Periodic Table Elements A-Z

For each letter A-Z, name any element of the Periodic Table that starts with that letter.

We will display the most commonly guessed one

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Letter	Element
A	Argon
B	Boron
C	Carbon
D	Dubnium
E	Einsteinium
F	Fluorine
G	Gold
H	Hydrogen

Letter	Element
I	Iron
K	Krypton
L	Lithium
M	Magnesium
N	Nitrogen
O	Oxygen
P	Potassium
R	Radon

Letter	Element
S	Silver
T	Tin
U	Uranium
V	Vanadium
X	Xenon
Y	Yttrium
Z	Zinc

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115 Comments

+25

Level 88

Feb 24, 2018

Oganesson doesn't work for "O".

Level ∞

Feb 25, 2018

Fixed

Level 66

Apr 3, 2020

Where's the 'Q'?

+12

Level 59

May 25, 2024

roughly between p and r

+27

Level 60

Apr 17, 2020

@McKenzieFam no elements start with Q.

Level 66

May 14, 2020

I know. I've made an entire quiz series on 'Elements by Letter', and there's no Q.

+76

Level 91

Jun 29, 2020

Then why did you ask where the Q is?

+41

Level 45

Dec 19, 2020

Q is an extra-dimensional being who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself so I suppose you could say he's everywhere ... and nowhere.

Level 39

Feb 17, 2021

deep.

Level 68

Mar 12, 2021

Star Trek?

Level 78

Jul 25, 2022

gosh dangit i want to know, why did he ask where Q was?!

Level 50

Sep 25, 2022

I'm assuming it's because he was wondering why they didn't have a greyed out slot for Q?

Level 62

Nov 6, 2022

There’s also no J. In fact, the letter J never appears in any element of the periodic table.

Level 50

May 24, 2024

Quizmasterium

Level 37

Aug 29, 2024

Jetpunkium

+37

Level 74

Feb 28, 2018

That was your first guess?☺

+22

Level 78

Mar 9, 2018

Mine was Osmium...funny how the brain works.

+31

Level 62

May 20, 2018

When you know the Periodic Table off by heart, it doesn't make a difference if the element is well known or not.

Level 72

May 21, 2018

buck1017 --> Mee too!

Level 73

Nov 22, 2018

LOL didn't even get oxygen! I thought i had already gotten it!

Level 75

Jun 29, 2020

@RealTomHolland same

+13

Level 55

Oct 25, 2020

I also know it by heart, but doing to much country quizzes boggles my mind. I kept guessing "Serbium" or whatever

Level 29

May 25, 2024

That's so true- I normally do country quizzes so I kept naming countries. For K my brain went "Oh, Kazakhstan!" and for U "Uzbekistan!"

Level 37

Aug 29, 2024

belgium

Level 56

Nov 15, 2024

@hiandbye

uzbekium

best element

Level 90

Feb 18, 2020

If you hold your breath while waiting an easier one might come to mind.

Level 78

Jun 29, 2020

Or rather not...

Level 39

Jun 29, 2020

Darmstadium element 110 doesnt work for 'D'

Level 49

Jun 29, 2020

It does with Darmstadtium

Level 50

Jun 29, 2020

darmstadtium*

+15

Level 72

Jul 1, 2020

Which Bundesliga team plays in Darm Stadium?

Level 68

Feb 25, 2018

fairly easy quiz

Level 58

May 28, 2024

Yeah, except for the "D". I kept guessing "Deuterium"

Level 76

May 30, 2024

same

Level 80

Feb 25, 2018

Why does "gold" appear when you answer "gadolinium"? Similar thing happened for multiple other answers (i.e. the answer was accepted, but what was typed didn't appear). Just wondering.

+20

Level 80

Feb 25, 2018

Sorry - read the qualifying statement at the top after I posted my comment. I guess the way it's set up is easier to manage.

Level 69

Jul 6, 2018

(answering as a quiz maker) When you make an answer for each letter, the answer you put is what shows up when someone guesses it. You can also make it so more than one answer is accepted to get that question right. Even if you answer with one of the other answers that are accepted, what the quiz maker originally put is what shows when you answer the question.

Level 87

Feb 26, 2018

Lithium is more guessed then lead? Well that's odd.

+19

Level 75

Feb 26, 2018

Presumably many people did it like I did and started at the beginning for what they had memorized from high school chemistry.

Level 69

Feb 26, 2018

Or we're just all bipolar?

Level 63

Mar 5, 2018

As someone whose main language isn't English I go for the ones that are very similar or exactly like the German names first. Lithium is exactly the same while lead couldn't be any more different (Blei). That's why lead hardly comes to my mind. I actually use Plumbum for it in these quizzes.

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Level 66

Apr 3, 2020

I typed Potassium for 'K', seeing it's symbol so often in place of it's name!

Level 72

May 25, 2024

I typed kalium, but it was nit accepted

Level 82

Mar 11, 2018

My guess for 'L' was Livermorium. Unsure why that occurred before either lead or lithium.

Level 78

Jun 29, 2020

I had Lanthanum first. I guess it's because we think of the letter L more as part of the element's symbol, so we picture symbols like Li, La and Lv. Pb for lead doesn't really come to mind in this way and would be rather misleading - no pun intended. :)

Level 66

May 20, 2018

If you do this quiz by reciting the periodic table in order, then you will get lithium first.

Level 92

Jul 25, 2022

I think you'd probably get Hydrogen first.

+16

Level 66

Feb 27, 2018

I guess valium isn't an element.

Level 21

May 20, 2018

You would be right

Level 31

May 21, 2018

I think Valium is some kind of drug that relaxes you. I here people in American TV shows say things like "Have you taken a Valium yet?" whenever someone's stressed.

Level 74

Jun 29, 2020

I think that's why he was making a joke about it.

+19

Level 61

Mar 7, 2018

For K, my mind kept coming back to Potassium. Took a good 15 seconds to come up with Krypton.

Also, I'm surprised dubnium is guessed more than dysprosium

Level 87

May 20, 2018

I typed in tin, thinking it was my answer for "S," but it turned out to be my "T" instead. As for dubnium, maybe it's easier to spell? It took me several tries to finally produce dysprosium correctly.

Level 61

May 20, 2018

For some reason I went with darmstadtium

Level 48

May 21, 2018

Same here.

Level 69

May 21, 2018

and here. and i don't even live there

Level 65

Sep 25, 2022

I thought of Dubnium first, but that might just be me

Level 69

Mar 10, 2018

11/23 my first guess was the most guessed one.

Level 68

May 20, 2018

Well that was... weird but fun! I got 23/23, but only my "F", "K" and "U" to "Z" were the same as the most commonly one shown! That means I only matched the most common 7/23 times. Like who guesses "Hafnium" and "Mendelevium" as their first for "H" and "M"? Me apparently!

Level 45

May 20, 2018

me too lol

Level 66

May 20, 2018

*Guessed Gallium and Scandium before Gold and Silver*

Level 68

May 20, 2018

I went for those exact two as well!

Level 68

Jul 25, 2022

I guessed Gadolinium and Strontium, and Molybdenum and Tellurium...

Level 56

Jun 8, 2018

I guessed Mendelevium and Hafnium as well.

Level 32

May 20, 2018

Tried Vibranium.

Level 66

May 20, 2018

As did I. New quiz idea: Marvel metals and stones.

Level 66

May 20, 2018

Did anyone else just recite the ASAP Science song?

Level 62

May 20, 2018

Yep, definitely

Level 44

May 21, 2018

TENNESSINE AND OGANESSON. AND THEN, WERE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.

Level 45

May 24, 2024

SAME

Level 36

May 21, 2018

I can't BELIEVE I missed Krypton, Yttrium and Zinc. ZINC. UGH.

I got some obscure ones though. As in, probably not the first thing that should come to mind.

My answers were:

Arsenic, Berylium, Calcium, Fluorine, Germanium, Helium, Iodine, Lithium, Magnesium, Nickel, Oxygen, Potassium, Radon, Sulphur, Tungsten, Uranium and Xenon.

Level 58

May 21, 2018

What about Badassium? The element discovered by Tony Stark?

Level 72

May 24, 2024

unbelievable glazing 😅😂

you won't believe what's about to happen to him in a year, oh 2018 Dweller

Level 18

May 21, 2018

My first guess for U was ununtrium, and that is an element. Why isn't that accepted?

Level 72

May 21, 2018

All Un- names are given pending the confirmation of the discovery of the element. When it's done, they're given a definitive one. Right now, there is no three letter elements. Your Ununtrium has been renamed Nihonium 1 year and a half ago along with Livermorium, Tennessine and two others I forgot about.

EDIT: Sorry, after checking, it appears Livermorium has been named so before that.

Level 76

May 30, 2024

I guess unobtanium is the exception ;)

Level 78

May 22, 2018

Wolfram (another equally accepted name for tungsten) could be added in order to include W.

Level 56

Jun 8, 2018

When you guess Gadolinium instead of Gold...

Level 90

Feb 18, 2020

All that glitters is not gadolinium.

Level 90

Aug 21, 2018

Adamantium, Bavarium, Dalekanium, Dilithium, Etherium, Feminum, Jerktonium, Redstone, Saronite, Unobtanium and Vibranium don't work :(

Level 46

Nov 30, 2018

i really love this quiz ! got all the most common ones Oh WeLl :)))

Level 72

Jan 4, 2019

I think I did, astatine, beryllium, calcium, darmstadtium, erbium, fluorine, gallium, helium, iodine, krypton, livermorium, manganese, neon, oxygen, ?,radium, strontium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, xenon, yttrium, zinc.

So only for fluorine, oxygen, yttrium and zinc I guessed the suggested answers. (excluded the ones that only have one option)

Level 85

Dec 20, 2019

valladium

varadium

vanadium *DING!!*

Got very fortunate there. Miss dubnium, or whatever it was called, though. :-(

Level 78

Jun 29, 2020

Too bad Ding is not an element then. :)

Level 67

May 25, 2024

Really had to stop myself from typing Vanuatu...too many geography quizzes, I guess

Level 72

Jan 8, 2020

I wrote Einsteinian -_-

Level 66

Apr 3, 2020

I honestly typed dynamite for 'D'!! Suddenly remembered that it's not an element, then typed Dysprosium and went on to ace this quiz.

Level 83

Jun 29, 2020

God bless Tom Lehrer.

Level 59

Jun 29, 2020

I'm just wondering. Why don't you set it up so upon answering, it would reveal all correct possibilities? That way, the quiz would be even more educational, as one would see even the options he didn't knew about.

Level 59

Feb 10, 2022

agreed

Level 76

May 30, 2024

Agree. That would be a nice addition

Level 39

Dec 14, 2020

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Level 82

Dec 22, 2020

I really hoped Kurchatovium would work... I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Rutherfordium...

Level 68

Jul 25, 2022

I work at Rutherford College. Ernest Rutherford is on the New Zealand $100 note, with his Nobel Prize medal.

Level 82

Apr 20, 2021

Why does potassium not work for K?

Level 61

Jun 3, 2021

Potassium starts with "P". It's based off of element names, not symbols.

Level 61

Jun 6, 2021

Seriously? I got 22/23... The one letter I forgot is H.

Level 50

Jun 7, 2022

Very weird. You type Oganessum and they make Oxygen. And the you type Darmstadtium, and it makes Dubnium...

Level 15

Jul 17, 2022

Did anyone else try to immediately spell praseodymium for P?

Level 61

Jul 25, 2022

Why on earth does 'silver' appear when you type 'sulphur'?!!!!

Level 66

Jul 25, 2022

per the caveat: "We will display the most commonly guessed one"

Level 48

Jul 25, 2022

Marvel has ruined me for 'V'. I kept on trying Vibranium xD

Level 69

Jul 25, 2022

Fun fact - only one element's name contains the letter "w". And it isn't tungsten, even though the symbol for tungsten is "W".

No elements' names contain the letters "j" or "q".

Level 65

Sep 25, 2022

certified lawrencium moment

Level 45

May 24, 2024

This comment is what made me complete the quiz (for a while i blanked on "L")

Level 54

Feb 13, 2023

why can i remember yttrium but not tin :,(

Level 67

Apr 19, 2023

Had to pause to think of krypton, but finished in 1:10.

Level 57

May 25, 2023

Wolfram?

Level 22

Jun 13, 2023

ezzz

Level 75

Feb 11, 2024

21/23, didn’t guess D and K, the rest was easy.

Level 33

May 24, 2024

I was stuck on those same characters!

Level 67

May 24, 2024

I tried surprise but didn't work 😕

Level 45

May 24, 2024

Thanks to Asap Science and @Azerk

I successfully completed this quiz

Level 50

May 24, 2024

21/23, proud i remembered darmstadtium :3

Level 47

May 24, 2024

Lol from S-Z i kept typing the answers that were already in so I thought I was tripping

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