African-American middle class family in Washington D.C. He did his graduate work at Columbia University, where he earned his Doctor of Medical Science degree, becoming the first African American to do so. What is his most significant contribution in the world of medical science?

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AnswerBlood banks

9The Greek philosopher Socrates, in his later years, was found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety (“not believing in the gods of the state”), and was subsequently sentenced to death by drinking a mixture containing poison hemlock. After drinking the poison, he was instructed to walk around until his legs felt numb. After he lay down, the man who administered the poison pinched his foot; Socrates could no longer feel his legs. The numbness slowly crept up his body until it reached his heart. Shortly before his death, Socrates speaks his last words to Crito: “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius (the Greek God for curing illness). Please, don’t forget to pay the debt.” Now the question is, how are the last words of Socrates immortalized in the world of medical Science?

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AnswerThe logo of Karolinska Institute (which awards Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology every year) features a rooster/ cock as a tribute to the Greek philosopher Socrates’ last words.

10It is an outdoor sculpture in Jupiter, Florida, USA. The sculpture was made in 2008 by German sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae. It was created based on ________ structure published by E. Padlan for the Florida campus of the Scripps Reasearch Institute. The sculpture is placed into a ring referencing Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ highlighting the similar proportions of ________ and the human body. What sculpture that Andreae found analogous to the ‘Vitruvian Man’ is being referred to here?

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AnswerThe human antibody molecule

11Two theories centering around a common belief:1st , he was found of absinthe, a popular liquor containing thujone.

Excessive consumption of this liquor may cause the consumer to see all objects with a yellow hue. Investigations conducted in 1991, however showed that a person must drink 182 litres of absinthe to produce this visual disorder, so we can discount this theory.

2nd, it involves overmedication with digitalis. People receiving large and repeated doses of digitalis often see the world with a yellow-green tint. They complain of seeing yellow spots surrounded by coronas.

Explanations for what?

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AnswerThis are the explanations behind yellow corona surrounding each star in Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “The Starry Night”. The artist’s physician, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, may have treated van Gogh’s epilepsy with digitalis which made Van Gogh see the world with a yellow-green tint. In one of van Gogh’s three portraits of Gachet, the physician holds a stem of Digitalis.

12Located 120 miles east of Mexico City, the tiny town of La Gloria- population 2,300- is home to a bronze statue of a little boy named Edgar Hernandez. Standing 4ft 3in and clad in shorts, a t-shirt, and sneakers, the statue holds a frog in its right hand. The bronze figure is modeled after Belgium’s popular urinating toddler statue, Manneken Pis. What is the claim to fame of this statue?

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AnswerEdgar Hernandez is the so-called “kid zero” of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, being the first case of the swine flu epidemic to have successfully recovered.

13He did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCLA School of Medicine (1978-82) and Massachusetts General Hospital (1982-85) respectively. He has been at the forefront of AIDS research for three decades. He published over 400 papers (cited June 2011), enabling the scientific community to understand the mechanism of HIV replication. Identify this Time magazine’s 1996 ‘Man of the Year’

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AnswerDr. David Ho

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15In 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, exploring the St. Lawrence River, used the local natives’ knowledge to save his men who were dying of a specific disease. He boiled the needles of the arbor vitae tree (Eastern White Cedar) to make a tea to treat his men..

Between 1500 and 1800, it has been estimated that it killed at least two million sailors. Jonathan Lamb wrote: “In 1499, Vasco da Gama lost 116 of his crew of 170; In 1520, Magellan lost 208 out of 230;…… all mainly to _______” Which disease?

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AnswerScurvy

16Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman born on August 1, 1920, in Virginia, to Eliza and Johnny Pleasant. In her later life, she was diagnosed with malignant epidermoid carcinoma in her cervix. During her radiation treatments for the tumor, two samples of her cervix were removed – a healthy part and a cancerous part- without her permission and were given to Dr. George Otto Gey and the rest is history. What was so special about her tumor?

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AnswerHer cancerous tumor was the unwitting source of cells to create the first known human immortal cell line for medical research, now known as HeLa (named after Henrietta Lacks) cell line

17Who is missing? And connect.

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AnswerSir Anthony Hopkins; Dr. Hannibal Lecter4 on-screen versions of

Hannibal Lecter:Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins,

Mads Mikkelsen and Gaspard Ulliel

18The term was coined by Dr. Howard J. Bennett in a Letter to the Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine on October 30,2003. Dr. Bennett’s letter was entitled “________ ________ - Misery for Muggles.According to a standard definition, the term means a generalized headache that occurs on spending many hours reading an unusually long volume of books.Give me the 2 word term.

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AnswerHogwarts Headache

19He received his medical degree from Gauhati Medical College in 1975. He joined GMCH as a demonstrator in Pathology and completed his Diploma in Clinical Pathology. He completed his MD degree in Internal Medicine and joined AIIMS, New Delhi as Senior Resident, where he completed three years’ training in Neurology, leading to DM degree. In 1984, to address inadequate availability of quality healthcare in NE India, he returned to Assam. What happened next?

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AnswerHe is Dr. Nomal Chandra Borah. Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) was

founded by him

20A case of Sacral Insufficiency Fracture or SIF. Just identify the sign.

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AnswerHonda Sign

21He is a billionaire Indian scientist and businessman, best known outside India for defying large Western pharmaceutical companies in order to provide generic AIDS drugs and treatments for other ailments primarily affecting people in poor countries. In February 2013, he was the 28th richest Indian according to Forbes. What was founded by his father in the year 1935, something which is the oldest of its kind in India?

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AnswerHe is Yusuf Hamied and his father was Dr. Khwaja Abdul Hamied, the founder of CIPLA, India’s oldest pharmaceutical company

22The inventor of the world’s first ophthalmoscope. Whose tomb is this?

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AnswerCharles Babbage, the father of modern computer, also invented the world’s first ophthalmoscope in 1847.

23________ sive morbus gallicus is a 1530 epic poem by Girolamo Fracastoro who was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. The poem is about a shepherd boy named ______ who insulted Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease. The poem suggests using mercury and “guaiaco” as a cure. The name of which disease comes from the name of this Shepherd Boy?

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AnswerSyphilis, from the Shepherd boy

‘Syphilus’.

24Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae. Symptoms that develop include granulomas of the nerves, respiratory system, skin and eyes. Among the various complications of Leprosy are loss of eyebrows (madarosis), premature senility and mega lobules of ear etc. How is the condition ‘mega lobules of ear’ better known among the masses?

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AnswerBuddha ear

25It is a type of persecutory/grandiose delusion in which patients believe their lives are staged plays or reality television shows. The term was coined in 2008 by brothers Joel and Ian Gold, a psychiatrist and a neurophilosopher respectively. It is not officially recognized nor listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatrist Association; but there have been over 40 recorded instances of people suffering from this disorder in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere.What am I rambling about?

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Answer‘The Truman Show’ delusion

26He was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and received an MD degree in 1859. He served as a personal surgeon to Queen Victoria whenever she visited Scotland. He wrote the book ‘Manual of the Operations of Surgery’ which was published in 1866. X first met him and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Identify X & what did he inspire X to create?

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AnswerX- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.He is Dr. Joseph Bell. In his great grandfather’s instruction, Dr. Joseph Bell emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities. According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration behind the character Sherlock Holmes.

27The ‘barber chair phenomenon’ is a symptom rather than a sign suggestive of a lesion of the dorsal columns of the cervical cord or of the caudal medulla of the spinal cord. It is a classical finding in multiple sclerosis, and is also seen in a number of other conditions including transverse myelitis, trauma, radiation myelopathy, vitamin B12 deficiency, tumors, high dose chemotherapy. It was first discovered by Pierre Marie and Chatelin in 1917. Jean Lhermitte, a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist published his first report in the year 1920. How is this symptom/phenomenon better known to a layman?

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AnswerA chill down one’s spine

28The _______ __________ technique includes holding your arm up over your face and then sneezing into your elbow. During the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, the Centre For Disease Control recommends this technique to avoid spreading germs. According to the Centre For Disease Control, sneezing into your sleeve helps prevent the spread of cold and flu germs. Fill in the blanks.

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AnswerThe Dracula Sneeze Technique

29X is the 2nd largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy, has nearly 2,000 km of coastline, sandy beaches and a mountainous interior popular for hiking. Y is a term given by Phoenician colonists to elderly people who could no longer take care of themselves. The criminals in X were given an intoxicating potion that resulted in Y, they were then dropped from a high rock/beaten to death. Scientists in Italy have now identified the potion to be derived from Oenanthe crocata, which is common in X. It is scientifically proven that high amount of toxic chemicals in this plant could result in Y. Give me X & Y.

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AnswerX- Sardinia, Y- Risus Sardonicus/ Sardonic Grin

30He won 6 nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or

Medicine but could not win in any of the occasions:1929-by Sudhamoy Ghosh.1942-by U Basu.1942-by M Bose.1942- by S Mahalanobis.1942- by Sudhamoy Ghosh.1942- by C Bose.Who is this famous Indian and what is his contribution to the

field of medical treatment?

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AnswerUpendranath Brahmachari, known for Urea stibamine, the

medicine for Kala azar.

31Roderick MacKinnon is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre n 2003 for his work on the structure of ____________. German sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae made a sculpture for Roderick MacKinnon based on his discovery. Which important discovery is being talked about here?

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AnswerIon Channel Structure

32Sitter. Identify.

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AnswerLaennec’s stethoscope

33He is Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, an Indian entrepreneur and cardiologist born in Madras, India in 1933 and educated in Stanley Medical College in Chennai. A 1991 Padma Bhushan and a 2010 Padma Vibhusan awardee, what was founded by him in the year 1983?

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AnswerApollo Hospitals

34In 1792, he developed a sudden serious illness which included dizziness, weakness, delirium, sickness, abdominal pain, deafness, and partial blindness. By the time, he returned to ______, in 1793, he was completely deaf. Various diagnosis of this serious illness have been offered: syphilis, lead poisoning, cardiovascular disease, acute infection of the central nervous system and the rare condition of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. In 1819, he had a 2nd serious illness. He later wrote,“_______ in gratitude to his friend ______ for the skill and care with which he saved his life in his acute and dangerous illness suffered at the end of the year 1819 at the age of 73.” Who?

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AnswerFrancisco Goya; Goya’s

painting “Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta”

35Schmid-Fraccaro syndrome is a rare condition caused by the short arm (p) and a small section of the long arm (q) of human chromosome 22 being preset three (trisomic) or four times (tetrasomic) (usually 3 times) instead of the usual two times.Just give me the nickname of this syndrome.

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AnswerCat-eye syndrome

36CONNECT (exhaustive list):1. The ability of a blind person to sense accurately a light source

or other visual stimulus even though unable to see it consciously,

2. The phenomenon of relieving a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition.

3. The human gene which contains the human leukocyte antigen and which encodes cell surface antigen-presenting proteins.

4. A payment to the beneficiary on an annuity, pension, or life insurance policy upon the death of the policy holder.

5. The communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.

6. An organism that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.

7. A trait, condition etc. that indicates the presence of a medical or psychological disorder.

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AnswerRobin Cook’s Novels of Jack Stapleton and Laurie

montgomery series1. Blindsight2. Cure3. Chromosome 64. Death Benefit5. Contagion6. Vector7. Marker

1. Blindsight - The ability of a blind person to sense accurately a light source or other visual stimulus even though unable to see it consciously,

2. Cure - The phenomenon of relieving a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition.

3. Chromosome 6 - The human gene which contains the human leukocyte antigen and which encodes cell surface antigen-presenting proteins.

4. Death benefit - A payment to the beneficiary on an annuity, pension, or life insurance policy upon the death of the policy holder.

5. Contagion - The communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.

6. Vector - An organism that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.

7. Marker- A trait, condition etc. that indicates the presence of a medical or psychological disorder.

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