Saturday, January 24, 2009

Ar U SErIOUS? - Random Trivia Questions

This was going to be the hardest mystery quiz ever, but I'm in a giving mood today, so I'll tell you the theme to help you find the answers to the twelve questions below. Each of the chemical elements being asked about can be spelled with chemical element symbols (ignoring capitalization). As luck would have it, there are exactly twelve elements that qualify, so if you want to figure out what they are as a puzzle first, you can simplify the quiz even further.

Ar U SErIOUS? Questions

  • Q1) Which of the noble gases has the shortest name?
  • Q2) Which chemical element has the shortest name?
  • Q3) Which element did Germany's Hennig Brand distill from urine while looking for the philosophers' stone to make gold in 1669?
  • Q4) Which element's presence or absence mostly distinguishes organic chemistry from inorganic chemistry?
  • Q5) Which element's presence is detected by the Marsh test?
  • Q6) Which element was first refined from malachite and azurite?
  • Q7) Which element is primarily obtained from hematite?
  • Q8) Which metal, in a subsalicylate compound, is the primary ingredient of Kaopectate?
  • Q9) Which element was named for the Latin for "flint"?
  • Q10) Which is the highest-weight halogen that has been discovered?
  • Q11) Which is the rarest of the rare gases?
  • Q12) From 1960 to 1983, the official meter was defined in terms of an orange-red spectral line of an isotope of which element?

1 comment:

THETA Poker said...

Sorry, I neglected to post this last week, so every post between then and now was off by a day.