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Which metal melts in your hand, and which element is named after a goblin? These chemistry trivia questions and answers run from the periodic table to the kitchen, each with its reason and its source.
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Chemistry trivia questions with answers for a class review
The periodic table and element symbols, Atoms, bonds and states of matter and Acids, bases and reactions follow a first course: groups and periods, ions and isotopes, pH and catalysts. Each answer comes with a short reason to read aloud.
Hard chemistry trivia questions for a quiz night
Set Level to Hard for the 35 that stump most tables, such as the element named for the Moon and the first Swede to win a Nobel Prize. Where element names come from and Chemistry in the kitchen and the home suit a mixed table best.
- Open with Chemistry in the kitchen and the home: bleach, pewter and baking powder need no lab coat.
Questions and answers
What are some easy chemistry trivia questions?
What are the columns of the periodic table called? Rust is an oxide of which metal? Dry ice is which gas in solid form? The answers are groups, iron and carbon dioxide.
What are some hard chemistry trivia questions?
Which stable element has the largest atomic number of all? Who isolated fluorine in 1886? What does azote, a name once proposed for nitrogen, mean? The answers are lead, Henri Moissan and no life.
How many elements are on the periodic table?
118 are known. The first 94 occur naturally on Earth. The other 24, from americium to oganesson, occur only when they are made in laboratories.
How were the answers checked?
On October 9, 2026, each in the English Wikipedia article linked beside it, 90 articles in all: one for nearly every element, compound and chemist asked about. Twenty-one questions that other quizzes on this site already ask were left out.