We brave the elements today, because Hallie has titrated out six trivia questions about every chemist’s best friend, the Periodic Table of Elements! Also on the table are discussions of theater, art, and public health, and we periodically say funny things. Get it?
3:00: Q1 (Sports & Games): One of only two U.S. states that lend their names to chemical elements, what state’s main university’s football team, named after the state nickname, competes in the Southeastern Conference in the NCAA?
11:14: Q2 (Arts & Literature): Seven Figures by Bruce Nauman, Triple Negation Chandelier by Shezad Dawood, and Day and Night #2 by Jung Lee are all famous art pieces that use what element as their primary medium?
17:30: Q3 (Times & Places): Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, the first person to have a chemical element named after him, was a mining engineer born in the Tomsk Governorate, which is found just beyond what mountain range that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia?
26:08: Q4 (Sounds & Screen): What play by Joseph Kesselring written in 1939, premiered on Broadway in 1941 but is better known for the film adaptation in 1944 starring Cary Grant?
33:07: Q5 (Science): What element, a silvery white metal, gets its name from the third most massive asteroid in our solar system and the second asteroid to be discovered after Ceres?
39:12: Q6 (Everything Else): Exposure to the ionic form of what element by many people in the U.S. and other countries around the world was called one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century in the U.S. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
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