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Can you solve the word clues, and then give the name of the chemical element that contains each answer?
Example - Clue: Female chicken or lobster/ Answer: Hen / Element: rHENium
NOTE: One answer appears within the British English spelling of its corresponding element
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Clue
Answer
Element
Falcon-headed Egyptian god
Horus
Phosphorus
Scottish loch dear to crytozoologists' hearts
Ness
Oganesson / Tennessine
Short name for a speedy drug used by both Allied and Axis forces during WWII
Meth
Promethium
Not amateurs (or antis)
Pros
Dysprosium
Sinister, eyeball-stealing alien collective featured in Star Trek
Borg
Seaborgium
Spanish for "gold"
Oro
Boron
Hindu deity Shiva can have four of these
Arms
Darmstadtium
Twice-repeated nonsense word in the title of a Tommy James and the Shondells hit song from 1968, made popular again by Billy Idol in 1981
Mony
Antimony
Japanese comics, cartooning and animation
Manga
Manganese
British-made car not ergonomically suited for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (see caveat)
Mini
Aluminium
First name of cotton gin inventor Whitney
Eli
Helium / Berkelium / Nobelium
Vietnamese Lunar New Year
Tet / Tết
Lutetium
British submachine gun used in WWII
Sten
Tungsten
Seven-letter element containing the name of a six-letter element
Terbium
Ytterbium
Towering, bark-skinned creature from Lord of the Rings
Ent
Roentgenium
Main currency of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Gabon, among others
Franc
Francium
A class of drugs used to lower cholesterol
Statin
Astatine
Large-capacity receptacle from which one might sip a rauchbier, perhaps
Stein
Einsteinium
An inhabitant of Estonia, Lithuania, or Latvia
Balt
Cobalt
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12 Comments
HelveticaBold
+3
Level 71
Mar 23, 2019
Hard, clever, & fun.
vassar6
+1
Level 68
Mar 26, 2019
thank you, HelveticaBold - glad you enjoyed it.
XYU
+2
Level 62
May 14, 2021
Great quiz; the erbium/terbium/ytterbium one is really clever.
vassar6
+1
Level 68
May 14, 2021
thanks very much XYU, i appreciate it.
gprimoff
+2
Level 79
May 14, 2021
berkelium works for Eli
vassar6
+1
Level 68
May 14, 2021
thank you, gprimoff - good catch. i'll add it in.
Hz12
+2
Level 56
Aug 10, 2022
Nobelium as well.
vassar6
+2
Level 68
Aug 20, 2022
thanks very much for letting me know, Hz12 - adding it in now...
vermiciousknid
+2
Level 91
May 14, 2021
Great idea! Some were pretty tough though, I could have used a bit more time.
vassar6
+1
Level 68
May 14, 2021
thanks for the support and suggestion, vermiciousknid - i'll add some more time.
CardinalSin
+2
Level 82
Jul 27, 2022
How did more people get einsteinium then got stein?
vassar6
+1
Level 68
Aug 3, 2022
an excellent question, and a mystery to me.
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