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Middle round (ages 9–11): Your body. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.

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🎯 Peabody Trivia: Middle roundYour body

1. What happens to the pupils of your eyes in bright light?

A. they change color
B. they get smaller
C. they get bigger

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2. Where in your body is your smallest bone?

A. in the little toe
B. in the ear
C. in the nose

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3. Which waste gas do your lungs breathe out?

A. carbon dioxide
B. helium
C. oxygen

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4. Which wide teeth at the back of your mouth grind up food?

A. the incisors
B. the molars
C. the canines

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5. How many chambers, or rooms, does the human heart have?

A. two
B. four
C. six

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6. About how many muscles are in your body?

A. fewer than 200
B. fewer than 60
C. more than 600

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7. How many bones does a grown-up's body have?

A. 106
B. 206
C. 406

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8. About how many taste buds is a person born with?

A. about 10,000
B. about 100
C. about 1 million

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The key (for the host: fold this page back)

B: they get smaller. The pupil is really an opening that lets light into your eye.
B: in the ear. It is called the stapes, or stirrup, and it helps you hear.
A: carbon dioxide. Your lungs take oxygen into your blood and let carbon dioxide out.
B: the molars. Your tongue pushes chewed food back to the molars to be mashed.
B: four. The top two are the atria and the bottom two are the ventricles.
C: more than 600. Muscles do jobs from pumping blood to lifting a heavy backpack.
B: 206. A baby starts with about 300 bones, and some of them grow together.
A: about 10,000. Taste buds sit in the little bumps on top of your tongue, called papillae.

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