Periodic Table Puns
Name: ____________________
Period: _________
Date: _______________
Below you will find some puns (play on words) about different elements in the Periodic
Table. All answers can be found in the Periodic Table. Enjoy!
• The Lone Ranger’s horse: _________________________________________
• Writes speeding tickets: ___________________________________________
• What you do when you can’t swim:__________________________________
• A doctor does this to a sick man: ____________________________________
• A silly prisoner: __________________________________________________
• What you do to a dead man: ________________________________________
• If they are not here, they… ________________________________________
• To press a blouse: ________________________________________________
• Funds from your aunt: _____________________________________________
• A kitchen on a ship: ______________________________________________
• Kings, queens, princes, princesses are: ________________________________
• A Latin Mickey Mouse’s dog: _______________________________________
• A popular red or white flower: _______________________________________
• Someone who helps someone in distress is a good… _____________________
• A burial chamber that weighs 2,000 pounds: ____________________________
• What a cheap fiancé will buy for his bride-to-be: ________________________
• The planet Superman is from: _______________________________________
• Letter flipper on a game show: _______________________________________
• What you wrap your sandwich in: ____________________________________
• A type of men’s cologne: ___________________________________________
• God shed His grace on thee: _________________________________________
• A police officer’s boss: _____________________________________________
• A peace award is named for him: _____________________________________
• Bananas have a lot of… ____________________________________________
• He discovered E = mc2: ____________________________________________
• A sandwich roll shaped like a car:
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• What I do when I need to eat: _______________________________________
• When I go from here to there quickly on foot: __________________________
• The Golden State of elements: _______________________________________
• The founder of the Periodic Table: ___________________________________
Now that you have conquered these, make up five of your own Periodic Table puns:
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