CHEMISTRY QUIZ ON PERIODIC TABLE

Periodic Table Quiz

(ORIGIN OF NAMES)

1.      Which element in the periodic table is named after the city of Stockholm?

      2.      Which element in the periodic table is named after the Rhine river of Europe?

                   3.      Apart from Francium which other element in the periodic table is named after France?

4.      Which element is named after the city of Copenhagen of Denmark?

5.Which element in the periodic table is named after a Greek word which means “the hidden ones” as it is odourless and colourless?

6.      Name the element named after Earth.

7.      Name the element named after the Moon.

8.      What is common to the elements Yttrium(Y), Erbium(Er),Terbium(Tb) and Ytterbium(Yb)?

9.      The element mercury is named after “Mercury” the God of speed and the messenger of the God. However its symbol is Hg which comes from a Latin word which means “water-silver”, as it is liquid like water at room temperature and has a characteristic silvery lusture. What is this Latin word?

10.  Which is the only element in the periodic table to be officially named after a person when he was still alive?

11.  Which element in the periodic table is named after the city of Paris?

12.  Which element is named after Cyprus?

13.  Which element is named after a German word which means evil spirit?

14.  Why is the element with atomic number 49 named as indium (In) after the word indigo?

15.  Which element was called “Eka-thulium” by Mendeleev?

16.   In alphabetical order which element comes first and which comes at the end among the elements officially named so far?

17.  After whom the element with atomic number 112 (Ununbium) has been named recently?

18.  Which element is named after a Greek word which means “a foreigner”, or “a stranger” ?

19.   Which  element was recently named in honor of Georgy Flyorov, who was at the forefront of Soviet nuclear physics and founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered?

20.  What is the origin of the name magnesium?

Answers

1.      Holmium(Ho), Homia is the Latin word for Stockholm.

2.      Rhenium(Re), from the Latin Rhenus which refer to river Rhine.

3.      Gallium(Ga), Gallia is the Latin for France, Gaul is the name of ancient France.

4.      Hafnium(Hf), Latin Hafnia refers to Copenhagen.

5.      Krypton( Kr), named after the Greek word Kryptos.

6.      Tellurium (Te), Tellus is the Latin for the Earth.

7.      Selenium (Se), Selene is the Greek for the Moon.

8.      They are all named after Ytterby, a village in Sweden.

9.      Hydrargyrum.

10.  Seaborgium (Sg), named after American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.

11.  Lutetium (Lu), Lutetia is the Latin for Paris.

12.  Copper (Cu).

13.  Cobalt (Co), comes from German Kobold, means "evil spirit", the metal being so called by miners, because it was poisonous and troublesome (polluted and degraded the other mined elements, like Nickel).

14.  Because it has a characteristic indigo line in its spectrum.

15.  Mendelevium (Md, 101), which was later on named after him.

16.  Actinium (Ac) comes first and Zirconium (Zr) comes at the end.

17.  After astronomer Copernicus, Copernicium (Cn)

18.  Xenon (Xe)

19.  Flerovium (Fl, 114)

20.  The word magnesium comes from a place called Magnesia which was district of Thessaly in ancient Greece where it was first found.