The Headline Game – 3/7/07

Once again, there’s nothing to work with today at The Onion. The fake headlines are all clearly fake headlines. So this week I invite you to play a different game.

Six of the twelve places below can be found in Earthsea, a fictional world in the works of fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The other six places are very real, and can be found within the human body. Can you tell the biological places from the fantastical?

  1. Bars of Uny
  2. Circle of Willis
  3. The Dragon’s Run
  4. Gate of Selidor
  5. The Isle of the Ear
  6. The Islets of Langerhans
  7. Loop of Henle
  8. Low Torning
  9. Luschka’s Crypts
  10. McBurney’s Point
  11. Outer Innran
  12. Space of Disse

Answers: Earthsea, The Human Body

How did you do?

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