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Quiz about Names the Game
Quiz about Names the Game

Name's the Game! Trivia Quiz


It's all about the name in this quiz, where you will asked to identify the correct chemical element from the choices based on clues about its nomenclature or from whether it satisfies nomenclature-based criteria. Best of luck and have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by Sulaksh. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Sulaksh
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
364,679
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
514
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. A certain planet in our solar system, composed of methane and known for its Great Dark Spot, was first observed by Johann Galle and predicted by Urbain Le Verrier. This planet, which has a trident as its symbol, is at the center of rumours that it will crash with its largest satellite. If you were able to identify the planet, can you tell me: which element in the Periodic Table has it given its name to? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. A scientist from Italy has had a category of subatomic particles named after him. His first name is Enrico and he also has an element named after him. Identify this element, which is also the element with atomic number 100. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Chemical elements have been named for various sources, including universities, villages and even goblins supposed to haunt their mines. Which of the following element has not been named after an actual country? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In a nuclear fission reaction, uranium-235, the only naturally occurring fissile isotope of the element uranium, absorbs a neutron and breaks down to form atoms of two new elements, barium and a certain noble gas. Name this gas, whose name also matches the name of the native planet of Superman. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The symbol for a particular element is derived from its Latin name, stibium. Its name is also believed to have come from various words and phrases, such as those meaning 'opposed to solitude' because it was believed to hardly ever occur in the pure state and 'monk-killer' due to the fact that monks too were alchemists and this element is of a poisonous nature. Can you name this element? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Notable scientists, even those who have worked in fields other than Chemistry, have given their names to elements of the Periodic Table. Can you identify which of the following elements was NOT named after a scientist? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The phrase after which this element is named, when translated, means 'hard to get at', because it was initially difficult to isolate from its compounds. Which element is this? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The chemical symbol of a particular element is derived from its Latin name hydrargyrum and the element is named after the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology. This element has density 13.6 g per cubic cm or 13600 kg per cubic metre and is also known as quicksilver. Figure out the element. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The name of this element comes from two words which collectively mean 'heavy stone'. Its symbol, on the other hand, comes from its alternative name wolfram. Which element is this? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Finally, we arrive at the last horizontal row (called a period) of the Periodic Table. The element with atomic number 116, which was formerly called ununhexium, has now been named after a laboratory in a town in California, the town being named after a Mexican citizen born in England. The laboratory participated in the discovery of the element and thus had the element named after it. Which of the following is the element being described? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. A certain planet in our solar system, composed of methane and known for its Great Dark Spot, was first observed by Johann Galle and predicted by Urbain Le Verrier. This planet, which has a trident as its symbol, is at the center of rumours that it will crash with its largest satellite. If you were able to identify the planet, can you tell me: which element in the Periodic Table has it given its name to?

Answer: Neptunium

Neptune is the planet known for its Great Dark Spot and it is rumoured that it will someday crash with Triton, its largest satellite. Neptune has a distinctive deep blue shade and has the highest wind speeds of any planet in the solar system. Neptunium is the element named after the planet Neptune.
2. A scientist from Italy has had a category of subatomic particles named after him. His first name is Enrico and he also has an element named after him. Identify this element, which is also the element with atomic number 100.

Answer: Fermium

The Italian scientist is Enrico Fermi and he has had fermions, a category of subatomic particles named after him, the other category being the bosons named after Satyendra Nath Bose from India. Fermium is a radioactive element in the actinide series of the Periodic Table, also known as the series of the radioactive rare earths.
3. Chemical elements have been named for various sources, including universities, villages and even goblins supposed to haunt their mines. Which of the following element has not been named after an actual country?

Answer: Yttrium

All except the element Yttrium, which is actually named after Ytterby, a Swedish hamlet that has given its name to four elements in the Periodic Table, are named after actual countries. Germanium is named for Germany, gallium is named for Gallia, Latin for France, after the home country of its discoverer Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Polonium is the element which Marie Curie, its discoverer, named after her home country, Poland.
4. In a nuclear fission reaction, uranium-235, the only naturally occurring fissile isotope of the element uranium, absorbs a neutron and breaks down to form atoms of two new elements, barium and a certain noble gas. Name this gas, whose name also matches the name of the native planet of Superman.

Answer: Krypton

Uranium-235 splits into barium and krypton atoms in the mentioned nuclear fission reaction. The noble gas krypton shares the name of Superman's native planet. Kryptonite is purely fictional, and is, in fact, the ore form of a radioactive element that is found on the fictional planet Krypton.
5. The symbol for a particular element is derived from its Latin name, stibium. Its name is also believed to have come from various words and phrases, such as those meaning 'opposed to solitude' because it was believed to hardly ever occur in the pure state and 'monk-killer' due to the fact that monks too were alchemists and this element is of a poisonous nature. Can you name this element?

Answer: Antimony

Antimony has the symbol Sb, from stibium, its Latin name. 'Anti monos' means 'opposed to solitude' and 'monk-killer' is what 'anti monachos' means when translated.
6. Notable scientists, even those who have worked in fields other than Chemistry, have given their names to elements of the Periodic Table. Can you identify which of the following elements was NOT named after a scientist?

Answer: Niobium

Niobium was named after Niobe, who, in classical mythology, is the daughter of Tantalus. Mendelevium is named after Dmitri Mendeleev, who developed the Periodic Table. Niels Bohr, who worked out how atoms bond, gave his name to the element bohrium. Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered the chemical nature of elements greater in atomic number than uranium, and proposed and developed the actinide series, was the scientist after whom seaborgium was named.
7. The phrase after which this element is named, when translated, means 'hard to get at', because it was initially difficult to isolate from its compounds. Which element is this?

Answer: Dysprosium

This is according to a Greek translation which has given this element of the lanthanide series its name. The first time it was isolated was in the 1950s. Meitnerium is named for the scientist Lise Meitner; praseodymium is named after a phrase meaning 'green twin'; and molybdenum comes from a phrase which means 'lead'.
8. The chemical symbol of a particular element is derived from its Latin name hydrargyrum and the element is named after the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology. This element has density 13.6 g per cubic cm or 13600 kg per cubic metre and is also known as quicksilver. Figure out the element.

Answer: Mercury

The chemical symbol of Mercury is Hg after hydrargygum, its Latin name. Named after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature and is the densest liquid. It finds wide use in thermometers and barometers and its alloys are known as amalgams, some of which are used in dentistry.
9. The name of this element comes from two words which collectively mean 'heavy stone'. Its symbol, on the other hand, comes from its alternative name wolfram. Which element is this?

Answer: Tungsten

Tungsten's name comes from 'tung sten', meaning 'heavy stone' in Swedish and Danish. Its symbol is W from wolfram. Tungsten is used in the filaments of bulbs due to its very high melting point. Wolframite is actually an ore of the element tungsten.
10. Finally, we arrive at the last horizontal row (called a period) of the Periodic Table. The element with atomic number 116, which was formerly called ununhexium, has now been named after a laboratory in a town in California, the town being named after a Mexican citizen born in England. The laboratory participated in the discovery of the element and thus had the element named after it. Which of the following is the element being described?

Answer: Livermorium

Livermorium is the new name of ununhexium, in period 7 of the Periodic Table, named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the town of Livermore in the state of California in the U.S.A. The town is named after Robert Livermore, a Mexican citizen, and the I.U.P.A.C. now recognises the name livermorium in place of ununhexium.
Source: Author Sulaksh

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