Chemistry Quiz Questions I
1. Only four elements are magnetic at room temperature, iron is one, can you name the
other three? Answers: Nickel, cobalt and gadolinium.
2. Which chemical element has the lowest boiling point of all the elements? Ans: Helium
3. Which gas, discovered in 1898, is used in car headlamps to produce adequate light
immediately upon switching on? Ans Xenon
4. Which chemist is known for isolating a series of substances for the first time, including
potassium and sodium in 1807? Ans : Sir Humphry Davy
5. Which forces, named after a Dutch scientist, are distance dependent weak forces
between atoms or molecules? Ans: Laughing gas
Name the chemical elements from the following synbols: (a)Sb, (b)K, (c)Ag, (d)W, and (e)Cf?
Ans (a)Antimony, (b)Potassium, (c)Silver, (d)Tungsten, and (e)Californium?
6. What is nitrous oxide more commonly known as? And Van der Waals forces (or bonds)
7. Which Russian chemist published the first widely recognized periodic table in 1869? Ans
Dmitri Mendeleev
8. By what name would we better know ethylene glycol? Ans: Antifreeze
9. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and the 1962 Nobel Peace
Prize? Ans Linus Pauling (the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes)
10. What is the common name for ascorbic acid? Ans Vitamin C
11. Brass is a metal alloy made up of which two elements? Copper and zinc
12. Bronze is principally an alloy of which two elemts? Ans Copper and tin
13. Who's law states:'If an induced current flows, its direction is always such that it will
oppose the change which produced it'? Ans Lenz's Law
14. What is the only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table? J
15. Which metal as the highest melting point? Tungsten
Quiz II
1. Name the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
2. What is the common name for phenol?
3. Cobalamin may refer to several chemical forms of what vitamin?
4. What is the best known brand name of PTFE-based formulas?
5. What name is given fot the total number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus?
6. What is the better name for the organic compound trichloromethane?
7. Which radioactive chemical element whas the chemical symbol 'Pu'?
8. What has the chemical formula H2SO4?
9. Which chemical element is named after the asteroid Pallas?
10. By what better name do we know Acetyl salicylic acid?
11. Which naturally-occurring organic compound with the formula CH2O is also known by
the name methanal?
12. Which chemical element has the atomic number 2?
13. What is the more common name for deuterium oxide?
14. Ernest Rutherford, who became known as the father of nuclear physics, was born in
which country?
15. Boyle's law is a gas law which states how the pressure of a gas increases as what
property decreases?
16. What is defined as the number of atoms found in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12, where
the carbon-12 atoms are unbound, at rest and in their ground state?
Answers:
1. Mercury
2. Carbolic acid
3. B12
4. Teflon
5. Mass number (or atomic mass number or nucleon number)
6. Chloroform
7. Plutonium
8. Sulfuric acid
9. Palladium
10. Aspirin
11. Formaldehyde
12. Helium
13. Heavy water
14. New Zealand
15. Volume
16. Mole
