A medical trivia quiz! Not for nerd medical students! Conducted by me at Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad during KARMIC 2015, annual national medical students' conference.

2. Medical Quiz
Final Round
Dr. Basalathullah
Gandhi Medical College

3. ROUND 1
Multiple Choice Questions
“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
Act II, Scene 7

4. 1.
Which of the following is not a symptom of
Motor Neurone Disease?
A. Impaired physical motility
B. Impaired swallowing
C. Impaired senses
D. Impaired verbal communication

5. 2.
Which of the following diseases does not
infect by the venereal route?
A. Ebola
B. Hepatitis A
C. Stargardt disease
D. Amoebiasis

6. 3.
How many platelets are formed from
megakaryocytes?
A. 20--50
B. 200--500
C. 2000--5000
D. 2--5

7. ROUND 2
Google Doodle
Identify the disease/ scientist/
medical invention

8. 1.

10. Jan Evangelista Purkyne/ Purkinje
fibres
Czech anatomist and physiologist, he discovered
the Purkinje effect. Best known for his discovery
of Purkinje cells, he also discovered Purkinje
fibres, the fibrous tissue that conducts electrical
impulses from the atrio-ventricular node to all
parts of the ventricles of the heart.

11. 2.

13. Julius Richard Petri/ Petri dish
German microbiologist whom we have to thank
for the low-tech but highly indispensable tools of
the microbiology lab. He invented them while
working as an assistant to Robert Koch.
Alexander Fleming’s fluke discovery of penicillin
was done using Petri dishes.

14. 3.

16. Carlos Juan Finlay/ Yellow Fever
Carlos Finlay was a Cuban physician who
theorised that yellow fever was spread by
the mosquito Culex fasciatus (now called
Aedes ageypti). He convinced the US
Army’s Yellow Fever Board headed by
Walter Reed, who then confirmed his
findings. It paved the way for the
eradication of Yellow Fever and the
construction of the Panama Canal.

17. 4.

19. Rosalind Franklin
English chemist R. Franklin made important
contribution to the structure of DNA, RNA,
viruses, and coal. Her 'Photo 51’, an X-ray
diffraction image of DNA was a result of
remarkable work that led to the discovery of the
DNA double helical structure. She had died of
ovarian cancer when Watson, Crick and Wilkins
shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

20. 5.

22. Nikolay Pirogov
One of the most prominent figures in Russian
medical history, he is considered to be the
founder of field surgery, and was one of the first
surgeons in Europe to use ether as an
anaesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use
anaesthesia in a field operation, invented various
kinds of surgical operations, and developed his
own technique of using plaster casts to treat
fractured bones.

23. 6.

26. Audience Question

27. Howard Florey
Co-creator of penicillin, Lord Florey was an
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist.
He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine with co-creator Sir
Ernst Boris Chain and discoverer Sir
Alexander Fleming.

28. ROUND 3
Link the image to something/ someone in
medicine
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day.....
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 3

29. 1.

31. Eagle devouring the liver of
Prometheus- Liver regeneration/
Wrong anatomical site
The popular image of liver regeneration is the daily re-
growth of the liver of Prometheus, which was eaten
every day by an eagle sent by Zeus (Zeus was angry
at Prometheus for stealing the secret of fire, but did he
know that Prometheus’s liver would regenerate?). The
reality, although less dramatic, is still quite impressive.
There are several examples of artists breaking the laws
of science. The eagle is eating at the left side instead of
right.

32. 2.

34. Squint (divergent)
Michelangelo's David, the epitome of male beauty, has a
flaw. The
discovery was made during an exercise to produce a
digital version
of all Michelangelo's sculptures and buildings by scanning
them
with a laser. The full frontal image of David's face, which
cannot

35. 3.

37. The creator of Sherlock Holmes,
Arthur Conan Doyle was an
ophthalmologist.

38. 4.

40. Hippocampus
The term hippocampus (from Greek
hippokampos – sea horse, from hippos
horse + kampos sea monster) is derived
from the shape of a mythical half-horse
and half fish sea monster, and the
hippocampus resembles
this structure.

41. 5.

43. Mona Lisa syndrome
The facial muscle contracture which
develops after facial nerve palsy (Bell’s
palsy). Named after the Mona Lisa smile in
the well known portrait by Leonardo da
Vinci, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

44. 6.

47. Audience Question

48. Orphan Annie eye nucleus
Characteristic histological appearance in
the
papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Empty
or
ground glass appearance. Named after the
cartoon character.

49. ROUND 4
“I would wish all I love to perish of that gentle
disease.”
Metzengerstein, Edgar Allan Poe
Name the disease/ condition these
famous people died of/ suffered from

50. 1.

52. Lou Gehrig’s disease/ MND/ ALS
The eponym behind Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis suffered, Lou Gehrig was an
American baseball player who died at the
age of 37.

53. 2.

55. Deafness/ Tinnitus/ Meniere’s
disease
One of the greatest musician of all time, German
composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven
suffered from a progressive deterioration of his
hearing. Despite that he continued to work and
produced his best work during the time his
hearing problems were at their peak.

56. 3.

58. Tuberculosis
John Keats, one of the greatest of the second
generation of English Romantic poets whose best
works include ‘Ode to a Nightingale’and ‘Ode
on melancholy’, died in Rome in 1821 of
consumption. He probably contracted it while
nursing his nephew who succumbed to it. His
epitaph reads: ‘Here lies one whose name was
writ on water’.

59. 4.

61. Ventricular septal defect
Iconic actress and one of the most beautiful
women in Indian cinema, Mumtaz Jehan
(Madhubala), widely known for her role in K.
Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam had a congenital heart
defect. It was only detected when she was 21
years old. It had resulted in pulmonary
hypertension which eventually lead to her death
at the age of 37.

62. 5.

64. Small Pox
British surgeon, anatomist and the author of the
most famous book in all of medicine, Henry Gray
died of small pox he had contracted while
nursing his nephew, who survived. He was 34.

65. 6.

67. Pneumonia
The ‘Father of Modern Medicine’, Sir
William Osler, Bt. Died of pneumonia
during the Spanish influenza epidemic at
the of 70. A proponent of euthanasia, he
had interestingly coined the description of
pneumonia as “an old man’s friend” in the
third edition of his Textbook of Medicine.

68. Audience Question

69. Poliomyelitis
(Died in a car crash)
Arthur C. Guyton, legendary author of the
Textbook of Medical Physiology was stricken
with polio that left his right leg and shoulder
paralysed a year after his World War II stint,
while he was training at Massachusetts General
Hospital to be a surgeon.

70. Rapid Fire Round

71. Tie Breaker Round
Identify