Can You Name These Legendary Nobel Prize Winners?
Can You Name These Legendary Nobel Prize Winners?
You stand to gain an exemplary score!
You stand to gain an exemplary score!
The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prestigious Nobel Prize in 1895, and the prize ceremonies usually take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden. The winners, down the ages, have made history and have been recognized for their contributions to the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. That they are exemplary is a given, but how many of them can you recognize from our list on the basis of their work? Take this quiz and see how much you score.
_____ is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala Yousafzai won The Nobel Peace Prize in ___.
At the time of winning, Malala Yousafzai, was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
Marie Curie is the ____ woman who has been honoured with a Nobel Prize twice.
Johannes Fibiger was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1926 for discovering parasitic worms that cause cancer. This discovery turned out to be …
In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in ____, but he declined it.
In 2009, this President of the United States had been in power for less than eight months when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
With a number totaling ___, Bertrand Russel holds the record for the most nominations.
In 2019, John B. Goodenough just became the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was ___ years old.
The founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in ___.
In 1904, Ivan Pavlov earned his Nobel Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking research into the physiology of ____.
This 1908 Nobel Prize winner is known as the “Father of Nuclear Physics”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Peace Prize ___ times, more than any other.
The Nobel Peace Prize for ____ was awarded to Ales Bialiatski and two human rights organizations from Russia and Ukraine, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties.
______ won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for discovering the cause of the "photoelectric effect."
St. Mother Theresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in ____.
This playwright who wrote Pygmalion won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Marie Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming the ____ woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
In 1954, the prize for Literature was awarded to this author, whose works include, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and Sea, The Sun Also Rises.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 1989 was awarded to The ___ Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
So far, ___ married couples have won Nobel Prizes.
Name the Columbian author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
This singer-songwriter won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
The Nobel Prize ceremony is held in…
The Nobel Prize ceremony is held in…