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Nobel week · 15–20 minutes
🎖️ Nobel Prize Quiz
Famous laureates in peace, literature, and science, from the first prizes in 1901 to recent winners.
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1. Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes in his will, made his fortune primarily from inventing what?
Dynamite
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2. Wilhelm Rontgen won the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering what?
X-rays
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3. Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his explanation of which phenomenon, not for relativity?
The photoelectric effect
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4. Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of what?
Penicillin
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5. Which scientist is the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, taking Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962?
Linus Pauling
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6. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the structure of what molecule?
DNA
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7. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his leadership in the American civil rights movement?
Martin Luther King Jr.
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8. Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 but became famous for doing what?
Declining the prize
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9. Nelson Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with which South African leader?
F.W. de Klerk
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10. Toni Morrison became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in which year?
1993
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11. Peter Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for theorizing the existence of which particle?
The Higgs boson
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12. At age 17, who became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history when she won the Peace Prize in 2014?
Malala Yousafzai
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13. Which musician won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, a controversial choice for its category?
Bob Dylan
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14. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier made history in 2020 by winning the first all-female Nobel science team prize, for developing what?
CRISPR gene-editing tools
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15. Which organization won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger worldwide?
World Food Programme
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