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Periodic Table Element Etymologies - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 54 times
- The average score is 50 of 118
Answer Stats
| Named After | Element | % Correct |
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| France | Francium | 85%
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| Germany | Germanium | 85%
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| Ferrum/Holy Metal | Iron | 82%
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| Sulfre/Sulpur | Sulfur | 82%
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| The 8th planet | Roman god of the sea | Neptunium | 79%
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| The creator of E=mc^2 | Einsteinium | 76%
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| The most populous US state | Californium | 74%
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| The sun | Helium | 74%
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| A "planet" | Roman god of the Underworld | Plutonium | 74%
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| Poland | Polonium | 74%
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| Argentum/Shining | Silver | 74%
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| Norse god of thunder | Thorium | 74%
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| The 7th planet | Greek personification of heaven | Uranium | 74%
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| Beryl | Formerly named after the Greek word for sweet (Don't try tasting this, though.) | Beryllium | 71%
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| Indigo | Indium | 68%
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| Pipes/Plumbum | Lead | 68%
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| Inventor of the Periodic Table | Mendelevium | 68%
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| Nitre | Nitrogen | 68%
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| Kalium | Potash | Potassium | 68%
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| Ruthenia | Ruthenium | 68%
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| Scandinavia | Scandium | 68%
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| The United States/The continent Columbus "discovered" | Americium | 65%
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| A city in California (The University of California's main location) | Berkelium | 65%
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| The discoverers of Polonium and Radium | Curium | 65%
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| Greek for water | Hydrogen | 65%
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| Latin for Liquid Silver | The messenger of the Roman Gods | Mercury | 65%
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| The capital of Russia | Moscovium | 65%
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| The inventor of dynamite | Nobelium | 65%
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| Swedish for heavy stone/Wolfram | Tungsten | 65%
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| Borax | Boron | 62%
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| Charcoal | Carbon | 62%
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| Japan | Nihonium | 59%
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| Originally meaning Shining, got its name from Radium | Radon | 59%
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| Greek for moon | Selenium | 59%
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| Cyprus | Copper | 56%
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| A continent that has a Union | Europium | 56%
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| The Greek giver of fire | Promethium | 56%
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| The Rhine | Rhenium | 56%
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| A town in Sweden, the fourth element to be found there | Ytterbium | 56%
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| A dwarf planet | Roman goddess of agriculture | Cerium | 53%
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| The astronomer who composed the Heliocentric theory | Copernicium | 53%
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| Roman name for France | Latin for rooster | Gallium | 53%
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| Greek for new | Neon | 53%
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| The founder of x-rays | Roentgenium | 53%
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| A Swedish town, the first to be found there | Yttrium | 53%
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| A town in Sweden, the third element to be found there | Erbium | 50%
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| Greek for Color | Chromium | 47%
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| Greek goddess of the rainbow | Iridium | 47%
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| Latin name for Paris | Lutetium | 44%
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| Before Actinium | Protactinium | 44%
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| Latin for ray | Radium | 44%
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| Stannum | Tin | 44%
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| A group of deities that preceded the Olympians | Titanium | 44%
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| Danish physicist who composed the modern atomic model | Bohrium | 41%
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| Latin for Stockholm | Holmium | 41%
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| Latin for magnet | A region in Greece (1st element to be named after the region) | Manganese | 41%
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| Otto Hahn's female partner | Meitnerium | 41%
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| New twin | Neodymium | 41%
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| The person who created one of the earliest atomic models | Rutherfordium | 41%
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| A city in Germany | Darmstadtium | 38%
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| A town in Sweden, the second to be found there | Terbium | 38%
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| Stibium/Monk-Killer/Never Alone | Antimony | 35%
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| Pale-green | Chlorine | 35%
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| German for Goblin | Cobalt | 35%
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| The creator of the first chain reaction | Fermium | 35%
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| German state | Hassium | 35%
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| The daughter of Tantalus | Formerly named after the explorer who "discovered" America | Niobium | 35%
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| Greek for "Green Twin" | Praseodymium | 35%
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| Latin for red | Rubidium | 35%
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| Artificial/Craft | Technetium | 35%
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| A laboratory in Russia | Dubnium | 32%
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| Greek for violet | Iodine | 32%
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| Greek for "Stone" | Lithium | 32%
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| A region of Greece (The second element to be named after that region) | Magnesium | 32%
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| Acid | Oxygen | 32%
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| Little Silver | Platinum | 32%
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| The discoverer of many elements of the Actinides | Seaborgium | 32%
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| Greek for strange | Xenon | 32%
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| To flow | Fluorine | 29%
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| A Finnish chemist | Gadolinium | 29%
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| Yellow | Shining Dawn | Gold | 29%
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| Greek for hidden | Krypton | 29%
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| A lab in California | Livermorium | 29%
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| Nater/Headache | Sodium | 29%
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| Greek for lazy | Argon | 26%
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| Latin name for Copenhagen | Hafnium | 26%
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| Rose-colored | Rhodium | 26%
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| A son of Zeus (Famous for a punishment) | Tantalum | 26%
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| Latin for Earth | Tellurium | 26%
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| Latin for lime | Calcium | 24%
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| A Soviet physicist (Named after he died) | Flerovium | 24%
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| Inventor of the cyclotron | Lawrencium | 24%
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| A town in Scotland | Strontium | 24%
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| Home of the Oak Ridge Power Plant | Tennessine | 24%
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| Norse goddess of beauty | Vanadium | 24%
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| Stench/Bad Smell | Bromine | 21%
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| An asteroid | Palladium | 21%
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| Greek for unstable | Astatine | 18%
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| Greek for heavy | Barium | 18%
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| The legendary founder of the Grecian Thebes | Cadmium | 18%
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| German for devil (Copper Devil) | Nickel | 18%
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| Greek for odor | Osmium | 18%
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| A Russian mine official | Samarium | 18%
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| Early name for Scandinavia | Thulium | 18%
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| A Russian physicist (Named when he was still alive) | Oganneson | 15%
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| The Greek personification of the Morning Star | Phosphorus | 15%
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| Green shoot | Thallium | 15%
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| German for point | Zinc | 15%
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| Persian for "Gold-colored" | Zirconium | 15%
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| Bitter salt | Aluminum | 12%
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| White mass | Bismuth | 12%
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| Greek word for lead | Molybdenum | 12%
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| Ray in Greek | Actinium | 9%
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| Greek for Yellow Orpiment | Gold | Arsenic | 9%
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| Latin for grayish-blue | Cesium | 9%
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| Greek for "Hard to get at" | Dysprosium | 9%
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| Greek for "lie hidden" | Lanthanum | 9%
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| Latin for Flint | Silicon | 9%
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