seaborgium wrote:Forgot to use drop, got (I believe) exactly one wrong. Whoops!
I don't think anyone would have a problem with you perusing your list and dropping the one you think would most likely be your sheepiest.
Or Woof could just roll a D&D die and drop whatever number comes up?
It's Seaborgium and it's a TD about the periodic table. I'm sure they're all singletons.
PS: Unless, of course, I'm misremembering a certain category a couple of years back.
Next TD I'm not hosting (crap, I need to get some more questions together if I want to post mine tomorrow or thereabouts), I'm entering right when it gets posted, dang it.
1. Supply the name of an element that was named for a mythological figure. No great surprises here, except possibly that this question had no incorrect answers (with one prominent exception) and only one drop.
Niobium (from Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus) - 5
earendel
goforthetie
Magna
RandyG
TreehugginCowgirl
Helium (from Helios, the Greek personification of the Sun) - 4
debramc
Doug527
soxfan99
Volante
Prometheum (from Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from Olympus) - 4
dhkendall
immaf
Peggles
TheSpiceWeasel
Thorium (from Thor, that red-headed guy with the hammer) - 4
Aggron
gamawire
jpahk
Turd Ferguson
Vanadium (from Vanadis, the Germanic equivalent of Freyja) - 4
Austin Powers
econgator
fowlerism
seaborgium
Titanium (from the Titans of Greek mythology) - 3
BigDaddyJ
Creed Bratton
DadofTwins
Mercury (from the Roman god) - 3
Bamaman
crazymatt1
Vanya
Tantalum (from Tantalus, a schlemazel from Greek mythology) - 3
ChemTeacher
Paucle
Uncle Jeff
Selenium (from Selene, the Greek personification of the Moon) - 2
bomtr
boson
Neptunium (from Neptune the planet, which shares its name with the Roman sea god) - 2
jeff6286
xxaaaxx
Plutonium (from Pluto the planet, which shares its name with the Roman god of the underworld) - 1
amorris525
DROP - 0
Bob78164
Unused Answers
Cerium (from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture)
Iridium (from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow)
Uranium (from Uranus the planet -- stop me when you've heard this before...)
Incorrect Answers - 10 points
Zerodeficitium (in the same period as Unobtainium???) - tagNV
2. Supply the name of an element that was named for a scientist. In the blackest of ironies, a woman who received next to no recognition during her lifetime is the big sheep on this question - a sign of the times? Equally surprising is that the other woman in the list was a singleton!
Meitnerium (from Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn's long-term collaborator and co-discoverer of fission) - 9
Aggron
Bob78164
boson
Doug527
econgator
immaf
jpahk
Uncle Jeff
xxaaaxx
Rutherfordium (from Earnest Rutherford, New Zealand-born discoverer of alpha and beta radiation) - 7
bomtr
debramc
earendel
goforthetie
seaborgium
TheSpiceWeasel
TreehugginCowgirl
Bohrium (from Niels Bohr, early pioneer of quantum mechanics) - 3
jeff6286
RandyG
Turd Ferguson
Mendelevium (from Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the Periodic Table) - 3
amorris525
Magna
soxfan99
Einsteinium (from some guy with funny hair named Albert) - 3
gamawire
Paucle
Vanya
Seaborgium (named after our very own Stefan Goodreau ) - 3
BigDaddyJ
DadofTwins
dhkendall
Lawrencium (named for Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron) - 2
crazymatt1
Volante
Curium (named for Pierre and Marie Curie) - 1
Bamaman
Fermium (named for Enrico Fermi, developer of the first nuclear reactor) - 1
Peggles
Gadolinium (named indirectly for Johann Gadolin, the Finnish discoverer of the rare earths) - 1
Austin Powers
Roentgenium (named for Wilhelm Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays)
ChemTeacher
DROP - 0
Creed Bratton
Unused Answers
Copernicium (named for the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus)
Nobelium (named for the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite)
Incorrect Answers - 14 points
Samarium (named indirectly for the Russian mining official Col. Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets) - fowlerism
Thomasdolbyium - tagNV
I didn't enter this one but I am shocked at what the sheep answer to question 2 was. I have never even heard of that element or the scientist who it's named for. You people are smart.
Woof wrote:
Incorrect Answers - 14 points
Samarium (named indirectly for the Russian mining official Col. Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets) - fowlerism
I have always remembered Samarsky-Bykhovets as a "mining engineer," as it says on Wikipedia, and I would argue that that an engineer is a scientist (in this case).
Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article:
"While remaining Chief of Staff, he began teaching at Saint Petersburg Mining Institute and eventually became a member of [the] scientific council there."
Woof wrote:Unused Answers
Cerium (from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture)
Iridium (from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow)
Uranium (from Uranus the planet -- stop me when you've heard this before...)
Out of curiosity, would Palladium have been accepted? Was that what you were eluding to in the clarification of Question 1?
Woof wrote:Unused Answers
Cerium (from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture)
Iridium (from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow)
Uranium (from Uranus the planet -- stop me when you've heard this before...)
Out of curiosity, would Palladium have been accepted? Was that what you were eluding to in the clarification of Question 1?
Looks like (having looked up the history of the name).
Basically if the name is the same, it counts, even if there's an intermediary step. (Pallas the asteroid and Pallas the mythological figure share the same name. If the asteroid was named 'Pallasoid' after 'Pallas', and the element then became 'Pallasoidium', that doesn't count.)
(from Uranus the planet -- stop me when you've heard this before...)
) - 3
- tagNV
