True or False
True or false: Like your fingerprints, your tongue print is also unique.
What is true?
The number of bones in an adult human body.
What is 206?
The fibrous tissue which connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus and is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.
What is Achilles tendon?
The % of your body that is made up of water.
What is 70%? (65-75% is acceptable)
The hardest substance in the human body.
What is your teeth?
True or false: You get taller when you go into space.
What is true? (Because there is less gravity, your vertebrae do not compress as much, and you become taller.)
The biggest bone in your body.
What is the femur? (It connects the bottom of your hip to your knee.)
The strongest muscle in the human body: the tongue, the jaw, or the triceps.
What is the jaw?
The average human height for females.
What is 1.6m (5'3")?
The body part that is the same length as your thumb.
What is your nose?
True or false: An adult human body has about 200 bones, while a newborn's body has about 300 bones.
What is true? Some bones in the infant’s skull have not yet fused together and so the infant has more bones than a fully formed adult.
The location of the smallest bone in your body.
What is your ear? (stapes)
The location of the smallest muscles in your body.
What is inside your ear?
The average human weight. (closest wins)
What is 62 kg (137 lbs)?
The average human height for males.
What is 1.7m (5'6")?
True or False: Your body's temperature rises slightly during digestion.
What is true?
The number of bones in the human feet? (closest wins)
What is 52?
The number of muscles it takes to smile. (closest wins)
What is 17?
The number of times an average person blinks in one day. (closest wins)
What is 20,000 times?
The average lifespan of humans. (closest wins)
What is 79?
True or false: Most of the dust in your home is made of human skin.
What is false? Even though some of the dust does come from your skin, they mostly come from other things like insects or construction.
The only bone in the human body not connected to other bones, is horseshoe-shaped "H" bone, and also known as the lingual or tongue-bone.
What is the hyoid?
The number of muscles you use to frown. (closest wins)
What is 43?
How much is an average person's heartbeat in one day? (closest wins)
100,000 beats.
The animal that makes the greatest number of humans die. (snakes, bees, sharks, house flies)
What are house flies? (They spread diseases.)