Q 01/05

How many bones are there in a human foot?

A) 6

B) 13

C) 26

D) 52

Answer · why

C) 26

26. That gives a pair of feet 52 bones, about a quarter of all the bones in the body, held together by 33 joints in each foot.

Q 02/05

Which bone, the largest in the foot, forms the heel?

A) The talus

B) The navicular

C) The calcaneus

D) The cuboid

Answer · why

C) The calcaneus

The calcaneus takes the body's full weight in a fall, and a break there was nicknamed the lover's fracture, after suitors leaping from balconies to av...

Q 03/05

What name do the bones of the toes share with the bones of the fingers?

A) Phalanges

B) Metatarsals

C) Carpals

D) Metacarpals

Answer · why

A) Phalanges

Phalanges, from the phalanx, the ancient battle line: anatomists saw the rows of finger and toe bones fitting together like infantry in close order.

Q 04/05

Which condition crippled soldiers standing in waterlogged boots?

A) Athlete's foot

B) Club foot

C) Drop foot

D) Trench foot

Answer · why

D) Trench foot

Trench foot got its name in the trenches of the First World War. Armies cut the toll with whale oil rubbed into the skin and by pairing soldiers off, ...

Q 05/05

A second toe that is longer than the big toe is nicknamed what?

A) Roman foot

B) Egyptian foot

C) Greek foot

D) Persian foot

Answer · why

C) Greek foot

Greek foot. Doctors call it Morton's toe, after the American surgeon who in 1927 named it metatarsus atavicus, taking it for a throwback to our ancest...