Trivia Question set 1

Trivia Question Set No.1

Q1. Drugs used by millions of patients in Britain to treat indigestion and heartburn can increase the risk of the 'brittle bone' disease osteoporosis, clinical researchers warn. Their study shows long-term use of the medication is linked to weakened bones later in life. The drugs are called proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, and are available both on prescription and over the counter in low doses. Name any one PPI.

Answer : Omeprazole, Lansoprazole, Pantoprazole

Q2. It was founded on November 29th 1979. That day was the start of a biorevolution in India. It was a JV between an Irish company and an Indian entrepreneur. The Irish company was acquired by Unilever in 1989. In the same year, the Indian company became the first Indian biotech company to receive US funding for proprietary technologies. Which company are we talking about?

Answer : Biocon

Q3. This term used in clinical research is derived from the Greek word that means "drugs" and the Latin word meaning “to keep awake or alert, to keep watch.” It is gaining importance for doctors and scientists as the number of stories in the mass media of drug recalls increases. Which word is this?

Answer : Pharmacovigilance

Q4. The Indian company sells off-patent and inexpensive drugs also known as generics. It recently received a $3.72 Bn deal from a US based company which was described as one of the costliest pharma deal of all times. The deal is expected to make the US company the biggest drug company in India. Name the two companies.

Answer : Abbott Laboratories and Piramal Healthcare

Q5. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. Department of Agriculture. President Lincoln appointed a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to lead the Bureau of Chemistry in the same year. What is that organization currently known as?

Answer : USFDA ( U S Food and Drug Administration)

Trivia Question Set No.2

Q1.What is ISO 14644 standard applicable to ?

Answer : The ISO 14644 standard is applicable for classification of air cleanliness, airborne particulate cleanliness for clean rooms and clean zones

Q2. Name the Act laid down in 2003 that prohibits smoking in public places.

Answer : COPTA - Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003

Q3. What is a polysomnography machine used for ?

Answer : The polysomnography is a machine used to determine the type and severity of the sleep disorder.

What is the novel feature of H1N1 vaccine- Nasovac ?

Answer : It is administered through the respiratory route- sniffed once in each nostril

Q5. In health care what does ‘Universal Precautions’ refer to ?

Answer : Universal precautions refers to the practice, in medicine of avoiding contact with patients' bodily fluids, by means of the wearing of nonporous articles such as medical gloves goggles, and face shields

Trivia Question Set No.3

Q1. In Northern Blotting, protein antigens are separated according to their electrophoretic mobility and molecular weight. True / False

Ans: False

Q2. The _______are macromoleculecules involved in chemical signaling between and within cells.

Ans: Receptors

Q3. Biotransformation of xenobiotics has __________phases.

Ans: Two

Q4. A study done on a disease of interest is called __________study

Ans: Epidemiology

Q5. Name the HPV types that are targeted by the commercially available HPV vaccines for human use –

Ans: 6,11,16,18

Trivia Question Set No.4

Q1. Identify this symbol:

Ans: This symbol is used in the labeling of medical devices to denote date of manufacture when date is included

Q2. Which of the following is the globally accepted date format ?

a. Dd-mm-yy

b. Dd-mm-yyyy

c. Dd-mmm-yy

d. None

Ans: None

Q3. Name the international non- profit organization dedicated exclusively to helping people with leukemia and other blood related disorders

Ans: Max Foundation

Q4. What percentage of people with lung cancer are smokers ?

Ans: 90%

Q5. A path breaking clinical study on 5000 patients with breast cancer from 485 centres was implicated with fraud by an Investigator. Name the study and the investigator

Ans: National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project (NSABP) , Dr. Roger Poisson, a Montreal Surgeon at Hospital St-Luc

Trivia Question Set No.5

Q1. Sensory transducer converts receptor energy into electrochemical energy ( True or False)

Ans. True

Q2. Castration would raise a man’s blood gonadotropin concentration. ( True or False )

Ans. True

Q3. Which of the following gases is not suitable for use as a GC carrier gas :

Ø Nitrogen

Ø Helium

Ø Oxygen

Ans. Oxygen

Q4. Which of the following is false about the structure and function of DNA and RNA

Ø Both DNA and RNA are polymers composed of monomer subunits

Ø Both DNA and RNA are information bearing molecules

Ø Both DNA and RNA have double helix structures containing nitrogenous bases , sugar, phosphates

Ø RNA is the working form of the information stored in DNA

Ans. Both DNA and RNA have double helix structures containing nitrogenous bases , sugar, phosphates

Q5. Which of the following is not a function of carbohydrates

Ø Energy storage

Ø Structure of plants

Ø Cell communication

Ø Immune system function

Ø Protein degradation

Ans. Protein degradation

Trivia Question Set No.6

Q1. An electrocardiogram is a tracing of the action potential of a cardiac myocyte (True / False)

Ans: True

Q2. Computational pharmacology is also known as ____ _____ ( 2 words )

Ans: Computational therapeutics/in silico Pharmacology

Q3. Name the first angiogenic inhibitor identified

Ans: Interferon alpha

Q4. Cholesterol is the source of the following 5 crucial hormones - progesterone, testosterone, estradiol, cortisol and _______

Ans: Aldosterone

Q5. What is the relation of Henrietta Lacks to Cancer Biology?

Ans: Henrietta Lacks is a patient who died of cervical cancer in 1951 from whom HeLa cells(immortal cell line) were obtained. It is considered as the oldest and most commonly used human cell lines in cancer research.

Trivia Question Set No.8:

Q1. Figure 1 Name this potential cardio protective agent

ANS: Resveratrol

Q2. In the DNA of any given species , the ratio of adenine to thymine is equal to the ratio of cytosine to guanine . Name this ratio

ANS: Chargaff’s ratio

Q3. _ _ _ _ _ data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices

ANS: Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database (MAUDE)

Q4. In recombinant DNA technology, what are HaeIII and ECoRI examples of ?

ANS: These are Restriction endonuclease type enzymes, used to cut DNA at specific sites

Q5. Name the organisation in the US that is responsible for assuring that cosmetics are safe and properly labelled

ANS: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of Food & drugs administration(USFDA)

Trivia Question Set No.9

Q1. A biomarker has to be reliable, measurable, specific and predicative

Ans : True

Q2. Name the chemical that the body makes when there is not enough insulin and it must break down fat for energy

Ans : Ketone bodies

Q3. The first blood glucose meter was introduced in 1969 / 1959/ 1945/ 1960

Ans : 1969

Q4. When heating a multicomponent liquid to vaporise , the vapour phase will have more than one component . this is called: Extraction/ leaching/ distillation/evaporation

Ans : Distillation

Q5. Breaking of a larger hydrocarbon molecule into a smaller one by heating in the presence of a catalyst is called
- Cracking / Orthofugation / Centrifugation/ Thermogenation

Ans : Cracking