Science quiz
Bones of the skull
Twenty two bones make up the skull, in fourteen kinds. Type a bone and it drops into the cranial or the facial box.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 14 answers
- Limit
- 4:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 14
- Time limit
- 4:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name the cranial and facial bones.
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Facial bones (14)0/8
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About this quiz
The skull has 22 bones: 8 cranial bones that enclose the brain and 14 facial bones. Several come in left and right pairs, so there are fourteen different names to learn.
- The parietal and temporal bones are paired; the frontal, occipital, sphenoid and ethmoid are single.
- The mandible and the vomer are the only unpaired facial bones.
- Six tiny ear bones and the hyoid in the throat belong to the axial skeleton but are not counted among the 22.
Sources
- [1]National Cancer Institute, SEER Training. Axial skeleton (80 bones).
Note on the data. Bone names and counts follow the National Cancer Institute's SEER table of the axial skeleton, checked on 3 October 2026. Each name is accepted with or without the word bone, and jawbone is accepted for mandible.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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