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1. THE Engineer-Made
Medical QUIZ
(Finals)
Nishant Nihar
(Selected Questions)

2. “
CREDITS

3. Q
A team of researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina found
that the saliva spread was the main reason behind increased bacteria
growth, amounting to 1,400 percent.
The research team put frosting on a piece of foil atop a Styrofoam wheel,
which they used for performing the ritual. To count bacteria, the team
diluted the frosting with sterilized water and then spread it out on agar
plates for the bacteria to grow. Each of the colonies on the agar
represented a single bacteria cell from the frosting.
The team of researchers found that the ritual resulted in about 120
different varieties of bacteria growth with each manouevre, and thus
highlighting contagiousness.
What harmless study?

6. Q
• Shown along is a sampling of Ann
Druyan's brain waves, recorded on
June 3, 1977.
• Once bed-ridden, she had a
conversation with Carl Sagan of the
sci-fi fame and said, “We know that
EEG patterns register some changes
in thought. Would it be possible, I
wonder, for a highly advanced
technology of several million years
from now to actually decipher human
thoughts?“
• Her scheduled EEG for June 3, 1977,
thanks to Sagan were made
accessible to for probably everyone in
the open.
• How?

8. Voyager Records

9. Q
• When Confederate Army general Robert
E. Lee died five years after the Civil War
ended, the cause of his death had doctors
stumped. He had been in poor health, but
his specific illness was a mystery; there
weren't many clues beyond symptoms Lee
had described in letters. “The troops are
not encamped near me and I have felt so
unwell since my return as not to be able to
go anywhere,” he wrote to his wife in
1863.
• This was before electrocardiograms and
x-rays existed. There were no obvious
physical findings to support a formal
diagnosis, either.
• However, Richard Reinhart, an emeritus
professor of medicine at East Carolina
University studied physical evidences and
concluded the reason of his death.
• As a doctor, what would you say it was?

10. Heart Disease
• The possible connection between earlobe creases and
heart disease was first made in 1973, and there have
since been more than 120 studies investigating the link.
A heart condition affecst the blood vessels and elasticity
of the earlobe in a way that forms a crease over time.

12. Q
• It originates from the Roman celebration
of the feast of Lupercalia where men
sacrificed a goat and a dog, and whipped
infertile women with the hides of the
animals they had just slain.
• Drunk and naked, women believed
these men would cure them of their
unproductivity. The brutal fete included a
matchmaking lottery, in which young men
drew the names of women from a jar and
coupled up for the duration of the festival
— or longer, if the match was right.
• Attributed to the ancient Romans
because of Emperor Claudius II’s
execution of two similarly named men,
what hapless annual event is being
talked of?

15. Q
• Which rather unlikely group of
people were the first to elucidate
the world about the harms of
smoking?
• The poster on the right is one of
their more liked after
propagandas.
• Who or whom?

18. Q
• Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it appears on the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennon started production of the
song, and then Paul McCartney contributed to it in a songwriting
session.Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing
he called ____ _ __ __ __ _______ Shortly after the song's release,
speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally
spelled something that would make a certain Albert Hoffman happy.
• What song? What tribute?

21. Q
• He was taken to the Adenau hospital with
serious burns. From there he was flown to the
University Hospital in Mannheim where his
condition was described as critical.
• Had it not been for the Italian gentleman
named Arturo Merzario, the victim could never
have survived the fire that struck Harald Ertl
and Brett Lunger.
• Who was the vitctim? What was the operation
done on him?

23. Niki Lauda

24. Connect
• 4 parts
• +5/-5 for identifying all parts
• +10/-10 for the connect
• +10 bonus for House

27. Disease named after Places
• Guinea and Guinea Worm Disease
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• St Louis Encephalitis
• Ebola

28. Q
• Two contradictory behaviors are observed when a house-fly has its food.
• If the meal in question happens to be liquid already, then the task is
easy. Since the housefly's mouth parts are designed to sponge and
ingest liquefied food, it's just a matter of turning on the suction. The food
goes straight into the fly's stomach.
• Solid food is slightly more difficult. Houseflies can't bite or chew -- they
simply don't have the proper equipment. So if forced to contend with
something more solid, like a grain of sugar or dried blood, houseflies
must employ a different tactic.
• The way in which the fly distinguishes between solids and liquids is the
first feature that distinguishes itself. What is that?
• How does it react to edible food, that is quite contrary to how humans
react?

30. • Tastes with feet
• Vomits on edible food

31. Q
• This tax, which originates from the passage of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was among the 21 new
taxes that were included in the law. According to Forbes, the tax was
expected to raise $2.7 billion over the first decade, but five years of the tax
going into effect, it raised less than $500 million.Having already led to the
closure of more than 10,000 resulting in the loss of 81,000 jobs, this 10%
tax is exempted only on Phototherapy services, which the IRS defines as a
"service which exposes an individual to specific wavelengths of light for the
treatment of dermatological conditions, sleep disorders, seasonal affective
disorder or other psychiatric disorder, neonatal jaundice, wound healing, etc.
• Which unlikely tax, that is almost needless in India for artificial means?

33. Tanning Tax

34. Q
• Eileen Likness of Alberta, Canada was attacked viciously by
her ex-boyfriend following a nasty break-up.
• Fernando “Frank” Chora, charged with attempted murder and
aggravated assault with a weapon, allegedly fired his 9mm
handgun at Likness while she was seated in her car.
• In an amazing twist of faith, the bullet, even after brushing
against her, was deflated away, leaving her in a state to
make a complaint and have her ex arrested.
• What beautiful miracle of modern science helped Eileen
survive?

36. Answer
• Her Silicone Implants

38. Q
• Invented in the 19th Century, this fashion fad meant men didn’t have to
change their shirt every day. They were called ‘father killer’, or
‘Vatermörder’ in German They could cut off the blood supply to the
carotid artery. Edwardian men would wear them as a fashion accessory
– they’d go to their gentleman’s club, have a few glasses of port and
nod off in a winged armchair, with their heads tilted forward. They
actually suffocated.
• One 1888 obituary in The New York Times was headlined ‘Choked by
his _____ where a man called John Cruetzi had been found dead in a
park, and “the Coroner thought the man had been drinking, seated
himself on a bench, and fell asleep. His head dropped over on his chest
and his windpipe had been choked through the already contracted
veins, causing the death to ensue from asphyxia and apoplexy.
• What deadly fashion fad, still in use?

40. Detachable Collars

42. Q
• It was legalized in India in 2012 (though an SC ruling
favored it in 2008), and according to the UN, was
pegged at $400 million mainly because of low-cost
technology, skilled operators, and scant bureaucracy.
However, post the banning of foreign customers in 2012
following issues related to dual citizenships, the industry
went into decline even though the Indian Council for
Medical Research Guidelines were supportive of it. A
Parliamentary Panel recently took this issue up following
high profile Khan-dani cases . What booming industry?

44. Surrogacy

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