National Chemistry Week

Missing element

It's National Chemistry Week! So let's celebrate with an elemental trivia puzzle.

Using knowledge, logic, or guesswork, can you complete each movie title (1–17) with the name of a chemical element (a-q)? (One British spelling is used.)

1. ___ and Old Lace (1944)
2. The ___ Bible (1995)
3. Big ___ Dog (1999)
4. ___ Canyon (1950)
5. ___ Copy (1981)
6. ___ Cup (1996)
7. Dig That ___ (1956)
8. ___ High School (1960)
9. Hot ___ and Cold Feet (1978)
10. The ___ Kid (2004)
11. The Man in the ___ Mask (1998)
12. ___ Mountain (1984)
13. Pirates of ___ Valley (1999, TV)
14. Rancid ___ (2000)
15. ___ Rising (1998)
16. ___ Streak (1976)
17. Ulee’s ___ (1997)

a. Aluminium
b. Arsenic
c. Calcium
d. Carbon
e. Copper
f. Gold
g. Helium
h. Iron
i. Lead
j. Mercury
k. Neon
l. Nickel
m. Platinum
n. Silicon
o. Silver
p. Tin
q. Uranium

Published in GAMES, February 2006

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