Can you name the elements that have the same abbreviations as these states?

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Elements by State Abbreviation Quiz

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Created by: moogles -
Contributed: October 5th, 2009
Published: March 11th, 2010
Category: Science
Plays: 65,089

Tags: Chemistry Quizzes, Elements Quizzes, State Quizzes, abbreviation, symbol, Postal Abbreviation

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	Rdub19:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:22 GMT	14 points
	Wickedly tough but fun quiz.

	BluePikmin:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:22 GMT	90 points
	Anyone else try Californium for California?

	michael1:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT	19 points
	I really enjoyed this quiz, a great and unique idea.

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	jewsus:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 05:15 GMT	9 points
	@BluePikmin I tried it twice

	awesomeguy2204:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 05:42 GMT	5 points
	@BlurPikmin It does seem rather logical

	mungar:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 08:11 GMT	11 points
	Good thing I took the "L" quiz right before this and looked to see what I had missed. It helped me get Louisiana.

	SaraTheBrave:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 11:18 GMT	6 points
	What a totally fun quiz!!!!!

	Patteroast:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 11:57 GMT	2 points
	Whoo, I live in Manganese! Fun quiz.

	ostroffj:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 12:44 GMT	17 points
	I was convinced that PA was palladium.

	truthless_czar:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 12:44 GMT	1 point
	@bluepikmin: i sure did and was quite offended when it didn't work! montana definitely tripped me up, no way i was getting that one. great quiz!

	JimAkin:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 14:49 GMT	17 points
	Heh. I missed an easy one (Argon) by assigning Alaska's abbreviation to Arkansas. I confuse Clintons and Palins as well. ;)

	jali:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 15:13 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! I missed Argon too :( ,and although I live in Georgia I couldn't come up with Gallium. This is one of my favorite quizzes so far.

Tommy_C:

Mar 11th, 2010 at 15:24 GMT

3 points

I should have taken the states abreviations quiz first. I thought Nebraska was Nb, and was trying Nobelium, niobium, while not giving a though to Neon.

	caramba:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 18:28 GMT	2 points
	Excellent idea. No way I was getting those last 3; chemistry always bewildered me. Unlike State Postal abbreviations.

	DWolf:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 19:25 GMT	7 points
	All those times doing the periodic table quiz paid off. Took me a while to think of Pennsylvania's though. Not being sure of Louisiana's and Arkansas' abbreviations slowed me down a little too. 5 minutes seems fine to me. This seems like more of a thinking quiz than a beat the clock kind of quiz.

	when_flies_pig:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 20:04 GMT	30 points
	My father was a postmaster and my mother was a chemistry teacher. I blame them for my 0/15 on this quiz (we never really got along).

	miyomiyo1:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 20:41 GMT	3 points
	If this quiz was scored by the number of elements you were one letter away from getting correctly, I would have come in first.

	Crazy:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 21:05 GMT	3 points
	I love it! It's hard, but fun.

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	myriadoflights:	Mar 11th, 2010 at 22:05 GMT	2 points
	@BluePikmin: yup. and then I was decently embarrassed when I saw it was Calcium.

	percyjackson517:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 00:07 GMT	0 points
	most of my family lives in manganese

	mathboy0:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 00:12 GMT	-3 points
	I want a version where you don't get the states. (Stupid protactinium being impossible to spell...)

	Koltrane:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 00:42 GMT	2 points
	Great great great quiz. For some bizarre reason, I know all the elemental symbols, so this was right up my alley. Keep it up!

	ezman280:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 00:51 GMT	-2 points
	@BluePikmin yup i did that and i felt like an idiot when i realized it was calcium @JimAkin i also did what you did I'm on a roll

	the_hamburglar:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 03:47 GMT	8 points
	Sign I've played sporcle periodic table too much: I miss Aluminum but get Protactinium and Mendelevium

	redsimba88:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 06:00 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz idea! I eventually got desperate and tried Pennsylvanium.

	Aquinox:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 17:50 GMT	4 points
	I was spelling Lanthanum completely wrong. Damn that elements song being so fast.

	kbaker1819:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 22:25 GMT	1 point
	@JimAkin, I did that same thing lol.

	zifyoip:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 20:35 GMT	2 points
	Yay! A quiz in which the Nebraska answer is among the top half of the most guessed!

	Lihua:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT	2 points
	Such a clever clever quiz!

	Qrystal:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 22:31 GMT	2 points
	Wow, some of these are the ones I hardly ever get on other periodic table quizzes. Great one to add to the bunch!

	andrewsaurus:	Feb 14th, 2011 at 14:03 GMT	1 point
	...Is it sad that the reason I could do this was because I couldn't think of the state abbreviations?

	kern:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 19:19 GMT	1 point
	i did shockingly bad

	Alfo11490:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 23:22 GMT	1 point
	12/15. Pretty good, considering that I don't know the abbreviations of US states.