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How much do you really know about the 118 identified chemical elements?

This Frustrating Quiz Will Really Test Your Periodic Table Knowledge

(Psst: You have to write out the full name of the element to get the mark.)

Hydrogen, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Iodine, Sulfur, Phosphorus, Vanadium, Yttrium, Potassium, Tungsten, and Uranium.

Name a periodic table element whose symbol is a single letter.

Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, and ( [probably](http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/118/oganesson)) Oganesson

Name ANY noble gas.

Beryllium, Boron, Bromine, Barium, Bismuth, Berkelium, and Bohrium.

Name a periodic table element that begins with a B.

Iron, Indium, Iodine, and Iridium.

Name a periodic table element that begins with an I.

Mercury and Antimony.

Name a periodic table element that ENDS with a Y.

Beryllium, Gallium, Palladium, Tellurium, Thallium, Tennessine, Copper, Hassium, Potassium, Yttrium, and Ytterbium.

Name a periodic table element that contains a double letter.

Neon, Iron, Zinc, Gold, and Lead.

Name a periodic table element with just FOUR letters.

Holmium comes from the Latin name for Stockholm; Hafnium comes from the Latin name for Copenhagen, and Lutetium comes from the Latin name for Paris. Darmstadtium is named after Darmstadt, Germany. Berkelium is named after Berkeley in California. Livermorium is technically named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, but that is in the city of Livermore, California, so we'll give you the point if you put that.

Berkelium, Darmstadtium, Hafnium, Holmium, and Lutetium.

Name a periodic table element named after a CITY.

(Again, you need to write the full name of the element to get the mark.)

Sodium, Potassium, Iron, Silver, Gold, Antimony, Tungsten, Mercury, and Lead.

Name a periodic table element whose symbol contains NONE of the letters in its name.

Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, and Francium.

Name ANY alkali metal.

Meitnerium is named after Lise Meitner, and Curium is named after Marie (and Pierre) Curie.

Meitnerium and Curium.

Name a periodic table element named after a woman.

(Again, you need to write the full name of the element, not the symbol.)

Helium (He), Beryllium (Be), Iodine (I), Indium (In), Americium (Am), Astatine (At), Arsenic (As) and Nobelium (No).

Name a periodic table element whose symbol is also a complete word.

Copper is named after Cyprus; Francium and Gallium, France; Germanium, Germany; Ruthenium, Russia; Polonium, Poland; Nihonium, Japan.

Copper, Francium, Germanium, Ruthenium, Polonium, Gallium, and Nihonium.

Name a periodic table element named after a COUNTRY.

Plutonium and Cerium.

Name a periodic table element that is named after a dwarf planet.

Neon, Nitrogen, Magnesium, Molybdenum, Moscovium, Meitnerium, and Mendelevium.

Name a periodic table element that begins and ends with the same letter.

Osmium and Oganesson.

Name a periodic table element that begins with an O and is NOT oxygen.

Cobalt, Zinc, Antimony, Bismuth, Mercury, and Gold.

Name a periodic table element that ENDS with two consonants.

Tin.

Name a periodic table element with FEWER THAN four letters in its name.

Californium and Tennessine.

Name a periodic table element named after a US state.

Arsenic, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Antimony.

Name a NON-METAL periodic table element that doesn't end with either -ON, -IUM, -INE, or -EN.

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