AEGIS Medical Trivia Quiz 2016 Prelims

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The AEGIS MedQuizPRELIMINARY ROUNDANSWERSAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

This set of pictures depicts the word-origins of a group of anatomical structures in the human body. Which group is it?

AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

Carpal bones

(scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate)


2. This substance, X, was used in the late 19th century as a treatment for a variety of conditions such as toothache, dandruff, fatigue and even as an anaesthetic during eye surgeries apart from being popular as a former ingredient in Coca-Cola. Xs name is blackened in the following pictures. What commonly known substance are we talking about?



CocaineAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

3. Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has been temporarily banned for consuming which drug, for a period of about 10 years?


Meldonium / MildronateAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

4. During a 1973 bank robbery in Sweden, several of its employees were held hostage while their captors negotiated with the police. Strangely, during this impasse, the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, rejected help from government officials and even defended their captors after they were freed six days later.According to the FBI, this psychological phenomenon is seen in about 8% of hostage victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. What is the name of this condition, jokingly referred to by Dr Foreman in House MD as something the trio might be having?


Stockholm syndromeAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

5. In June 2016, Google changed their logo to this, for a day. Who was it in honour of?


Karl Landsteiner


6. The term zeugmatography was coined by Lauterbur in 1972 for the joining of a magnetic field and spatially defined radiofrequency field gradients to generate a two-dimensional display of proton density and relaxation times in tissues. How do we better know this term now?


MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

7. Which biological tendency do these three fictional characters depict?


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Atavism

Nightcrawler tail Chandler Bing of Friends supernumerary nippleCount Dracula large canines; may also refer to primitive behaviorAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

8. The movie Gifted Hands: The _________ Story is based on the life story of which neurosurgeon, who was also a candidate in the 2016 US presidential elections?


Ben Carson


9. In the naming of the precordial leads of an ECG, what does the V stand for?


Voltage


10. The first description of this disease has been recorded as thus:On April the 5th, 1750, I went to see a most deplorable object of a child The skin was dry and hard and seemed to be cracked in many places, somewhat resembling the scales of a fish. The mouth was large and round and open. It had no external nose, but two holes where the nose should have been. The eyes appeared to be lumps of coagulated blood, turned out, ghastly to behold.

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It had no external ears, but holes where the ears should be. The back part of the head was much openThe first documented case of this disease in India was reported in June 2016. Which disease is being talked about?


Harlequin ichthyosis


11. Which subject in MBBS gives its name to that of this 2008 movie, whose poster is shown here?



Pathology


12. The ________ sign is a reflex movement which occurs in brain dead patients, which causes them to briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests. A syndrome, by the same name, refers to auto-resuscitation after a failed attempt at CPR. They are named after a Biblical figure whom Jesus is said to have raised from the dead. What sign and syndrome are we talking about?


Lazarus sign/syndromeAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

13. What is the full form of F-A-S-T in this song, used as a mnemonic to quickly remember how to identify and respond to someone having a stroke?



FaceArmSpeechTimeAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

14. In 1993, Oprah Winfrey interviewed Michael Jackson, watched by over 62 million people.MJ says, Number one, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching, I have never seen it, I don't know what it is. It was in this interview that Jackson stated he had a skin disorder and also that it was hereditary, rather than something he caused. Its something that I cannot help, explained Jackson, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am it hurts me. It's a problem for me that I can't control, (continued)AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

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but what about all the millions of people who sit out in the sun, to become darker, to become other than what they are, no one says nothing about that.This interview started a public discourse on the topic of _______, a relatively unknown condition before then. What skin condition, derived from the Latin word for veal, did MJ suffer from?


Vitiligo


15. Jeevan Bindi, or life-saving dot, is an idea put forward by a philanthropic agency that seeks to help women across rural India to get their daily required dose of ______. Fill in the blank.


IodineAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

AUDIENCE QUESTION 1What sign, typically seen in patients with certain diseases of the proximal muscles, is shown in this video?


Gowers sign, seen in Duchenne muscular dystrophyAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

16. _______ has long been observed as a contagious reflex. Various studies have hypothesized that _______ may be a sign of empathy, or the bodys way of controlling its own temperature, or a survival instinct inherited from our evolutionary past as a result of which the group becomes more vigilant and alert to danger. What are we talking about?


Yawning


17. According to a widely accepted theory, the English name of which human body part is derived from the Latin word meaning a witness?The same body part also gives its name, in another language, to that of this fruit!


TestisAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

18. The term Genovese syndrome comes from the case of Kitty Genovese who was raped and murdered on Friday the 13th, of March, 1964. This case stimulated research into a certain psychological phenomenon. The significance of this case as an example of this syndrome was blown out of proportion by initial newspaper reports, thus it has become more parable than fact.This syndrome is commonly known as ______ _____, a phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to a victim when others are present nearby. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. What is it called?


The bystander effectAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

19. In 1905, the British Medical Journal held the view that by using the _______________, we pauperise our senses and weaken clinical acuity. Incidentally, in the same year, a Russian physician described a series of sounds related to the same clinical method, which is now taught to medical students all over the world. Fill in the blank and name the physician who was far ahead of his time.


Sphygmomanometer; Korotkoff sounds


20. Which peculiar condition, as you might be able to see, do these famous celebrities have?


Heterochromia iridis

(Mila Kunis and Benedict Cumberbatch)AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

21. In 2014, cardiologists in Texas identified a new symptom to look for in patients with severe heart failure. They define this as shortness of breath when bending forward.It has a strong association with a raised JVP; so if you cant see the pesky JVP, just get the patient to tie up their shoes (the mean time for shortness of breath being 8 seconds). This rather crude term was coined thus to be easily identifiable among patients and physicians. What are we talking about?


BendopneaAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

22. A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found out that a certain structure in the brains of London taxi drivers is more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens. Which structure is this?


Hippocampus


23. This radiological sign is seen in passive hepatic congestion following congestive heart failure, caused by the dilatation of the inferior vena cava and the hepatic veins. What sign are we talking about, named after a popular magazine?


Playboy bunny sign


24. When an American doctor chides you for diagnosing a zebra, what does he really mean?


Exotic / rare diagnosis


The counter-argument also holds trueAEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

25. Which chemical, now used as a standard medication in psychiatry, was once an ingredient of the famous soft drink 7-Up?


Lithium


26. In May 2016, a South Korean convenience store chain Withme FS created the Gyeondyo-bar, a grapefruit-flavored ice cream bar with a small amount of oriental raisin tree fruit juice. This raisin juice has been considered a treatment for a condition since the 1600s.John Nashs friend in the movie A Beautiful Mind describes this condition as, Having a _______ is like not having enough water in your body to run your Krebs cycle. Veisalgia, the medical term for this condition is better known as _______?


Hangover


27. In an ophthalmologists prescription, what do these letters O.D. and O.S. stand for?


Oculus dexter (right eye)Oculus sinister (left eye)AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

28. This disease, characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels, was named after X. Following reports of Xs former association with Nazism, a campaign was launched to rename the disease. In 2011, three leading medical associations finally agreed to rename the disease as a response to the campaign. Which disease is being talked about?AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis, formerly known as Wegeners granulomatosis


29. Dr. William Halsted writes:In the winter of 1889 and 1890I cannot recall the monththe nurse in charge of my operating-room complained that the solutions of mercuric chloride produced a dermatitis of her arms and hands. As she was an unusually efficient woman, I gave the matter my consideration and one day in New York requested the Goodyear Company to make as an experiment two pairs of thin _______. On trial these proved to be so satisfactory that additional ______

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were ordered. In the autumn, on my return to town, an assistant who passed the instruments and threaded the needles was also provided with ______ to wear at the operations. At first the operator wore them only when exploratory incisions into joints were made. After a time the assistants became so accustomed to working in ______ that they also wore them as operators..This has been called the most famous paragraph ever printed in medical literature, not only for its

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description of the introduction of ______, but also because it represents the beginning of a love affair being recorded in medical literature. Halsted later married the nurse, Caroline.Although the importance of these was realized later, these ______ of Love soon entered surgical practice and proved to be of the greatest importance for the development of aseptic surgical work.What are we talking about?


Rubber gloves


30. The British and American Heart Associations have recommended that the beats of this song may be used as an aid to learn and perform a life-saving procedure. Which particular method of the procedure is it?


Hands-only CPR

Note (in reference to the following video) : To call an ambulance in Hyderabad, dial 1-0-8 instead of 9-9-9!AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

See you in the final round!AEGIS MedQuiz | Saurav Biswas & VM Rajamani | Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad

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