This is the chamber of the heart responsible for pumping blood to the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
This muscle is primarily responsible for breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
A bone disease that makes bones weak, brittle, and fragile.
What is osteoporosis?
This is the only U.S. state that can be typed out using only a single row of keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
What is Alaska?
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of this country.
What is Australia?
This valve lies between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This part of the brain controls the drive to breathe.
What is the medulla oblongata? (also acceptable are brainstem or pons)
This is the name for scarring of the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
This is the number of counties in the state of Maine.
What is 16?
This is the largest ocean on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The primary treatment for this arrhythmia is IV magnesium.
What is Torsades de Pointes?
An intubation that is too deep has likely gone into this part of the airway.
What is the right mainstem bronchus?
A heart disease where fat builds up in the arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
This historical event happened on April 15, 1912.
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
In golf, scoring 3 under par is called this.
What is an albatross? (will also accept double eagle)
This coronary artery is often called the "widow maker" when critically occluded.
What is the left anterior descending (LAD) artery?
This life-threatening emergency occurs when a part of (or all of) the lung collapses and puts crushing pressure on the heart.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
What is diverticulosis?
The Scoville scale measures the heat of this type of food.
What are chili peppers?
This animal has the highest blood pressure of any other animal.
What is a giraffe?
Cardiac output is determined by multiplying these two variables?
What are heart rate and stroke volume?
This type of respirations is often found in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis.
What are kussmaul respirations?
This disease is a neurologic condition where the body attacks the protective myelin sheath around nerves.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This is the location that Doritos were invented.
What is Disneyland? (Anaheim CA is also acceptable)
This is the hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus? (Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is the hottest due to a strong greenhouse effect)