10 questions with answers about Science & the body, from the free QuizBoards pack – the full theme holds 55. Each category holds five questions of rising difficulty and point value.
100. This many teeth make up a full adult set, including the wisdom teeth
Answer: 32
200. The only human organ that can grow back after a large part is removed — in the myth it was torn out of Prometheus every day.
Answer: The liver
300. This bone in the middle ear is the body's smallest and barely three millimetres long.
Answer: The stapes (stirrup)
400. The body's longest and thickest nerve, running from the lower back down the leg
Answer: The sciatic nerve
500. The blood type called "golden blood", because fewer than a hundred known people in the world have it
Answer: Rh-null
100. The planet known for its spectacular rings of ice and rock
Answer: Saturn
200. The planet where the sun rises in the west because it spins backwards and which is the hottest in the solar system thanks to its dense atmosphere
Answer: Venus
300. The red dwarf star just over four light-years away that is the Sun's nearest neighbour but too faint for the naked eye
Answer: Proxima Centauri
400. The red giant star in the constellation Orion expected to explode as a supernova, becoming bright enough to be seen in broad daylight.
Answer: Betelgeuse
500. The distant shell of icy bodies far beyond the planets, considered the home of long-period comets, named after a Dutch astronomer.
Answer: The Oort Cloud