GENERAL QUIZ FINALTHEMED AROUND USA,SPORTS,HEALTH,NON-FICTION

ROUNDS 1.PHOTO-MEMORY

2.CLOCKWISE DRY (15 QUESTIONS)

3.WHAT’S IN A NAME

4.ANTI-CLOCKWISE DRY (15 QUESTIONS)

5.LITERALLY

6.SLOG OVER (10 QUESTIONS)

PHOTO-MEMORYROUND 1

RULES● 5 questions relating to five famous

photographs that are related to USA

● 5 points per correct answer

● An extra 5 points for getting all 5 correct

1 THE PEOPLE BEING SHOWN IN THIS ALEXANDER GARDNER PHOTO HAVE

BEEN EXECUTED FOR COMMITTING WHAT CRIME?

2● George Trager was the first photographer on

the scene after the said incident took place, taking photos of the numerous dead participants. He and his partner Fred Kuhn would take a series of portraits of one of the protagonists of the said incident at their Nebraska studio.

What incident is being talked about that refers to the name of a hill in South Dakota?

3 "It only worked for Dr. Kogbetliantz because he could never find anyone to play with him. He had a very astute mind mathematically. He looked at these strobe units as I kept drawing them closer to his ears, and he finally came up with a mathematical computation. He announced as I made the last adjustments, 'If you bring those lights any closer than they are now, you’re going to blow my brains out.’”

Yale Joel is here talking about a photograph he took. What was Dr. Kogbetliantz trying to play?

4WHERE ARE THEY BREAKING INTO?

5WHICH GROUP OF PEOPLE IS BEING SHOWN IN NEW ORLEANS IN 2005?

ANSWERS……….

1 THE PEOPLE BEING SHOWN IN THIS ALEXANDER GARDNER PHOTO HAVE BEEN

EXECUTED FOR COMMITTING WHAT CRIME?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN MURDER CONSPIRATORS

2● George Trager was the first photographer on

the scene after the said incident took place, taking photos of the numerous dead participants. He and his partner Fred Kuhn would take a series of portraits of one of the protagonists of the said incident at their Nebraska studio.

What incident is being talked about that refers to the name of a hill in South Dakota?

WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE

3 "It only worked for Dr. Kogbetliantz because he could never find anyone to play with him. He had a very astute mind mathematically. He looked at these strobe units as I kept drawing them closer to his ears, and he finally came up with a mathematical computation. He announced as I made the last adjustments, 'If you bring those lights any closer than they are now, you’re going to blow my brains out.’”

Yale Joel is here talking about a photograph he took. What was Dr. Kogbetliantz trying to play?

4WHERE ARE THEY BREAKING INTO?

US EMBASSY IN TEHRAN

5WHICH GROUP OF PEOPLE IS BEING SHOWN IN NEW ORLEANS IN 2005?

PRISON INMATES

CLOCKWISE DRYROUND 2

RULES 15 QUESTIONS

INFINITE BOUNCE WITH INFINITE POUNCE

+10/-10 ON POUNCE AND +10 ON BOUNCE

QM’S DECISION IS FINAL AND BOUNDING

UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCOREBOARD

1 The second smallest capital in USA would surprisingly defeat more high profile places in an online poll to determine the top spot in the American version of Monopoly that got updated last year. Just name the city which has less than 15,000 inhabitants.

PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA

2 John Steinbeck wrote a travelogue about his trip across USA named “Travels with Charley”. There was a literary reference and perhaps a self dig at himself when he would name his accompanying trailer house Rocinante.Where would have one come across Rocinante previously, in a piece of literature that would talk about an outlandish character’s travails?

ROCINANTE WAS DON QUIXOTE’S HORSE.

3 Bill Bryson’s “Made in America” talks about how ,in 1930 , 40 Wall Street competed with the Chrysler building to be the world’s tallest building.What did the architect of the Chrysler building design to ensure that the Chrysler building got the better of its competitor?Who currently owns 40 Wall Street?

HE ADDED A 123 FEET SPIRE

DONALD TRUMP

4 X spent the first five decades of his life in India before moving to the states for the rest of his life. He taught philosophy at the University of Texas for roughly fifteen years. X would die in Austin in 2006.An archive of his writings(both literary and otherwise) has recently been acquired by the University. Identify X.

RAJA RAO

5 De La Soul ,the hip-hop group’s latest album, “And The Anonymous Nobody”, features a track called ‘Unfold’ where the group rap using dialect from the frontier days of USA. In the track Dave Jolicoeur takes on the persona of Tumbleweed Baker. A girl in the song calls him TB which he does not like as it implies that he is a ______.Fill in the blanks to get the another colloquial synonym of tuberculosis.

LUNGER

6 This person was criticized for ‘ambushing’ the then president of the organization whose policies he had attacked furiously throughout the rest of the film. This would not be the first or last time that the filmmaker would use this invasive technique of getting his message across. Identify him ,the erstwhile president and the organization which enjoys a lot of support and heavy criticism simultaneously.

MICHAEL MOORECHARLTON HESTONNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION

7 In “Sex at the Movies” Alexander Walker would look at the evolution of the sex siren on American screens. One of the earliest on screen vamps was one Thedosia Goodman. Her screen name would be an anagram of ‘death Arab'; it is generally believed that the name was created for ‘ these sinisterly emotive associations’.

What was Thedosia Goodman’s screen name?

THEDA BARA

8According to Oscar Wilde what happens to good Americans when they die and what happens to bad Americans when they pass away?

“WHEN GOOD AMERICANS DIE, THEY GO TO PARIS." "WHERE DO BAD AMERICANS GO?" "THEY STAY IN AMERICA”

9Which book subtitled “Cricket and the National Malaise” would begin by referring to a quote of a self made snob and cricket sage, ‘Where the English language is unspoken there is no real cricket, which is to say that the Americans have never excelled at the game.’Also identify the snob.

ANYONE BUT ENGLAND BY MIKE MARQUSEE,NEVILLE CARDUS

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10 In the previous slide you saw a picture of a best-selling author and a painter. The author wrote a non fiction book(which was rare for him) about the artist. The artist got his name (and the recurrent theme of his works)from the person who had saved the fallen flag of the Americans at Fort Moultrie in the American Revolutionary War.

Identify the artist as well as the author.

JASPER JOHNS,MICHAEL CRICHTON

MICHAEL CRICHTON WAS A NOTED ART COLLECTOR. THE NEXT FIVE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON HIS COLLECTION WHICH GOT AUCTIONED AFTER HIS DEATH.

11WHOSE ARTWORK IS THIS?

ANDY WARHOL

12NAME THIS MARK TANSEY PAINTING WHICH IS THE FORM OF X/Y(ASSOCIATED WORDS LIKE OPEN/CLOSE).

PUSH/PULL

13_______ BOARD OF TRADE(ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST FUTURES AND OPTIONS EXCHANGES) BY ANDREAS GURSKY. FITB.

CHICAGO

14________ MIX. FITB. I AM LOOKING FOR THE NAME OF A SWEET DISH MADE FROM WHIPPED EGG WHITES AND SUGAR.

MERINGUE

15BY WHOM?

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

WHAT’S IN A NAMEROUND 3

RULES 5 questions about people and non fiction books who share their name with

something related to films and music. 5 points per correct answer An extra 5 points for getting all 5 right.

1 THE PERSON ON THE LEFT WAS NAMED AFTER

THE SURNAME OF THE PERSON ON THE RIGHT.ID BOTH.

2THE NAME OF THIS BOOK INCIDENTALLY SHARES ITS NAME WITH A PHRASE USED MEMORABLY IN

THE FILM.

3 Two competing American figure skaters in the 1990s were named after

two mass culture commodities-one after a Beatles song and the other after the plantation in Gone with the Wind. Name both.Part points can be gotten for getting their first names. Full points will be given only on getting the complete names.

4ID THE NAME OF THE BOOK

The book shares its name with an American film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The first word in the title would remind one of the first name of a current Argentine male footballer.

5 The critic Mayank Shekhar’s recent book on Indian popular culture is a four

word title named after a traditional Indian childhood game involving numerous classifications.Just identify the name of the book.

ANSWERS……

1 THE PERSON ON THE LEFT WAS NAMED AFTER

THE SURNAME OF THE PERSON ON THE RIGHT.ID BOTH.

SHAKUR STEVENSON; TUPAC SHAKUR

2THE NAME OF THIS BOOK INCIDENTALLY SHARES ITS NAME WITH A PHRASE USED MEMORABLY IN

THE FILM.

KING OF THE WORLD

3 Two competing American figure skaters in the 1990s were named after two

mass culture commodities-one after a Beatles song and the other after the plantation in Gone with the Wind. Name both.Part points can be gotten for getting their first names. Full points will be given only on getting the complete names.

MICHELLE KWAN, TARA LIPINSKI

4ID THE NAME OF THE BOOK

The book shares its name with an American film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The first word in the title would remind one of the first name of a current Argentine male footballer.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES

5 The critic Mayank Shekhar’s recent book on Indian popular culture is a four

word title named after a traditional Indian childhood game involving numerous classifications.Just identify the name of the book.

NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING

ANTI-CLOCKWISE DRYROUND 4

RULES 15 QUESTIONS

INFINITE BOUNCE WITH INFINITE POUNCE

+10/-10 ON POUNCE AND +10 ON BOUNCE

QM’S DECISION IS FINAL AND BOUNDING

UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCOREBOARD

1“I'm dreaming dreams,I'm scheming schemes,I'm building castles high.They're born anew,Their days are few,Just like a sweet butterfly.And as the daylight is dawning,They come again in the morning.”

This is the first verse of a popular American Jazz number, which debuted in 1918 ,whose album cover features in the next slide.

The sporting connection has been in popular consciousness in the recent past due to a change.

What is the title of the song ?

I AM FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES

2 This gentleman was supposed to play Ronald Reagan in a comedy

directed by Mike Rosolio. But only a couple of days into this announcement, Reagan’s son tweeted, “________________ is not a joke”, following which this veteran actor pulled out of the project.

Identify the actor and what was the controversy all about ?

ALZHEIMER’S , WILL FERRELL

3 Founded in 1754, this entity has been the citadel of conservatism over the

years. The lady in the image was one of its first female members. Which two common adjectives, much in sync with its 262 year old

heritage and the patronage received by it since 1834, has been used to name it ?

ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB (ST. ANDREWS)

4 In October 2010,The USA apologised in a joint statement by the secretary

of state, Hillary Clinton, and the health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, in which they described the procedure as "clearly unethical". The picture is of Marta Orellana, who was a victim of the inhuman episode when she was nine. “They never gave me a chance to say no” was how she put it in front of the press.

What was the apology for and what prompted the USA to undertake this mission in the first place ?

GUATEMALA SYPHILIS EXPERIMENTS

5 The following image can be made exhaustive in a certain way by addition

of another two personalities. Who are the missing links in this list, one of whom is thought to have

shared a family tie with someone in the image ?

HANUMAN, JAMBUVAN (STYLES IN MALLAYUDDHA)

6 Fill in the two blanks with common nouns beginning with the same letter. What does this organisation deal with ?

CHOICE, CHANCE, CONTRACEPTION PRACTICE AROUND THE WORLD

7 The following cartoon, titled “Willing substitutes” appeared in the “Punch”

magazine during the second World War and has a satirical take on the roles of Sir Oswald Mosley and X(on the left), appealing to Y to induct them into the opposition if they find a player short in their football match against England at Highbury, that afternoon.

X, known for his Marxist sympathies was Britain’s ambassador to Soviet Union in the inter-war years, and is a fairly well-known name in this part of the world.

Who are X and Y ?

STAFFORD CRIPPS, BENITO MUSSOLINI

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X is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create non-arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale. The specificity of the interactions between complementary base pairs make DNA a useful construction material, through design of its base sequences.

What is X ?

DNA ORIGAMI

9 Ajit Wadeker in his autobiography “My cricketing years”, describes this

place as- “….a small seaside resort, packed with bell bottomed American and

Canadian tourists. It is a delightful place provide one has, like X, the licence to spend at will..”

This above reference was made to the 1973 adventures of X in San Monique which was shot here.

What is the the venue which hosted India in 1971, in possibly their only first-class match in this beautiful location and the 1973 film being referred here ?

MONTEGO BAY, LIVE AND LET DIE

10 Madho Singh represented India in Wrestling at the Rome and Tokyo

Olympics (60 and 64). He, till date, holds an unique achievement for which he was honoured by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in Amritsar in 2003.

What is his claim to fame ?

ONLY SIKH WRESTLER TO FIGHT THE BOUT IN OLYMPICS WITH AN INTACT BEARD AND FULL HEAD OF HAIR

11 1957 : Mohun Bagan versus Rajasthan in CFL 1959 : India versus Australia 2nd test match at Eden Gardens The debut of which two pair of men make these matches significant

footnotes in local cultural history ?

AJOY BASU- PUSHPEN SARKAR AJOY BASU- KAMAL BHATTACHARYA

12 This is an illustration(next slide) by Alex Bennet, who selected over 500

incidents over the last 150 years and included them in this graphic design on the history of football.

In this magnified view, depicting a popular Milk Marketing Board Advert from 1980s we can spot a couple of young boys with one telling the other that X had told him that if he didn't drink milk, he would only be good enough to play for__________ _________. The other fan then said “__________ ________, who are they?" with the response being "Exactly”.

This was rumoured that the advert originally intended for the phrase to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of ______________ ____________however Tottenham objected so __________ __________were chosen instead as they were a non-League team at the time and were seen to be a more obscure team.

Identify X and and FITB with an obscure name .

IAN RUSH, ACCRINGTON STANLEY

13 What did this surly Hungarian,

accuse his colleagues of not doing in between, performing autopsy and delivering babies and hence termed them as “murderers”?

Also, who is he ?

WASH HANDS, IGNAZ SEMELIWEISS

14 The Battles- ____________________________ is the name given to this album

cover(image next slide) designed by graphic artist Roana Gratitude. It is dedicated to some of the athletes who have used the podium of their

success to highlight causes greater than their own personal victory. What is the inspired sub title of this album which is same as a 1986 Emmy

Award winning TV movie featuring one of the athletes featured in the album cover, as narrator ?

A HARD ROAD TO GLORY

15 Michael De Bakey was a pioneering Cardio-thoracic surgeon who was

invited to perform a bypass surgery which would effectively turn out to be life saving for the patient. This event in 1996, was a landmark in some ways considering that of all people, an American could operate upon this high profile patient . His survival, would go on to alter the course of history, in a way, that had he not survived, he would not have had the opportunity to go deep into the bureaucracy and select his successor .

Who was the patient ?

BORIS YELETSIN

SCORES……

LITERALLYROUND 5

1 (4+4+2) The “gentleman” in the sub-title

of this book refers to Gilbert Blane, a Scottish physician who instituted health reforms in the Royal Navy.

Who are the “surgeon” and the “mariner” ?

Also, what is the name of the book ?

2 (5+5) The following images are from the short stories “Rodney Stone” and “The

Croxley Master” by an author, which has a particular sport as their central theme.

These stories never gained the dizzy heights of popularity unlike some of his other works, where the author has made yet another reference to the same sport featured in the previous works.

What is the reference we are concerned with and who is the author of the following books ?

3 (3+7) Kalaupapa is a small island in Hawaii whose occupants were struck with the

so called “living death”. Beginning in 1866, and lasting for 80 years, some 8000 people were ripped from their home, families and relocated to Kalaupapa, never to be seen again. For families, they were considered to be dead, as a funeral would be held even when the person was still living.

A similar plot point appears in a novella where the young protagonist, while working as a volunteer for distribution of food among the marooned in the floods of Tista in the early1960s, comes across a village by the banks of it, where all the inhabitants were ostracised by the society, suffering from a supposedly “incurable” disease. This experience would leave a lasting impression in his mind and he would remember those scenes in later life when he himself became disabled.

What disease and also which is the novel ?

4 (6+4) “Bhootayan” is a Bengali anthology of short stories on the multi-faceted,

evergreen sportsman “Bhuto-da” who represents Krishnanagar Collegiate School in both football and cricket. In the inter-war years of 1940s, when domestic inter-college championships were put on hold, a team from Krishnanagar Collegiate school make a trip down south, to play a friendly against a contemporary college team.

The author in reality was an alumnus of these two educational institutions and thus could vividly illustrate the cricket match which was played at the picturesque, Oval.

Who is the author and which opposition did “Bhuto-da” take on, in this story titled, “Operation Pontoon Bridge” ?

5 (3+3+4) Enfield Tennis Academy corresponds to Denmark, ruled by James (King

Hamlet) and Avril (Queen Gertrude). When James dies, he is replaced by Charles (Claudius), the uncle of Avril's gifted son Hal (Prince Hamlet).

Which post- modern, encyclopaedic work by whom that centres around this fictional junior tennis academy and a nearby substance abuse recovery centre ?

Which work of non-fiction by the same author celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty dissection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player and binds them all together ?

6 (4+6) X ,a Nobel laureate was quoted saying this, regarding the name of his book

which was a play on the term used for “a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.”

Who is X, and what is the name of the book which might remind you of a Joseph Heller novel of 1961 ?

6 (4+6) “I am just old enough to remember an era when it was quite normal, quite

acceptable, to field a team in which there were one or two players who had butterfingers and needed to be hidden at fine leg or third man, or in which senior players with creaky joints would be earmarked for the slips; when it was more or less accepted that while younger men might dive to stop a ball or race to cut off a boundary, such spectacular exertions were not really expected of established players.

After 1952 the relaxed, anything goes attitude towards fielding began to change visibly – certainly in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world..”

7 (5+5) Joe would often fall asleep inadvertently during daytime and snore away,

unaware of his surroundings. Which condition, gets its name from the origins of this obese character ?

Who, served as an inspiration behind William Treolar’s decision to establish this particular institution ?

8 (5+5) In the First World War, X was well-placed to supply desperately-needed

medical information to the armed forces, in the form of _____________War Primers. These covered topics such as Wounds of War, Surgery of the Head, Abdominal Injuries, Gunshot Injuries, as well as a guide for the stretcher-bearer.

They were in many a way a precursor to the hand-written notes taken during the ward rounds of two doctors, Tony Hope and Murray Longmore, that was published in 1985 and has been voted as one of the four most influential books written on Medicine by the British Medical Association.

Dipankar Dey, in Hemlock Society was shown reading this book in a particular sequence.

What is X and what book was Mr. Dey reading ?

9 (6+4) This Biography takes its name

from two seminal contributions of this physician.

The first word refers to his efforts at Broadwalk Street with able help of local residents and the second refers to his role as an obstetrician during two deliveries in 1853 and 1859, respectively.

What is the complete title and who is he ?

10 (6+4) In 1948, X scored a brilliant 243 playing for ‘MCC’ against the local

Planter’s Club and helped his side to end a 10 year old streak of failures against this particular opposition.

Some 35 years later, X attributed his heroics to the fact, that he was playing with a bat, which had been used by Y to score a smashing 202* against Middlesex in three hours at Hove in July 1900.

Who are X and Y ?

ANSWERS……

1 (4+4+2) The “gentleman” in the sub-title

of this book refers to Gilbert Blane, a Scottish physician who instituted health reforms in the Royal Navy.

Who are the “surgeon” and the “mariner” ?

Also, what is the name of the book ?

JAMES LIND, JAMES COOK, SCURVY

2 (5+5) The following images are from the short stories “Rodney Stone” and “The

Croxley Master” by an author, which has a particular sport as their central theme.

These stories never gained the dizzy heights of popularity unlike some of his other works, where the author has made yet another reference to the same sport featured in the previous works.

What is the reference we are concerned with and who is the author of the following books ?

SHERLOCK HOLMES WAS AN AMATEUR BOXER/GAME FIGHTER, A.C.DOYLE

3 (3+7) Kalaupapa is a small island in Hawaii whose occupants were struck with the

so called “living death”. Beginning in 1866, and lasting for 80 years, some 8000 people were ripped from their home, families and relocated to Kalaupapa, never to be seen again. For families, they were considered to be dead, as a funeral would be held even when the person was still living.

A similar plot point appears in a novella where the young protagonist, while working as a volunteer for distribution of food among the marooned in the floods of Tista in the early1960s, comes across a village by the banks of it, where all the inhabitants were ostracised by the society, suffering from a supposedly “incurable” disease. This experience would leave a lasting impression in his mind and he would remember those scenes in later life when he himself became disabled.

What disease and also which is the novel ?

LEPROSY, UTTARADHIKAR OF SAMARESH MAJUMDAR (KALBELA TRILOGY FAME)

4 (6+4) “Bhootayan” is a Bengali anthology of short stories on the multi-faceted,

evergreen sportsman “Bhuto-da” who represents Krishnanagar Collegiate School in both football and cricket. In the inter-war years of 1940s, when domestic inter-college championships were put on hold, a team from Krishnanagar Collegiate school make a trip down south, to play a friendly against a contemporary college team.

The author in reality was an alumnus of these two educational institutions and thus could vividly illustrate the cricket match which was played at the picturesque, Oval.

Who is the author and which opposition did “Bhuto-da” take on, in this story titled, “Operation Pontoon Bridge” ?

NARAYAN SANYAL, B.E. COLLEGE SHIBPUR(I.I.E.S.T SHIBPUR)

5 (3+3+4) Enfield Tennis Academy corresponds to Denmark, ruled by James (King

Hamlet) and Avril (Queen Gertrude). When James dies, he is replaced by Charles (Claudius), the uncle of Avril's gifted son Hal (Prince Hamlet).

Which post- modern, encyclopaedic work by whom that centres around this fictional junior tennis academy and a nearby substance abuse recovery centre ?

Which work of non-fiction by the same author celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty dissection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player and binds them all together ?

INFINITE JEST, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, STRING THEORY

6 (4+6) X ,a Nobel laureate was quoted saying this, regarding the name of his book

which was a play on the term used for “a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.”

Who is X, and what is the name of the book which might remind you of a Joseph Heller novel of 1961 ?

6 (4+6) “I am just old enough to remember an era when it was quite normal, quite

acceptable, to field a team in which there were one or two players who had butterfingers and needed to be hidden at fine leg or third man, or in which senior players with creaky joints would be earmarked for the slips; when it was more or less accepted that while younger men might dive to stop a ball or race to cut off a boundary, such spectacular exertions were not really expected of established players.

After 1952 the relaxed, anything goes attitude towards fielding began to change visibly – certainly in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world..”

J.M. COETZEE, CATCH-52

7 (5+5) Joe would often fall asleep inadvertently during daytime and snore away,

unaware of his surroundings. Which condition, gets its name from the origins of this obese character ?

Who, served as an inspiration behind William Treolar’s decision to establish this particular institution ?

PICKWICKIAN SYNDROME, TINY TIM

8 (5+5) In the First World War, X was well-placed to supply desperately-needed

medical information to the armed forces, in the form of _____________War Primers. These covered topics such as Wounds of War, Surgery of the Head, Abdominal Injuries, Gunshot Injuries, as well as a guide for the stretcher-bearer.

They were in many a way a precursor to the hand-written notes taken during the ward rounds of two doctors, Tony Hope and Murray Longmore, that was published in 1985 and has been voted as one of the four most influential books written on Medicine by the British Medical Association.

Dipankar Dey, in Hemlock Society was shown reading this book in a particular sequence.

What is X and what book was Mr. Dey reading ?

OXFORD, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL MEDICINE

9 (6+4)

This Biography takes its name from two seminal contributions of this physician.

The first word refers to his efforts at Broadwalk Street with able help of local residents and the second refers to his role as an obstetrician during two deliveries in 1853 and 1859, respectively.

What is the complete title and who is he ?

CHOLERA, CHLOROFORM AND THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE,JOHN SNOW

10 (6+4) In 1948, X scored a brilliant 243 playing for ‘MCC’ against the local

Planter’s Club and helped his side to end a 10 year old streak of failures against this particular opposition.

Some 35 years later, X attributed his heroics to the fact, that he was playing with a bat, which had been used by Y to score a smashing 202* against Middlesex in three hours at Hove in July 1900.

Who are X and Y ?

TARINIKHURO, K.S.RANJITSINGHJI

MATERIA MEDICAR KABYAROUND 6

RULES 10 QUESTIONS

INFINITE BOUNCE WITH INFINITE POUNCE

+10/-10 ON POUNCE AND +10 ON BOUNCE

QM’S DECISION IS FINAL AND BOUNDING

UNCIVILISED POUNCING IS INJURIOUS TO SCOREBOARD

1 “Comrade __________ and I met only once. Afterwards he wrote me many

letters. But I was busy, and I wrote him only one letter and do not even know if he ever received it. I am deeply grieved over his death. Now we are all commemorating him, which shows how profoundly his spirit inspires everyone”

The above is an excerpt from someone’s selected works dated December 21, 1939.

The Comrade had this to say to the practicing physicians: ‘Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at

the price of jewels. ... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism ... Let us say to the people not ' How much have you got?' but ' How best can we serve you?'

FITB and identify the person writing this obituary.

BETHUNE (NORMAN BETHUNE), MAO DE ZHONG

2 Between the years 1954 and 1968, Abbott Laboratories of Illinois sent out

240,000 postcards every couple of weeks to doctors, nurses, and health facilities all over the world. They manufactured, stamped, and postmarked over 170 unique postcards from 165 different towns in 85 countries.

The pictures on the cards displayed local scenes portraying the place, culture, or people of the particular country it was mailed from. The entertaining message on the back was written in a friendly tone, and never forgot to plug their prized product—an intravenous anesthetic by the name of Pentothal.

The name of these postcards were derived from a simple salutation used universally to most of its recipients.

What name and also, what is the alternative name for pentothal, which was made popular in movies and TV shows during the spy era ? (picture next slide)

DEAR DOCTOR, TRUTH SERUM

3 Butterfly Elephant Two humans Animal skin Bat Animal hide Human heads Four-legged animal Caterpillars

The list on the left, is an interpretation according to the quizmaster.

What, essentially did I do ?

I SAT FOR A ROERSACH TEST

4 The book's title refers to a man

who probably had a genetic disorder that made his hands much more flexible than an average person's. "He could unfurl and stretch his fingers impossibly far," Mr. Kean writes, "his skin seemingly about to rip apart. His finger joints themselves were also freakishly flexible”.

If the above paragraph gives the rational explanation for this man’s supreme talent, what is the more mythical one? Also, who is he ?

NIKOLA PAGANINI, SOLD HIS SOUL TO DEVIL

5 The gentleman on your right is an

Obstetrician by profession. He started writing columns in women-centric magazines like Femina, Flair and Trend in the 1970s. However, his most famous role was as a weekly columnist of the “Mumbai Mirror” beginning in 2004, the year he turned 80.

Who is he and what portmanteau sobriquet has he earned over the years with his unparalleled wittiness ?

MAHINDER WATSA, SEXPERT

6 A researcher at X had previously published his work, leading to loss of

trade secrets and hence the company had put a blanket ban on all publication efforts by their employees.

Y had to plead with the authorities that the paper which he proposed to publish was an absolutely philosophical and mathematical assertion and would have no dealings with the secret workings of the X factories.

The authorities gave in, but added the rather practical rider that he was better off publishing them under a pseudonym in order to avoid conflicts with other staff member with publication ambition.

Identify X,Y and what pseudonym did he choose ? (pictures next slide)

GUINNESS, WILLIAM GOSSET, STUDENT (OF T-TEST FAME)

7 Asperger syndrome - High-functioning autism Beck–Ibrahim disease - Congenital cutaneous candidiasis Clara cell - "Club cell“ Hallervorden– Spatz disease - Pantothenate kinase-associated

neurodegeneration Reiter's syndrome - Reactive arthritis Wegener's granulomatosis - Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

The above non-exhaustive list was a part of a scholarly publication by R.C. Strouss and M. Edelman in 2007 and they suggested the eponyms be replaced with the more scientific sounding names for these respective disease or entities. Why ?

ALL WERE OR ALLEGED TO BE NAZI DOCTORS INVOLVED IN NAZI HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION

8 Astigmatism induces unidirectional elongation in the perception of objects.

For example, a cylindrical lens which is used to treat astigmatism, will cause an ellipse to be seen as a circle. Similarly viewing one of ___________through a cylindrical lens in proper orientation and power, eliminates the distortions.

However, this theory has been refuted by the American College of Ophthalmology in a peer- reviewed scholarly article, establishing the alternative theory of ________________being simply stylistic and an influence of Byzantine and Mannerist eras.

What is being talked about ?

EL GRECO’S ELONGATED STYLE OF ART

9 In 1902, nineteen Indian villagers in Punjab died of tetanus. An inquiry

commission indicted X, and he was relieved of his position and returned to England. The report was unofficially known as the "Little ____________ __________", as a reminder of X’s origins and a contemporary event in a different country.

In July 1907, a letter published in “The Times” called the case against X “distinctly disproven” and this letter was signed by Ronald Ross and a few other luminaries from the world of Medicine.

The Lister Institute reinvestigated the claim and overruled the verdict: it was discovered that an assistant used a dirty bottle cap without sterilizing it.

Who is X and FITB to complete the unofficial name for the scandal ?

WALDEMAR HAFFKINE, LITTLE DREYFUS AFFAIR

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10 Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis or Vincent’s Angina is a common,

non-contagious infection of the gums with sudden onset, characterised by bad breath and difficulty to swallow.

A medical condition caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp, unsanitary, and cold conditions, a type of Immersion Foot Syndrome.

A condition called “Five Day fever” transmitted by lice and noted sufferers being J.R.R Tolkien, A.A. Milne and C.S. Lewis.

How can you connect the above three conditions with a “depression shared by a particular group of people” ?

TRENCH MOUTH/FOOT/FEVER