BBMEDSCI JEOPARDY 2025

Basic Anatomy

100

The study of the structure of living things, including the relationships between their body parts, organs, tissues, and cells.

What is Anatomy?

200

This number is most commonly associated with the number of bones in the adult human's body. 

What is 206?

300

This type of muscle is striated and under involuntary control. 

What is cardiac muscle?

400

A section of human anatomy divided into Cervical, Thoracic,  Lumbar, Sacral and Coccygeal sections.

What is the Spine?

500

This section of the body is known to have a decreased sensation when damage is done to sections of the ulnar nerve.

What is the arm? 

Basic Pharmacology

100

The term used to describe the study of how drugs interact with the human body. 

What is Pharmacology 

200

The general name for a substance used to prevent, diagnose, or treat a disease or illness. 

What is a drug?

300

This term refers to the inactive substance sometimes used in clinical trials to make comparisons against a real drug. 

What is a Placebo?

400

The study of what a drug does the body, including its effects and mechanisms of action. 

What is pharmacodynamics?

500

This term describes how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes and eliminates a drug. 

What is Pharmacokinetics?

Basic Physiology

100

The study of how the human body and its part work or function.

What is physiology?

200

This system of the body is responsible for pumping blood and carrying oxygen to the tissues. 

What is the cardiovascular system?

Nb: Accept Circulatory 

300

This organ is responsible for the release of 8 hormones and is a major part of the human endocrine system.

What is the pituitary gland?

400

This term describes the body’s ability to maintain a stable internal environment.

What is Homeostasis 

500

This term is used to describe the influx of Positive ions (Na⁺) into the neuronal cells and is the beginning phase of an Action potential.

What is depolarization?

General Science

100

The largest internal organ of the body.

What is the liver?

200

This is 6^th element of the periodic table and is often considered the most essential element for life. 

What is carbon?

300

This is the main function of mitochondria in eukaryotic cells. 

What is energy production?

400

This structure is responsible for preventing food from entering the larynx(airway). 

What is the epiglottis? 

500

The strongest muscle in the human body. 

What is the masseter? 

Nb. Accept any variation of Jaw/ mandible 

Bonus Questions

100

The bones that make up the middle ear behind the eardrum. 

Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup.

Nb. Accept Malleus, Incus and Stapes 

200

The strongest chamber of the human heart.

What is the left Ventricle?

300

The standard unit of measurement used for blood pressure.

What is millimeters of mercury (mmHg)? 

400

The classification given to drugs like DPH, claritin and Benadryl. 

What are Antihistamines?

500

This is the only free floating bone in the human body, playing an important role is speech and swallowing. 

What is the hyoid?