Chemistry is the study of the properties and behavior of matter. Fancy yourself as a bit of an expert chemist? Find out how good you are with these fun chemistry trivia questions, with answers.
Chemistry trivia questions
Question 1
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Question 2
What name is given to an atom or molecule that has a net electric charge because it has lost or gained one or more electrons?
Question 3
NaCl is the chemical formula for which common condiment?
Question 4
What is the first element on the period table?
Question 5
Which Polish/French physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Question 6
What color does potassium burn?
Question 7
What is the chemical formula for water?
Question 8
What are the six naturally occurring noble gases?
Question 9
Which Russian chemist formulated the periodic table?
Question 10
What is the only periodic table group that contains elements in three of the main states of matter at standard temperature and pressure?
Question 11
Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Question 12
Does sea water have a higher or lower boiling point than freshwater?
Question 13
Which gas law states that the absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system?
Question 14
Which chemist introduced the atomic theory into chemistry?
Question 15
What is the only letter not in the periodic table?
Question 16
What is the term used for when a material goes from solid to gas without becoming a liquid?
Question 17
What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Question 18
What is nitrous oxide more commonly known as?
Question 19
Pb is the chemical symbol for which element?
Question 20
Heavy water contains which isotopic form of hydrogen?
Question 21
What are the 3 colors of litmus paper?
Question 22
Which metal has the highest melting point?
Question 23
Fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br) and iodine (I) all belong to which group in the periodic table?
Question 24
What is the heaviest element on the periodic table?
Question 25
If a solution has a pH of 8 is it acidic or alkaline?
Question 26
By what common name do we know acetylsalicylic acid?
Question 27
Brass is an alloy of which two metals?
Question 28
What element gives a blue diamond its blue color?
Question 29
Which chemical element has the lowest boiling point of all the elements?
Question 30
What measurement is defined as the number of atoms found in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12, where the carbon-12 atoms are unbound, at rest and in their ground state?
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