Nobel Prizes

Question 1

What nationality was chemist engineer inventor businessman and philanthropist Alfred Nobel?

Answer 1

SWEDISH

Question 2

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only woman to win in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences?

Answer 2

MARIE CURIE

Question 3

Which organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times?

Answer 3

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

Question 4

In which city is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held each year?

Answer 4

OSLO

Question 5

Who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect?

Answer 5

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Question 6

Winston Churchill was awarded which of the Nobel Prizes in 1953?

Answer 6

LITERATURE

Question 7

Which American civil rights campaigner was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance?

Answer 7

MARTIN LUTHER KING

Question 8

Who is the only person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize and a Nobel Prize in a science?

Answer 8

LINUS PAULING

Question 9

In 1907 who became the first British winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer 9

RUDYARD KIPLING

Question 10

What is the maximum number of people that can share a Nobel Prize?

Answer 10

THREE

Question 11

Who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to mediate a treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 11

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Question 12

Which advocate of monetarism and advisor to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976?

Answer 12

MILTON FRIEDMAN

Question 13

Paul Muller won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal qualities of which chemical which is now banned from agricultural use?

Answer 13

DDT

Question 14

Up to 2016 (when Bob Dylan became the second winner) who was the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize?

Answer 14

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Question 15

Who is the only posthumous winner of the Nobel Peace Prize winning the award in 1961?

Answer 15

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Question 16

In what year where the Nobel Prizes (except Economics) first awarded?

Answer 16

1901

Question 17

Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays?

Answer 17

WILHELM RONTGEN

Question 18

Born in Gloucestershire who is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?

Answer 18

FREDERICK SANGER

Question 19

Which British theoretical physicist shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrodinger?

Answer 19

PAUL DIRAC

Question 20

Frederick Hopkins won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of which group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition?

Answer 20

VITAMINS

Question 21

Which Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905?

Answer 21

BERTHA VON SUTTNER

Question 22

In 1972 who became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field having also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956?

Answer 22

JOHN BARDEEN

Question 23

Sharing the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi who is the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate? (Either name accepted)

Answer 23

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Question 24

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but was forced to decline the award by the Soviet Union?

Answer 24

BORIS PASTERNAK

Question 25

What is the surname of the father and son who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915?

Answer 25

BRAGG

Question 26

In 1902 who became the first British Nobel laureate for his work on the transmission of malaria?

Answer 26

RONALD ROSS

Question 27

Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics becoming the first Nobel laureates in which branch of science?

Answer 27

ASTROPHYSICS (OR ASTRONOMY)

Question 28

John Nash shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on which theory?

Answer 28

GAME THEORY

Question 29

Jan (Economics 1969) and Niko (Physiology or Medicine 1973) are the only brothers to both win a Nobel Prize. What is their surname?

Answer 29

TINBERGEN

Question 30

Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin?

Answer 30

EMIL VON BEHRING

Question 31

In 1957 who became the first (and to date the only) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize to be born in Canada?

Answer 31

LESTER B PEARSON

Question 32

The Nobel Prize amount (i.e. Prize money) is set at how many Swedish kronor (SEK) per full Nobel Prize?

Answer 32

8 MILLION

Question 33

Donald Glaser was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of which device?

Answer 33

BUBBLE CHAMBER

Question 34

Which organisation won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its pioneering humanitarian work on several continents?

Answer 34

MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES

Question 35

Which British scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of vitamin B12?

Answer 35

DOROTHY (CROWFOOT) HODGKIN

Question 36

Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973 but declined the award?

Answer 36

LE DUC THO

Question 37

Known as the "father of chemical warfare" who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for “the synthesis of ammonia from its elements”?

Answer 37

FRITZ HABER

Question 38

Austen Chamberlain won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for work on which series of post-war agreements?

Answer 38

LOCARNO TREATIES

Question 39

Which novel was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Ernest Hemingway in 1954?

Answer 39

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Question 40

Who is the only person to have been awarded a Nobel Prize (for work on graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize (for magnetically levitating a frog)?

Answer 40

ANDRE GEIM

Question 41

In 1973 who became the first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer 41

PATRICK WHITE

Question 42

The chemical element with atomic number 106 is named which American scientist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin mcmillan?

Answer 42

GLENN SEABORG

Question 43

Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal” who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?

Answer 43

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Question 44

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 for his "invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”?

Answer 44

GUSTAV DALEN

Question 45

In 2009 who became the first (and to date the only) woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Answer 45

ELINOR OSTROM

Question 46

What is the name of Neils Bohr’s son who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975?

Answer 46

AAGE BOHR

Question 47

How old was Doris Lessing when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?

Answer 47

88

Question 48

Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 the first woman to win the prize unshared for discovering "mobile genetic elements” commonly known as jumping genes?

Answer 48

BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

Question 49

In 1949 who became the first Japanese Nobel laureate "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"?

Answer 49

HIDEKI YUKAWA

Question 50

Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with his then-wife and their mentor John O'Keefe?

Answer 50

EDVARD MOSER