Periodic Table Quizzes & Trivia

You may remember the Periodic Table of the Elements as a dreary chart on your classroom wall. If so, you never guessed its real purpose: it’s a giant cheat sheet. The table has served chemistry students since 1869, when it was created by Dmitry Mendeleyev, a cranky professor at the University of St. Petersburg. With a publisher’s deadline looming, Mendeleyev didn’t have time to describe all 63 then-known elements.

So he turned to a data set of atomic weights meticulously gathered by others. Fond of card games, he sorted these elements as in solitaire. If you are fond of this old friend, take these quizzes and answer to: “What element is named after Copenhagen?”, “What element is found in diamonds?”, and “What was the first element to be produced artificially?”

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This quiz is made up of 22 multiple choice questions and 1 fills in the blank question. All questions are related to the periodic table.

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    How many element groups are there?

The periodic table consists of elements, such as hydrogen, silicon, iron, and uranium. The number of each component corresponds to the number of protons in its nucleus. The three main parts of the periodic table include metals,...

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    Which side (left or right) of the periodic table are the metals?

This quiz focuses on some major characteristics of the elements in the periodic table, such as groups, metals, nonmetals, metalloids, etc. This quiz consists of 10 questions to test your basic knowledge of the Periodic Table; you...

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    The ability to pound metal into a flat sheet without breaking it is:

The periodic table is a collection of elements which classifies in a way that will help us to better understand chemical reactions. There is no chance that anyone who has undertaken chemistry can pass without understanding it....

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    What is Ar the symbol for?

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    Which of the following is not true for metalloids?

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