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