Halloween Trivia
This is the name for a group of witches.
A person is bitten by an infected animal and later develops muscle spasms and difficulty swallowing. What disease causes these frightening symptoms?
What is Rabies?
What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body?
What is the femur?
What blood vessel carries oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
In this country, there is a single monument where four boarders meet at one point. Visitors can stand with their hands and feet in four different regions at the same time. Name the country.
The three Sanderson sisters appear in this Disney Halloween movie.
What is Hocus Pocus?
A person touches a hot stove and immediately pulls their hand away before consciously feeling the pain.Which part of the nervous system coordinates this rapid reflex?
What is the spinal cord?
What dome-shaped skeletal muscle separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and contracts during inhalation?
What is Diaphragm?
This vitamin is required by the liver to produce several clotting factors
What is Vitamin K?
This African country is home to the Nile River, one of the world's longest rivers.
What is Egypt?
What is the name of the fear of spiders?
What is arachnophobia?
A virus infects a human cell and uses the cell's machinery to make viral proteins. Which cellular structure is responsible for translating viral messenger RNA into proteins?
What is Ribosomes?
What is the name of the inner lining of the uterus that thickens during the menstrual cycle and is shed during menstruation?
What is Endometrium?
This protein in red blood cells binds to oxygen and provides oxygen to tissues, organs, muscles, and the whole body while it also gives blood much of its red color.
What is Hemoglobin?
This Nordic country is known for its saunas, the Northern Lights, and being home to the happiest country rankings year after year.
What is Finland?
In Hereditary, what is the name of the daughter whose death sets much of the story in motion?
Who is Charlie?
A frightened person suddenly experiences a racing heartbeat. Activation of the sympathetic nervous systemcauses the release of a hormone that increases heart rate and contractility. Name this hormone.
What is epinephrine (adrenaline)?
What is the functional unit of the kidney that filters blood, reabsorbs needed substances, and helps produce urine?
What is a Nephron?
These cell fragments are primarily responsible for forming the initial [BLANK] plug during blood clotting.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
Every year, people in this country chase a wheel of cheese down a very steep hill in a competition that often results in spectacular tumbles and injuries.
According to Irish folklore, what spooky creature takes the form of a headless horseman and carries its own head under its arm?
What is the Dullahan?
In a process essential for normal development and the removal of damaged cells, a cell activates a controlled sequence of events leading to its OWN death. What is this process called?
What is apoptosis?
This large, triangular muscle covers the shoulder and is primarily responsible for abducting the arm.
What is a Deltoid?
This inherited disorder causes red blood cells to become rigid due to a mutation in the beta-globingene. Blocking normal blood and oxygen flow.
What is sickle cell anemia?
On the island of Hokkaido in this East Asian country, a coastal town is famous for a mailbox submerged underwater that visitors can use to send waterproof postcards to friends.
What is Japan?