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2017 SENIOR CHEMISTRY QUIZ (SAMFYA)
ROUND ONE
1. Ammonia can be considered as a Lewis base. What particles does it donate?(one attempt)
ANSWER: ELECTRONS
2. Metallic elements are often obtained from ores. Name the metallic element which is produced from the
ore Bauxite.
ANSWER: ALUMINUM
3. What class of organic compounds is characterized by an -OH group bonded to an alkyl group?
ANSWER: ALCOHOL
4. What is the primary constituent of marble?
ANSWER: CALCIUM CARBONATE
5. Among the alcohols, which one has the lowest molecular weight? (one attempt)
ANSWER: METHANOL
6. What term refers to an easily melted product of the reaction between the flux and the impurities of an ore?
ANSWER: SLAG
7. Which noble gas has the highest melting point? (one attempt)
ANSWER: RADON
8. Which halogen has the largest atomic radius? (one attempt)
ANSWER: ASTATINE
9. What is the most abundant element in the human body by WEIGHT? (one attempt)
ANSWER: OXYGEN
10. What is the oxidation number of nitrogen in NaNO2:
ANSWER: +3 (Accept 3)
11. What is the family name given to the elements in group 1A of the periodic table?(one attempt)
ANSWER: ALKALI METALS
12. After carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, what is the next most abundant element in proteins?
ANSWER: NITROGEN

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ROUND TWO
1. What type of concentration expressions is defined as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of
solvent?
ANSWER: MOLALITY
2. What do we call the hydrolysis of a fat using a solution of a strong hydroxide?
ANSWER: SAPONIFICATION
3. In the common copper-zinc dry cell, what happens to the zinc atoms?
ANSWER: THEY ARE OXIDIZED AT THE ANODE OR THEY ARE OXIDIZED
4. As one goes across a period in the periodic table, the ionization energy generally increases. What is the
likely cause of the increase in the ionization energy?
ANSWER: NUCLEAR CHARGE (ACCEPT: CHARGE)
5. Excluding Astatine, which halogen does NOT replace the other halogens from their compounds? (one
attempt)
ANSWER: IODINE
6. What chemical functionality do unsaturated fatty acid contain that saturated fatty acids do not?
ANSWER: DOUBLE BONDS or CARBON-CARBON DOUBLE BONDS
7. What is the name of the primary forces in ionic crystalline solids? (one attempt)

ANSWER: ELECTROSTATIC FORCES

8. Solution A has a pH of 2 while solution B has a pH of 7. How many times more acidic is solution A than
Solution B?
ANSWER: ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND or TEN TO THE FIFTH POWER
9. All proteins contain at least 5 specific elements. Four of them are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and
nitrogen. What is the fifth element?
ANSWER: SULFUR
10. In a flame test, the presence of copper in a solution is evident by what color flame?
ANSWER: BLUE-GREEN
11. Give the empirical formula for the organic compound naphthalene.
ANSWER: C10H8
12. What is the pH of a solution that is 1000 times more acidic than pure water?
ANSWER: 4

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2017 SENIOR CHEMISTRY QUIZ (SAMFYA)
ROUND THREE
1. How many neighboring atoms are in contact with each atom in a monatomic body-centered cubic
structure.
ANSWER: 8
2. Name the type of bond in which there is an unequal attraction for the shared electrons and a resultant
unbalanced distribution of charge.
ANSWER: POLAR COVALENT BOND
3. What is the formula for Magnesium Nitride?
ANSWER: Mg3N2
4. In a flame test both lithium and strontium produce various shades of this color. What is this color?
ANSWER: RED
5. Ketones are organic compounds. Name the functional group that all ketone molecules contain.
ANSWER: CARBONYL GROUP or C DOUBLE BOND
6. How many hydrogen atoms are there in the organic compound 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane?
ANSWER: 2
7. What type of shape in acetylene, C2H2, is caused by the triple bond between the carbon atoms?
ANSWER: LINEAR
8. What is the active ingredient in many common laxatives that is also an acid-base indicator?
ANSWER: PHENOLPHTHALEIN
9. During the electrolysis of a dilute aqueous solution of sulfuric acid, what happens to the sulfuric acid
concentration? (one attempt)
ANSWER: IT REMAINS THE SAME
10. What name is given to the chemical elements with atom numbers 90 to 103, inclusively?
ANSWER: ACTINIDES or ACTINIDE SERIES
11. The angle between any two carbon-hydrogen bonds in a methane molecule is how many degrees?
ANSWER: 109.5 DEGREES
12. What is the other name for the lanthanide series elements?
ANSWER: RARE EARTH ELEMENTS

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ROUND FOUR
1. What term refers to the number of molecules or ions attached to a central metallic atom?
ANSWER: COORDINATION NUMBER
2. What term refers to the energy released when an electron is added to a neutral atom?
ANSWER: ELECTRON AFFINITY
3. What effect refers to the scattering of light by colloidal particles?
ANSWER: TYNDALL EFFECT
4. Name the state function that represents the heat content of a system.
ANSWER: ENTHALPY
5. The removal of two hydrogen atoms from an alcohol yields what type of chemical substance?
ANSWER: ALDEHYDE
6. A compound which contains two ring structures having one common carbon atom is known as a?
ANSWER: SPIRO-COMPOUND
7. By what specific process is vegetable oil made into margarine?
ANSWER: PARTIAL HYDROGENATION
8. What is the name given to the equation PV=nRT?
ANSWER: IDEAL GAS EQUATION
9. How many resonance forms are possible for the Lewis structure of SO3?
ANSWER: 3
10. In commercial vulcanization, what substance is added in order to produce cross linking?
ANSWER: SULFUR
11. In any chemical reaction, What quantity always decreases to a minimum?
ANSWER: FREE ENERGY
12. What is the name of the point on a phase diagram which indicates the temperature above which a gas
cannot be converted to a liquid?
ANSWER: THE CRITICAL TEMPERATURE

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 2017 SENIOR CHEMISTRY QUIZ (SAMFYA)
ROUND FIVE
1. What term best describes the structure of an ammonia molecule?
ANSWER: PYRAMIDAL
2. What force between molecules tends to cause most common gases to behave as non-ideal gases?
ANSWER: VAN DER WAALS' FORCE
3. What UNUSUAL type of bonding occurs in diborane, B2H6
ANSWER: THREE CENTER BONDING
4. The action of concentrated sulfuric acid on sugar is best described as?
ANSWER: DEHYDRATION
5. What metal is used as a reducing agent to obtain iron from iron oxide in the Thermite process?
ANSWER: ALUMINUM
6. What compound is formed when all the hydrogen in an acid has been replaced by a metal?
ANSWER: A SALT
7. What is the formula for the anhydride of sulfuric acid
ANSWER: SO3

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ROUND SIX

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 1. HCl is dissolved in solvent A; the solution is non-conducting towards an electric current. What type of
solvent must Solvent A be?
ANSWER: NON-POLAR
2. What is the common name for HClO3?
ANSWER: CHLORIC ACID
3. What term refers to the pH range over which an indicator color change occurs?
ANSWER: TRANSITION INTERVAL
4. What two primary factors determine whether or not molecular collision leads to a chemical reaction?
ANSWER: ENERGY AND ORIENTATION OF MOLECULES
5. Name the conjugate acid of bicarbonate ion.
ANSWER: CARBONIC ACID
6. What is the name of H2SO3?
ANSWER: SULFUROUS ACID

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