Illuminati 2018 Medical Trivia Quiz AFMC

Rules!
1. This is not a quiz that wants you to memorise
and regurgitate facts.
2. This is a quiz that has to do with the trivia that
you may have some across during your Medical
training.
3. 18 Qs in the Prelims. Top 6 go into the finals.
4. 5 Qs are starred and will be used to break ties.
Please mark them on your sheet.
5. Don’t leave any Q blank. Hazard a guess!
6. You HAVE heard of everything in this quiz so
have a free reign! Good luck.
7. For the last rule, we’ll move to the next slide…

For the Duration of the quiz, QM is god!

1.
In the medical college of Dalian, People’s
Republic of China what group 47 people are
fondly called ‘Silent Teachers’?
Something that was replicated in AFMC in 2018
too.

2. *
ID this city in Aichi prefecture, Japan, the home to
Reiji and his wife Tsunoke, both molecular
biologists.
Their eponymous discovery was observed after
t3-Thymidine was introduced to a sample of E.
coli DNA replication in test tube of Alkaline
sucrose and some DNA flowed to the bottom of
the the while the rest floated.

3.
What was coined in 1972 in a Financial Times
Interview in Bombay Airport in 1972?
The 4 pillars of it are:
a)Sustainable and equitable socio economic
development
b) Environmental conservation
c) Preservation and promotion of culture
d) Good Governance
The nine domains under its purview are
Psychological well being, health, time use,
education, cultural diversity and resilience,
community vitality, ecological diversity and living
standards.

4.
Rune Elmvist initially worked as a doctor, having
trained in Lund but later worked as an engineer
and an inventor. In 1948, he developed the first
inkjet ECG printer which he called the
Mingograph.
What did he invent in 1958, working under the
direction of Ake Senning, cardiothoracic surgeon
at Karolinska University Hospital

5.
Which disease has been known since antiquity as
the ‘King of Diseases and the disease of Kings’.
First described in 2600 BC in Egypt, it is
etymologically derived from the Latin for ‘A Drop
of liquid’ and has been pictured by James Gillray
in this following illustration.

6.
A known supporter of Galen, he extended the
knowledge of the internal ear. He described the
the muscles of the malleus and the stapedius as
well as the complicated figure of cochlea.
He also discovered the Adrenal Glands/
Becoming a bestseller a century after his death
reflecting the bias against anatomists and
dissection throughout the renaissance, ID this
16th Century Italian.

7.
Traumatised as a child in Lithuania in 1944 when he
witnessed the murder and cannibalism of his
beloved sister, Mischa by a group of deserting
Lithuanian Hilfswillige, he grew up to be quite
brilliant, cultured and sophisticated with great taste
in art, music and cuisine a member of the Baltimore
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Blessed with an eidetic memory and an elaborate
mind palace, ID this doctor who interestingly had
mid ray polydactyly leading him to have two middle
fingers on his right hand.
He reportedly enjoyed many a meal with red wine
and some broad beans.

8. *
Who?
Played for
Sud America 1967-71
Sportivo Italiano 1972-73
Montevideo Wanderers 1975
Fenix 1976
Puebla 1976-77
Bella Viste 1977-79
He then worked as a primary school teacher as well
as a job that took him to Colombia, Argentina, Italy,
Spain and Russia. Working as a teacher, he picked
up the nickname El Maestro.
Who is this who was diagnosed with Guillan Barre
Syndrome in 2016?

9.
While the 2013 outbreak was due to a wild strain,
in 2017, Deir al Zour and Raqqa faced a
confirmed outbreak of Vaccine Associated
paralytic Polio.
Which country reported these outbreaks in its
isolated, under conflict areas?

10. *
Given below is the route of an expedition led by a
Spanish physician, Francisco Javier de Balmis. It set off
from A Coruna on 30 Nov 1803 with 22 orphan boys,
Balmis, a deputy surgeon, 2 first aid practitioners , 3
nurses and Isabel Zendal Gomez, rectoress of the A
Coruna orphanage. What was the objective of this
expedition?

11.
Which nerve of the perineum takes its name from
the Latin for ‘parts to be ashamed of’?

12.
This mural features Savita Halappanavar, an
Indian Origin woman. It came up after a
groundbreaking referendum in a certain country
where Mrs Halappanavar’s story created waves.
What referendum? Which country?

13. *
What is the genus of Enterobacteria
Hafnia named after?

14. *
Born in Nairobi, he is the current reigning
champion of the Grand Tours of Cycling the Giro
d’Italia and Vuelta A Espana as well as the 2017
Tour De France.
He was tested in the 2017 Vuelta A Espana and
found to have excess salbutamol in his system. A
known case of asthma he took an increased dose
of SABA but crossed the WADA’s therapeutic use
exemption limit.
His lawyers argued that the test was not very
sensitive and that his kidneys were not
functioning optimally leading to an accumulation
of the drug

15.
Hermann Henking in Leipzig in 1890 was
studying the testicles of an insect called firebug
and noticed that a particular entity was stained as
readily as the others did not take part in meiosis.
This led Henking to wonder if it was a different
class of object altogether.
What got named thus due to its dissimilarity from
the other objects that were stained and
observed?

16.
When he served in Malta, a number of British
Soldiers suffered an outbreak of what was then
called the Malta Fever. He led the commission that
investigated this curious fever. When one of his
subordinates, Themistocles Zamitt reportedly
discovered the cause, he discouraged his line of
investigation. When he found out of the positive
results of the disease being related to unpasteurised
goat milk, he took credit for himself. The disease is
today named after him. He was transferred to South
Africa soon after to investigate the outbreak of a
disease in Zululand among cattle locally called
‘Nagana’. He even discovered the causative
organism for this infection and the specific epithet for
this organism was named after him. Who?

17.
What was developed by Joseph Kleiner in 1947
and marketed by Becton Dickinson world-wide?
It is a registered trademark of Becton Dickinson.
The plastic version was developed at BD in the
early 1990s.

18.
Give me the name of an Oscar winning film that
was filmed mostly in Spain because it could not
be shot in the original country as the novel it was
adapted from was.
Adapted from a novel by a Nobel Laureate(1957),
this film went on to win Best Costume, Best
Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best
Adapted Screenplay as well as Best Art Direction
but lost out best picture to The Sound of Music.
Here’s an iconic piece from the soundtrack.

That’s the end of the prelims!
We’ll move on to the answers now.
Please submit your sheets and sit back for the
finals.

Cadavers for anatomical teaching!

2.
ID this city in Aichi prefecture, Japan, the home to
Reiji and his wife Tsunoke, both molecular
biologists.
Their eponymous discovery was observed after
t3-Thymidine was introduced to a sample of E.
coli DNA replication in test tube of Alkaline
sucrose and some DNA flowed to the bottom of
the the while the rest floated.

5.
Which disease has been known since antiquity as
the ‘King of Diseases and the disease of Kings’.
First described in 2600 BC in Egypt, it is
etymologically derived from the Latin for ‘A Drop
of liquid’ and has been picturised by James
Gillray in this following illustration.

8.
Who?
Played for
Sud America 1967-71
Sportivo Italiano 1972-73
Montevideo Wanderers 1975
Fenix 1976
Puebla 1976-77
Bella Viste 1977-79
He then worked as a primary school teacher as well
as a job that took him to Colombia, Argentina, Italy,
Spain and Russia. Working as a teacher, he picked
up the nickname El Maestro.
Who is this who was diagnosed with Guillan Barre
Syndrome in 2016?

Oscar Tabarez, The Coach of the Uruguay
National Football team who was seen hobbling
animatedly on the sidelines in Russia FIFAWC
2018

Syria, one of the last few nations to still report of
cases of Polio.

10.
Given below is the route of an expedition led by a
Spanish physician, Francisco Javier de Balmis. It set off
from A Corona on 30 Nov 1803 with 22 orphan boys,
Balmis, a deputy surgeon, 2 first aid practitioners , 3
nurses and Isabel Zendal Gomez, rectoress of the A
Coruna orphanage. What was the objective of this
expedition?

The orphans were inoculated with the Smallpox
vaccine and this was called the most
philanthropic expedition for its time.

Ireland’s abortion referendum of May 2018

13.
What is the genus of Enterobacteria
Hafnia named after?

14.
Born in Nairobi, he is the current reigning
champion of the Grand Tours of Cycling the Giro
d’Italia and Vuelta A Espana as well as the 2017
Tour De France.
He was tested in the 2017 Vuelta A Espana and
found to have excess salbutamol in his system. A
known case of asthma he took an increased dose
of SABA but crossed the WADA’s therapeutic use
exemption limit.
His lawyers argued that the test was not very
sensitive and that his kidneys were not
functioning optimally leading to an accumulation
of the drug

The top 6 teams move
ahead to the finals.

1.
Born in Bergen, Norway and worked as a hospital
in Christiania (Oslo), he worked on a disease that
was then believed to be hereditary or miasmatic
in origin. Travelled to Bonn and Vienna and
announced the discovery of the causative
organism. In 1879, he gave his samples to Albert
Neisser who successfully stained it and identified
it fully and downplayed the contribution of the the
Norwegian whose claims were weakened by
failing to produce a pure microbiological culture in
an artificial medium. He had also infected a
woman without her consent in order to study the
disease progression which led to court troubles.

2.
What is common to?
Asperger Syndrome named after Hans Asperger
Beck Ibrahim Disease or Congenital Cutaneous
Candidiasis named after Yusuf Ibrahim
Clara Cell named after Max Clara
Reiter’s Syndrome for Reactive Arthritis named
after Hans Conrad Juluis Reiter
Wegener’s Granulomatosis named for Friedrich
Wegener
Seitelberger’s disease for infantile neuroaxonal
dystrophy for Franz Seitelberger

Having Nazi Associations all o these syndromes
have been renamed.
Asperger became Autism Spectrum Disorder
Clara cell was renamed to Club cell
Wegener’s Granulomatosis became
Granulomatosis with Polyangitis

3.
Which fictional character takes the medications
such as Focusyn, Blissium, Prozac and Crystal
Math.
Focusyn was an experimental drug created to
help ADHD students cope in class.
On administration, the user often tends to do
repetitive activities such as writing the same
sentence many times on a blackboard.

4.
Dr Ashok Aswani started out as a typist in Adipur.
He joined a film school in Pune but quit six
months later to take up Ayurveda.
Practising in Adipur, he believes laughter is the
best medicine and prescribes a certain unique
remedy to all patients who visit his clinic.
What is this silent remedy that in 1973 made him
think of taking up film school and also sees him
dress up a certain way on Dec 16 every year
along with many other enthusiasts.

Prescribes videos of Charlie Chaplin’s Character-
The Tramp

5.
Produced by Streptococcus hygroscopes and
isolated by Surendra Nath Sehgal et al from soil
samples.
These soil samples were taken from a certain
island that lies in the Pacific, is administered by
Chile’s Valparaiso region and is one of the most
remote inhabited islands.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the nearest
inhabited islands are the Pitcairn Islands. ID this
drug.
Hints on demand.

Rapamycin or Sirolimus.
Named so because of the soil samples being
taken from Easter Island or Rapa Nui as it’s
called in the native tongue.

6.
Asgeir Petur Thorvaldsson, an anesthesiology
specialist at Landspitali University, Reykjavik
tweeted that he had administered unprecedented
levels of pain relief over the weekend of 26 Mar
2017: ”Set a record for the number of epidurals in
maternity duty this weekend.”
This was a similar story across all of Iceland. To
what David vs Goliath incident of 2016 did the
islanders ascribe their baby boom to?

Iceland beating
England in Euro 2016!

7.
Software Engineer Bran Gitta missed a number of lectures
due to an illness that incidentally is the biggest killer in his
native Uganda.
Calling it ‘Matibabu’ meaning medical centre in Swahili, he
devised a non invasive magnet and LED based test that
allowed even non trained personnel to test patients for this
disease. It simply clips onto your finger and does a quick
analysis. With and 80% success rate and taking only 2 mins
for diagnosis, Gitta and his team won the UN Women’s
empowerment award and has been shortlisted for the Royal
Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering.
Simply put, what killer disease does Matibabu help
diagnose?

8.
A catastrophic typhoon swept through the Pingelap
atoll in 1775 leaving only about 20 survivors. The
then ruler, Doahkaesa Mwanihsed is believed to
have been a carrier for a certain autosomal
recessive disorder. It did not manifest until fourth
generation after the typhoon. But due to founder
effect and the population bottleneck causing
significant inbreeding, today the atoll has at least
10% of the population with full manifestation while
30% live as carriers.
What is this condition that the native call ‘Maksun’
and formed the title of an Oliver Sacks book
published in 1997? Interestingly, those with the
condition are very able night time fishermen.

9.
A person wakes up to discover that he has been in
catatonic sleep for 30 years but believes he has been
finally cured. Suddenly the patient is in dire need of help
as he feels his consciousness fadingThe doctor
prescribes higher dosage medicine but it doesn’t help.
Despite the doctor’s failure in treatment the patient asks
him to relax as it isn’t his fault and falls back into sleep.
This is the second movement of Octavarium by the
Progressive Rock group Dream Theatre.
It is a homage to a 1990 drama film starring Robert De
Niro and Robin Williams which was in turn based on
Oliver Sacks’ memoir of the same name about Malcolm
Sayer who discovered the beneficial effects of L dopa
and administered it to catatonic patients, survivors of the
1917-28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.

Anticlockwise Now!
Might as well check in with the scorers!

10.
This is an image of a museum dedicated to a
certain researcher in Cha Trang, Vietnam. Located
on 8-10 Tran Phu Boulevard in the former home of
the researcher in the enclosure of the Pasteur
Institute. The museum contains a large collection
of the Swiss Born researcher’s letters, equipments
as well as his contributions to bacteriology. He
discovered a pathogen for a certain disease that
has plagued humanity for ages. Interestingly, the
pathogen had been identified by Kitasato
Shibasaburo in Hong Kong too.
(KS was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Medicine
for his work with Von Behring but failed to win)

11.
Don Juan or Don Giovanni is a legendary fictional
libertine. the first written version of his legend
was written by the Spanish Dramatist Tirso De
Molina.
The name Don Juan has come to commonly
mean a womaniser in current times.
But in 1918, Don Juan became the metaphor for
which disease that swept the world and some
historians argue, swung the victory to the Allied
Forces due to the higher fatality rates on the
German and Austrian forces.

12.
As a medical student in Edinburgh, he found he was too
sensitive to the sight of blood and the brutality of surgery
at the time. So he turned his attention to natural history,
an extramural interest he developed while studying at
Cambridge to qualify as a clergyman.
On 10 Dec 1831, on the port of Plymouth, he was gripped
by acute palpitations and chest pain and seasickness
followed soon after. While on the Andes, he was bitten by
a bug of the Pampas and reportedly infected with Chagas
Syndrome, spending many a sick day in Valparaiso,
Chile.
He also developed dyspepsia, cyclical vomiting which
plagued him throughout life. Nobel Laureate Barry
Marshall hypothesised that his symptoms mimicked that
of an H Pylori infection. Who?

13.
1954, Dr Sven Gard, Professor of Virology
convinced a certain committee to name John
Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins to
be the 1954 Nobel Laureates for a breakthrough
discovery.
He was also instrumental in convincing the
committee that another American, more famous for
his contribution to the particular domain should not
receive the Nobel because his research and
publication were derivative of the already felicitated
trio of Enders, Weller and Robbins.
Who was this famous American?

14.
An acclaimed anatomist and artist to boot, he
painted the following, ‘The Maniac’ as well as
‘Ophistotonus’. He was the first person to link
neuroanatomy and clinical medicine, bringing it to
the forefront of clinical medicine and out of the
more philosophical domain.
Who is this person who published treatises such as
‘A System of Dissections Explaining The Anatomy
of Human Body:The manner of displaying parts and
their varieties in disease” as well as “Essays on the
anatomy of expression pinpointing”?

15.
Thursday, Dec 12 1799, a 67 year old man inspected his
plantation on horseback in snow, hail and freezing rain and
ate his supper without changing his clothes. Later that
night, he complained of chest congestion, hoarseness
which finally progressed to severe difficulty breathing,
speaking and swallowing. He instructed his estate overseer
George Rawlins to let a pint of his blood. The 3 physicians
summoned were Dr Gustavus Brown, Dr James Craik and
Dr Elisha Dick. The physicians thought he had ‘Quinsey’
and the bloodletting had already depleted nearly 2 litres of
blood over a few hours. Dick recognised that all treatments
were failing and proposed a tracheostomy but the other
physicians weren’t familiar with the procedure and
disapproved.
Who is this old man who assured his doctors”Doctor, I die
hard, but I am not afraid to go.”

16.
A grid cell is a place modulated neutron in the
hippocampus whose multiple firing locations define a
periodic triangular array covering an entire surface of of
an open 2D environment. They form an essential part of
the brain’s co ordinate system for metric navigation.
John O’Keefe, 2014 Nobel Laureate had studied these
cells in mice and it was time for human studies. The
year was 1991. The problem was that most of these
tasks had usually been presented on a tabletop or
video displays which could be solved by non
hippocampal strategies by a more developed human
brain. The best outcome was if the subjects kept their
heads immobile yet their brains felt like they were
moving about, exploring. How did O’Keefe manage to
do this?

2 Qs left, hopefully no
ties in scores!

17.
Dr Subhash Mukhyopadhyay was a Bengali
Physician from Hazaribagh who studied
Physiology and reproductive physiology from
University of Calcutta as well as a doctorate from
Edinburgh in reproductive endocrinology.
What did he achieve on 3 Oct 1978 working with
Sunit Mukherji, a cryobiologist and gynecologist
Dr Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya?
He was the second to achieve this after Patrick
Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
The film Ek Doctor Ki Maut, by Tapan Sinha,
starring Pankaj Kapur and Shabana Azmi was
made on his life.

The 1st IVF pregnancy that was viable in India.

Thank you
• Illuminati 2018
• Flt Lt Pranjal Gupta for guinea pigging the quiz
• All the volunteers
• All participants.
Hope you had fun!
Here’s the last Question.

18.
Located in a state of the USA that is famous for its
swamps, this organisation has undertaken various
innovative measures to keep mosquitoes at bay.
They include insecticides, growth regulators that reduce
the insects lifespan and the introduction of wildlife that
eats the bugs as part of their diet. They also have a
dedicated Mosquito Surveillance Programme. More than
60 traps located around the site, they preserve and
analyse the bugs for prevention methods.
Most interestingly, they also plant sentinel chickens at
designated points around the park and are monitored
regularly to see if they have been infected by any
mosquito borne viruses that may pose a risk to humans.
What entity is this that was opened in 1971 and sees 50
million people in footfall annually?

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