Q 1.Which American economist won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics?
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Answer:-Milton FriedmanQ 2.Which former politician’s work in climate change activism gained him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007?
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Answer:-Al GoreQ 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 GandhiQ 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 DNAQ 6.In 1968, which new Nobel Prize was established?
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Answer:-EconomicsQ 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 ConventionQ 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 Hemingway10.What did Wilhelm Rontgen discover to receive the first ever Physics Prize?
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Answer:-X-raysQ 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 ObamaQ 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 DylanQ 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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