Pre-Clinical Quiz

The Contributors/ Guinea Pigs

Obhrodip Dutt/Abhrodeep Dottoh Nilyadhri Bhowmick

Sreyashi Dishwash

FinalsFlat +10 for all questions direct or pass.Infinite bounce (I’ll explain)Eight on bounce followed by a written round followed by eight on bounce ,another written round and eight on bounce.

1.The guy saw these islands of different cells in a sea of tissue. What did he call it and what it produces as a result?

Islets of LangerhansInsulin

Insula=Island

2.Earliest known depiction of which disease?

Polio

3. Just Id. X's obituary states "unlike most major textbooks, which often have as many as 10-20 authors", the first eight editions "were written entirely by X with a new edition always arriving on schedule for nearly 40 years. This feat is unprecedented for any medical text. His textbook is unique in the history of medical publishing“

X initially intended to be a cardiovascular surgeon but was partially paralysed after being infected with polio. Suffering paralysis in his right leg, left arm, and both shoulders, he spent nine months in Warm Springs, Georgia, recuperating and applying his inventive mind to building the first motorized wheelchair controlled by a “joy stick”, a motorized hoist for lifting patients, special leg braces, and other devices to aid the handicapped

It is very unlikely that a repairman ever crossed his doorstep, except perhaps for a social visit. He and his children not only built their home, but also repaired each and every malfunctioning appliance and home device no matter the difficulty or the physical challenge.

Arthur Guyton

4. Possible inspiration for the god part?

The Human Brain

5.Just id X. Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson made this for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance.

Dickson passed the idea on to his employer, which went on to produce and market the product as the X.

The rest ,they say, is history.

6.Two sculpture by Julian Voss Andraea. Just identify the protein. Hints if required.

Collagen

7. This man here is conducting an experiment that yielded 20 different types of something. Who is he or what was the experiment?

The man is Harold Urey.

8.Slightly lateral. Connect.

FIRST WRITTEN ROUND-DISNEY

9. The Last Man is a award winning comic book series in which all male mammals including all embryos and sperm have been destroyed except for one man and his monkey. What is the cause of this destruction or what is lost to all mammals as a result of this?

The Y Chromosome.

10.Whose caricature?

11. The X Medal, established in 1877 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW) is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade. From 2015 the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM) is awarding the X Medal.

12. The brand was launched in 1929 in Kolkata by Gourmohan Dutta, a Bengali merchant. Over the years, the brand's popularity soared, and it became an icon of national economic self-sufficiency in a nation that was still under the British rule. It is still one of the most popular brands in India.

Which brand now manufactured by GD Pharmaceuticals?

13. Which mythical creature?

HINT.

Sphinx

14.Two Indian American publications have won the Pulitzer Prize for literature with the word ‘Maladies’ in the title. Name both. No part points.

15. International symbol of which medical allied profession?

Pharmacist

16. So exactly what do you do in Movember?

Movember (a portmanteau of, "mo",and "November") is an annual event involving Y during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as depression in men, prostate cancer and other male cancers, and associated charities. The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at Movember. com.The goal of Movember is to "change the face of men's health.

By encouraging men (whom the charity refers to as "Mo Bros") to get involved, Movember aims to increase early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, and ultimately reduce the number of preventable deaths. Besides annual check-ups, the Movember Foundation encourages men to be aware of family history of cancer and to adopt a healthier lifestyle

Grow a Moustache

SECOND WRITTEN ROUND-ANATOMY

17.Which medical speciality gets it’s name from the Latin for “straight” and “Child”?

Orthopedics

18. What is ‘it’?It has four major varieties The first translates to “Sickle bearer” signifying death as people having this died very often.The second translates to “Life” as people having this lived.

The third is a shapeThe fourth is simply the name of the disease ‘it’ causes.

Falci from falx meaning sickle Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium vivax

Plasmodium ovale

Plasmodium malariae

19. A party from early 90s Italy which gave its name to dictatorial regime/policies. Same root. And the part labelled. Both. No part points.

Fascist and Fascia

20. This is Dilip Mahalanabis. What did he invent?

The Indian scientist that saved the world: Out of a devastating war came the 'solution' that revolutionised the treatment of international diseases- Headline carried by The Daily mail ,UK.

Leave alone the whole world, even the people in his locality, who must have a packet of X in their houses quite like every other Indian, are not aware that the X is the brainchild of the soft-spoken man who lives next door. And to the rickshaw pullers, he is just daktar babu (doctor).

For almost past two decades (since his retirement in 1995 from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), a two-storey CF-198 building located on Kolkata's posh eastern fringes of Salt Lake, has been the home for this octogenarian Indian biologist .

21.Just connect.

Doctors and writers

22. Stills from the movie “The Normal Heart”. What cancer are they suffering from?

Kaposi’s sarcoma due to HIV.

23. The name of this neck structure comes from the Greek for ‘drowsiness’, because compression of these was thought to cause stupor. Just id.

Carotid

24.What did they discover? This is us with Robin Warren. Yes that is a Nobel prize.(sorry for the poor resolution).

He and his friend,Barry Marshall, swallowed a culture containing a certain microbacterium to prove that it causes a kind of cancer. This led to the Nobel prize.

Helicobacter pylori