61 Periodic Table Trivia Questions To Put You Right In Your Element

1. Which metallic element is the main component of steel?

2. Which element has the chemical symbol N?

3. The elements scandium and thulium are both named after which region of Europe?

4. How many elements are liquid at room temperature?

5. The US five-cent coin takes its nickname from what element?

6. What is the chemical symbol for tin?

1. Which of these words, when the first letter is removed, becomes a chemical element?

2. Compounds of which chemical element are dealt with in Organic Chemistry?

3. What do the elements in a period have the same number of?

4. Which of these metallic elements is liquid at room temperature?

5. Which 1983 song by Spandau Ballet takes its name from a metallic element?

6. A golden anniversary represents how many years?

1. What is the chemical symbol for potassium?

2. Rubies and sapphires are oxides of which element?

3. Which element is named after the most populous state in the USA?

4. Which element is named after the most populous country in the EU?

5. Which element has the chemical symbol C?

6. What is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere?

1. What is the chemical symbol for silver?

2. Which gaseous element increases the pitch of a voice when inhaled?

3. Which of these elements is a famous poison?

4. How is aluminium known in North America?

5. Which element takes its name from the Latin for a metal from Cyprus?

6. Which element has the chemical symbol P?

1. Which element has the chemical symbol Cu?

2. Which element is named after the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics?

3. Which element has the chemical symbol O?

4. A silver anniversary represents how many years?

5. The elements radium and polonium were discovered by which scientist?

6. What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?

1. Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

2. Which element takes its name from the Greek word for the sun?

3. Which gaseous element fills red tubular signs, used in advertising displays?

4. Which element is used in batteries and also as a treatment for depression?

5. Which element is named after the founder of prestigious prizes for science and literature?

6. Table salt is a compound of sodium and which other element?

1. Atoms in an element are what?

2. What is the main metallic element in chalk and other forms of limestone?

3. Which of these elements is *not* a metal?

4. A carbon dioxide molecule contains two atoms of what element?

5. Which element is named after the eighth planet in the Solar System?

6. Which element is named after the Japanese word for Japan?

1. What is the lightest element?

2. Breathing brings what gaseous element to every cell of the body?

3. 1848 and 1849 saw a rush of miners to California in search of what element?

4. What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?

5. Diamonds are made of what element?

6. Which element is also known as brimstone?

1. Does carbon have a high melting point?

2. Which of these is a noble gas?

3. Which element is named after the Latin word for France?

4. Which element has the chemical symbol H?

5. Which metal impurity makes rubies red and emeralds green?

6. Which element gets its name from the physicist who discovered X-rays?

1. Which gas smells like garlic?

2. Which of these elements is most like carbon?

3. Which element was the active ingredient in the first nuclear bombs?

4. Which element takes its name from the Greek word for the moon?

5. In which film do humans mine for the fictional element unobtainium?

6. Which of these is an element?

1. Which element is the basic material used in computer chips?

2. Which element has the chemical symbol Zn?

3. At the start of the Universe, which element was the first to form?

4. What form of energy is stored in a battery?

5. Which element takes its name from the Latin for a river in Germany?

6. In the Marvel Comic Universe, the superhero identity of Tony Stark has what element in his name?