Name: ___________________
Geology and Mineralology test
Are you a rockhound or rockhead? Test your knowledge of mineral and rock
names by putting one of the names listed below into each blank.
1. The geologist played poker, but wound up losing his ___________.
2. The bar where mineralogists break the Ten Commandments is called the
__________ .
3. If we ____________ rocks, we'll all lose our teeth.
4. There are four ____________ to the gallon.
5. "What shall we give Mike?" "Let's give ____________ new mineral for
his collection!"
6. Fracture of the ____________ column usually results in paralysis.
7. All of the talkative geology students were put in one row, soon
christened the "__________".
8. When Fred Zir was swindled of his jewels, it was called the Great ____________.
9. You sent her flowers? What a ____________ thing to do.
10. If I don't get this ____________, when someone walks in he'll fall
through to the basement.
11. The mineral that is the very symbol of hunger. ____________
12. The con man tried to ____________ mineralogists with a fake ruby, but
he got caught.
13. At the circus, a clown threw a fake rock at another and got a
____________ in his face.
14. Put Nick's book ____________ shelf where it belongs.
15. A baseball player's favorite gem. ____________
16. If a rube is a type of hick, does it follow that hickeys are
____________?
17. Says one hip geologist to another, "Hey, that's really __________ man."
18. How to insult a geologist: look into his ear and say, " ____________"
19. If you drop a rock on your foot while in polite company, you should say
"___________ all!"
20. Of all things, we must never take rocks for ____________.
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a) Albite f) Diamond k) Gneiss p) Quartz
b) Apatite g) Fluorite l) Gypsum q) Rubies
c) Chert h) Gabbro m) Mica r) Scheelite
d) Cinnabar i) Garnet n) Onyx s) Spinel
e) Coal j) Granite o) Pyrite t) Zircon
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