Nobels

Question 1

First winner Nobel in literature

Answer 1

Sully Prudhomme (1901 France poet)

Question 2

Nordic. First woman to win Nobel in literature

Answer 2

Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden 1909)

Question 3

First Lit Nobel given for works in English language

Answer 3

Rudyard Kipling (UK 1907)

Question 4

First lit Nobel to a non-European

Answer 4

Rabindranath Tagore (1913, India, British Raj)

Question 5

First Nobel lit for history writing

Answer 5

Theodor Mommsen (1901 Germany)

Question 6

Polish. Nobel for his national epic, “The Peasants”

Answer 6

Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland 1924)

Question 7

Carl Jung’s archetype of the ‘Anima’ was based upon this poet’s My Lady Soul

Answer 7

Spitteler

Question 8

David Bowie philosopher

Answer 8

Jung

Question 9

Nordic. Nobel for his monumental novel, “Growth of the Soil”

Answer 9

Hamsun

Question 10

Norwegian novelist

Answer 10

Knut Hamsun

Question 11

Polish novelist

Answer 11

Reymont

Question 12

German novelist

Answer 12

Thomas Mann

Question 13

First American to win Nobel lit

Answer 13

Sinclair Lewis (1920)

Question 14

“The Good Earth”

Answer 14

Pearl Buck

Question 15

First American woman to win Nobel lit

Answer 15

Pearl Buck (for the Good Earth)

Question 16

American novel about family life in early 1900s Chinese village

Answer 16

The Good Earth (Pearl Buck)

Question 17

Chilean. First Latin American Nobel lit winner

Answer 17

Gabrielle Mistral (Chile 1945, poetry)

Question 18

First post-war Nobel for German language work

Answer 18

Herman Hesse

Question 19

First Soviet to win Nobel lit

Answer 19

Boris Pasternak

Question 20

Guatemalan. 2nd Nobel lit winner from latin America

Answer 20

Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala 1967)

Question 21

Soviet Nobel lit winners

Answer 21

Pasternak
Solokhov
Solzhenitsyn

Question 22

1st Nobel in physics was for discovering

Answer 22

X-rays (Roentgen, 1901)

Question 23

US Presidents who won Nobels (Peace)

Answer 23

TR
Wilson
Carter
Obama

Question 25

Brit mathematician and philosopher won Nobel for lit

Answer 25

Bertrand Russell

Question 26

German novelist, early 20th c

Answer 26

Thomas Mann

Question 27

US born Nobel literature winner for the UK

Answer 27

TS Elliot

Question 28

Only head of state to win Nobel for literature

Answer 28

Winston Churchill

Question 29

Last American to win Nobel lit

Answer 29

Louise Gluck (2020)

Question 30

German novelist later 20th c

Answer 30

Gunter Grass

Question 31

American poet laureate, Sarah Lawrence attendee, Pulitzer and Nobel lit winner

Answer 31

Louise Gluck

Question 32

Brit dramatist of The Birthday Party, won Nobel lit

Answer 32

Harold Pinter

Question 33

The “Bard of Bengal.” First non-Euro to win a Nobel in anything

Answer 33

Tagore

Question 34

Rocker who associated himself with Jung

Answer 34

Bowie

Question 35

Famous psychologist who David Bowie associated himself with

Answer 35

Jung

Question 36

Exile literature

Answer 36

Germans. Thomas Mann