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General Health Trivia

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  • Which of your organs is approximately seven metres in length?
    The small intestine
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  • At what stage of pregnancy does a baby’s heartbeat start? (week 6, week 16, week 26, week 36)?
    Week 6
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  • Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with which animal?
    Chimpanzee
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  • Which muscle of the human body can exert the most pressure?
    The jaw
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  • More than half of your bones are located in which two parts of the body?
    Hands and feet
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  • To the nearest hundred, how many muscles are there in the body?
    600
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  • In what year did the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic, which infected an estimated 500 million people and killed 50 million, begin?
    1918
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  • Joseph Murray performed the first of which type of operation in 1954? (Heart bypass, Kidney transplant, Lasik eye surgery)
    Organ (kidney) transplant
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  • Extremely rare today, which disease, caused by a lack of ascorbic acid in the body, was the scourge of sailors up until the mid-18th century?
    Scurvy, ARGGG
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  • Which P is a neurodegenerative disease which causes shaking of the hands?
    Parkinson's
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  • Which N can be found either side of the septum?
    Nostrils
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  • Which three diseases does the MMR vaccine protect you from?
    Measles, Mumps, Rubella
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  • Which tubes carry oxygenated blood from the heart?
    Arteries
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  • For what do the initials G.P. stand?
    General Practitioner
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  • Pituitary, Thyroid and Salivary are all types of what?
    Glands
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  • What sort of patients does a paediatrician work with?
    Children
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