Chemistry Trivia

Question 1

What gas is formed when cutting onions that causes tears?

Accepted Answer

propanethial-S-oxide

Question 2

What planet gets its colour from iron oxide?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Question 3

What element has the symbol Rh?

Accepted Answer

rhodium

Question 4

What type of funnel is commonly used for vacuum filtration?

Accepted Answer

Büchner

Question 5

What is the heaviest naturally occurring element by atomic weight?

Accepted Answer

Uranium

Question 6

What are the only two elements that are liquid at room temperature?

Accepted Answer

Hg & Br

Question 7

What temperature is absolute zero?

Accepted Answer

-273.15°C

Question 8

For 1H NMR in CDCl3, at what chemical shift does the solvent peak arise?

Accepted Answer

7.26 ppm

Question 9

What element is the most electronegative?

Accepted Answer

fluorine

Question 10

Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?

Accepted Answer

Ar

Question 11

What is the approximate pKa of hydrochloric acid?

Accepted Answer

-7

Question 12

What is 1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 13

An isotope may have varying numbers of what?

Accepted Answer

neutrons

Question 14

What is the value of Plancks constant?

Accepted Answer

6.626e-34 Js

Question 15

In RNA, thymine from DNA is replaced by what?

Accepted Answer

uracil

Question 16

Who are the most recent chemistry Nobel Prize winners?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin List and David MacMillan

Question 17

What is Schrodinger's first name?

Accepted Answer

Erwin

Question 18

What is unequivocally Prof. Kerr's favourite reaction?

Accepted Answer

Diels Alder

Question 19

What is the lighting strip on a box of matches commonly made of?

Accepted Answer

Red phosphorous

Question 20

What 2 elements did Marie Curie discover?

Accepted Answer

radium and polonium

Question 21

True or false: Lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What is baking soda also known as?

Accepted Answer

sodium bicarbonate

Question 23

What kind of isomer is this?

Accepted Answer

linkage

Question 24

What is the atomic number of copper?

Accepted Answer

29

Question 25

What is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 26

What is the best branch of chemistry?

Accepted Answer

Analytical, Inorganic, Physical, Organic

Question 27

What year did Prof. Hudson start working at Western?

Accepted Answer

1997

Question 28

What is the mass of an electron in kg?

Accepted Answer

9.11 e-31

Question 29

What does fool's gold consist of?

Accepted Answer

Iron pyrate crystals

Question 30

Where did Prof. Constas get her PhD?

Accepted Answer

University of Toronto

Question 31

Which of the following transmits higher energy wavelengths?

Accepted Answer

chlorophyll b

Question 32

What is the chemical formula of nitrous acid?

Accepted Answer

HNO2

Question 33

What is the approximate pH of milk?

Accepted Answer

6.8

Question 34

What is the most abundant element in the universe?

Accepted Answer

hydrogen

Question 35

Which professor just recently won the Frederic Stanley Kipping award?

Accepted Answer

Prof. Baines

Question 36

What percentage of acetic acid is legally allowed in vingear?

Accepted Answer

5%

Question 37

Where in the body is the most iron stored?

Accepted Answer

blood

Question 38

Who is the "father" of the periodic table?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Mendeleev

Question 39

What is the approximate molar mass of chlorine?

Accepted Answer

35.45

Question 40

Where did Professor Kerr get his PhD?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 41

In a triple bond, how many each pi and sigma bonds are there?

Accepted Answer

2 pi, 1 sigma

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