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Reptilian Region
Limbic Region
Neocortex Region
Cellular Structures
Nervous System
100

The nickname for this brain region is based on the entire structure of the reptilian brain.

What is lizard brain?

100

This is another name for the limbic system.

What is the emotional brain?

100

The function of the neocortex region.

What is executive function?

100
This is the number of letters in the alphabet.
What is 26?
100

In the nursery rhyme, 'Hey Diddle, Diddle', this is what the cow did.

What is jumped over the moon?

200

These are the two structures found in the reptilian brain.

What are the brainstem and the cerebellum?

200

This structure is associated with fear and responsible for releasing the stress hormone cortisol.

What is the amygdala?

200

This lobe is responsible for processing vision.

What is the occipital lobe?

200
This is the country that Paris is in.
What is France?
200
This is what the Spanish word, 'adios', means in English.
What is 'good-bye'?
300

This critical brain feature is responsible for alertness and attention.

What is the reticular activating system (RAS)?

300

This structure houses short-term, working, and long-term memory.

What is the hippocampus?

300
In the movie 'Toy Story', this actor played Woody.
Who is Tom Hanks?
300
The kind of animal that Wilbur was in Charlotte's Web
What is a pig?
300
Name the baby names of each of these animals: bear, cat, deer, and pig.
What is a cub, kitten, fawn, piglet?
400

Name three of the automatic body functions controlled by the reptilian region.

What is breathing, heartbeat, body temperature, digestion, blood pressure, or balance.

400

The structure through which all incoming sensory information from the RAS (except smell) passes.

What is the thalamus?

400
Stuart Little was this kind of animal.
What is a mouse?
400
This person discovered gravity. (Abrahan Lincoln, Sir Isaac Newton, Pluto)
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
400
A pediatrician is this kind of doctor.
What is a children's doctor?
500

Name the two things the RAS detects from the environment.

What are novelty or relevant events/information?

500

Name three things that this region links together.

What are emotions, behavior, and cognition?

500
The names of the seven dwarfs from Snow White.
What are Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy?
500
The loudest noise made by any animal on Earth.(hint: it's a mammal that lives in the ocean)
What is the blue whale's whistle?
500
The only planet in our solar system that rotates in a different direction from the other planets.
What is Venus? (it rotates in a counterclockwise direction)