Nobel Prize Stories

What this quiz asks

• In which city is the Nobel Peace Prize presented each year?
• The Nobel Prizes are presented on 10 December. What anniversary does that date mark?
• How old was Malala Yousafzai when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014?
• Mahatma Gandhi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• In what year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
• Which prize was not in Alfred Nobel's will but was created by Sweden's central bank in 1968?
• Did Jean-Paul Sartre accept the Nobel Prize in Literature he was awarded in 1964?
• Which trio shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for revealing the structure of this molecule?
• Select ALL of these prize categories that Alfred Nobel named in his will.
• Nelson Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with which other South African?
• Henry Dunant shared the very first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. Which humanitarian movement had he founded?
• Which scientist won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize?
• Which body shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for their work on climate change?
• Select ALL of these writers who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• No Nobel Prize has ever been awarded to someone who had already died.
• Order these laureates by the year they won their Nobel Prize, earliest first.
• Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909?
• The Swedish Academy, not to be confused with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, chooses which Nobel Prize?
• Marie Curie's daughter Irène Joliot-Curie won a Nobel Prize in 1935. In which field?
• In 1915 a father and son shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for studying crystals with X-rays. What was their surname?