| # | The only remaining chemical element... | Element | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | To have only three letters in its name | Tin | 93%
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| 29 | To be found in bronze | Copper | 90%
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| 1 | To have a stable isotope with no neutrons | Hydrogen | 83%
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| 26 | To have a historical "age" named after it | Iron | 77%
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| 80 | To be a liquid at room temperature | Mercury | 77%
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| 8 | To be found in rust | Oxygen | 76%
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| 36 | To have a name that starts with the letter K | Krypton | 73%
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| 2 | To be found in abundance in stars | Helium | 72%
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| 7 | To make up more than 1% of air | Nitrogen | 68%
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| 79 | To be a metal and not be gray in its pure form | Gold | 66%
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| 11 | To be found in table salt | Sodium | 66%
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| 98 | To be named after a US state | Californium | 65%
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| 47 | To have an Olympic medal made from it | Silver | 62%
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| 74 | To be found in a light bulb's filament | Tungsten | 59%
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| 94 | To be widely used in nuclear weapons | Plutonium | 58%
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| 14 | To be a major component of sand | Silicon | 58%
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| 86 | To be a noble gas | Radon | 56%
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| 90 | To be named after a Norse god | Thorium | 56%
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| 17 | To be green in its pure form | Chlorine | 55%
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| 30 | To be found in brass | Zinc | 54%
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| 40 | To have a name that starts with Z | Zirconium | 54%
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| 10 | To be lighter than air | Neon | 51%
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| 18 | To not react with anything | Argon | 49%
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| 35 | To be red in its pure form | Bromine | 49%
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| 6 | To make up more than 0.1% of the universe | Carbon | 49%
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| 63 | To be named after a continent | Europium | 49%
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| 20 | To be found in chalk | Calcium | 48%
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| 19 | To burn lilac in a flame test | Potassium | 46%
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| 31 | To have a name that starts with G | Gallium | 45%
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| 83 | To be found in Pepto-Bismol | Bismuth | 44%
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| 28 | To be used in a currently circulating US coin | Nickel | 44%
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| 15 | To be found in DNA | Phosphorus | 44%
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| 3 | To have been formed during the Big Bang | Lithium | 42%
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| 92 | To be radioactive but occur naturally in non-trace amounts | Uranium | 42%
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| 97 | To be named after a university | Berkelium | 41%
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| 9 | To be a gas | Fluorine | 41%
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| 115 | To be named after a city in Russia | Moscovium | 41%
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| 24 | To be a major component of stainless steel | Chromium | 39%
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| 16 | To be found in protein | Sulfur | 39%
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| 85 | To be a halogen | Astatine | 38%
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| 117 | To be discovered after 2007 | Tennessine | 38%
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| 70 | To have a name that starts with Y | Ytterbium | 38%
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| 13 | To make up more than 5% of Earth's crust | Aluminum | 37%
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| 4 | To have only two electron shells | Beryllium | 37%
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| 95 | To be named after a location in the Western Hemisphere | Americium | 35%
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| 96 | To be named after two different people | Curium | 35%
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| 53 | To be diatomic | Iodine | 34%
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| 82 | To be discovered before 3000 BC | Lead | 34%
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| 88 | To have been discovered by Marie Curie | Radium | 34%
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| 22 | To be stronger than stainless steel (specific strength 63.1 kN·m/kg) | Titanium | 34%
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| 54 | To have 8 or more naturally occurring isotopes | Xenon | 34%
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| 99 | To be named after someone born in Germany | Einsteinium | 32%
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| 118 | To have a half life shorter than 100 milliseconds | Oganesson | 32%
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| 109 | To be named after a (non-mythological) woman | Meitnerium | 31%
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| 78 | To come after gold in the reactivity series of metals | Platinum | 31%
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| 89 | To have a row named after itself on the period table | Actinium | 28%
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| 5 | To be harder than topaz in its pure form (Mohs hardness 8) | Boron | 28%
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| 111 | To be in group 11 | Roentgenium | 28%
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| 32 | To have an atomic number that is a power of two | Germanium | 27%
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| 12 | To have an atomic mass less than 40 | Magnesium | 27%
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| 60 | To be found in the strongest type of commercially available magnets | Neodymium | 27%
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| 37 | To be an alkali metal | Rubidium | 27%
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| 65 | To be named after Ytterby, Sweden | Terbium | 27%
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| 51 | To have its symbol not be derived from its English name | Antimony | 25%
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| 34 | To be more electronegative than gold (2.54) | Selenium | 25%
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| 33 | To have been discovered in antiquity | Arsenic | 24%
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| 68 | To have a name that starts with a vowel | Erbium | 23%
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| 27 | To be found in the cathode of a lithium-ion battery | Cobalt | 21%
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| 25 | To have a name that doesn't end in -um | Manganese | 21%
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| 43 | To be radioactive, despite being surrounded by stable elements | Technetium | 18%
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| 23 | To be found in emeralds | Vanadium | 18%
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| 49 | To be named after a place in Asia | Indium | 17%
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| 57 | To have a name that doesn't end in -ium | Lanthanum | 17%
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| 102 | To be named after a person that did not receive a Nobel Prize | Nobelium | 17%
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| 21 | To be in period 4 | Scandium | 17%
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| 106 | To be named after an American | Seaborgium | 17%
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| 52 | To not be a metal | Tellurium | 17%
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| 55 | To melt when placed in one's hand | Cesium | 15%
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| 101 | To be named after a person born in Asia | Mendelevium | 15%
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| 41 | To have formerly had a different symbol for over 50 years | Niobium | 15%
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| 91 | To be named after another element | Protactinium | 15%
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| 75 | To have a melting point greater than 5,500 °C | Rhenium | 15%
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| 87 | To naturally occur in trace amounts, despite being radioactive | Francium | 14%
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| 39 | To be a rare earth metal, but not a lanthanide or an actinide | Yttrium | 14%
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| 105 | To be in group 5 | Dubnium | 13%
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| 100 | To have an atomic number that is a perfect square | Fermium | 13%
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| 64 | To be magnetic in its pure form at 20 °C | Gadolinium | 13%
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| 113 | To have not had an official name until 2016 | Nihonium | 13%
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| 84 | To have multiple allotropes | Polonium | 13%
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| 77 | To form compounds with an oxidation state of +9 | Iridium | 11%
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| 103 | To be an actinide | Lawrencium | 11%
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| 116 | To have a half life shorter than one minute | Livermorium | 11%
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| 71 | To be named after a place in France | Lutetium | 11%
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| 81 | To be known for its toxicity | Thallium | 11%
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| 107 | To be directly named after a person | Bohrium | 10%
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| 48 | To have been known to Mendeleev when he invented the periodic table | Cadmium | 10%
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| 112 | To be named after a Slav | Copernicium | 10%
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| 72 | To be named after a current national capital | Hafnium | 10%
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| 67 | To be named after a place in Sweden | Holmium | 10%
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| 42 | To be considered an essential element for human survival | Molybdenum | 10%
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| 45 | To be part of the platinum group of metals | Rhodium | 10%
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| 38 | To have an atomic mass less than 100 | Strontium | 10%
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| 73 | To be considered a refractory metal | Tantalum | 10%
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| 56 | To react with water | Barium | 8%
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| 114 | To be named after a Russian | Flerovium | 8%
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| 93 | To be more dense than gold | Neptunium | 8%
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| 46 | To have an ISO currency code (e.g. USD or EUR) | Palladium | 8%
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| 59 | To have an odd atomic number | Praseodymium | 8%
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| 44 | To be named after a place in Eastern Europe | Ruthenium | 8%
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| 104 | To have a name that is more than 12 letters long | Rutherfordium | 8%
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| 108 | To have a half life longer than an hour | Hassium | 7%
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| 76 | To have a boiling point greater than 5000 °C | Osmium | 7%
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| 110 | To be on the periodic table | Darmstadtium | 6%
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| 66 | To have any stable isotopes | Dysprosium | 6%
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| 61 | To be radioluminescent | Promethium | 6%
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| 69 | To be named after a place in Scandinavia | Thulium | 6%
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| 58 | To have a vowel in its symbol | Cerium | 4%
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| 62 | To be indirectly named after a person | Samarium | 3%
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