1) Who won Nobel Prize 2010 for Medicine?
a) Robert Edwards
b) Robert Koch
c) Charles Richet
d) Jules Bordet
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2010 for Medicine given?
a) Tuberculosis research
b) Developing in-vitro fertilisation
c) Work on anaphylaxis
d) Work on immunity
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2010 for Physics?
a) Max Planck
b) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
c) Carl David Anderson
d) Dennis Gabor
Best Picture
“Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
“The Blind Side” Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers
“District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
“An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
“The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
“Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
“A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
“Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
“Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
1. When did Naguib Mahfouz get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1969
b) 1967
c) 1988
d) 1992
2. When was Naguib Mahfouz born?
a) 12 January 1902
b) 14 April 1906
c) 5 August 1908
d) 11 December 1911
3. Where was Naguib Mahfouz born?
a) Alexandria
b) Cairo
c) Luxor
d) Thebes
A total of 61 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 60 women. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows:
18 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize
17 have won the Nobel Prize in Literature
12 have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
8 have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4 have won the Nobel Prize in Physics
2 have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
1. When did Frederick Soddy win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1932
b) 1946
c) 1921
d) 1937
2. When was Frederick Soddy born?
a) 15 February 1872
b) 5 June 1864
c) 2 September 1877
d) 12 October 1875
3. Where was Frederick Soddy born?
a) Eastbourne
b) Dover
c) Chelsea
d) Liverpool
1. When did Sully Prudhomme get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1909
b) 1901
c) 1905
d) 1908
2. What was Sully Prudhomme’s original name?
a) Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme
b) Ercoli Matthioli
c) Eustance Dauger
d) Nicolas Fouquet
3. When was Sully Prudhomme born?
a) 16 March 1839
b) 24 April 1849
c) 12 July 1834
d) 30 December 1840
1. When was Samuel Beckett born?
a) 1 January 1901
b) 13 April 1906
c) 2 August 1904
d) 5 October 1905
2. Where was Samuel Beckett born?
a) Wexford
b) Limerick
c) Foxrock
d) Boyle
3. Which school did Samuel Beckett attend?
a) St. Patrick’s School
b) Portola Royal School
c) St. John’s School
d) Holy Family School
1. When was Kim Dae-jung sworn in as President of South Korea?
a) 14 April 1971
b) 3 October 1975
c) 25 February 1998
d) 26 August 1995
2. When was Kim Dae-jung born?
a) 9 February 1914
b) 6 May 1918
c) 3 July 1926
d) 3 December 1925
3. Where was Kim Dae-jung born?
a) Haeuido
b) Tokyo
c) Saigon
d) Manila
4. Which high school did Kim Dae-jung attend?
a) St. Joseph’s High School
b) Korean National High School
c) Mokpo Commercial High School
d) Seoul High School
1. When did William Faulkner get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1941
b) 1949
c) 1945
d) 1938
2. When was William Faulkner born?
a) 3 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 25 September 1897
d) 30 December 1865
3. Where was William Faulkner born?
a) New Albany
b) Springfield
c) New Orleans
d) Baton Rouge
1. When did Henry Dale win Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1912
b) 1905
c) 1929
d) 1936
2. When was Henry Dale born?
a) 12 October 1885
b) 9 June 1875
c) 2 September 1861
d) 27 January 1862
3. Where was Henry Dale born?
a) Bristol
b) Manchester
c) London
d) Ipswich