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A Handy Quiz

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Thematic 10 Questions : A Handy Quiz

Introduction:
"You know them like the backs of your hands...so, how much do you know about your hands, and about hand-related topics?"


1. The phalanges are the bones in the fingers and thumbs. Assuming that you are blessed with two hands and the usual number of fingers, how many phalanges are there in your two hands?
    28
    30
    14
    10


2. What is the name for the five bones that you can feel running through the back of the hand?
    carpals
    metacarpals
    tarsals
    metatarsals


3. One of Henry VIII's wives is said to have had six fingers on each hand. Which wife?
    Anne of Cleves
    Anne Boleyn
    Catherine of Aragon
    Catherine Parr


4. In "The Addams Family", the household included a disembodied hand. What was the name of this hand?
    Handyman
    Fester
    Itt
    Thing


5. Which of these animals has a front limb based on the same vertebrate pentadactyl (five-fingered) limb that we see in humans?
    horse
    bird
    all of them
    whale


6. What is the name of the white, or pale, crescent-shaped area often found at the base of each fingernail?
    ligule
    eponychium
    lunula
    epidermis


7. Which part of the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland) has a Red Hand, or Bloody Hand, as a symbol on its flag?
    Scotland
    Ulster
    Northern Ireland
    Isle of Man


8. The 1981 horror film, "The Hand" was a re-make of which 1946 Hollywood horror classic?
    The Lizard's Tale
    The Fly
    A Child's Night Dream
    The Beast with Five Fingers


9. "Hands" is the title of a solo album by Bumblefoot. In 2006, this performer became a guitarist with which group?
    Metallica
    BuckCherry
    Guns N'Roses
    The Afghan Whigs


10. A different sort of hand... In the game of Contract Bridge, what hand of cards is described as a "Yarborough"?
    a hand containing all black-suited cards
    a hand containing all four aces
    a hand containing no card higher than a nine
    a hand containing eight or more trumps


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