| Letter | Name an element... | Element | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | with a single digit atomic number | Hydrogen | Helium | 98%
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| A | with four or less syllables | Actinium | Aluminum | Antimony | Argon | Arsenic | Astatine | 97%
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| B | that ends with a consonant | Barium | Berkelium | Beryllium | Bismuth | Bohrium | Boron | 97%
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| S | with an atomic number before 40 | Scandium | Selenium | Silicon | Sodium | Strontium | Sulfur | 96%
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| U | that is extremely dense | Uranium | 94%
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| T | discovered before 1900 | Thulium | Thallium | Terbium | Titanium | Thorium | Tantalum | Tungsten | Tellurium | Tin | 93%
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| X | that is a noble gas | Xenon | 93%
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| Z | that is a metal | Zinc | Zirconium | 93%
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| L | mentioned in "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer | Lanthanum | Lead | Lithium | Lutetium | 90%
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| C | with three or less known valence electrons | Cadmium | Calcium | Cesium | Copper | 89%
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| G | ending in -ium | Gadolinium | Gallium | Germanium | 89%
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| I | with two letters in its chemical symbol | Indium | Iridium | Iron | 87%
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| F | that can be radioactive | Francium | Fermium | Flerovium | Fluorine | 82%
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| M | with two or more of the same vowel | Manganese | Meitnerium | Mendelevium | Moscovium | 81%
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| K | that is odorless | Krypton | 80%
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| V | rarely found in nature | Vanadium | 78%
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| Y | named after a town in Sweden | Ytterbium | Yttrium | 78%
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| N | named after a mythological figure* | Niobium | Neptunium | 73%
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| P | with 10 or more letters | Phosphorus | Praseodymium | Promethium | Protactinium | 70%
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| R | discovered in the last 100 years | Rhenium | Rutherfordium | Roentgenium | 65%
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| E | named for a place | Erbium | Europium | 64%
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| O | with a known density of 20 g/cm^3 or higher | Osmium | 55%
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| D | with two consonants in its chemical symbol | Dubnium | Darmstadtium | 51%
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