See how many elements you can remember. You have 15 minutes.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/elements.php


I got 73

Curtesy of Tom Leher

The elements,

Earth, air, fire and water. What's so hard about that?
At least, these are the elements my mother had been taught, nearly 100 years ago.

Had to memorize them all and the atomic weights and all in H.S. But back then, I think there were only something like 102. Now there's what, 120 or something like that?

I got all of them under 15 minutes, not because I knew every single element. It was because thanks to Galaktia he brought that helpful video to this forum, that could serves a guide to every person who doesn't know all the periodic table by memory.


It was a fun learning game, that everyone needs to check-it out.

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Didn't the Animaniacs have a song with the elements?

Only Tom Leher as far as I am aware badgolf,

also do you mean Animaniacs the band or the cartoon?

There's a band? Yikes, I'm out of the loop. I was thinking the Yakko, Wakko, and Dot cartoon from the 90s. They had many list songs: states, countries, words in the dictionary; I'm thinking they might've done a periodic table one too.

I don't think you'll find very many people younger than me that would have a clue who Tom Lehrer is, galaktia.

You really have to hear this, the words alone don't do it justice..
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/newmath.htm

Badgolf,
not as far as I am aware, the cartoon hasn't done any element or periodic table song to my knowledge.


Roofingguy,
Hehe, well just because we like good music is no reason to ignore us, mmm roofing?

quote:

Originally posted by Ming, Merciless the:
You really have to hear this, the words alone don't do it justice..
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/newmath.htm

here is a youtube version done in mime by a young fan of Tom Leher Here ya go.

quote:

Originally posted by Ming, Merciless the:
Earth, air, fire and water. What's so hard about that?

Isn't that like a band...?

quote:

Isn't that like a band...?

Yep that's a band of four people singing great band, though.

Roof, I used to have a Tom Lehrer album, and my favorite cut was the Survival Hymn.
O we will all burn together when we burn,
There'll be no need to stand and wait our turn,
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,
We'll just close our agendas and adjourn.

Or the song about the gal who was repulsive and couldn't cook.
Sharks gotta swim,
Bats gotta fly,
I gotta love one woman til I die,
Tho to Joe or Fred or Bob,
She might be just a slob,
She's my woman and I love her.

Tho for breakfast, she makes coffee
That tastes like sham-----POO.
I come home for lunch
And get peanut butter stew.

Well, you know the rest.

No it's not somthing I need on a regular basis. If needed, I just look it up.

Hang on, I remember the lyrics to that song.



---- "There's Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminum, Selenium, and Hydrogen, and Oxygen, and Nitrogen, and Rhenium, and Nickel, Neodymium, Neptunium, Germanium, and Iron, Americium, Ruthenium, Uranium.
---- Europium, Zirconium, Lutetium, Vanadium, and Lanthanum, and Osmium, and Astatine, and Radium, and Gold, Protactinium, and Indium, and Gallium...and Iodine, and Thorium, and Thulium, and Thallium. Europium, Zirconium, Lutetium, Vanadium, and Lanthanum, and Osmium, and Astatine, and Radium, and Gold, Protactinium, and Indium, and Gallium...and Iodine, and Thorium, and Thulium, and Thallium.
There's Yttrium, Ytterbium, Actinium, Rubidium, and Boron, Gadolinium, Niobium, Iridium, and Strontium, and Silicon, and Silver, and Samarium, and Bismuth, Bromine, Lithium, Beryllium, and Barium.

There's Holmium, and Helium, and Hafnium, and Erbium, and Phosphorus, and Francium, and Fluorine, and Terbium, and Manganese, and Mercury, Molybdenum, Magnesium, Dysprosium, and Scandium, and Cerium, and Cesium, and Lead, Praseodymium, and Platinum, Plutonium, Palladium, Promethium, Potassium, Polonium, and Tantalum, Technetium, Titanium, Tellurium...and Cadmium, and Calcium, and Chromium, and Curium.
There's Sulfur, Californium, and Fermium, Berkelium, and also Mendelevium, Einsteinium, Nobelium,
and Argon, Krypton, Neon, Radon, Xenon, Zinc and Rhodium, and Chlorine, Carbon, Cobalt, Copper, Tungsten, Tin and Sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard...and there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered."




Technically, I could sing this whole song by heart, but I don't know how to record my voice on this forum. (Sigh)Oh well.

there was a time when i could rattle all of them down, and in the right order too. now? not a chance.

BTW, back then there were 105 of them. how many are there now?

I my good ole alma ma, we had to memorize them all (104 at the time) along with atomic weights and series they were in. Now I couldn't tell a transuranic from a transatlantic. However, I just might go poison a pigeon in the park.