Intro level Chemistry Jeopardy

Elements

100

This is the least massive element on the periodic table

Hydrogen

200

This metal is a liquid at room temperature

Mercury

300

This element is often used in science fiction as an alternative to carbon-based lifeforms

Silicon

400

This was the first artificially produced element and is much smaller than most other artificially produced elements

Technetium

500

This element was used as a neutron source generator when collided with alpha particles in a nuclear implosion bomb

Beryllium

Periodic Table

100

Rows on the periodic table are called this

Periods

200

The periodic table contains this number of elements

118

300

The majority of elements on the periodic table are classified as this

Metals

400

This group contains elements in all 3 major states of matter at STP

Halogens

500

This many elements were in the original periodic table

28

Scientists

100

This scientist is considered the father of the periodic table

Mendeleev

200

Diagrams of molecular including lone electron pairs and bonds are named after this 20th century scientist

Lewis

300

These two scientists raced each other for the creation of the atomic bomb

Oppenheimer and Heisenberg

400

This was the only scientist to have an element named after him while he was alive

Seaborg

500

This scientist published the paper "Why Socialism?" in 1949

Einstein

Random

100

This is the most common element in the earth's atmosphere

Nitrogen

200

Cohesion of water is caused by this phenomenon

Hydrogen bonding

300

This is the most common hybridization during a storm shipwreck scene (in middle of ocean)

sp³

400

This metal can be made to beat like a living heart

Gallium

500

This element is used as a catalyst in the Haber-Bosch process

Iron