Name 100 Elements — H, He, and Then It Gets Hard
Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium — anyone who survived chemistry class starts singing the song. The name 100 elements challenge asks for 100 of the 118, and somewhere around element 40 the song runs out.
Every element on the periodic table is a valid answer, and chemical symbols count: Fe scores Iron, Au scores Gold, W scores Tungsten (it's wolfram, blame history). Alternate spellings are accepted too — aluminum and aluminium, sulfur and sulphur, cesium and caesium.
The strategy is to walk the table in chunks: the everyday metals, the gases, the coinage metals, the radioactive celebrities, then the lab-made heavies with names like a Scrabble accident. The name 100 elements quiz is the purest test of what school actually stuck.
Rules in 10 seconds
- 10 minutes on the clock — it starts when you type your first answer.
- Every entry is validated against the bundled list. Only real answers count.
- Spelling is forgiving: case, hyphens, and plural forms are all matched.
- Reach 100 before 0:00 — or share your score and make your friends try.
FAQ
Do chemical symbols count?
Yes. Every symbol works — Na for sodium, Pb for lead, Hg for mercury. Latin names like ferrum and natrium are accepted too.
Which elements do people miss most?
The boring middle: palladium, ruthenium, thulium, ytterbium. And nearly everyone forgets one of the noble gases — it's usually krypton.
Aluminum or aluminium?
Either. Both spellings score, as do sulfur/sulphur and cesium/caesium. The quiz takes no side in the transatlantic spelling war.