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Can you name the elements whose symbols do not correspond with their names in English?
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clavinfield
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Elements with Clever Aliases Quiz
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Created Nov 13, 2009 in
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Featured Dec 1, 2009
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oldkent
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT
3 points
With a HUGE science external in just a FEW days, this was great!!! Thank you, Sporcle, now I have an excuse to stop bookwork studying!!! :)
James_Kay
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Nov 14th, 2009 at 17:38 GMT
8 points
You could add Columbium (Nb) as a bonus, although technically its official name is niobium. When they were officially naming Tungsten and Niobium, there were different American and European names. Their solution was to give one the american name (Tungsten) and give one the european name (niobium). Tungsten was called Wolfram in europe (Hence the symbol "W"), and niobium was called columbium in north america. I still see columbium written in some north american textbooks, and manufacturer's specs for alloys etc.
clavinfield
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Nov 15th, 2009 at 18:55 GMT
3 points
Cool stuff, James! I've updated the quiz as per your suggestion. Only here can you create a quiz on a specific topic yet still learn something new from a fellow Sporcler in the comments section, haha.
micah
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Nov 16th, 2009 at 19:21 GMT
1 point
Nice.
Lyn_Marie
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Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:10 GMT
2 points
I loved this quiz!
emmaAmethyst
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Nov 17th, 2009 at 07:07 GMT
2 points
Could have used a bit more time -- I was still running through the alphabet when time ran out... Great concept though!
frozon
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Nov 17th, 2009 at 13:57 GMT
1 point
@James: But why's tungsten an American name? Isn't it Swedish and means "heavy stone"?
BillyMumphrey
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Nov 17th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT
1 point
@James_Kay; Never heard of Columbium in North America.
Chocolatl
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Nov 17th, 2009 at 22:58 GMT
1 point
Love the quiz, and what a great title!
cuendillar
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Nov 18th, 2009 at 12:39 GMT
2 points
@frozon That's true, but it's nonetheless called Wolfram in Sweden.
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TheRegno
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:12 GMT
11 points
Really Sodium is that low?
Iridium
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:18 GMT
1 point
Got all the rest easily. I spent a minute in a half wracking my brain for the last two answers. Really, now- I forgot Gold and Silver? Right after having to watch Rudolph, which contains a SONG about Gold and Silver? I feel really, really bad. D;
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Chadster111
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:23 GMT
-11 points
Once I guessed silver right I immediately put down gold and iron lol.
jimpoz
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:38 GMT
74 points
natrium, kalium, ferrum, cuprum, argentum, stannum, stibium, wolfram, aurum, hydrargyrum, and plumbum.
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B_smoove
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:02 GMT
-20 points
antimony right away boom
shawnkay
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:09 GMT
57 points
It's unfortunate when games like this are rated less than five. It couldn't have been executed any better.
Prepostosaurus
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:24 GMT
5 points
reading Metal Men comics as a kid gave me half of these right away. good quiz.
fomalhaut
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:04 GMT
6 points
I agree with shawnkay: excellent quiz!
caramba
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:20 GMT
36 points
@shawnkay - like I commented on one of
your
well-executed quizzes, some users rate the quiz on how well they scored, or how the quiz compared to their expectations of what they thought it would be, or whether or not it was on a subject that interests them (
and some people are just jerks
). Personally, it doesn't matter to me if a quiz gets all fives, a nice comment such as yours really makes up for a fistful of 1's. (I hope clavinfield agrees).
SixFootFive
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:38 GMT
42 points
@TheRegno Low sodium is a good thing. Sorry guys, couldn't resist.
Photar
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 07:19 GMT
17 points
Damn couldn't get my brain to figure out Antimony. I kept thinking "it's that stupid Sb one--what the hell is Sb? Tin? Is it Tin?" It's not Tin.
silla68
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 09:20 GMT
2 points
nice game
janiac
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 09:40 GMT
11 points
what was funny was that there was a banner at the top of my screen for tungsten wedding bands-first time an ad helped me out!!!
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mcory
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:22 GMT
-5 points
All that online D&D I play finally came in useful....except that my elf archer has never collected Mercury nor Potassium.
gushuss32
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:40 GMT
3 points
in case i had forgotten since junior year of high school, it is now official that i am not good at science. or math. or anything. SIGH. ;)
JasonJP
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 13:11 GMT
1 point
Being able to do this doesn't make you good at science. Nice quiz!!!
nymous
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 13:59 GMT
3 points
The quiz would be even better if you also accepted the Latin, i.e. ferrum, argentum, aurum, etc.
icing
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 14:02 GMT
2 points
Interesting that so many of them are metals. Considering how badly I suck at chemistry, I was pretty happy that I got half of them. Good quiz :)
westing1992
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 14:09 GMT
8 points
icing: I think the reason so many are metals is because they were known and named before the rest of the elements.
tijngommans
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 15:00 GMT
1 point
i didn't get sodium cause we call it natrium in dutch, we also call kalium kalium and wolfram wolfram:p not fair!
Moldemort
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 15:13 GMT
-2 points
only didn't get antimony or tungsten because they're never in equations we do at school
clavinfield
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 16:06 GMT
17 points
@caramba All the positive responses in the comments and the fact I woke up this fine December morning to find out that Sporcle actually published one of my quizzes has already made my day! @shawnkay Thanks. And the rest of you Sporclers, thanks for playing!
orangehawk42
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 16:58 GMT
3 points
only missed antimony, kind of more obscure than rest
ZeZapatiste
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 17:23 GMT
1 point
I always thought that Sodium was said Natrium in English, when I just realized thanks to this quiz that it is named "sodium chloride" and "sodium sulfate" on the pots, which I use like... everyday !
Chris156
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:20 GMT
3 points
It's basically all those metals that have been known for thousands of years...and Antimony. What the hell even is antimony, anyway?
fudo
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:44 GMT
-3 points
Great quiz, but copper actually comes from cuprum. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copper#Etymology_1 .
TheBB
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:49 GMT
1 point
I got copper during my wild-guessing phase. I really thought "Cu" constituted "correspondence" in this case, but I guess not.
tenta20
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 20:55 GMT
4 points
How did I get "Antimony" but not "Lead"? Damn..............
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milkmeister
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 20:55 GMT
-6 points
For elements related quiz fans, try this one out: http://www.sporcle.com/games/milkmeister/ElementsNamedAfterScientists
Trixter
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Dec 3rd, 2009 at 01:47 GMT
4 points
Strangely, antimony and tungsten were my first guesses, yet I missed Sodium. =/
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