Microsoft Bing homepage “This or That?” Quiz [4-28-2022] question: Which chemical element was discovered first?
The correct answers (1-10) are as follows (Highlighted with amber color):
- Vanadium | Nickel
- Argon | Strontium
- Silicon | Mercury
- Gallium | Hydrogen
- Aluminum | Carbon
- Rubidium | Tungsten
- Bromine | Bismuth
- Helium | Arsenic
- Iodine | Silver
- Niobium | Cobalt
If the options in your quiz are different from the options given above, you can search the following list for the answers.
List of chemical elements and their discovery year are as follows:
| Position | Chemical element | Discovery year |
| 1 | Copper | 9000 BC |
| 2 | Lead | 7000 BC |
| 3 | Gold | Before 6000 BC |
| 4 | Silver | Before 5000 BC |
| 5 | Iron | Before 5000 BC |
| 6 | Carbon | 3750 BC |
| 7 | Tin | 3500 BC |
| 8 | Sulfur | Before 2000 BC |
| 9 | Mercury | 1500 BC |
| 10 | Zinc | Before 1000 BC |
| 11 | Platinum | 600 BC-AD 200 |
| 12 | Arsenic | Before AD 815 |
| 13 | Antimony | Before AD 815 |
| 14 | Bismuth | Before AD 1000 |
| 15 | Phosphorus | 1669 |
| 16 | Cobalt | 1735 |
| 17 | Nickel | 1751 |
| 18 | Hydrogen | 1766 |
| 19 | Oxygen | 1771 |
| 20 | Nitrogen | 1772 |
| 21 | Chlorine | 1774 |
| 22 | Manganese | 1774 |
| 23 | Molybdenum | 1778 |
| 24 | Tungsten | 1781 |
| 25 | Tellurium | 1782 |
| 26 | Uranium | 1789 |
| 27 | Titanium | 1791 |
| 28 | Chromium | 1797 |
| 29 | Niobium | 1801 |
| 30 | Tantalum | 1802 |
| 31 | Palladium | 1802 |
| 32 | Cerium | 1803 |
| 33 | Osmium | 1803 |
| 34 | Iridium | 1803 |
| 35 | Rhodium | 1804 |
| 36 | Potassium | 1807 |
| 37 | Sodium | 1807 |
| 38 | Barium | 1808 |
| 39 | Strontium | 1808 |
| 40 | Calcium | 1808 |
| 41 | Magnesium | 1808 |
| 42 | Silicon | 1808 |
| 43 | Aluminium (Aluminum) | 1808 |
| 44 | Zirconium | 1808 |
| 45 | Beryllium | 1808 |
| 46 | Boron | 1808 |
| 47 | Yttrium | 1808 |
| 48 | Fluorine | 1810 |
| 49 | Iodine | 1811 |
| 50 | Lithium | 1817 |
| 51 | Cadmium | 1817 |
| 52 | Selenium | 1817 |
| 53 | Bromine | 1825 |
| 54 | Thorium | 1829 |
| 55 | Vanadium | 1830 |
| 56 | Lanthanum | 1838 |
| 57 | Erbium | 1843 |
| 58 | Terbium | 1843 |
| 59 | Ruthenium | 1844 |
| 60 | Caesium | 1860 |
| 61 | Rubidium | 1861 |
| 62 | Thallium | 1861 |
| 63 | Indium | 1863 |
| 64 | Helium | 1868 |
| 65 | Gallium | 1875 |
| 66 | Ytterbium | 1878 |
| 67 | Holmium | 1878 |
| 68 | Thulium | 1879 |
| 69 | Scandium | 1879 |
| 70 | Samarium | 1879 |
| 71 | Gadolinium | 1880 |
| 72 | Praseodymium | 1885 |
| 73 | Neodymium | 1885 |
| 74 | Germanium | 1886 |
| 75 | Dysprosium | 1886 |
| 76 | Argon | 1894 |
| 77 | Europium | 1896 |
| 78 | Krypton | 1898 |
| 79 | Neon | 1898 |
| 80 | Xenon | 1898 |
| 81 | Polonium | 1898 |
| 82 | Radium | 1898 |
| 83 | Radon | 1899 |
| 84 | Actinium | 1902 |
| 85 | Lutetium | 1906 |
| 86 | Protactinium | 1913 |
| 87 | Hafnium | 1922 |
| 88 | Rhenium | 1925 |
| 89 | Technetium | 1937 |
| 90 | Francium | 1939 |
| 91 | Neptunium | 1940 |
| 92 | Astatine | 1940 |
| 93 | Plutonium | 1940–1941 |
| 94 | Curium | 1944 |
| 95 | Americium | 1944 |
| 96 | Promethium | 1945 |
| 97 | Berkelium | 1949 |
| 98 | Californium | 1950 |
| 99 | Einsteinium | 1952 |
| 100 | Fermium | 1952 |
| 101 | Mendelevium | 1955 |
| 102 | Lawrencium | 1961 |
| 103 | Nobelium | 1966 |
| 104 | Rutherfordium | 1969 |
| 105 | Dubnium | 1970 |
| 106 | Seaborgium | 1974 |
| 107 | Bohrium | 1981 |
| 108 | Meitnerium | 1982 |
| 109 | Hassium | 1984 |
| 110 | Darmstadtium | 1994 |
| 111 | Roentgenium | 1994 |
| 112 | Copernicium | 1996 |
| 113 | Flerovium | 1998 |
| 114 | Livermorium | 2000 |
| 115 | Oganesson | 2002 |
| 116 | Moscovium | 2003 |
| 117 | Nihonium | 2003–2004 |
| 118 | Tennessine | 2009 |
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