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Sunday Challenge #51 – The Nobel Prize

Team StoryWeavers|October 22, 2022, 18:44 IST| 262

Welcome to Sunday Challenge, the weekly quiz. This edition follows the birth anniversary of Alfred Nobel, the famous inventor who constituted the Nobel Prize. October is also the month that the Nobel Prizes are announced every year. To commemorate this year’s prizes, here are five questions on the most prestigious award in the world.

Leave your answers in the comments section below. Answers will be revealed on subsequent Sundays. The fastest entries to get all questions right win exciting prizes.

Ready? Here are your questions:

Question 1

The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist who detected the existence of the Röntgen rays, which led to the invention of one of the most useful things in history, used even today. How do we better know Röntgen rays?

Question 2

The most recent Indian to win the Nobel Prize shared it with a Pakistani, who is also the youngest recipient of the prize. Both won it for the Peace category. Name both Nobel laureates.

Question 3

We commonly see Nobel Prizes being awarded in four scientific fields. One of those fields is, however, was not on the original list of categories named by Alfred Nobel. It was added years late, in 1968, funded by Swedan’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank. Which category was it?

Question 4

When this person won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, it was considered controversial. The Nobel committee declared that his lyrics qualify as poetry and justified the awarding of the highest honour in literature to a musician. A common headline in many publications at the time was “The Times They are A-Changin’”, a reference to the title of one of his hit songs. Who is this prolific singer-songwriter?

Question 5

Identify this Indian-born American economist who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.

Take your guesses in the comments section below. This edition’s winners and answers will be revealed during the next edition of Sunday Challenge. 

To view other editions of Sunday Challenge, click here.

Answers to Sunday Challenge 50:

1. Tin

2. L

3. Hawaii

4. The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

5. Virginia

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