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[darkpaladin109]

ORGAN FAILURE

[Toaster]

The Moon!

[Parisbre56]

42!

[Harry Baldman]

The Moon!

"Beautiful!"

[piecewise]

ORGAN FAILURE

I'm sorry, it's "Judgement".

The pressure plate on Flimsy's left hand wiggles a bit.

Oh, left hand, 1 ounce. Quite lucky. 

Heres an easy one: Name one superfluous human organ.

[Yoink]

"The brain, judging by the answers the audience has given so far."
Tsafi's face had hardly left his palm for the entire challenge.

[darkpaladin109]

.........Genitals!

[Beirus]

.........Genitals!

((Heh, that's what I was gonna suggest. Mason is living proof.))

[Unholy_Pariah]

Appendix... no wait, skin, definately the skin.

[Kriellya]

.........Genitals!

Please accept this, PW XD

Or, better yet, Don't, and have the pressure plate take them off

[Yoink]

Tsafi looks up to stare at the question-answerer with a mix of bemusement and horror for a moment, then shakes his head slowly in disgust and returns his face to its comfortable spot atop his scarred palm. He wasn't much enjoying this.

[Parisbre56]

It's a trick question. The answer is none.

[Yoink]

((I'm pretty sure it's appendix? As far as modern medicine knows, anyway.))

[Tavik Toth]

((The appendix used to have a use. Used to.))

[Parisbre56]

The appendix is actually very useful in restoring the little things that live in your guts after they're killed off by something like a disease. It's like an ark. Someone who knows the proper words for this might be able to explain it better.

EDIT:

Although it was long accepted that the immune tissue, called gut associated lymphoid tissue, surrounding the appendix and elsewhere in the gut carries out a number of important functions, explanations were lacking for the distinctive shape of the appendix and its apparent lack of importance as judged by an absence of side effects following appendectomy.

William Parker, Randy Bollinger, and colleagues at Duke University proposed in 2007 that the appendix serves as a haven for useful bacteria when illness flushes those bacteria from the rest of the intestines. This proposal is based on a new understanding of how the immune system supports the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, in combination with many well-known features of the appendix, including its architecture, its location just below the normal one-way flow of food and germs in the large intestine, and its association with copious amounts of immune tissue. Research performed at Winthrop University-Hospital showed that individuals without an appendix were four times more likely to have a recurrence of Clostridium difficile. However, other research showed that there is a greater rate of C. difficile infection among people with an appendix than those without.