Question 2 of 21

Who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner?

... Bragg was 25 when he shared the prize for physics with his father in 1915.

Question 3 of 21

Who was the oldest recognized Nobel laureate?

... Hurwicz was 90 in 2007 when he received the prize for economics.

Question 4 of 21

Who is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes?

... Pauling won the 1954 prize for chemistry and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.

Question 5 of 21

How many married couples have shared a Nobel Prize?

... Three married couples have shared Nobel Prizes: Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, and Frederic Joliot and Gerty and Carl Cori.

Question 6 of 21

This winner of the prize for literature was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.

... The 1993 prize committee lauded Morrison: "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."

Question 7 of 21

What group was founded by Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, winners of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize?

... Ciaran McKeown also worked with Corrigan and Williams to start the Community of Peace People to combat violence in Northern Ireland, and later throughout the world.

Question 8 of 21

Israelis Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin shared the 1994 Peace Prize with this Egyptian.

... Arafat, Peres and Rabin received the prize for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.

Question 9 of 21

What did Gerhard Domagk, Richard Kuhn and Adolf Butenandt have in common?

... Domagk got the prize for medicine in 1938; Kuhn and Butenandt for chemistry in 1938 and 1939, respectively, but could not be physically present to accept their awards at the time.

Question 10 of 21

Who discovered blood groups and developed a system for typing blood?

... His work with blood groups netted Landsteiner the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1930.

Question 11 of 21

These two men received the Nobel Prize posthumously.

... Karlfeldt received a posthumous prize for literature in 1931; Hammarskjold received the peace prize in 1961. The Nobel Committee decreed in 1974 that the prize could no longer be awarded posthumously.

Question 12 of 21

What work by Rosalyn Yalow led to her sharing the 1977 Nobel Prize in medicine?

... Yalow may have won the prize for medicine, but she never went to medical school; her degrees are in physics.

Question 13 of 21

Rita Levi-Montalcini is the oldest living Nobel Laureate. How old is she?

... Levi-Montalcini earned the 1986 prize in medicine and turned 102 in April 2011.

Question 14 of 21

Which of the following families is "the most prolific Nobel family?"

... The Curie family included four Nobel Laureates: Marie Curie, her husband, Pierre, their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic Joliot.

Question 15 of 21

Which of the following presidents did NOT receive a Nobel Peace Prize?

... Former President Jimmy Carter also has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Question 16 of 21

Who was the first woman to earn a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics?

... Ostrom received the prize in 2009 for her work in demonstrating how local property can be managed by a group without government regulations.

Question 17 of 21

How many Nobel laureates have been political prisoners at the time of their awards?

... German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky, Burnese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo all were political prisoners when they received their awards.

Question 18 of 21

Who voluntarily refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature?

... Sartre made it a practice to decline all official honors.

Question 19 of 21

What group has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times?

... The International Committee of the Red Cross received the peace award in 1917, 1944 and 1963.

Question 20 of 21

What country's government did 1983 Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa lead a movement to overthrow?

... Walesa's protests started with worker riots at the Gdansk Shipyard, but eventually toppled the communist regime.

Question 21 of 21

In addition to his humanitarian work, this Nobel laureate was known worldwide as a concert organist.

... Schweitzer received the 1952 Peace Prize for his missionary work in Africa.

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