Quiztime

 

Okay, okay. The day has arrived for another exciting edition of "Quiztime" with your genial host Persimmon Pudding. As intelligent visitors to this channel will appreciate, our team of quiz question setters often struggle to find themes that have worldwide relevance. However, this week they have excelled themselves. The theme is bones - a truly international topic.  As usual, answers will be given in the comments section.

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1) In a normal adult human skeleton how many bones are there?

(a) 106 (b) 206  (c) 506 (d) 1006

2) What is this human bone called? 

(Clues: we have two of them/ much bigger in real life)

3) Where will you find your metacarpals?

4) In the spiritual song "Dem Bones" which bone is the knee bone connected to?

5) This is the skeleton of an animal but which animal?

(a) horse (b) mouse (c) stegosaurus (d) rabbit

6) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones".  Part of a funeral oration, in which Shakespeare play will you find this remark?

(a) "Julius Caesar" (b) "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

(c) "All's Well That Ends Well" (d) "As You Like It"

7) This is the biggest bone in the human body but what is it called?

(a)radius (b) femur (c) tibia (d) humerus

8) Which one of these "bones" is NOT found in the inner ear?

(a) stirrup (b) anvil (c) hammer (d) drum

9) Below - some bone-shaped biscuits for dogs but what is the brand name?

(a) "Woofalot" (b) "Bonio" (c) "K.Nine" (d) "Waggy"

10) What is by far the principal mineral that makes bones hard and strong?

(a) calcium phosphate (b) sodium chloride

 (c) iron sulphate (d) magnesium phosphate

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That's all folks! How did you do?