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Which of your organs has stopped if you are experiencing a cardiac arrest?
heart
How many patellas do human beings have?
2 (kneecaps)
For what do the initials G.P. stand?
General Practitioner
What sort of patients does a paediatrician work with?
children
Which tubes carry oxygenated blood from the heart?
Arteries
What does a sphygmomanometer measure?
blood pressure
Which of your organs is approximately seven metres in length?
The small intestine
What links your spleen, your gall bladder, your appendix and one of your kidneys (amongst others)?
They are organs you can live without
At what stage of pregnancy does a baby’s heartbeat start? week 6 / week 16 / week 26 / week 36?
week 6
Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with which animal?
chimpanzee
More than half of your bones are located in which two parts of the body?
hands and feet
How many muscles are there in the body?
600
Who is credited with the 1928 discovery of penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Which key innovation, a way of taking a ‘photo’ of the inside of the body, was accidentally discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895?
Х-ray
In what year did the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic, which infected an estimated 500 million people and killed 50 million, begin?
1918
Marie Curie was instrumental in developing what as a therapeutic tool?
radiation
