15 October 2025

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?

25 comments:

  1. Answers
    1. (b) 206
    2. scapula/ shoulder blade
    3. in your hands
    4. the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone
    5. (d) rabbit
    6. (a) "Julius Caesar"
    7. (b) femur
    8. (d) drum
    9. (b) "Bonio"
    10. (a) calcium phosphate

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  2. 6/10. I'd like a half point for question #4, please. It depends which part of the song you're singing (it goes in reverse at one point) whether the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone or the leg bone. I've never heard of Bonios. We have Milk Bones over here. I also missed rabbit (I was wavered between that and mouse) and the number of bones. I'm currently working a jigsaw puzzle of the human skeletal system and it sure seems like more than 206!

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    1. There are different versions of that song so being the generous fellow I am I will allow you the extra half point.

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  3. Ah, only 9 correct this week.

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  4. 7 out of 10 correct.

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  5. Nine out of ten for me. With a doctor for a daughter it couldnt be less. But the dog biscuit stumped me getting a perfect score.

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    1. A quiz about bones and the biscuits were bone-shaped - "Bonio"!

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    2. I used to give my dog Bonios but they were enormous bone-shaped bars. The smaller ones, as in the photo, were called Gravy Bones. That's what threw me.

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    3. And the easy connection we were supposed to make between BONE-shaped biscuits and the name BONio felt just too easy, like a trick question.

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  6. All right , but hey I’m a nurse

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    1. You mean nurses cheat by using their smartphones?

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  7. I got them all except #9 -- "Bonio." Never heard of that brand. Or the other ones, quite frankly. In North America, those bone-shaped doggy treats are called "Milk Bones."

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    1. Please see my response to Meike the LIbrarian below.

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  8. I had no way of knowing #9, and I don't know the song "Dem Bones", so I missed #4 as well. With #1, funnily enough I knew that this exact question (without multiple choice answers) had been asked some years ago at the Pub Quiz in my local, but I forgot the correct answer and opted wrongly for 506.
    Result: 7 out of 10, while I still think asking for a particular brand of dog bisquits is NOT a truly international topic.

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    1. The quiz was about bones and the dog biscuits were bone-shaped - hence "Bonio". Contestants were being led to that option rather than the other three.

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  9. 8/10...not bad! Missed 1 and 3.( Bones are on my mind having had a hip replacement 2 weeks ago!!)

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    1. Rather you than me Frances. I hope that your recovery has started off well - without complications.

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  10. 9/10 today, I didn't know which Shakespeare play.

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  11. 7 out of 10 correct, glad I am not that kind of a doctor.

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  12. 7/10! Failed on 1,3, and 10!
    Addy is right about the dog bones - those in your photo aren't Bonios, they are too small and the wrong shape.

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  13. 10/10 - though No 1 was in a quiz I did on Tuesday. The question was 206 B in a HB

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  14. 1. 206
    2. Clavicle. Wrong.
    3. Hands
    4. Thigh Bone
    5. Rabbit
    6. All's Well ... Wrong.
    7. Tibia. Wrong.
    8. Drum
    9. Milk Bones Wrong? In the US Milk Bones look like the photo
    10. Calcium

    6, or maybe 7, of ten correct.

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  15. 8/10 - 206 seems far too small a number of bones!!

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