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Nobel Prize Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on the Prestigious Awards

This quiz tests knowledge about the origins, recipients, and specifics of the Nobel Prize, including fascinating facts about laureates and their accomplishments.

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1 Where does Nobel Prize come from?

2 What does the following picture show?  At the Nobel Peace Prize banquet the 250 guests, including the laureate and the King and Queen of Norway, are treated to a five-course meal.   Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the first Physics Prize for his discovery of X-rays.   Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

3 Who is the presenter of Nobel Prize?

4 [172] ________ and his son, William Lawrence Bragg, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915.

5 What does the following picture show?  Laureates receive a heavily decorated diploma together with a gold medal and the prize money. Here Fritz Haber's diploma is shown, which he received for the development of a method to synthesise ammonia.   Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.   Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.   Maria Skłodowska-Curie, one of four people who have received the Nobel Prize twice

6 What does the following picture show?  Maria Skłodowska-Curie, one of four people who have received the Nobel Prize twice   Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the first Physics Prize for his discovery of X-rays.   Alfred Nobel had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.

7 The Nobel Peace Prize and its recipients' lectures are presented at the annual Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, ________, also on the 10th of December.

8 [39] The following year, the ________ was awarded for the first time.

9 Laureates who have held their lectures even later exist, an example is ________ who won the prize in 1906 and held the lecture in 1910 after finishing his presidency.

10 [54][55] The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to ________ for his work on international trade and economic geography.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman.
  • Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
  • Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates.
  • Tuva or Bust!, a book about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's efforts to visit Tannu Tuva, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva.
  • noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
  • of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity.
  • the faculty of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize winner.
  • the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII.
  • the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York, were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize.
  • Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature.
  • Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category.
  • British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt, great-nephew of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Rayleigh, declined an offer of peerage, as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt.
  • physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize-winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
  • Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov, one of the founders of laser physics, has also described an antiferromagnetic transition in the organic material DPPH.
  • Nobel Laureate George Smoot, whose work cemented the Big Bang theory, made a cameo appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Terminator Decoupling".
  • Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and, on behalf of UNICEF, her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr..
  • Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
  • Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore.
  • Far Rockaway High School in Queens, whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff, stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades.
  • Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen.
  • Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen.
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