Set A

Question 1

Who articulated the** Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?**

Mnemonics: What comes after Letter U? Sounds like ber(g) and cer(t).

Answer 1

Werner Heisenberg

Question 2

Who introduced the Wohler synthesis?

Mnemonics: (Wohler) Nietzsche

Answer 2

Friedrich Wohler

Question 3

Who discovered I-131?

Mnemonics: S(3)ABOR(G)

Answer 3

Glenn Seaborg

Question 4

Who coined the term ‘electron’?

Mnemonics: Electron Rock ni George

Answer 4

George Stoney

Question 5

Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of ARGON (1st Noble Gas Isolated)

Mnemonics: Richkid. Noble. William. Codename: JWS - 3BR

Answer 5

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

(Also William Ramsay; Scottish 1984)

Question 6

Who discovered the chair conformation of cyclohexane?

Mnemonics: Hassle ang 6 Chair in a Circle

Answer 6

Odd Hassel

(Google: Hermann Sachse)

Question 7

He discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium

Mnemonics: Bekenemen Spontaneous

Answer 7

Antoine Henri Becquerel

Question 8

Who discovered the structure of benzene?

Mnemonics: Benzene in August, FAK FAK FAK. Inspiration: FAK dreamt of a snake biting its tail,

Answer 8

Friedrich August Kekulé

Question 9

Who created the first spectroscope?

Mnemonics: Spec(2)scope: B. Burner and G.Kirch (Voltage 2nd Law)

Answer 9

Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchoff

Question 10

Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air

Mnemonics: INERT - NEUTRAL = * Wala ako ma say (follow the sounds)*

Answer 10

Sir William Ramsay

Question 11

Who discovered the RELATIONSHIP between the **elements’ ATOMIC # **and the **X-RAYS’ FREQUENCY **generated by BOMBARDING ELEMENT with HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRONS?

Mnemonics: BOMBARDING NIMO SLAYYYY???

Answer 11

Henry Moseley

Question 12

Who introduced the concept of chemical potential?

Mnemonics: inhales May potential pala si LEWIS?

Answer 12

Gilbert N. Lewis

Question 13

Best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs

Mnemonics: inhales again May electron pair din si LEWIS?

Answer 13

Gilbert N. Lewis

Question 14

Who discovered** nuclear fission**? (while bombarding uranium with neutrons)

Mnemonics: Meitnerium and 1st GF ni Dr. Callie (RE: Grey’s Anatomy)

Answer 14

Otto Hahn &
Lise Meitner

Question 15

Who invented C-14 dating?

Mnemonics: Library 14

Answer 15

Williard Libby

Question 16

Who discovered the VSEPR theory? (Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion)

Mnemonics: Sir Bual and Ma’am Hyolim teaches VSEPR (pero ngongo way)

Answer 16

Ronald Nyholm

Question 17

They were awarded ** Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 **for their discovery of the effects of **chlorine atoms in ozone depletion
**
Mnemonics: Best friends “Sherwood and Molina” drinks chlorine together

Answer 17

Sherwood Roland &
Mario Molina

Question 18

Who determined the charge of the electron?

Mnemonics: May Electron Charge ang Gatas ni Robert

Answer 18

Robert Millikan

Question 19

Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions

Mnemonics: PROP-PROUST (Sounds like propose)

Answer 19

Joseph Louis Proust

Question 20

Who performed the **Cathode Ray Tube experiment?
**
Mnemonics: It’s not JJ

Answer 20

Sir William Crookes &
Heinrich Geissler

Question 21

Who discovered 10 transuranium elements?

Answer 21

Glenn Seaborg

Question 22

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei

Answer 22

Otto Hahn

Question 22

Who discovered the electron?

Mnemonics: Nickname mo. WARNING: Walang letter “P”

Answer 22

J.J. Thomson

Question 23

Godfather of Nuclear Fission

Answer 23

Otto Hahn

Question 24

He postulated that REACTION BEHAVIOR is due to the** ELECTRON MOVEMENT**

Mnemonics: RR

Answer 24

Robert Robinson