Nobel Prize 2011 Quiz

Nobel Prize 2011 Quiz Questions

1) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine?
a) Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffman, Ralph Steinman
b) Francoise Barre-Sinousi, Luc Montagnier, Harald zur Hausen
c) Carol W. Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jack W. Szostak
d) Johannes Fibiger

2) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine given?
a) Work on serum therapy
b) Work on Anaphylaxis
c) Discoveries concerning the the activation of innate immunity and discovery of the dendtritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
d) Improvement in surgical instruments

3) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics?
a) Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess
b) Gabriel Lippmann
c) Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George Smith
d) Werner Heisenberg

4) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics given?
a) Photographic reproduction of colours
b) Discovery of argon
c) Studies of exploding stars that revealed the expansion of the universe is accelerating
d) Creation of quantum mechanics

5) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Chemistry?
a) Daniel Shechtman
b) Eduard Buchner
c) Svante Arthenius
d) Linus Pauling

6) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Chemistry given?
a) Discovery of quasicrystals
b) For having showed what the ribosome looks like and now it functions at the atomic level
c) Synthesis of ammonia
d) Theory of electrolytic dissociation

7) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Literature?
a) Tomas Transtromer
b) Romain Rolland
c) Herta Mueller
d) Thomas Mann

8) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Literature given?
a) Novels, essays and dramas deeply involved with pacificism
b) Work that with the combination of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed
c) Surrealistic works which through condensed translucent images gave fresh access to reality
d) Essaying showing awareness of fragility of humaneness and tolerance

9) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Peace?
a) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkal Karman
b) Wangari Maathai
c) Doris Lessing
d) Red Cross

10) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Peace given?
a) Peace in Palestine
b) Work in Iran
c) Promoting intenational diplomacy, co-operation among peoples and world free from nuclear arms
d) Championing women’s rights

Nobel Prize 2011 Quiz Questions with Answers

1) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine?
a) Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffman, Ralph Steinman

2) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine given?
c) Discoveries concerning the the activation of innate immunity and discovery of the dendtritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity

3) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics?
a) Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess

4) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics given?
c) Studies of exploding stars that revealed the expansion of the universe is accelerating

5) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Chemistry?
a) Daniel Shechtman

6) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Chemistry given?
a) Discovery of quasicrystals

7) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Literature?
a) Tomas Transtromer

8) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Literature given?
c) Surrealistic works which through condensed translucent images gave fresh access to reality

9) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Peace?
a) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkal Karman

10) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Peace given?
d) Championing women’s rights

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