Prelims Of the Health Quiz at FAQ 2016 ( the Quiz fest of Calcutta Medical College). Conducted by Partha Sarathi Ghatak (Partha Abarki)

1. Health Quiz
F.A.Q 2015
F.A.Q 2016
Question and Research by Dr Partha Sarathi Ghatak

2. A word of Thanks
• Calcutta Medical College Quiz Club
• Sponsors –Savlon
• Edesia
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• The Palms

3. Prelims

4. Rules
• 25 Question Prelims
• Top 8 teams to qualify for the finals
• Question 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.

5. Custom Show safety Slide

6. 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-
Hastings’s 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 India’s most brilliant
scientist and medical practitioner. Give me X and Y.

8. Answer 1
• X –Loudon Street
• Y – U.N Brahmachari Street.

9. Question 2
• Timed 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.

11. Answer 2

12. Question 3
Identify this
physician
honoured in this
East German
postage stamp

14. Answer 3
• Salvator Allende

15. Question 4
• The 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?

17. Answer 4
• Lymphosarcoma of the Intestine.

18. 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 Actor’s Guild
award for Best Actor for his role. Identify X

20. Answer 5
• Dr Jack Kevorkian

21. Question 6
• Alfredo _____ born in 1932 in Modena, nicknamed Alfredino or
Dino, was the son of X. Alfredo suffered from Duchenne’s 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.

23. Answer 6

24. Question 7
• This is a fanciful term for self-mutilation – such as
amputation of an extremity, enucleation of an eye
or auto-castration—which 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

26. Answer 7

27. Question 8
• Though 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 didn’t 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?

29. Answer 8

30. Question 9
• Though 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

32. Answer 9
• Amputate/Amputation.

33. Question 10*
Late 19th
century
advertisement
for … ?

35. Answer 10

36. Question 11
• X 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.

37. Question 11 contd

39. Answer 11

40. Question 12
• This 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?

42. Answer 12
• Allopathy.

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

45. Answer 13
• Cerebral Palsy

46. Question 14
• X 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.

48. Aanswer 14
• X – Typhus.
• Y – Typhoid.

49. 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.

51. Answer 15

52. Question 16
• According to X’s 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.

54. Answer 16
• Steve Jobs
• Apple

55. Question 17
• These 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 didn’t 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.

57. Answer 17
• Somnambulism or sleep walking.

58. Question 18
• John 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.

60. Answer 18
• Down (syndrome)
• Mongoloid.

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

63. Answer 19

64. 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 Shetty’s innovations have
brought cardiac surgery within the reach of the common man
.” Give me X.

66. Answer 20

67. Question 21
• Sokołowsko 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.

68. Question 21 contd

70. Answer 21
• Sanatorium

71. Question 22
• This 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).”

72. Question 22 contd

74. Answer 22
• Camilo Golgi

75. Question 23
• In 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?

77. Answer 23

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

80. Answer 24
• Karl Landsteiner

81. Question 25
• Identify the movie .

83. Answer 25