Name a part of the human head

October 28, 2026 · Daily Dive #105

Explore 2,035 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on October 28, 2026.

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2,035 recorded names on October 28, 2026, 1,902 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Anatomy atlases list thousands of named structures in this region, so pick a scale first — gross region, tissue layer or microscopic detail — and then commit to one of them. Any identifiable anatomical structure of the human head counts, from a whole region down to a named microscopic detail; functions, diseases, injuries and clothing are excluded.

2,035 recorded answers1,902 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,90185 pts
  • Rare9860 pts
  • Schooler2430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

2,035 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat this as a breadth test rather than a knowledge test. The scoring pool is enormous, which means the judges accepted practically every anatomical name their reference works contained, so the real work is generating volume and then picking the least ordinary entry you can honestly defend. Build a mental sweep from the outside in: visible surface features first, then the soft layers beneath, then the bony frame with its openings and depressions, then the contents of the cavity those bones enclose, and finally the microscopic level. Whenever you reach a structure, ask what attaches to it, what passes through it and what it is divided into, since each of those questions opens two or three narrower names.

Get a hint

Start from the most ordinary words you have for this region of the body, then ask what lies immediately underneath the surface you can see in a mirror.

A little more

Slide from what is visible to what an anatomy atlas describes: layers of tissue, named spaces, bony plates and the channels that run through them.

One step further

Push further into the microscopic end of the atlas, where cell groups, thin membranes and fluid-filled chambers carry long names almost nobody outside medicine has met.

Reveal answers 2,035
  • Arrector pili musclesDeep Cut85points
  • Artery of the pterygoid canalDeep Cut85points
  • Articular disc of the TMJDeep Cut85points
  • Articular eminenceDeep Cut85points
  • Articular facets for the malleusDeep Cut85points
  • Articular facets for the stapesDeep Cut85points
  • Articular facets of the malleus headDeep Cut85points
  • Articular facets of the stapes headDeep Cut85points
  • Ascending palatine arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Association cortexDeep Cut85points
  • Association fibersDeep Cut85points
  • AsterionDeep Cut85points
  • AstrocytesDeep Cut85points
  • Attached gingivaDeep Cut85points
  • Auditory cortexDeep Cut85points
  • Auditory pathwayDeep Cut85points
  • Auricular branch of posterior auricular arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Auricular branch of vagus nerveDeep Cut85points
  • Auricular musclesDeep Cut85points
  • Auriculotemporal nerveDeep Cut85points
  • Axis ligaments of the malleusDeep Cut85points
  • Axon terminalDeep Cut85points
  • AxonsDeep Cut85points
  • Baby hairsDeep Cut85points
  • Back of the mouthDeep Cut85points
  • Basal forebrainDeep Cut85points
  • Basal gangliaDeep Cut85points
  • Basal turn of cochleaDeep Cut85points
  • Basal veinDeep Cut85points
  • Bases of the modiolusDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar membraneDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar part of occipital boneDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar plexusDeep Cut85points
  • BasionDeep Cut85points
  • Basolateral amygdalaDeep Cut85points
  • Beard folliclesDeep Cut85points
  • Bed nucleus of the stria terminalisDeep Cut85points
  • Bipolar cellsDeep Cut85points
  • Blood-brain barrierDeep Cut85points
  • Blood-CSF barrierDeep Cut85points
  • Blue conesDeep Cut85points
  • Body of mandibleDeep Cut85points
  • Body of maxillaDeep Cut85points
  • Body of sphenoid boneDeep Cut85points
  • Body of the incusDeep Cut85points
  • Bony ear canalDeep Cut85points
  • Bony nasal septumDeep Cut85points
  • Bony parts of the Eustachian tubesDeep Cut85points
  • Bony vaultDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal is unusually flat. With 2016 recorded entries, 1882 of them sit on 85 points and only 98 land on 60, which tells you that scoring barely ranks originality inside the accepted set; almost anything correct was worth the same. The single 100-point entry, Habenula, is a tiny diencephalic nucleus that medical students meet late, and it stands alone at the top precisely because the reference list mostly stops at structures a trained anatomist would recognize. Below that plateau, entries such as Abducens nerve, Accessory meningeal artery and Agger nasi all score 85, so a cranial nerve, a small arterial branch and a bony ridge of the nasal cavity are treated as equally deep cuts. So the practical lesson is to reach for the smallest named subdivision you can spell correctly, because inside the accepted set obscurity was hardly rewarded and only the far tail earned more.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 28 Oct, 06:15 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy