Famous Chemists
Chemistry in Pop Culture
Lab Knowledge
General Chemistry Knowledge
Atlantic Canada
100

The chemist that discovered a famous uncertainty principle

Who is Heisenberg?

100

The actor that plays the role of Walter White in famous chemistry show Breaking Bad

Who is Bryan Cranston?

100

The only metal that is liquid at room temperature

What is Mercury?

100

The oldest English language university in Canada

What is UNB?

200

The chemist that created the modern periodic table

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

200

The nickname of the popular chemistry experiment seen in a famous Big Bang Theory scene where Sheldon mixes H2O2 with dish soap and uses KI catalyst to create foam

What is Elephant Toothpaste?

200

The only letter that's not on the periodic table

What is J?

200
The year that Newfoundland joined Canada's confederation

When is 1949?

300
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel prize, was most famous for this invention

What is dynamite?

300

In Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote often tries to blow up Road Runner with TNT, which stands for:

What is trinitrotoluene?

300

The process of a solid going to gas without becoming a liquid

What is sublimation?
300

Canada's only officially bilingual province

What is New Brunswick?

400

The metal with the highest melting point

What is Tungsten?

400

The cause of PEI sand having its famous red colour

What is iron?

500

The only two scientists to have won Nobel prizes in two different fields

Who are Marie Curie and Linus Pauling?

500

The first synthetic element created in a lab

What is technetium?

500

Salicylic acid, known for its medicinal properties, is found in the bark of which tree?

What is the willow tree?

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