Here's Jeopardy!

In many households, 7:00 pm is time for Jeopardy (although these days, with video recording and repeats on Netflix, any time can be Jeopardy time). For thirty-seven years many of us have invited Alex Trebek into our homes and appreciated his elegance and wit. Unfortunately, we lost this Canadian icon this week, so what better way to pay tribute than to play a little Jeopardy. The category? CHEMISTRY of course. Let’s go to the board!

[Try to answer before looking at the answers below!]

The Category is “CHEMISTRY”

1. Requires burning hydrogen and aluminum to reach its lofty goal
2. The only carbohydrate of animal origin of significance in the human diet
3. The Bible, referred to it as “brimstone”
4. Pots made of this metal were used by the Romans to boil wine to make the sweetener “Sapa”
5. Once used to make golf balls, now a staple for endodontists
6. The first totally synthetic polymer created in 1906 by Leo Baekeland
7. The “Red Planet” owes its colour to this substance
8. Humans, guinea pigs, fruit-eating bats and the red-vented bulbul cannot make it
9. A term coined by Democritus from the Greek word for “indivisible.”
10. The name of this illegal drug derives from the sound it makes when smoked
11. The process by which two atoms of hydrogen combine to form an atom of helium
12. The symbol for this element comes from the Latin word for “dawn” because of the colour of the sky when the sun rises
13. “Ban Roll-On” was introduced in the 1950s inspired by this invention
14. This gas escapes when a tungsten bulb is broken
15. Don’t spill a margarita on your skin in the sun or you may experience this
16. In stormy weather, lightning converts oxygen to this gas
17. This gas stops canaries from singing in coal mines
18. Most of the world’s gold is found here
19. Both Vicks Vapo-Rub and the inside of a ping pong ball smell of this
20. The only neurotransmitter that is a gas
21. This alloy of copper and tin is often used for statues
22. Whitewashing is based on lime reacting with this gas
23. This element discovered by Marie Curie was named after her home country
24. Fish odour can be removed from hands by washing with this juice
25. The one letter that does not appear on the periodic table
     

ANSWERS

1. What is the Space Shuttle?
2. What is lactose, or “milk sugar”?
3. What is sulphur?
4. What is lead?
5. What is “gutta percha?”
6. What is “bakelite?”
7. What is iron oxide?
8. What is vitamin C?
9. What is an “atom?”
10. What is “crack cocaine?”
11. What is “fusion?”
12. What is “gold?”
13. What is a ball point pen?
14. What is Argon?
15. What is phytophotodermatitis?
16. What is ozone?
17. What is carbon monoxide?
18. What are oceans?
19. What is camphor?
20. What is nitric oxide?
21. What is bronze?
22. What is carbon dioxide?
23. What is polonium?
24. What is lemon juice?
25. What is “j”?

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