Nobel Prize General Knowledge MCQs - 6

Nobel Prize General Knowledge MCQs - 6

1. One woman, has been awarded the Nobel Prize two times, in 1903 (the Nobel Prize in Physics) and in 1911 (the Nobel Prize in Chemistry); who is she?
(a) lr#ne Joliot-Curie
(b) Alva Myrdal
(c) Marie Curie ✓
(d) Gerty Cori

2. Till 2012, who is the youngest Laureate, he was just 25 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his father in 1915.
(a) Lawrence Bragg ✓
(b) Richard Kuhn
(c) Adolf Butenandt
(d) Gerhard Domagk

3. Till 2012 who is the oldest Laureate; he was 90 years old when he was awarded the 2007 Prize in Economics.
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre
(b) Lawrence Bragg
(c) Leonid Hurwicz ✓
(d) Boris Pasternak

4. Two Nobel Laureates have declined the Nobel Prize; one of them was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, the other was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Give their names.
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre & Le Due Tho ✓
(b) Alva Myrdal & Gunnar Myrdal
(c) Marie Curie & Ir6ne Joliot-Curie
(d) Pierre Curie & Irene Joliot-Curie

5. The 1958 Nobel Laureate in Literature, initially accepted the Prize but was later coerced by the authorities of the Soviet Union, his native country, to decline the Prize; give his name.
(a) Richard Kuhn
(b) Adolf Butenandt
(c) Gerhard Domagk
(d) Boris Pasternak ✓

6. Who forbade three Nobel Laureates, Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domagk, from accepting the Nobel Prize? All of them could later receive the Nobel Prize Diploma and Medal, but not the prize amount.
(a) Adolf Hitler ✓
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Roosevelt William

7. How many times the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honoured by a Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) two times
(b) three times ✓
(c) four times
(d) five times

8. Who is the person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes - the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) Linus Pauling ✓
(b) Pierre Curie
(c) William Bragg
(d) Roger D. Komberg

9. Who are the mother and daughter to have been awarded Nobel Prizes?
(a) Gerty Cori & Car! Cori
(b) William Bragg & Lawrence Bragg
(c) Pierre Curie & Irene Joliot-Curie
(d) Marie Curie & Irene Joliot-Curie ✓

10. Who are the father and daughter to have been awarded Nobel Prizes?
(a) Pierre Curie & Irene Joliot-Curie ✓
(b) Marie Curie & Pierre Curie
(c) Alva Myrdal & Gunnar Myrdal
(d) Irene Joliot-Curie Frederic Joliot

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