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For thirty-seven years many of us have invited Alex Trebek into our homes and appreciated his elegance and wit. Unfortunately, we lost this Canadian icon this week. So what better way to pay tribute than to play a little Jeopardy?

Joe Schwarcz PhD | 10 Nov 2020

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In many households, 7:00 pm is time for Jeopardy (although these days, with video recording and repeats on Netflix, any time can be Jeopardy time). For thirty-seven years many of us have invited Alex Trebek into our homes and appreciated his elegance and wit. Unfortunately,听we lost this Canadian icon this week, so听what better way to pay tribute than to play a little Jeopardy. The category? CHEMISTRY of course. Let鈥檚 go to the board!

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Requires burning hydrogen and aluminum to reach its lofty goal
The only carbohydrate of animal origin of significance in the human diet
The Bible, referred to it as 鈥渂rimstone鈥�
Pots made of this metal were used by the Romans to boil wine to make the sweetener 鈥淪apa鈥�
Once used to make golf balls, now a staple for endodontists
The first totally synthetic polymer created in 1906 by Leo Baekeland
The 鈥淩ed Planet鈥� owes its colour to this substance
Humans, guinea pigs, fruit-eating bats and the red-vented bulbul cannot make it
A term coined by Democritus from the Greek word for 鈥渋ndivisible.鈥�
The name of this illegal drug derives from the sound it makes when smoked
The process by which two atoms of hydrogen combine to form an atom of helium
The symbol for this element comes from the Latin word for 鈥渄awn鈥� because of the colour of the sky when the sun rises
鈥淏an Roll-On鈥� was introduced in the 1950s inspired by this invention
This gas escapes when a tungsten bulb is broken
Don鈥檛 spill a margarita on your skin in the sun or you may experience this
In stormy weather, lightning converts oxygen to this gas
This gas stops canaries from singing in coal mines
Most of the world鈥檚 gold is found here
Both Vicks Vapo-Rub and the inside of a ping pong ball smell of this
The only neurotransmitter that is a gas
This alloy of copper and tin is often used for statues
Whitewashing is based on lime reacting with this gas
This element discovered by Marie Curie was named after her home country
Fish odour can be removed from hands by washing with this juice
The one letter that does not appear on the periodic table
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