T292 BODY MATTERS QUIZ
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:10 pm1 How many chambers are there in a human heart?
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2 What so the initials CNS stand for with regard to the human body?
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
3 What is the longest bone in the human body?
FEMUR
4 Where in the human body are the smallest bones located?
THE EAR
5 What is the alternative name for lockjaw?
TETANUS
6 What is the smallest cell in the body of a male human?
SPERM CELL
7 What is the liquid portion of the blood called?
PLASMA
8 Which is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone?
THE HYOID BONE IN YOUR THROAT
9 Which musical features the song, Take That Look off Your Face?
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
10 Whose heart beats faster, males or females?
FEMALES
11 What name is given to the soft spot on top of a baby’s head?
FONTANELLE
12 What does an electrocardiograph record?
HEARTBEAT
13 In the human body what has an average length of 22 feet?
SMALL INTESTINE
14 What type of joint is the shoulder joint?
BALL AND SOCKET JOINT
15 What is the medical name for the largest vein in the human body?
VENA CAVA
16 In which African city was the first human heart transplant successfully performed?
CAPETOWN
17 What grows the faster, fingernails or toenails?
FINGERNAILS
18 What was the world’s first effective antibiotic?
PENICILLIN
19 What does an emetic medicine induce?
VOMITTING
20 Crick & Watson won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of what?
DNA
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2 What so the initials CNS stand for with regard to the human body?
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
3 What is the longest bone in the human body?
FEMUR
4 Where in the human body are the smallest bones located?
THE EAR
5 What is the alternative name for lockjaw?
TETANUS
6 What is the smallest cell in the body of a male human?
SPERM CELL
7 What is the liquid portion of the blood called?
PLASMA
8 Which is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone?
THE HYOID BONE IN YOUR THROAT
9 Which musical features the song, Take That Look off Your Face?
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
10 Whose heart beats faster, males or females?
FEMALES
11 What name is given to the soft spot on top of a baby’s head?
FONTANELLE
12 What does an electrocardiograph record?
HEARTBEAT
13 In the human body what has an average length of 22 feet?
SMALL INTESTINE
14 What type of joint is the shoulder joint?
BALL AND SOCKET JOINT
15 What is the medical name for the largest vein in the human body?
VENA CAVA
16 In which African city was the first human heart transplant successfully performed?
CAPETOWN
17 What grows the faster, fingernails or toenails?
FINGERNAILS
18 What was the world’s first effective antibiotic?
PENICILLIN
19 What does an emetic medicine induce?
VOMITTING
20 Crick & Watson won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of what?
DNA
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