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Can you name the bones of the human skeleton? Enter a bone in the box below Correctly named bones will show up on below Artwork by Laura Rammé McOmber Head, hand and foot bones have been grouped for the purposes of this quiz. You've got 8 minutes after you hit the start button.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3587 TV Shows (U.S.) 2834 Broadway Opening Lines 2774 You Do Know Jack 1228 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1147 Same Last Name 1003 And more...
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	chillicothe20:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 08:41 GMT	15 points
	Tarsuls and Metatarsuls should be "tarsals" and "metatarsals". It's an A not a U.

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	ithinkiamsteven:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 08:47 GMT	7 points
	Correct the spelling of (meta)tarsals. Plurals should not be required. The inclusion and exclusion of certain bones in this quiz seems a little arbitrary.

	Liz:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 08:55 GMT	8 points
	The misspelling of "tarsals" really threw me off.

	John Lambeth:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 09:01 GMT	18 points
	@demo0043: singular of phalanges is phalanx, not phalange

	Adrian:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 09:02 GMT	14 points
	It's always the spelling. Coccyx, you win this round.

	davidr:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	Why is `skull' accepted for cranium but not `jaw' for mandible?

	Phil_Rose:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 13:50 GMT	4 points
	Couldn't remember the sacrum or calcaneus. If only A&P was this easy...

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	slew:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 16:42 GMT	4 points
	Yeah, I was thrown off when put rib and it didn't accept it without the "s", but phalanges was accepted without it. Nice quiz. With all the running injuries, I might have gotten every bone in the foot. Too bad I never hurt my spine.

	Rob Button:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 19:02 GMT	13 points
	Why not name the bones of the skull/cranium? Maybe a seperate quiz? And what about the inner ear bones?

	magister:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 19:29 GMT	8 points
	I agree with Button. Organs of the body, muscles. There's a lot in the human body left to do. And in the spirit of the "Countries of the World" quiz, you could put them all together!

	Pughy:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 19:49 GMT	1 point
	I agree. Would be nice to see the detail from the country naming quizzes with the human body. Inclusion of the names of the tarsal and carpals perhaps?

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	sactoshc:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 20:20 GMT	9 points
	Fun quiz. Button and magister are right. There's a lot of unlocked sporcle potential left in the human body. :)

	sevorak:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 20:28 GMT	4 points
	You have the hyoid bone but not the malleus, incus, and stapes?

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	briben78:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 22:08 GMT	11 points
	Yes yes more anatomy please!

	shel99:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 22:39 GMT	-1 points
	must be my computer but it didn't accept some of them that turned out to be right and I know I spelled them correctly.

	tony:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 22:48 GMT	6 points
	I'm suing the Dry Bones song. There's no toe bone. It's not connected to a foot bone. I get no credit for ankle bone. I got, like, 3. Boo Quiz.

	oelnay:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 23:55 GMT	3 points
	Aren't there 3 bones in the ear?

	Eleanor:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 23:58 GMT	0 points
	I kept spelling humerus wrong... Sigh..

	Brandon:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 00:15 GMT	3 points
	skull counts as a "scientific" term, jaw does not

	magister:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 01:09 GMT	2 points
	@oelnay: There are three bones in the ear, as given by Brian above. That being said, this is a very small list. There's a lot of different bones within the skull itself.

	starsaphire:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 02:05 GMT	2 points
	24 right on my first try! Three cheers for my 7th Grade Biology teacher. Thank you Mr. Westphal, wherever you are!

	ElDavo:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 02:19 GMT	0 points
	Got 11/24... which is sad because I knew more than that before takinng this quiz and knew even more than that back in middle school and probably elementary school.

	Delphi:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 03:29 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz but it would be much better if it included all the bones instead of grouping some together. It seems a bit random which have been included/left off. The calcaneus is one of the tarsals for example.

	bluesixstring:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 10:36 GMT	8 points
	Evidently, what I know about the human skeleton could be counted on five phalanges.

	Lindsay:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 21:33 GMT	2 points
	I've been waiting for this quiz forever, so I was pretty bummed to see 206 bones condensed down into just a few answers. This quiz is like putting together the Countries of the World quiz, but leaving off all the island nations. It should be all or none. I'm disappointed, Sporcle!

	Ally:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 00:20 GMT	2 points
	24/29.. not bad for having Anatomy 4.5 years ago!

	MissInformed:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 19:00 GMT	-3 points
	Well I liked it.

	eln77:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 20:57 GMT	2 points
	haha i was struggling to remember what the toe bones were called and in desperation typed in "toe bones" and it took it! I had no idea "toe bones" was an acceptable scientific term.

	Jess:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 04:37 GMT	4 points
	Pretty good, but I don;t get why calcaneus is on there since none of the other tarsals are/tarsals is already an option. Also, I would definitely like to so all the bones of the skull.

	Lindsay:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 06:55 GMT	3 points
	Hey, don't get me wrong - I liked the quiz for sure. I was just disappointed that when I finally got a quiz in my area of "expertise" (I'm in medicine), it was too simple. I was hoping to get to test myself on all the little bones of the wrist/foot/ear/skull/etc. But I still love this site anyways!

	SydneyE:	Dec 23rd, 2008 at 23:05 GMT	1 point
	I kept getting screwed by my inability to spell. It seems unfair that I lose a point for "illium." I swear, I'm trying to be a better speller, but as I no longer have to take quizzes in physical anthropology, bone names are pretty far down on my list for work.

	Lindsay:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 08:35 GMT	1 point
	I know I've been super nit-picky about this quiz, but technically the ilium, ischium, and pubis are not separate bones, but are all parts of a single bone, the hip bone.

	U.S.S. Defiant:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 01:43 GMT	-1 points
	I know quite a bit of anatomy, but I only got 22. And really? Calcaneus? Hyoid bone? I got coccyx, forgot sacrum and cervical vertebrae (again), and forgot ilium, ischium, and pubis.

	tony:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	3 points
	A more detailed quiz on bones would be nice. It should have as many of the 206 bones as possible. Let's see how many can name all the carpal bones.

	sassinak:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 16:37 GMT	-2 points
	um no, the calcaneus is NOT a tarsal bone... but why is it included when the talus is not? why is the pelvis split into three (and doesn't take pubus pubic or pubic symphysis) but the skull is not? where are the rest of the bones? seriously we get hyoid but not the ear bones? but why?

	Etheridge2:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 00:24 GMT	1 point
	so why aren't incus, stapes, and malleus not on this list? I know them as the 3 smallest bones in the human body located in the ear.