Human Biology

Free Quiz Questions on Biology. Topics include bones, muscles, nerves and blood.

What is the average UK shoe size for women?
size 6
How many times a minute does the average person blink?
10 times per minute
How many times a day does your heart beat: thousand, ten thousand or hundred thousand?
100000 heart beats
Yukichi Chuganji has just been named world’s oldest man by Guinness Book of Records. How old is he?
112 years old
What percentage of British women have a baby by the time they’re 20 years old (ie – teenage mothers)?
12 per cent
How long was the world’s longest erect penis measured at? (Jonagh Falcon, New York)
13½ inches
How long was the longest ever female beard - owned by Janice Devree of Washington USA?
14 inches
How fast do nerve impulses to the brain: 10mph, 150 mph, 5500 mph?
150mph
What percentage of white British people have a black ancestor?
20 per cent
What age are you when your brain has the most brain cells: 20 years old, 40 years old or 60 years old?
20 years old
Within ten bones: how many bones are there in a normal human body?
206 bones
What % of Scots adults are medically definted as obese? (figures from June 2004)
21 per cent
What was the shoe size of the biggest ever human feet?
25 and a half
How many whole pounds does the avg. human brain weigh?
3 lbs
How many pounds does the average human brain weigh?
3 pounds
How many whole pounds does the average human brain weigh?
3 pounds
How many teeth does a normal adult human being have contained in their mouth?
32 teeth
How much time does the average man spend shaving in his entire life: 4 days, 4 weeks or 4 months?
4 months
How tall is the average British bloke?
5 foot ten (178 cm)
How many inches does the average man’s chin hair grow in one year? Answer in inches.
5 inches
Roughly how many grams of dirt do we carry on our bodies at one time? 50 grams or 500 grams?
50 grams
How many litres of blood are there in the human body: 6, 16 or 60?
6 litres
In metres, how long was the longest recorded human hair in the world?
6.2metres
What is the average number of minutes it takes a person to fall asleep at night?
7 minutes
Men speak about 2000 words a day – how many do women speak? Get within 1000 for points.
7000 [Accept answers within 6000 - 8000]
What percentage of adult men have a penis under 6 inches in length? [erect – if anyone asks]
75 per cent
How tall was the tallest guy in the world? (Robert Wadlow)
8’11”
If you leave a dead body outside… in warm weather, how long does it take to decompose completely and leave just a skeleton? 9 days, 9 weeks or 9 months?
9 days
To the nearest foot, was world’s tallest man (Robert Wadlow) 7 feet, 8 feet or 9 feet tall?
9 feet (precisely 8 feet and 11.1 inches)
How many pints of blood are there in the average man?
9 pints (5 litres)
Where are the fastest growing hairs on the average man: top-of-head hair, beard hair or pubic hair?
Beard hair
How is an ocular contusion more commonly known?
Black eye
Which beards grow faster: blond beards or dark beards?
Blonde
Who have the highest density of hairs on their heads: Redheads, Blondes or Brunettes?
Blondes
What is classified by the A B O system
Blood Groups
Which organ in your body is home to the “inferior temporal cortex”?
Brain
Which element is a soft greay alkaline earth metal and is found in bones, shells and teeth?
Calcium
What word is the name given to the smallest blood vessels in the body?
Capillaries
Which has more bones: a cat skeleton or a human skeleton?
Cat (230 bones - humans have 206)
What would you suffer from if you had dichromatic vision?
Colour Blindness
How much sweat do your feet produce every day: An egg-cup full, A tea-cup full or a wine-bottle full?
egg-cup full
Glaucoma affects which part of the body?
Eyes
On average what does it take a man 7 minutes to do in bed?
fall asleep
Which corpses burn faster at the crematorium: fat people or thin people?
Fat people
Which grow faster on most normal human beings – fingernails or toenails?
Fingernails
What is there more of in Scotland: ginger people or left-handers?
Gingers
Who has more teeth: an adult human or an adult grizzly bear?
Grizzly bear
Where is the one bone in your body that isn't connected to any other: your head, your foot, or your torso?
Head (inside the ear)
Where is the smallest bone in the human body: the head, the foot or the penis?
Head (stirrup bone in eardrum)
If you were suffering from Hypertension what would the problem be?
high blood pressure
When Japanese and British businessmen go out for a drink, the different racial make-ups generally mean that the two get drunk at different rates despite dirnking the same amount of booze. Who gets pissed easier and ends up under the table first: Brits or Japanese?
Japanese
What name is given to the veins that drain blood from the head
jugular veins
Where in your body is your patella?
Knee ( it's the kneecap )
Strenuous exercise can cause a build up of which acid in the muscles?
Lactic
Where does the largest organism is the world live: on the land, in the sea or in the air?
Land (its some kind of fungus OR a multiple tree-clone thing… debate over which)
What is the scientific name for the jawbone?
Mandible
Which sex is six times more likely to be hit by lightning: Men or Women?
Men
Who are more likely to fall out of bed: men or women?
Men
In Britain are there more men or more women who are overweight?
More men
Most ordinary people blink once every four seconds. Do newsreaders on TV blink more often, less often, or just the same as everyone else?
More often
If you suffer from epistaxis what is wrong?
Nosebleed
Compared to the 1950s, are British women’s breasts bigger or smaller than they used to be?
Now they are bigger!
If a Dog is a Carnivore, what are most Humans?
Omnivores
Which painful thing will your brain detect faster: someone pricking your hand with a safety pin or someone burning your hand with a lighter
Prick
What do most people have 24 of: Teeth, Ribs or chromosomes?
Ribs
Which activity burns most energy: driving a car or riding a horse?
Riding a horse
Which is the bigger lung in most humans: the Left or the Right?
Right (the heart is positioned slightly to the left so the right lung has more room)
In a human body, what is the scapula better known as?
Shoulder Blade
What is the average UK shoe size for men?
Size 9
Which organ weighs more: the your skin or your brain?
Skin
Who will die quicker: Someone deprived of sleep or someone deprived of food?
Sleep
When is the brain more active? Sleeping or Watching television.
Sleeping
Is human blood slightly acid or slightly alkaline?
Slightly alkaline
Does the hair on your head grow more quickly in the summer or the winter?
Summer
Ageusia is the loss of which sense?
Taste
If your lungs were laid out flat: would they cover a snooker table, a tennis court or a football pitch?
Tennis court
Where in your body is the biggest muscle?
The arse (gluteus maxiums)
What organ in your body contains parts called 'cones' and 'rods'?
The eye
Which parent’s chromosomes determine the sex of a human child: the father or the mother?
The father
Which part of the human body contains the most gold: the eyeballs, the toenails or the liver?
Toenails
What is the hardest material in the human body?
Tooth enamel
Which sex blinks their eyes twice as much: men or women?
Women
According to scientific research: who are better at spelling: men or women?
Women
Who are twice as likely to suffer insomnia: men or women?
Women
Who get more headaches: men or Women?
Women
If you suffered from astigmatism, what part of your body would be affected?
your eye