Nobel Prize Quiz Question

Q 1.Which American economist won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics?

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Answer:-Milton Friedman

Q 2.Which former politician’s work in climate change activism gained him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007?

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Answer:-Al Gore

Q 3.Which historical figure did Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006, call ‘the greatest omission in our 106 year history’?

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Answer:-Mahatma Gandhi

Q 4.Name the the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences?

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Answer:-Marie Curie (Physics Prize in 1903 and the Chemistry Prize in 1911)

Q 5.In 1962, Francis Crick and James Watson were awarded the Physiology or Medicine Prize for discovering what?

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Answer:-Structure of DNA

Q 6.In 1968, which new Nobel Prize was established?

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Answer:-Economics

Q 7.The first Nobel Peace Prize was jointly won by Switzerland’s Henri Dunant, what did set of treaties he set up in 1864 become known as?

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Answer:-The Geneva Convention

Q 8.Who was awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for his part in Europe’s post-war rebuilding?

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Answer:-George Marshall (who gave his name to the Marshall Plan)

Q 9.Who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?

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Answer:-Ernest Hemingway

10.What did Wilhelm Rontgen discover to receive the first ever Physics Prize?

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Answer:-X-rays

Q 11.Who in 2009 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’?

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Answer:-President Barack Obama

Q 12.The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden, with the exception of which prize? And where is the ceremony of this one prize held?

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Answer:-The Peace Prize. The Peace Prize ceremony is held in Oslo, Norway.

Q 13.What was the first name of the Swedish inventor Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes in 1895? And what was his most famous invention?

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Answer:-Alfred (Nobel). Dynamite was his most famous invention.

Q 14.Who in 2016, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’?

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Answer:-Bob Dylan

Q 15.Which Nobel Laureate wrote a four-volume History of Britain and its former  colonies entitled ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’?

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Answer:-Sir Winston Churchill