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A quiz over the peculiar properties of elements
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1
What element causes cows to go into blind staggers?
Calcium
Lead
Arsenic
Selenium
2
Which two of these elements creates rust?
Titanium
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Iron
3
Which of these elements was not named after Ytterby, Sweden?
Erbium
Terbium
Yttrium
Strontium
4
What is a common use of arsenic?
PTW
Poison
Death
Rats
5
Caitlyn's Bonus Question: What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Not able to swim
Fsh
Blind
Dead
6
At what temperature does Argon bond with hydrogen flouride?
Room Temprature
80 Celcius
0 Celcius
-265 Celcius
7
What element is used to give jewelry a dark finish?
Ruthenium
Technetium
Potassium
Lead
8
What is sulfur's natural color?
Clear
Grey
White
Yellow
9
What element has the highest boiling point at 5,596 degrees Celcius?
Rhenium
Darmstadtium
Thallium
Indium
10
The element Rubidium explodes on contact with what substance?
Fire
Water
Salt
Air
11
Which of the "precious metals" is in the fifth period?
Silver
Platinum
Gold
12
What element will make you smell of garlic if spilled on the skin?
Sulfur
Arsenic
Tellerium
Tantalum
13
What is a common use of Americium?
Magnets
Car metal
Smoke Detectors
X-rays
14
What two elements are liquid at room temperature?
Silicon and Mercury
Mercury and Sulfur
Mercury and Bromine
None of the Above
15
What element is also known as Wolfram?
Technitium
Caesium
Tungsten
Molybdenum
16
Which of these is not radioactive?
Francium
Thorium
Magnesium
Einsteinium
17
What element is found mostly in asteroids?
Iridium
Hydrogen
Arsenic
Osmium
18
What element is so reactive that ignites everything it touches?
Astatine
Chlorine
Flourine
Iodine
19
In 2010, McDonald’s recalled more than 12 million
Shrek 3
glasses due to _______ contamination.
Caesium
Ogremium
Cadmium
Tantalum
20
Lewis and Clark took what kind of laxative pills on their expedition?
Bromine
Mercury
Arsenic
Chlorine
21
What is a common use of the element Cobalt?
Jewelry
Magnets
X-Ray machines
22
What element has two forms, one of which can make you light headed while the other is toxic?
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon
Flouride
23
What element is used to protect against radiation?
Germanium
Lead
Plutonium
Uranium
24
Can Lithium be cut with a knife?
Yes
No
25
What element is used in implants such as pacemakers?
Silicon
Elizabethium
SIlver
Tantalum
26
What element is used by the thyroid to produce hormones?
Lanthium
Iodine
Manganese
Pottassium
27
What atomic number is hydrogen?
5
118
2
1
28
Which of these is not a real element?
Francium
Brittanium
Californium
Germanium
29
What element causes hallucinations and violence?
Tungsten
Meitnerium
Manganese
Cadmium
30
What does Nickel mean?
Silver Gold
Nicholas
Devil's Copper
Money
31
What element has a half-life of 8.3 hours?
Tin
Bromine
Astatine
Einsteinium
32
What happens to Gallium spoons when placed in a hot beverage?
They explode
They freeze
They melt
They evaporate the liquid
33
What letter of the alphabet never appears in the periodic table?
J
X
Z
Q
34
What element was painted onto clocks before it was discovered to be radioactive?
Radium
Curium
Nobelium
35
What element has the half life of any known unstable isotope at 2.2 septillion years?
Arsenic
Tellurium
Uranium
Thallium
36
What element is named after Russia?
Moscowium
Lithium
Ruthenium
Russium
37
What element is used in x-rays to locate bone cancer?
Astatine
Gold
Xenon
Technetium
38
What element emits a screech when bent rapidly?
Lanthium
Indium
Iridium
Manganese
39
What element has a half-life of seven quadrillion years?
Rutherfordium
Astatine
Samarium
Uranium
40
What is the last element that is not artificially created?
Yttrium
Uranium
Californium
Roentgenium
41
What scientist was responsable for discovering ten elements: 94-102 (Pu-No) and 106 (Sg)?
Albert Ghiorso
Glenn Seborg
Marie Curie
Dmitri Mendeleev