Skull and Neck Bones
This skull bone is considered butterfly-shaped and is our central reference point for finding all the other skull bones.
What is the sphenoid bone?
This is the main wrinkled part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
This part of the eye refracts and transmits incoming light.
What is the lens?
This muscle elevates the eyebrows.
What is the frontalis?
This artery supplies the hindbrain.
What is the basilar artery?
This Christmas song talks of snowy conditions like we have now.
What is White Christmas?
This bone is at the very posterior side of skull.
What is the occipital bone?
This is the part of the brain under the cerebrum.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
This muscle closes the eyelids and originates on the frontal and maxillary bones.
What is the orbicularis oculi?
This artery branches off the cerebral arterial circle.
What is the cerebral artery?
This Christmastime character has an appropriately chilly name, but a friendly demeanor.
Who is Frosty the Snowman?
You find these little holes on either side of the mandible.
What are the mental foramina?
This structure is the bulge in front of the cerebellum.
What is the pons?
Name the three middle ear bones.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
This muscle elevates the corners of the mouth (such as in smiling).
What is the zygomaticus?
These two arteries thread through the foramen magnum and form the basilar artery.
What are the vertebral arteries?
This song sung by Bing Crosby means Merry Christmas in native Hawaiian.
What is Mele Kalikimaka?
This raised feature of the ethmoid bone is also called the cockscomb.
What is the crista galli?
Name the four ventricles of the brain.
What are the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles?
This cranial nerve innervates the cochlea and is responsible for transmitting auditory and balance information.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
This muscle is the insertion point for both the zygomaticus and the buccinator.
What is the orbicularis oris?
These arteries branch off the common carotid arteries and directly enter through the carotid canal.
What are the internal carotid arteries?
This Halloween movie is also a Christmas movie whose main protagonist is a dapperly dressed skeleton.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This bones are also called the cheek bones.
What are the zygomatic bones?
This structure connects the third and fourth ventricle and supplies the brain with cerebrospinal fluid.
What is the cerebral aqueduct?
This small area in the back of the retina is also called the blind spot.
What is the optic disc?
These three neck muscles all originate on the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae, laterally flex the neck, and all share the second part of their names with a type of triangle.
What are the anterior, middle, and posterior scalenes?
These veins drain the brain and anterior part of the head and neck.
What are the internal jugular veins?
This book and movie featuring the voice of Tom Hanks among others is about a train that takes people on a visit to Santa's workshop and the North Pole.
What is The Polar Express?
This suture connects the frontal and parietal bones.
What is the coronal suture?
These are cranial nerves I and II and are responsible for processing smell and vision information respectively.
What are the olfactory and optic nerves?
What are the superior, inferior, lateral, and medial recti, and the superior and inferior obliques?
These muscles are innervated by the vagus nerve.
What are the pharyngeal constrictors?
This drains into the internal jugular veins.
What is the sigmoid sinus?
This Christmas song infamously recounts Santa Claus's most deadly sleighing accident.
What is Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?
This neck bone moves when you speak and swallow.
What is the hyoid bone?
These are the wrinkles and the spaces between the wrinkles on the cerebrum respectively.
What are gyri and sulci?
This sphincter muscle controls the stretching and contracting of the lens.
What is the ciliary muscle?
This muscle attaches to a bone and elevates and retracts it during speaking and swallowing.
What is the stylohyoid?
This drains into the transverse sinus.
What is the straight sinus?
The story of this popular dinosaur movie strangely takes place on Isla Nublar during the winter holidays (though you wouldn't know it from the island weather :) ).
What is Jurassic World?
This bone is partly what splits the nasal cavity in two.
What is the vomer?
This internal structure keeps the brain's two cerebral hemispheres together.
What is the corpus callosum?
The dark hole in the center of the iris that dilates and shrinks to control how much light enters the eye.
What is the pupil?
These paired muscles are found on either side of the head over temporal and parietal bones.
What are the temporalis muscles?
This drains the cerebrum.
What is the superior sagittal sinus?
These are the names of Santa's 8 reindeer (not counting Rudolph).
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen?
This feature of the sphenoid bone is also called the Turkish saddle.
What is the sella turcica?
This tiny gland hangs at the base of the brain and produces many essential hormones.
What is the pituitary gland?
This structure is also known as the eardrum.
What is the tympanic membrane?
This muscle elevates and protrudes the mandible.
What is the masseter?
This drains into the straight sinus and drains the forebrain.
What is the inferior sagittal sinus?
This sweet confectionary dish is often spoken of in many classical Christmas songs.
What is figgy pudding?
This large hole in the occipital bone attaches your skull to you neck vertebrae.
What is the foramen magnum?
Name the four cerebral lobes of the brain.
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes?
This muscle pulls back to help protect the tympanic membrane and other structures from harsh noises.
What is the tensor tympani muscle?
All of the Arch 2 muscles are innervated by this nerve.
What is the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII)?
What is the transverse sinus?
This Christmas song sung by Bing Crosby translates from Latin to "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and the first part and chorus is sung by Crosby in Latin.
What is Adeste Fideles?