The elements are the building blocks of chemistry and the building blocks of this week's quiz. These dozen questions are effectively multiple choice with over a hundred choices, but to be nice each question restricts the possibilities for you. For fun, there's a bonus answer hidden somewhere, worth another twelve points if you can find it (mostly useless hint: it has nothing to do with science).
Chemical Elements Questions
- Q1) What is the only nonmetal besides helium whose name ends in "-ium"?
- Q2) What is the heaviest known halogen?
- Q3) What metalloid was discovered by Franz-Joseph Mller von Reichenstein in 1782 in Transylvania?
- Q4) What actinide was discovered by Albert Ghiorso at UC Berkeley in 1952 and named for a man who was asked to become Israel's second president in the same year?
- Q5) What actinide is the heaviest naturally-occurring element?
- Q6) What nonmetal has the longest name of any chemical element that doesn't end in "-um"?
- Q7) In alphabetical order, what lanthanide is the first of the four chemical elements named for Ytterby, Sweden?
- Q8) What nonmetal was once known as brimstone?
- Q9) What nonmetal makes up most of the weight of the human body?
- Q10) What nonmetal makes up most of the Earth's atmosphere?
- Q11) What alkali metal was added to diets in 1924 to combat goiter?
- Q12) What alkali metal is used to define the length of a second in the International System of Units?
Thanks so much! I am in the planning stages for a chemistry class and wanted to give the students a question per week for 14weeks.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. There are plenty of other chemistry questions in the blog if you poke around. It's always great when trivia is used in a non-trivial manner!
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