Welcome to Your Body! Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Your Body Windpipe Channel

Digestion begins at the mouth where the food is chewed into smaller pieces by your teeth. Excretions from the salivary glands help break down the food further, the food to go down Oesophagus Lane (called simply the 'oesophagus' by those outside our wonderful hotel)! Muscle contractions down Oesophagus Lane will give the food a brilliant massage as they slither it down into the next part of the digestive system...

Answer: A creamy, white substance

The food that travels down to the Stomach Saloon is turned into chyme with the help of juices, such as gastric and hydrochloric acid, and enzymes, such as pepsin, found in your stomach. This process is useful when the food travels down to other stages in the digestive system, also known to us as its hotel stay.

Answer: Ileum Delight

The small intestine, as it is simply known to those outside our hotel, is made up of three parts. Although these sections in the seven metre long intestine are not physically separate, they do have different jobs. In Duodenum Sector the food is received from the stomach. It is the chyme and acid that you were in before. In this place, the intestine receives bile from the liver through bile ducts and also a few enzymes and chemicals from the pancreas. The digestion of proteins, fats and carbohydrates takes place in Duodenum Sector.
Jejunum Heaven and Ileum Delight have similar jobs. They make up most of the small intestine. In the Jejunum and Ileum, the intestine has lining with finger-like structures on it called 'villi'. These villi help in finding the good parts in the food that Your Body Hotel needs (otherwise known as nutrients, and thank-you for the kind donations) and separating it. They are broken into parts such as minerals, vitamins, water and other small parts such as glucose and cholesterol.
The nutrients travel to the bloodstream and the liver for further dispersion around the Your Body Hotel. Any parts that have not been digested, along with water and vitamins move on to the next stage in the Your Body tour.

Answer: Sigmoid Colon Segment

The Large Intestine Space is 1.5 metres long and made up of three parts. The large intestine (as it is known to those outside our glorious hotel!) is where water, minerals and vitamins get absorbed.

Here in Large Intestine Space the food will meet our kind staff, Mr Mucus and Mrs Bacteria, residents of Large Intestine Space, who will mix with it to form a delightful substance known as faeces! After the sigmoid colon, at the end of Large Intestine Space, the food will begin the joyful wait at Rectum Check Out where it will wait with all the other satisfied customers until such time comes when it is its turn to leave.

Answer: Anal Canal Exit

It is indeed stuck in Anal Canal Exit, known simply as the anal canal to those who have not been to the Your Body Hotel. This is the escape route for the food. Only the non-nutritious residue comes out, usually into the toilet, though when Your Body Hotel was new, the faeces seemed to end up inside a white, soft nappy quite often.

When the food can squish out into the world, it must remember to activate its breathing apparatus. Toilet water can go up in sudden waves, making it difficult to breathe.

Answer: Liver

The liver, or the 'Your Body Hotel Donation Dispersal and Aiding Department', though it is not actually directly involved in the digestion of the food, it is a vital part of helping this process. Whilst the food's nutritive parts are there, spare a thought for the poor liver who performs over 700 jobs including producing bile and dispersing nutrients! What a busy one! Whilst the food was in Duodenum Sector, the Your Body Hotel Donation Dispersal and Aiding Department was busy creating the greeny-white liquid called bile that would help it be digested. Now, even after the food have left, the liver is busy sharing out all its 'good parts' to the Your Body Hotel cells. Poor Your Body Hotel Donation Dispersal and Aiding Department!

Answer: Vomiting

Usually if Your Body Hotel is suffering from a virus or some other sort of illness, it's Stomach Saloon is where the food will be chucked out. Vomiting is the Your Body Hotel's way of ejecting food back out when we are in difficult circumstances. It's not that we don't want it! Just not now... Come back food, though!

Answer: Your Body Hotel sleeping on its tummy too often

Constipation, although rather annoying and sometimes painful for Your Body Hotel, is not usually serious. When Your Body Hotel is constipated, there is not enough bowel movement going on. The faeces has spent and increased amount of time in Large Intestine Space and has become dry and hard, making it harder to excrete.

Constipation is a symptom, not a disease, but it can be cured. Cures include iron supplements, more fibre in your diet,regular excercise and eating some fruits, such as plums can also speed up your digestion.

Answer: Halitosis (bad breath)

Halitosis is the 'fancy' name for bad breath. Although most people have bad breath from time to time, humans affected by halitosis can sometimes have it severely, so that it affects their normal life.

The name 'gingivitis' comes from the fancy word for gum, 'gingiva'. A person affected by gingivitis will have inflamed gums, and it is usually caused by build-up of plaque. Ginigivitis is curable, and is prevented by regular tooth-brushing and cleaning of the Mouth Lobby.

Tonsillitis is when the host's tonsils become red and swollen. The tonsils (in case all you foods out there want to check them out during your stay) are located towards the back of Mouth Lobby.

Laryngopharyngitis, although it may sound like a made up name, is the inflammation of the Larynx Corner and Pharynx Station.

Answer: Celiac Disease

Celiac disease affects Small Intestine Way and disrupts the absorption of nutrients. People suffering from celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, and special care must be taken with their diet.

Flatulence is more commonly known as 'farting' and happens in the bowel.