The Elements
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Chemistry in Media
UMass Trivia
100

The elements of the periodic table are sorted by this number

What is atomic number?

100

All organic compounds contain this element

What is Carbon?

100

This element makes up the largest proportion of the body mass

What is oxygen?

100

Chemists Walter White and Jesse Pinkman synthesize this Drug in the hit show Breaking Bad

What is methamphetamine?

100

The current chancellor of UMass Amherst

Who is Javier Reyes?

200

An inert group of elements that make up the 18th group of the periodic table

What are the noble gases?

200
C6H12O6 is the chemical formula of this sugar

What is glucose? (or fructose)

200

This site is considered the catalytic site in enzymes

What is an active site?

200

This chemistry youtuber has a channel named after a lipophillic stain

Who is Nile Red?

200

The most recent addition to the UMass family is this campus located in Newton, MA

What is Mount Ida?

300

The most electronegative element in the periodic table

Fluorine

300

The simplest ester

What is methyl methanoate?

300

This technique was used to elucidate the structure of the DNA in the 50's

What is X-ray Crystallography?

300

This dye has recently gained notoriety for possibly having hyperactive effects on children (although current scientific consensus disagrees)

Red-40

300

This UMass club holds a yearly competition, the winner of which becomes the President of the club

What is the lettuce club?

400

The first person to report the discovery of Oxygen

Who is Joseph Priestley?

400

This gaseous organic compound is an important signalling molecule in plants

What is ethylene?

400

The most abundant amino acid in humans

What is glutamine?

400
The book Code Breaker chronicles the life of this biochemist
Jennifer Doudna
400

Before UMass was called UMass, it was called

Massachusetts Agricultural College

500

Four elements in the periodic table are named after this village

What is Ytterby?

500

The first chemically synthesized organic compound

What is urea?

500
The nitrogenous base thymine is structurally similar to uracil except for this function group

What is methyl?

500

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Who are Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov

500

This residential area (eg. Sylvan, Ohill etc.) is the most recent addition to the UMass housing options

What is Southwest?