Qubit (game show) lustrous metal is the seventy-fourth element on the periodic table?" If the contestant answers incorrectly or passes, the host reads a clue such as: "Its chemical symbol is W, which stands for" Wolfram, "the German name of this element." If the contestant still answers incorrectly or passes, the host reads two choices, such as: "Is it platinum or tungsten?" Tungsten is the correct answer. The other answer is changed if necessary so it is not an answer already tried by the contestant. If the constant still answers incorrectly at this point, a 10-second time penalty is applied. The contestant with
Group 12 element "water-silver" (hydr- = water, argyros = silver) — since it is liquid like water and shiny like silver. The element was named after the Roman god Mercury, known for speed and mobility. It is associated with the planet Mercury; the astrological symbol for the planet is also one of the alchemical symbols for the metal. Mercury is the only metal for which the alchemical planetary name became the common name. The heaviest known group 12 element, copernicium, was first created on February 9, 1996, at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.