1. Everyone is born color-blind

True
False

2. How many calories do teenage girls (ages 11-14) need each day?

A. 1600 calories
B. 2200 calories
C. 2800 calories
D. 3200 calories

3. How many miles does your blood travel in one day?

A. 1200
B. 12,000
C. 120,000

4. What does your appendix do?

A. helps to digest foods
B. nothing
C. produces important hormones for the large intestine
D. helps the body fight infection

5. What percentage of your bones are water?

A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 75%

6. Which is longer, the small or large intestine?

A. small intestine
B. large intestine

7. How many times per day does the heart beat?

A. 1,000
B. 10,000
C. 100,000
D. 1,000,000

8. How many gallons of blood does the heart pump each day?

A. 80
B. 800
C. 8,000
D. 80,000

9. How many muscles are there in the human body?

A. 6
B. 60
C. 600
D. 6,000

10. How long does it take a meal to travel through your digestive system?

A. 1-3 hours
B. 5-10 hours
C. 12-15 hours
D. about 24 hours

11. How many bones in the human body?

A. 100
B. 150
C. 206
D. 327

12. What is your body's largest organ?

A. skin
B. liver
C. small intestines
D. stomach

13. What is the most common blood type?

A. type O
B. type A
C. type B
D. type AB

14. How many different viruses can cause the common cold?

A. 20
B. 80
C. 200
D. 800

15. What is the leading cause of death for adolescents and young adults in the U.S.?

A. Heart disease
B. Alcohol related car accidents
C. Cancer
D. Violent crimes

16. How long does the average teatnus shot last?

A. 1 year
B. 5 years
C. 10 years
D. 15 years

17. Your two month old baby has a temperature of 101 degrees rectally in the middle of the night. What should you do?

A. Give him acetaminophen to bring down the fever
B. Call your doctor immediately
C. Do nothing. The fever will come down on its own
D. Give the baby a tepid bath

18. Mediciation containing aspirin is the best choice to give a child in pain

True
False

19. Teenage boys sometimes develop a small amount of breast tissue.

True
False

20. One in sixty girls will have started puberty by the age of eight.

True
False