ELEMENTS AND THE PERIODIC TABLE
WHAT’S IN THE NAME?
Provide the name and chemical symbol for the element, which sounds similar to a possible
correct answer. See number one for an example.
CLUE
ELEMENT
1. well drillers decision
2. to press laundry
3. policeman
4. mother’s sister’s money
5. where dishes are washed
6. a foolish prisoner
7. natives of North America
8. water and gin
9. shown the way
10. I sit down to eat
11. a Ford product
12. a popular house plant
13. have the sniffles
14. United States citizen
15. don’t take any wooden
16. playing a part or role
17. . . . . . pop
18. a lisper saying “listening”
19. technician
20. Lone Ranger’s horse
21. endure or tolerate pain
22. what you walk on at home
23. leg joint above calf
boron B
iron Fe
copper Cu
antimony Sb
zinc Zn
silicon Si
indium In
hydrogen H
lead Pb
iodine I
mercury Hg
germanium Ge
gold Au
americium Am
nickel Ni
actinium Ac
sodium Na
lithium Li
technetium
silver Ag
sulfur S
florine F
neon Ne
CLUE
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CLUE: ium ending read as “him”
ELEMENT
1. doctors do this
2. doctors do this too
helium (heel him)
3. funeral homes do this
4. cowboys do this to horses
5. “Anything to keep him quiet” mother
says to father.
6. grab him
7. to get him off my back
ELEMENT
a spice
erbium Er
a blitz by police
radon Rn
…..on the Range
holmium Ho
…of Arabia
sodium Na
dull chemistry lecture
boron B
Golden Gate Bridge site
californium Cf
…bladder or …stones
gallium Ga
European country
germanium Ge
another European country francium Fr
repair clothes
mendium/sodium
50 per cent
halfium Hf
larger than a coyote barium Ba/oxygen O
God of the underworld
plutonium Pu
God of the sea
neptunium Np
a good . . . (helper)
samarium Sm
to brown a roast
cerium Ce
girl’s names
calcium Ca
(many options!)
curium Cm
barium Ba
rhodium Rh
promethium Pm
cesium Cs
polonium Po