John Nash Quiz

John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician and economist (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Nash Quiz Questions

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1. When did John Nash win Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel?
a) 1994
b) 1979
c) 1984
d) 1986

2. Where was John Nash born?
a) Seattle
b) Trenton
c) Bluefield
d) Austin

3. From which institute did John Nash receive his bachelor’s and master’s degrees?
a) California Institute of Technology
b) Illinois Institute of Technology
c) Georgia Institute of Technology
d) Carnegie Institute of Technology

4. From which university did John Nash receive his doctorate in mathematics?
a) Regent
b) Yale
c) Princeton
d) Harvard

5. Which thesis did John Nash publish for his doctorate?
a) Non-cooperative games
b) The Mental State of Hystericals
c) Inspired Reason is supreme ruler over passions
d) Mechanism Design Theory

6. Where did John Nash work as C. L. E. Moore Instructor?
a) Davidson College
b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
c) Indiana University of Pennsylvania
d) London School of Economics

7. Which corporation stripped John Nash of top secret security clearance and fired him as consultant?
a) Mitsubishi
b) Oracle
c) CBS
d) RAND

8. Who wrote a biography of John Nash in 1998?
a) Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Larde
b) Sylvia Nasar
c) Eleanor Stier
d) Rebecca Goldstein

9. Which film is based on John Nash?
a) Life is Beautiful
b) Beautiful Joe
c) A Beautiful Mind
d) Beautiful People

10. When did John Nash die?
a) 26 January 2009
b) 23 May 2015
c) 19 September 2002
d) 14 October 1995

John Nash Quiz Questions with Answers

1. When did John Nash win Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel?
a) 1994

2. Where was John Nash born?
c) Bluefield

3. From which institute did John Nash receive his bachelor’s and master’s degrees?
d) Carnegie Institute of Technology

4. From which university did John Nash receive his doctorate in mathematics?
c) Princeton

5. Which thesis did John Nash publish for his doctorate?
a) Non-cooperative games

6. Where did John Nash work as C. L. E. Moore Instructor?
b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

7. Which corporation stripped John Nash of top secret security clearance and fired him as consultant?
d) RAND

8. Who wrote a biography of John Nash in 1998?
b) Sylvia Nasar

9. Which film is based on John Nash?
c) A Beautiful Mind

10. When did John Nash die?
b) 23 May 2015

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