Nobel Prize Winners Trivia
From Einstein’s quirky quasars to Bob Dylan’s poetic grooves, show off your smarts in a trivia of Nobel-worthy minds.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
In 1898, Marie Curie named the element “polonium” to honor her partitioned homeland. Which country was she honoring?
Poland
The C60 “buckyball” molecule that earned the 1996 Chemistry Nobel resembles which common sports ball?
Soccer ball
In 2019, three laureates were honored for revealing how cells sense and adapt to changing levels of which vital resource?
Oxygen
For mediating the conflict's end, which war earned Theodore Roosevelt the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?
Russo-Japanese War
Which Sicilian-born poet, noted for Hermetic verse that turned more socially engaged after WWII, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959?
Salvatore Quasimodo