FAQ 2016 Health Quiz Final by Partha Sarathi Ghatak (Partha abarki)

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

The Format
• Infinite Bounce 1
• Written Round with Theme
• Infinite Bounce 2
• Three Strike Pounce applies over the 2 I.F
rounds.

Question 1
• During the 1904 Olympic marathon race, the eventual winner
Thomas Hicks not only doped , but actually doped in public during
the race. His doctors fed him egg whites and brandy laced with
theextremly toxic substance X as a stimulant and then gave him
further shots of X when he seemed to be tiring.But back in 1904,
Hicks was actually lauded for going to any extent for the win. Infact ,
an Olympic committee official called Hick’s effort a grand union of
athleticism and medicine and hoped for more such chemicals to be
made available for athletes in future. Just give me X.

Question 2
• In Season 3 of the hit and critically acclaimed HBO
series “In Treatment”, which is about a Psychologist
and his weekly session with patients,X Played a 52 yr
old Bengali man who moves from Kolkata to Brooklyn
after the death of his wife and 3 of the episodes focus
on how he deals with his grief and the culture shock. Y
was roped in as writer for these episodes, marking Y’s
debut on television. Y also acted as a consultant on
how a Bengali man might perceive Brooklyn.
• Identify X and Y

Answer 2
• X –Irfan Khan
• Y –Jhumpa Lahiri

Question 3
• X , apart from its health related usage,has also entered
popular culture in the context of ____, and since cartoonish
depictions of _____ have become popular characters with
children, particularly after the success of a recent film
franchise, there have been concerns that the symbol might
have the effect of attracting the curiosity of small children
familiar with _____ as depicted as a toy or play theme. For
this reason, in the United States there has been a proposal to
replace X by the "Mr. Yuk" symbol. created by the Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh .
• Give me X.

Question 4
• The organisation insists that its original
symbol(A) has no religious connotations but is
derived from the national flag of its country of
origin(B). Similarly- the other related symbol
of this organization(C) has been derived from
the flag of an empire(D).
• Give me A B C and D.(no part marks if I get ac
complete answer)

Answer 4
• A –Red Cross
• B –Switzerland
• C – Red Crescent
• D – Flag of Ottoman empire

Question 5
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was commissioned to write The Sign of the
Four for the launch of the British Edition of an American publication
__________ 's Monthly Magazine, where it appeared in the Feb 1890
edition. This very popular magazine of the 19th century, published
by a Philadelphia publishing house,ceased to exist in 1916 but the
__________ is a very familiar name in academic circles – and is
particularly familiar to medical students – several very popular
medical books still bear the name.FITB

Question 6
• The first known description of this condition was
given by Hippocrates in the 5th century
BCE.However,the name by which we know it is a
neologism coined by Rene Laennec in 1819 from
the Greek for "yellowish, tawny" (referring to the
orange-yellow colour of the diseased organ). On a
lighter note – PG Wodehouse called it a disease
to be proud of, because if you died of it, at least
people knew you had money because you need
to spend money to develop this disease.

Question 7
• X is a Hawaiian word which originally meant an expert in any
profession but later on came to be specifically used for a
traditional healers, medicinal priests,sorcerers,an expert in
diagnosing diseases , people who can cure diseases with help of
spirits etc.
• X can be divided into 10 types – a person who masters all the
types is called a big/great X.
• The missionaries came to Hawaii in 1820 and made X practices
illegal for over a century but with the revival of the Hawaiian
culture beginning in the 1970s, many X practitioners can be found
in Hawaii today.
• Identify X

Question 8
• He describes himself as an empty cylinder of cooking
gas, so he wonders how can an empty cylinder fire up
the gas burner and seems resigned to the fact that
there will be no honeymoon for him. He is then given
a medicine (which he later mentions to be that for
_____ ____ ) .The medicine ,according to him , is
playing a Holi of fire and creating a storm within his
body. Then finally –the medicine for _____ ____ helps
him to do what he wanted( a rather unfortunate act).
FITB

Question 9
• The Balmis Expedition (1803–1806) was a three-year
mission to the Americas led by Dr. Francisco Javier de
Balmis. The expedition sailed on Maria Pita and carried
22 orphan boys (eight to ten years old) as the mainstay
of the mission.
• The person whose work they utilized wrote - "I don’t
imagine the annals of history furnish an example of
philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this."
• Considered the first international health mission, what
was the specific purpose of the mission and what role
did the orphan boys play in it?

Answer 9
• Small Pox vaccination/ the boys acted as
successive careers of the disease.

Question 10
• This phenomenon is called Presque Vu (meaning –almost seen)
and is commonly referred to by the term ___ _ ___ _____ .The first
empirical research on this phenomenon was published in 1966 in
the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.
• There are two major competing explanations for its occurrence .
The direct-access view posits that the state occurs when memory
strength is not enough to recall, but is strong enough to trigger a
recall. The inferential view claims that this phenomenon isn’t
completely based on inaccessible, yet activated targets; rather
they arise when the rememberer tries to piece together different
clues about the memory. FITB

Answer 10
• Tip of the Tongue

Question 11
• These miniature paintings were created by a
scientist as a member of the Chelsea Arts club
using some of the techniques and things which
would later make him famous. Who was the
scientist and on what specific canvas did he use for
these paintings?

Answer 11
• Alexander Fleming’s Germ art. He did these
artwork on petri dishes using bacterial
colonies which release pigments of different
colours.

Question 12
• Subsequent adaptations and improvisations of the original
source have played up X’s role as a professional expert on a
particular type of entity to the extent of making it his primary
occupation, but according to the original source this doctor
from Holland’s primary expertise is that he “knows as much
about obscure diseases as any one in the world".
• He is further described thus – “ He is a philosopher and a
metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his
day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.”
• Who am I talking about?

Answer 12
• Dr Van Helsing from the novel Dracula.

Question 13
• Where specifically is snoring treated with a mixture
of cow dung and wood apple being rubbed on the
head followed by spinning the person 21 times and
hanging him for 21 hours ? In this place – you are
also liable to be beaten up if you sneeze without
permission before 6 pm and you have to pay a fine
of Rs 4 if your tooth wobbles?

Answer 13
• Shis Thakurer Apon Deshe

Question 14Francis Galton was a multifaceted personality from the 19th century
who made lasting contributions to several spheres of science and
mathematics- including several health related fields – isuch as using
statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance
of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys
for collecting data on human communities for anthropometric
studies. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the
phrase "nature versus nurture.”
• He was inspired to do all this by a book published by his cousin –
which transformed his life. Galton devoted much of the rest of his
life to exploring variation in human populations and its
implications, and other hypotheses put forward in the book.
• So who was his famous cousin?

Question 15
• Seeing XY said to be the earliest and most common
hallucination following intake of hallucinogenic
drugs and also in many cases of alcoholic
hallucinosis or delirium tremens. It is rare though
not impossible for the XY to actually exist in nature
– as a variety of albino X could be Y as well as white.
• The association between XY and alcohol is has
resulted in many cocktails being named XY.

Question 16
• X was one of the more successful female artistes of the 1970s
– and gained recognition and commercial success both as a
vocalist and a drummer. However she was a long term
sufferer from Y and ultimately died from complications of the
disease in 1983 at the young age of 32.
• Public awareness of Y was transformed by X ’s death. Her
young age (32) coupled with her fame as an entertainer
captured public attention and received extensive media
coverage. It prompted other celebrities, such as Jane Fonda
and Lynn Redgrave, to come forward and share their
struggles with Y. Give me X and Y(4 +6)

Answer 16
• Karen Carpenter
• Anorexia Nervosa

Written Round
• 5 Questions connected by a theme
• 5 points per question .Bonus 5 for a full house.
• Plus 15 for getting the theme in the first 2
questions.
• Plus 10 for getting it in the next 2
• Plus 5 for getting it in the last question.
• Negatives are at a universal 10.

Question 1 15,-10
• X was a Calcutta Stockbroker ,who,with his brother,
Ram Coowar _____, started the business empire in
the late 19th century , which after division into 5
groups in 1991 among the grandsons of the two
brothers – have assets worth many billions of dollars.
Group companies include Shree Cement,LMB group
etc with interests varying from construction to tea
estates to film production etc.

Question 2 15,-10
• Identify the music director.

Question 3 10,-5
• He was the first person to become an agent of
the Indian railways in the 1930s and donated
money and land to the Indian Railways for
something.

Question 4 10,-5
• This doyen of the Marwari community was also a
great philanthropist and was given the title of Rai
Bahadur by the British government.
• In the 1930s, he held a large stock share in the
Madan Theatre Company, and greatly influenced
the running of it. It is said he was largely
instrumental in bringing Allah Wasai from Kasur
near Lahore to Kolkata,naming her Noor Jehan
and kick starting her career.

Question 5 5, -2.5
• He was one of the leading personalities of his
age and was the first Indian judge of the
Calcutta High Court.
• He was also an influential member of the
Brahmo samaj –the Bhowanipur Brahmo
Samaj was formed at his residence

Answers
• M R Bangur
• Tapan Sinha
• B R Singh
• Seth Sukhlal Karnani
• Sambhunath Pandit

Theme
• All have hospitals named after them in
Kolkata.

Question 17
X’s Debut novel was “The year of the intern” – a commercial
failure. Then X started doing research on what are the
ingredients of a best seller and decided mystery thrillers were
the safest bet.So he wrote his second novel Y in 1977 –an
instant best seller which launched his career in the genre.
X and Z were friends. They met when Z was doing post-doctoral
work in biology at La Jolla's Salk Institute and X was a Navy
physician stationed at San Diego. Z decided to direct a movie
based on Y. Z described the film as a "Western... if the doctors
are the bad guys they are also the good guys.” Y is unusual in
having a female protagonist in a thriller. Give me X Y and Z
(3+3+4)

Answer 17
• X –Robin Cook
• Y- Coma
• Z – Michael Crichton

Question 18
• This 19th century American physician from Maryland
(Samuel ____ 1833-1883) ran a successful practice in
Bryantown . Then he got involved in a crime and was
convicted of sheltering the killer involved in the crime,
treating his fractured fibula and not informing the authorities
about his whereabouts. He was given life imprisonment. His
spectacular fall from grace from a well-known doctor to a
murder co-accused led to the popular notion that the saying
____ ____ ____ _____ originated from his story and many
dictionaries list this theory. However some sources claim that
the saying was in use from before his birth.

Answer 18
• Samuel Mudd
• Your/His name is Mudd.

Question 19
• Which word for a soft moist medicated mass, that is
traditionally spread on cloth over the skin to treat
an aching, inflamed, or painful part of the body
comes from the Latin for “porridge”, perhaps due to
similarity in form or appearance ?

Question 20
• Diaphragmatic flutter is a condition which presents
with focal abnormal involuntary writhing
movements of the abdominal wall . The
movements, as seen in the video have been given
the colourful but very appropriate name _____
_____ dyskinesia or ____ ____ syndrome.

Answer 20
• Belly Dancer Syndrome

Question 21
• On 24 August 1902 Edward VII came down with appendicitis two
days before his scheduled coronation. Like all internal surgery at
the time, the appendectomy needed by the King still posed an
extremely high risk of death by post-operational infection, and
surgeons did not dare operate without consulting Britain's leading
surgical authority X. X was at that time old frail and retired. But X
came out of retirement to advise and supervise the operation and
looked after the antisepsis himself and the King survived. He
honoured X soon after his coronation .During the felicitation he
told X, "I know that if it had not been for you and your work, I
wouldn't be sitting here today.” Identify this giant of surgery X.

Question 22
• Dr Duncan McDougall used six patients dying from TB in an
old age home to prove his hypothesis in 1907.He later used
fifteen dogs and the “uniformly negative” results from them
to further prove a tenet of his hypothesis.
• His theories have since been debunked and discredited by the
argument – “at the time of death there is a sudden rise in
body temperature due to the lungs no longer cooling the
blood, and the subsequent rise in sweating could easily
account for MacDougall’s positive results. Clarke also pointed
out that dogs do not have sweat glands and hence the
negative results in their case.
• What was his hypothesis?

Answer 22
• That Souls have weight .He calculated that
they weighed 21 grams.

Question 23
• Connect
• The first known infective disease with whose
causative organism was known
• A psychological term denoting a declining
interest in a monogamous relationship over
time
• What can be reasonably called the world’s
most famous subway grate.

Answer 23
• The Seven Year Itch

Question 24
• What happens next is an unqualified medical
marvel. So what happens next?

Question 25
This 18th century French physician was the doctor to the
younger brother of Louis XVI (later Charles X ). He was in great
demand as a court doctor .He was also an amateur scientist who
was the first to question Newton. However he soon left his
medical practice to dive headlong into what we primarily know
him for. But he had to retire after a few years as he developed a
debilitating skin condition which covered his body with painful
itchy blisters and the only way to get some relief was
continuous immersion in a medicinal bath –where he spent
most of the last three years of his life.
Which by turn revered and reviled physician are we talking
about?

Question 26
• Late 19th century ad for a
popular cure for several
respiratory diseases Give
me the blanked out word
which describes the form of
the medicine.

Question 27
Peter ______ is the second son of famous Cincinnati doctor
Henry Judah ______ . For the past several years, Peter has been
involved in exposing what he calls his father's "wide-ranging,
unseen 50-year history of fraud". According to him, not only is
his father’s most famous claim to fame not really developed by
him but learnt from a colleague Edward Patrick, who wasn’t
given any credit, it is also based on unconfirmed and often
fudged test reports. It is particularly useless in instances of
drowning and may have also resulted in some deaths of
drowning victims. Following his efforts, the American Heart
Association has removed the name of his father from their
guidelines. Give me his famous surname.

Question 28
• Which important subcontinental novel was a look at
the partition of India through the eyes of a polio
affected child and was semi-autobiographical in nature
as the author was also affected with polio as a 9 year
old during the same time period and has struggled with
the disease ever since?
• The novel was first published in 1988 under the title X
and was then re-released in 1991 under a new title Y.
Give me either X or Y.

Answer 28
• Ice candy Man/Cracking India.

Question 29
• Though we only know the initial of his middle
name for sure, authorities in linguistics have
speculated from the fact that his wife once called
him “James” - that Mary may be referring to his
middle name which would seem to be Hamish
(an Anglicisation of 'Sheumais', the vocative form
of 'Seumas', the Scottish Gaelic for James). Who
are we talking about?

Answer 29
• Dr John H Watson

Question 30
• The X syndrome has been described since 1973 and
the Y syndrome has been described since 1996.
Give me X and Y and tell me what they are about?
• (no part marks if I get a complete answer)
• Visuals Next Slide.

Answer 30
• X –Stockholm Syndrome –hostages develops sympathy for
captors.named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of
Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Y – Captors develop sympathy for hostages -Lima Syndrome
was named after an abduction at the Japanese Embassy in
Lima, Peru, in 1996, when members of a militant movement
took hostage hundreds of people attending a party at the
official residence of Japan's ambassador. Within a few hours,
the abductors had set free most of the hostages, including
the most valuable ones, owing to having sympathy towards
them.

Question 31
X is a 2007 novel by Lisa Genova about a 50-year-old woman,
____ Howland ,who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease.The
novel is unique in terms of narration as it is written from the
perspective of Howland , for as long as she can tell it, and sees
the world from the perspective of a patient of progressive
Alzeimer’s. The thoughts of other characters are not stated. The
novel became a best-seller,spending more than 40 weeks on The
New York Times best seller list and has been made into a Oscar
winning movie. X please.

Question 32
• This diet was propagated by the Reverend Sylvester Graham
(1794–1851), advocating a diet without meat—especially
pork. It is a vegan diet consisting of only food that was
supposedly available to Y and Z in the X. Fruits, vegetables,
nuts, seeds and legumes make up the bulk of this diet, and
since cooking preparations were also very limited during the
time which inspired this diet, most of the food is eaten raw.
Prayer , self-reflection and repentance for sins are an essential
part of this lifestyle.
• (X is a specific location and Y and Z are people)

Answer 32
• Edenic Diet. X – Garden of eden ,Y and Z –
Adam and eve

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