Do we know our registrars
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Namesake
Eponymous names
Surgical History
Christmas Day Around the World
TV Doctors
Christmas Music
Christmas Movie Quotes
Medical Sports Stars
100

I am the only registrar likely to have watched more professional tennis matches than Dr Hopkins? 

Who is Dr Madison Bowles 

100

Which consultant has played ultimate frisbee for many years?

Nicholas O'Rourke 

100

I am a British Comedian who is married to another British broadcaster Victoria Coren. I am often on Would I Lie to You? 

David Mitchell 

100

I am a swiss surgeon who trained under Kocher. I was the first person to successfully perform excision of a phaechromocytoma. I am most famous for my reconstructive technique.

Who is Cesar Roux 

100

In what decade was the first open inguinal hernia performed?

1880-1890 

Edoardo Bassini - Italian surgeon

100

Which country interestingly traditionally have KFC on Christmas Day following a marketing campaign in the 1970's.

JAPAN

100

Name one of the two recurring doctors in the Simpsons 

Dr Nick Riveria/Dr Julius Hibbert

100

Which Christmas song was originally for Thanks Giving and a drinking song?

Jingle Bells

100

We elves try to sticks to our four main food groups: Candy, Candy canes, candy corn and syrup. 

Elf 

100

I am a former Wallaby who graduated from the University of Queensland. I played 10 test matches before a career as a pathologist (Anatomical). I am a former Dean of Medicine at UQ. 

Dr Ken Donald AO

200

Which registrar played US college baseball at the University of Iowa?

Matt Corbitt

200

Which consultant is a keen drummer from way back?

Craig Harris


200

I am an ex-Republican senator during the Nixon regimen. I was his main advisor and the secretary of health, education and welfare during his administration. 

Robert Finch

200

This British Surgeon held the rank of Major General following the great war. He is a famous abdominal surgeon who founded the British Journal of surgery. A surgical instrument is named after me. 

Who is Baron Berkeley Moynihan 

200

The first public hospital in Brisbane was established on George street in 1849. What was the name of this hospital?

The Moreton Bay Hospital

Moved to Herston in 1867


200

Which animal in Norse countries is commonly associated with Christmas?

The Yule Goat

200

Which Cheers character plays a doctor in a spinoff of the same name? And who plays that character?

Frasier (Kelsey Grammar)

200

Bill Nighy's character in love actually makes a Christmas Hit out of which original song?

Love is all around me by Wet Wet Wet 

200

Yippee-Ki-Yay 

Die Hard

200

I am a former summer and winter Olympian in the 400m hurdles and Bobsled. I am two time world champion in the 400m hurdles. I became a doctor following my sports career. 

Dr Jana Pittman

300

Whose nickname at Medical School was Spiderpig?

Daniel Page 

300

Which consultant sailed boats up the coast for a university job?

Richard Bryant

300

I am currently a road cyclist for professional team Skyline. 

Cian Keogh

300

I am a New Zealand Surgeon who is considered the Father of modern plastic surgery following work repairing faces of WWI soldiers? You use my instrument in most cases. 


Sir Harold Delf Gillies

300

Dr Robert Liston performed the first surgery using ether as an anaesthetic in 1846? Which operation did he perform? 

Leg amputation in 30 seconds

The first public operation was performed by William Morton 

300

In which country does the festive season last to the 6th January when a friendly old witch gives gifts to well-behaved children

ITALY - La Befana (friendly old witch)

300

Noah Wyle plays Dr Michael Robinavitch, in The Pitt, a medical drams for which he won a recent Emmy. What other famous medical drama was he a main character?

E.R. - Dr John Carter

300

Whose famous Christmas songs proceeds were used for the starving children of Africa. 

George Michael (WHAM) - Last Christmas

300

'You can mess with alot of things but you can't mess with kids on Christmas'

Home Alone 2

300

I played 182 games for the Queensland Reds and 19 Wallaby appearances. I graduated from medical school in 2006. I am currently on the UQ academic Staff. Who am I?

Dr John Roe (Orthopaedic Surgeon)

400

Who has scuba dived under an oil rig in the Caribbean?

Isidora De La Cruz

400

Which consultant was chased by a Silverback whilst trekking through the Congo?

Diana Tam

400

I am an olympic medallist figure skater who won a bronze medal in Sochi Olympics. 

Jason Brown 

400

I am a German surgeon who shares a first name with a reindeer. I am famous for wrapping Albert Einsteins AAA in cellophane during an admission over Christmas 1948. I am most famous for an Upper GI procedure which carries my name. 

Who is Rudolph Nissen 

400

French Barber Surgeon Ambroise Pare is famous for pioneering what surgical technique? 

Ligatures 

400

Which country re-enacts Mary and Joseph's search for lodging by moving house to house with singing and prayers from 16th December to Chrismas Eve?

Mexico

400

This actress played Solitaire in the James Bond Film 'Live and Let Die'. What famous tv doctor did she play?

Dr Quinn 'Medicine Woman'.

400

Which Christmas song was the first song played in space?

Jingle Bells

400

'I realised Christmas is the time to be with the people you love' 

Love Actually

400

I am a dual Olympic Champion in the 100m backstroke at the Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960 Olympics. During this time, I held the world record. I was on the organising committee for the 1982 Commonwealth Games. 

Dr David Thiele AO

500

Who once met Pamela Anderson whilst on tour in the USA?

Kate Swift

500

Which consultant once trialled with the AIS for rowing?

David Cavallucci 

500

I am a famous English Cricketer from the 1950's. I was also British squash champion. 

Tony Mallett

500

Sir Vincent Zachary Cope has two signs named after him 'Copes Sign'. These are the otherwise known as cardio-biliary reflux and what?

Psoas Sign for acute appendicitis/psoas abscess

First published in The Early Diagnosis of the Acute abdomen in 1921.

500

Which French surgeon is credited with performing the first successful appendicectomy in 1735. Hint: he also has an inguinal hernia eponymously named after him. 

Claudius Amyand in St George's Hospital in London.

500

Which asian country Christmas Season lasts from September to the Feast of the Three Kings in January?

Phillipines

500

Which doctor did Gillian Anderson play alongside her partner Fox Mulder? 

Dr Dana Scully - X Files

500

Which song was sang across the trenches in there respective languages during the Christmas truce in 1914 during WWI? 

Silent Night

500

“We're kicking off our fun old-fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel-drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols.”

A Christmas Vacation 

Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase)

500

I attended Nudgee College as a boarder. I represented Queensland 89 times and the Wallabies 27 times. I completed my medical degree and became an Opthalmologist. 

Dr Mark Loane MOA 

1000

Which registrar during a Gap year had a beer with George Clooney?

Jack Mackenzie 

1000

Which consultants father was a professional jockey and horse trainer?

David Mitchell 

1000

I was a 19th century english poet/author who wrote under the pseudonym of Michael Field to publish my works? 

Katherine Bradley

1000

Whose surgical maneourve was first described in 1885 by Jourdain, but was later in 1903 described in detail by this Swiss surgeon. He was the first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize in medicine and for what? 

Theodor Kocher 

Thyroid physiology, pathology and surgery

1000

What is the Lindbergh Operation and why was it groundbreaking?

It was the first remote (telesurgery) robotic surgery performed (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) between New York and Strasbourg using the ZEUS robotic Surgical System

1000

Which country in the 19th Century did protestants mark on their door 24 chalk lines, rubbing one off as they counted down to Christmas. 

Germany - the earliest version of the advent calender. 

1000

In the Real Housewives of Orange County, one character is married to a real life plastic surgeon. Who is he and what is own show called?

Dr Terry Dubois - Botched!

1000

Name one of the two oldest Christmas songs (first penned in the 1700's). 

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Joy to the World 

1000

God Bless Us, everyone. 

A Christmas Carol 

1000

I was a famour English 1500m runner who was the first person to break the 4min mile. I was fourth at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. I subsequently became a neurologist following my medical degree at Oxford. 

I am Dr Roger Bannister