The Human Body: An Amazing Machine!

#41 Week 9

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
February 26, 2025

Uncover the fascinating facts behind the body’s incredible functions!

  1. The body has many organs, and the word organ itself means tool or instrument. Which organ is the largest?

  2. What in the body is responsible for producing insulin?

  3. The skeleton is the body's supporting framework of bones, connected by joints. How many bones does the human body consist of?

  4. Where in the body is blood produced?

  5. How many teeth does an adult usually have if we count the wisdom teeth?

  6. Which gland is the largest in the human body?

  7. What part of the human eye can be transplanted from a deceased donor to a living person?

  8. What part of the brain produces oxytocin in humans?

  9. The triangular bone scapula, do you know where to find it?

  10. What is the smallest muscle in the body?

The Wonder Wall

  • Your left lung is smaller (about 10%) than the right because your heart is where the middle lobe on your left lung would be. Your left lung has two parts that your right lung doesn't have: the cardiac notch (where your heart fits) and the lingula, an extension of the superior lobe.

  • “little mouse“, which is what Ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled.

  • You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. In what novel from 1920, created by author Agatha Christie, do we meet the eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot?

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  2. What is the name of the disheveled cigar-smoking Los Angeles homicide detective first portrayed on television by Peter Falk in 1968?

    Peter Falk made his first appearance as Columbo in the 1968 TV movie Prescription: Murder.

  3. What is fictional detective Morse’s first name?

    Featuring in 13 novels and two television series, fictional detective Morse’s first name is Endeavour. This is not revealed until the 1996 novel, Death Is Now My Neighbour.

  4. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’s brother?

    Mycroft Holmes is the elder brother of Sherlock Holmes.

  5. Inspector Bucket is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?

    Inspector Bucket is the fictional detective who appears in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. He has been called the first important detective in English literature.

  6. Who plays DCI John Luther in the BBC series Luther?

    Idris Elba

  7. Which teenage detective stars in a book series by Carolyn Keene and solves mysteries with her friends Bess and George?

    Nancy Drew. Created by the publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series, the character first appeared in 1930 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, which lasted until 2003 and consisted of 175 novels.

  8. Which fictional detective, created by Stieg Larsson, is a skilled hacker and investigator?

    Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson in his award-winning Millennium series. She first appeared in the 2005 novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as an antisocial computer hacker with a photographic memory who teams up with Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium. Salander reappears in The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007), sequels that Larsson had written before he died in 2004.

  9. What is the name of the long-running detective show starring Brenda Blethyn?

    Vera is a British crime drama television series based on the Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves. It ran on ITV for 14 years from 1 May 2011 to 2 January 2025 and starred Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.

  10. Who was the original lead detective in Midsomer Murders?

    DCI Tom Barnaby