FUNDAMENTALS
Every year, over 30,000 doctors pass out of medical colleges spread across India. Today's quiz is on those hallowed institutions where these doctors are trained.
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MEDICAL COLLEGES
1. Anandibai Joshi, is in the history books, as the first Indian woman to get a medical degree in western medicine. Which college did she graduate from?
2. Name the doctor and graduate of Calcutta Medical College who was elected as the president of his country in 2008?
3. Which college and research institute was originally set up with a grant from the New Zealand Government?
4. In 1823, a medical college called the Ecole de Medicine de Pondicherry was established by the French government in Pondicherry. This was the first medical college in India to teach western medicine. By what name do you now know this college?
5. The first graduating class of Cornell University Medical School had 12 women out of 67 degree recipients. The most well known name among the graduates came to India and laid the foundation of what became one of India's foremost medical institutions. Which one?
6. Which medical college known for its IndoSaracenic style of architecture designed by Sir Swinton Jacob, stands next to the Imambara or Tomb of Nawab Asaf-udDaulah?
7. Pandit Madhusudan Gupta was an Ayurvedic practitioner who also translated several
English texts into Sanskrit. What did he do in 1836 at the Calcutta Medical College that is regarded as the one event that symbolised the move of western medicine to India?
8. Before Tihar jail was set up, Delhi had a Central jail spread over 30 acres in the middle of the city. What will you find today in the campus of the old central jail?
ANYTHING GOES
1. In order to appease the crowd and recover financial losses, a match was played on what would have been the fifth day of the washed-out Test in Melbourne on January 5,
1971. What is special about this match?(Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)
2. Bapu Nadkarni bowled a record twenty one consecutive maiden overs
(131 dot balls in a row) in a 114-minute bowling spell, a record that remains till this day. How did Nadkarni known for his unerring accuracy, famously practice his bowling at the nets? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
3. This animal is known for its red or pink sweat. After perspiration, the sweat which is initially colourless gradually turns red, and then brown as the pigment polymerizes. Identify the animal? (Soulath Mohd, Hyderabad)
4. This battle was fought on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. The victor of the battle was so brutal in plundering Delhi that famous Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir had to flee to Lucknow where he spent the rest of his life. Name this battle ?(Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)
5. Dev Anand has appeared on many of Hindi hit songs composed by music directors ranging from SD Burman and RD Burman to OP Nayyar and Shankar-Jaikishen. Which famous composer never composed any song for Dev Anand, despite being contemporaries in the film world? (Madhavi Chandran, Kochi)
6. This amendment to India's constitution was considered as the most drastic one as it tried to bring about the most widespread changes to our Constitution in its history including the preamble. Under this amendment nobody can question the Elections of the President, Vice-President and Prime Minister of India. It attempted to reduce the powers of the Supreme Court of India and all High Courts of the states to pronounce upon the constitutional validity of the amendments. It was called MiniConstitution. What was the Amendment and who made it? (U.N.Murthy, Secunderabad)
7. The18th tallest building in the world is also listed by Guinness Records as the tallest building that is completely unoccupied. Where would you find this 1082 feet tall structure? (Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)
8. What is the significance of choosing January 26 as the Republic Day? (Vasudev Prakash, Mysuru)