Chemistry Quiz
Try out this Chemistry quiz to test your knowledge. Chemistry trivia opens the door to the science of matter, from the origins of alchemy to the modern understanding of atoms, elements, and reactions.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
450 pts max score
Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Which scientist discovered radioactivity in 1896?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
The gold foil experiments led which physicist to identify the atomic nucleus?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Who received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Which chemist won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Who developed the process for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
What process had large-scale ammonia production established before World War I?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Benzene was discovered in 1825 by whom?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Who published The Sceptical Chymist in 1661?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
The Nobel Prizes were established through whose will?
Question 11 · Easy · 10 pts
Table salt is primarily what compound?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
What is found at the center of an atom?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Electrons carry what kind of electric charge?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Which molecule has one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
The periodic table is ordered by increasing what?