Can you pick the path that a red blood cell follows in the circulatory system starting in the right atrium?
Click the matching answer button below Correctly selected answers will show up in green ALERT! : Clicking on a wrong answer will end the quizStarting in the Right Atrium, trace the path that a red blood cell takes through the body. Answers must be guessed in order and wrong answers end the quiz. Also try: Anatomy of the Heart
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Heart Stopping Challenge Quiz
Created Mar 29, 2012 in Science
Featured Sep 28, 2012 Game Plays 158,837
mchamden1 : Apr 17th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT 8 points Good quiz, kept forgetting about the valves. A little too easy including the Left/Right AV parts though.
masrur : May 10th, 2012 at 12:49 GMT 1 point good quiz and very DEEP lol
GOUIHAWKSGETEPIC : May 16th, 2012 at 12:26 GMT -2 points we didn't learn the valves in honoros bio. :(
Juvo415 : May 17th, 2012 at 19:46 GMT 2 points Why not alphabetized?
mouthforhire : May 28th, 2012 at 06:48 GMT 2 points I agree with @juvo415. If not alphabetized, at least not randomised. I was trying to learn this by doing the quiz and it adds nothing to have to search aroudn for answers.
Flurryninja : Jun 18th, 2012 at 14:46 GMT 6 points Great quiz, made me think a bit, but I was able to recall it. I like how you added the left/right AV valves to bicuspid/tricuspid since people learn it both ways.
shapular : Aug 4th, 2012 at 20:42 GMT 2 points The right atrium's where the process begins, where the CO2 blood enters the heart...
Dukowitz : Aug 31st, 2012 at 20:23 GMT 3 points Mitral valve might be a nice addition also since when using a stethoscope a lot of docs start w/ that mnemonic "A PET Mouse" (or Moose) and the M stands for Mitral valve
Game published: Sep 28th, 2012 at 17:30 GMT
ianbob : Sep 28th, 2012 at 17:35 GMT 61 points Nope.
wrighj9 : Sep 28th, 2012 at 17:41 GMT 6 points I work daily in medicine and this is a hard challenge. I need to see a picture but its tough solely by name alone.
WyattsTorch : Sep 28th, 2012 at 18:11 GMT 16 points Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a...oh wait, no, I'm clearly not.
g8r1992 : Sep 28th, 2012 at 18:31 GMT 23 points I have no idea. Just know if it stops, I'm screwed.
haveblue : Sep 28th, 2012 at 18:43 GMT 34 points Confusing that you have to click "right atrium" to start. It took me a very long time to realize why the right AV valve was not the first step on the path.
Hullabaloo : Sep 28th, 2012 at 18:49 GMT 5 points Just about know what a red blood cell is.
Jakka93 : Sep 28th, 2012 at 19:04 GMT 5 points I don't know what any of these options are, thanks for highlighting my shortcomings sporcle!
spolonsky : Sep 28th, 2012 at 19:13 GMT 16 points Agree with haveblue, if the instructions say "starting with the right atrium", I assumed the first step would be the step AFTER that. Took me a lot of tries before I figured that.
Bio : Sep 28th, 2012 at 19:33 GMT 44 points This kind of quiz really bugs me. I have no problem failing a quiz, because not everyone knows everything, but I like to at least learn a little bit about the subject while I'm at it, and that the quiz doesn't show the correct answers even after you fail means to learn it I have to complete the quiz by trial and error, and adding in the randomization you tossed in, that just made the process more annoying.
Obviously only a certain subset of people are going to know this information going into the quiz. For everyone else in the world, you've created a quiz that teaches us absolutely nothing.
bIGupS : Sep 28th, 2012 at 19:59 GMT 22 points Thank goodness that is an involuntary process because clearly I have no idea what really goes on.
joshmassey : Sep 28th, 2012 at 20:05 GMT 3 points Wow. No. Not even a little bit.
NaGfH : Sep 28th, 2012 at 20:39 GMT 4 points I'm surprised I got them all after only like 3-4 failures in the first 3. The atrium is a waiting room in a building, and in the heart it is where the blood waits for its turn to be pumped out. The Ventricle vents blood out. Right vent goes to lungs, left vent goes to body. AV valves separate the Atrium from the Ventricle. Semilunar valves leave the heart. That's just a childish mnemonic device I used when I learned this stuff in HS (before I forgot it again).
spoiler alert:
Right atrium, Right av valve, right ventricle, pulmonary semilunar valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, left av valve, left ventricle, aortic semilunar valve, aorta, rest of body, inferior or superior vena cava.
Lprdgecko : Sep 28th, 2012 at 22:25 GMT 2 points I remember there used to be a Bayer (or some other aspirin) commercial with a song about how blood moves through the heart (The right atrium's where the process begins where the CO2 blood enters the heart, through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery and lungs. Once inside the lungs it dumps its carbon dioxide and picks up its oxygen supply. Then it's back to the heart through the pulmonary vein through the left atrium and left ventricle.), but it was missing a lot of this stuff :( Now the song is stuck in my head...
strags11 : Sep 28th, 2012 at 23:08 GMT 4 points Geez, you'd think that having walked through the giant heart at the Franklin Institute in Philly a zillion times in my life, I'd know this, but no-o-o-o-o.... Great quiz!
JDScribner : Sep 29th, 2012 at 00:36 GMT 2 points This was kind of tough without having a picture.
run2erun : Sep 29th, 2012 at 00:40 GMT 2 points For Bio:
R Atrium->Tricuspid Valve->R Ventricle->Pulm Semilunar Valve->Pulm Arteries->Lung->Pulm Veins->L Atrium->Bicuspid (Mitral) Valve->L Ventricle->Aortic Semilunar Valve->Aorta->Rest of Body->Superior/Inferior Vena Cava
Unless you took human Anatomy & Phys or have had some sort of medical education this really wouldn't be common knowledge!
stugenvier : Sep 29th, 2012 at 01:29 GMT 1 point From Happy Days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upctPUa6RhA
xolkan : Sep 29th, 2012 at 01:56 GMT 3 points I got Right Atrium and thats it... lol
iowacub : Sep 29th, 2012 at 03:45 GMT -1 points Got it first try! I'm a medical coder/biller. Was always really good at Medical Terminology and A&P.
Vortighast : Sep 29th, 2012 at 05:00 GMT 4 points I learned this by VAVAVAVA: Vena cava, right Atrium and Ventricle, pulmonary Artery and Vein, left Atrium and Ventricle, Aorta. Insert random valves as needed.
mossef : Sep 29th, 2012 at 05:55 GMT 3 points Got right atrium and missed on the second guess. Three straight times. That's all you're getting from me. Okay, okay...I'll try it just one more time.
royalpink : Sep 29th, 2012 at 13:29 GMT 1 point I surprised myself by getting every answer except the last two. I'm studying to be a medical laboratory scientist, so I guess I should know it, but I was still surprised.
Tongueforker : Sep 30th, 2012 at 19:46 GMT 3 points I only got 'right atrium' correct. I think aorta try harder.
I'm so very sorry.
made_of_money : Oct 1st, 2012 at 18:57 GMT 1 point Confusingly, I've read a lot of medical literature on this, including American Society of Echocardiography reporting requirements, and I've never heard of the mitral valve referred to as the "bicuspid" valve. I mean, I got that right, because there's enough context given that you know what that's supposed to be. But I would have labeled it mitral valve.
offntheshower : Oct 1st, 2012 at 19:06 GMT 2 points Took this so many times to get it right that now all of my web ads are for heart/hospital related things, true story
woodworm99 : Oct 6th, 2012 at 13:22 GMT 2 points Very cool! Schoolroom memories coming back. Got there in nine attempts. That's eight dead patients in my operating room.
randomguess : Oct 15th, 2012 at 19:10 GMT 1 point If a quiz ends at the first wrong guess and the results show only question marks, you know the quiz is absolutely pointless.
Zak6009 : Nov 4th, 2012 at 05:00 GMT 3 points This was published? That's odd... nothing against it, it's a cool idea and all, but generally I'm used to seeing something on the front page that's doable by a good amount of users... this is pretty much impossible if you aren't an anatomy/biology major. I wanna see a vector calculus/linear algebra quiz get published.
BrianUCD : Dec 17th, 2012 at 00:54 GMT 2 points Not really zak a secondary/highschool final student who does general biology could do this
newtonsapple82 : Jan 2nd, 2013 at 10:29 GMT 3 points This quiz should EXPLICITLY say that you have to click "right atrium" first! I repeatedly clicked the first item I thought came after the right atrium. I had to read to comments to figure it out.
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