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Pharma Quiz
2013
Theme
Fun with Pharma
Round 1
One Two Three
Rules for Round 1 Part 1
• Each team will be asked one question that has a single
answer.
• Ten points for answering the direct question correctly.
• Unanswered / wrongly answered questions pass to the
next team.
• Five points for answering the pass question correctly.
• You have 30 seconds to answer direct question and 5
seconds for pass question.
Round 1 – Part 1
One
Question No: 1
Name the first drug to be isolated in pure form.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Morphine
Question No: 2
Which is the first peptide mediator to be
characterized and the first to be produced
commercially for clinical use?
Team B
Team B
Answer
Oxytocin
Question No: 3
Name the first drug discovered to have local
anesthetic activity.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Cocaine
Question No: 4
Name the first successful drug for the treatment
of tuberculosis.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Para amino salicylic acid
Question No: 5
Name the first drug to be discovered that
prevents the entry of HIV into host cells.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Enfuvirtide
Round 1 – Part 2
Two
Rules for Round 1 Part 2
• Every team will be asked two questions and each question has two
answers.
• Five points for every correct answer for the direct question. So totally
10 points for each direct question.
• Unanswered / wrongly answered questions pass to the next team.
• Two points for a single correct answer and five points for both correct
answers for a pass question.
• You have 30 seconds to answer direct question and 5 seconds for pass
question.
Question No: 1
Name two groups of drugs for which phase I clinical
trials are conducted in patients.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Anticancer drugs
Anti HIV drugs
Question No: 2
Name two drugs that can induce as well as
inhibit microsomal enzymes.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Alcohol
Ritonavir
Team D
Question No: 3
Name two drugs that can cause
dissociative anesthesia.
Team D
Answer
Ketamine
Phencyclidine
Question No: 4
Name two antiviral drugs that can be
administered by inhalational route.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Ribavirin
Zanamivir
Question No: 5
Name two structures in which postganglionic
sympathetic fibers release acetylcholine.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Skeletal muscle blood vessels
Thermoregulatory sweat glands
Question No: 6
Name two drugs that can act as agonist or
antagonist for the same receptor depending
on the site of these receptors.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Tamoxifen
Raloxifene
Question No: 7
Name two drugs that can block T type calcium
channels.
Team B
Team B
Answer
Valproic acid
Trimethadione
Ethosuximide
Question No: 8
Name two aminoglycosides that can be
administered orally.
Team B
Team B
Answer
Neomycin
Paromomycin
Question No: 9
Name two drugs that can be administered by
a pen injector.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Insulin
Epinephrine
Question No: 10
Name two anticancer drugs that are bone
marrow sparring.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Vincristine
Bleomycin
Question No: 11
Name two third generation cephalosporins
that have anti-pseudomal activity.
Audience
Audience
Answer
Ceftazidime
Cefoperazone
Round 1 – Part 3
Three
Rules for Round 1 Part 3
• Every team will be asked three questions and each question has three
answers.
• Five points for every correct answer for the direct question. So totally 15
points for each direct question.
• Unanswered / wrongly answered questions pass to the next team.
• Two points for a single correct answer, five points for two correct
answers and eight points for all three correct answers for a pass
question.
• You have 30 seconds to answer direct question and 5 seconds for pass
question.
Question No: 1
Name the three scientists who were awarded the
Nobel prize for medicine in 1945 for discovery of
penicillin.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Alexander Fleming
H .W. Florey
E.B. Chain
Question No: 2
What are the three basic tenets of medical
ethics?
Team A
Team A
Answer
Autonomy
Beneficence and non-maleficence
Justice and Equality
Team A
Question No: 3
Name the three diseases for which
ivermectin is the drug of choice.
Team A
Answer
Onchocerciasis
Strongyloidiasis
Cutaneous larva migrans
Question No: 4
Name the three editors of the book “Basic &
Clinical Pharmacology” – 12th edition.
Team B
Team B
Answer
Bertram G. Katzung
Antony J. Trevor
Susan B. Masters
Question No: 5
What are the three ‘R’s of ethics of animal
experimentation?
Team B
Team B
Answer
Reduce
Refine
Replace
Team B
Question No: 6
Name three antiarrhythmics that are not
included
in
classification.
the
Vaughan
Williams
Team B
Answer
Digoxin
Adenosine
Magnesium sulphate
Potassium
Team C
Question No: 7
Name three drugs affecting cholinergic
system
that
purposes.
are
used
for
diagnostic
Team C
Answer
Edrophonium
Methacholine
Tropicamide
Team C
Question No: 8
What are the three C’s of tricyclic
antidepressant toxicity?
Team C
Answer
Convulsions
Cardiotoxicity
Coma
Question No: 9
Name three drugs that were designed using
computers.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Captopril
Amikacin
Saquinavir
Team D
Question No: 10
Name three hit and run drugs.
Team D
Answer
Phenoxybenzamine
Omeprazole
Aspirin
Team D
Question No: 11
Name three groups of anticancer
agents that are derived from plants.
Team D
Answer
Vinca alkaloids
Epipodophyllotoxin (etoposide, teniposide)
Taxanes
Camptothecin (topotecan, irinotecan )
Question No: 12
Name three drugs contributed by Indians to the
armamentarium of drugs.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Reserpine
Centchroman
Hamycin
Question No: 13
Name three drug groups that can reduce
mortality in heart failure.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Beta blockers
ACE inhibitors
K+ sparing diuretics
Question No: 14
What are the three C’s followed by
pharmaceutical companies for promotion
of their products?
Team E
Team E
Answer
Convince
Corrupt
Confuse
Question No: 15
Name three GIT drugs that are not absorbed
in the intestines but still administered orally.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Antacids
Sucralfate
Osmotic purgatives (magnesium hydroxide, sorbitol,
lactulose, polyethylene glycol)
Bile acid binding resins (Cholestyramine, colestipol,
colesevelam)
Round 2
The Lighter Side
Round 2 – Part 1
Nicknames
Rules for Round 2
• This round has two parts. Part 1 – Nicknames and Part 2 – Quotable
quotes.
• In Part 1 every team will be asked two questions and one question in
Part 2. All questions have single correct answer.
• Unanswered / wrongly answered questions pass to the next team.
• You have 30 seconds to answer each direct question and five seconds
for pass question.
• Ten points for answering the direct question correctly and five points
for a pass question.
Question No: 1
Which drug is nicknamed as “psych serine”?
Team B
Team B
Answer
Cycloserine
Question No: 2
Which drug is popularly known as “angel dust”?
Team B
Team B
Answer
Phencyclidine
Question No: 3
Name the drug that was nicknamed as “magic bullet”
by Paul Ehrlich.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Salvarsan
Question No: 4
Which drug is also known as “resurrection drug”?
Team C
Team C
Answer
Eflornithine
Question No: 5
World Health Organisation (WHO) called this drug as
the “most important advancement of 20th century”.
Identify this drug.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS)
Question No: 6
Which drug is nicknamed as “truth serum” by forensic
psychiatrist?
Team D
Team D
Answer
Thiopentone
Question No: 7
Which drug was called “sweet oil of vitriol” in the 16th
century?
Team E
Team E
Answer
Diethyl ether
Question No: 8
Which drug is nicknamed as “date rape drug”?
Team E
Team E
Answer
Gamma Hydroxy Butyric acid
Question No: 9
Name the drug that is nicknamed as “smelly
forerunner of nitrates”.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Amyl nitrite
Team A
Question No: 10
The
abstinence
syndrome
of
this
drug
constitutes restlessness, runny nose, diarrhea,
shivering and piloerection and hence the person
is named as “cold turkey”. Which drug causes
these symptoms on withdrawal?
Team A
Answer
Morphine
Round 2 – Part 2
Quotable Quotes
Question No: 1
In 1680, Thomas Sydenham sang the glory of
this drug as “Among the remedies which it has
pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve
his sufferings, none is so universal and so
efficacious as this”. What drug did he refer to?
Team A
Team A
Answer
Morphine
Question No: 2
William Shakespeare described the effect of this
drug as “Provokes the desire, but takes away the
performance”. What drug was he describing?
Team E
Team E
Answer
Alcohol
Question No: 3
A famous rheumatologist described the action of this
drug in a lighter way as “The patient has to run before
he can walk”. What drug is he referring to?
Team D
Team D
Answer
Colchicine
Question No: 4
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the neurologist-poetphilosopher appreciated the usefulness of this
drug as “The fierce extremity of suffering has
been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness and
the deepest furrow in the knotted brow of agony
has been smoothed forever”. Identify the drug.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Ether
Team B
Question No: 5
The famous adage for the toxicity of a drug is
given below. Identify this drug.
Hot as a hare
Blind as a bat
Dry as a bone
Red as a beet
Mad as a hen
Team B
Answer
Atropine
Round 3
Colorful Visuals
Rules for Round 2
• This round has two parts. Part 1 – Colours and Part 2 – Visuals.
• In both parts every team will be asked three questions.
• Unanswered / wrongly answered questions pass to the next
team.
• You have 30 seconds to answer each direct question and five
seconds for pass question.
• Ten points for answering the direct question correctly and five
points for a pass question.
Round 3 – Part 1
Colors
Question No: 1
Identify the Nobel laureate who is credited with the
discovery of first clinically useful beta blocker.
Team C
Answer
James Black
Team C
Question No: 2
Name a drug that causes black discoloration of feces.
Team C
Team C
Answer
Iron salts, Bismuth
Team C
Question No: 3
What is meant by black box warning?
Team C
Answer
A warning about the serious adverse effect of a drug
that is printed within a black box on the carton.
Question No: 4
Which drug causes red man syndrome? Why does it
cause this adverse effect?
Team D
Team D
Answer
Vancomycin.
Due to release of histamine (when rapidly infused)
Question No: 5
Name the drug that causes loss of red-green color
discrimination.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Ethambutol
Question No: 6
Team D
Name the drug that is extracted from a red colored bacteria.
Team D
Answer
Erythromycin from Streptomyces erythreus
Question No: 7
Team E
Name the drug that causes yellowish brown discoloration
of teeth in children.
Team E
Answer
Tetracycline
Question No: 8
Which country’s ADR reporting form is called as
“yellow form”?
Team E
Team E
Answer
United Kingdom (UK)
Question No: 9
Which kind of waste materials should be disposed
in a yellow bag?
Team E
Team E
Answer
Infectious waste and any material in contact with body fluids.
Team A
Question No: 10
Name the drug that causes grey-blue
discoloration in sun exposed areas.
Team A
Answer
Amiodarone
Question No: 11
Team A
Name an antibiotic that causes methhemoglobinemia.
Team A
Answer
Dapsone
Question No: 12
Name the cardiovascular drug that causes cyanide
poisoning.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Sodium nitroprusside
Question No: 14
Name the drug which causes ‘purple toe syndrome’.
Team B
Team B
Answer
Warfarin
Question No: 15
Name the drug obtained from this plant which is
named after its purple colored flowers.
Team B
Team B
Answer
Digoxin
Question No: 13
If a patient is receiving this
purple colored strip of tablets,
what disease is he suffering
from? What could be his type /
category of disease?
Team B
Team B
Answer
Leprosy
Multi bacillary leprosy
Round 3 – Part 2
Visuals
Team B
Question No: 1
Name
the
special
type
of
intravenous infusion set which
has the Murphy’s chamber as
shown. What is the purpose of
this modification?
Team B
Answer
Paediatric infusion set
To provide micro drops
Team B
Question No: 2
Two tablets (A and B) were
dropped into a glass of water
with no effervescence. This
picture shows them after a few
minutes. Mention the type of
tablet A.
A
B
Team B
Answer
Dispersible tablet
Team B
Question No: 3
This neonate has developed
cyanosis
and
weakness
after administration of an
antimicrobial.
Identify
this
adverse effect and the drug
responsible for this.
Team B
Answer
Gray baby syndrome
Chloramphenicol
Team A
Question No: 4
What is the name given for
this
special
type
of
ampoules which have a
white band (indicated by
arrow)?
Team A
Answer
Snap open ampoules
Question No: 5
Name the antibacterial available as solution for
nebulisation.
Team A
Team A
Answer
Tobramycin
Team A
Question No: 6
Name
a
cardiovascular
drug that can cause this
adverse effect.
Team A
Answer
Spironolactone
Digoxin
Question No: 7
Identify this device. Name a
drug that can be administered
by this device.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Vaginal applicator
Clotrimazole
Question No: 8
Name the drug that is administered
as a swallow while taking this
contrast radiograph of esophagus.
Team E
Team E
Answer
Barium
Team E
Question No: 9
The photo of a patient before and after 6 months of systemic
therapy with a drug is shown. Identify the nature of the drug.
Before therapy
After six months of therapy
Team E
Answer
Corticosteroids
Question No: 10
Identify this instrument
used for administration
of drugs.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Intravenous infusion pump
Question No: 11
What is the meaning of the term ‘eutectic’?
Team D
Team D
Answer
Mixture of two solids whose resultant melting point
becomes less than the individual components.
Question No: 12
Mention the drug that can lead to twin pregnancy.
Team D
Team D
Answer
Clomiphene
Question No: 13
Team C
Name a drug that is slowly released by a drug eluting stent.
Team C
Answer
Sirolimus
Question No: 14
What is the name of these
special boxes and how
many such box(es) will be
used to complete the full
course of treatment by a
tuberculosis patient?
Team C
Team C
Answer
Patient wise box (PWB)
A brown carton contains two coloured sachets (blue / red)
of which one is for intensive phase and the other one is
for continuation phase.