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1 trivia quiz  Interesting Nobel Peace Prize Winners coolicon
Men and women of peace, it would be wonderful if the world had more of them. Try and decipher who is being discussed in each question, and let us honor their memory!
Average 10Q
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Feb 26 00
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2 trivia quiz  Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1945-70
Do you know the right answers?
Average 10Q
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Sep 13 00
Vermic
3 trivia quiz  The Noblest Women icon
These are the Nobelest Women in the World. For the first 13 questions of this quiz all correct names and incorrect names are actual Nobel Laureates. Extensive biographies are included for most correct answers.
Difficult 15Q
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Aug 05 00
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4 trivia quiz  Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1971-99
Do you know the answers to these questions?
Average 10Q
1467 plays
Sep 13 00
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5 trivia quiz  Congratulations! You?ve Won the Nobel Prize! icon
In case you haven?t heard these sweet words yet, you?d better be prepared the day it happens! A good way to start is by taking this quiz ?
Average 10Q
270 plays
Nov 15 05
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6 trivia quiz  Female Nobel Prize Winners 1900-1950
In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since. Do you know who won what?
Average 10Q
921 plays
Sep 09 00
Vermic
7 trivia quiz  Dutch Nobel Prize Winners
For a small country, The Netherlands got a lot of Nobel Prize Winners. Do you know them?
Average 10Q
453 plays
Sep 09 00
Vermic
8 trivia quiz  A Few Great Men icon
One of my previous quizzes dealt with 'Great Women'. The correct answers to these 10 trivia questions includes 11 'Great Men', all recipients of the Nobel Peace prize.
Difficult 10Q
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Aug 30 00
YOMD39
9 trivia quiz  Female Nobel Prize Winners 1951-1999
In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since. Do you know who won what?
Average 10Q
780 plays
Sep 09 00
Vermic
10 trivia quiz  Nobel Prize Winners Literature 1936-1970 icon
Do you know when these writers won the Nobel Prize?
Average 10Q
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Sep 10 00
Vermic
11 trivia quiz  Nobel Prize Winners Literature 1901-1935 icon
Do you know when these writers won the Nobel Prize?
Average 10Q
711 plays
Sep 10 00
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Some sample questions from this category:

* Which of these American Presidents has not been the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize?
* The Nobel Peace Prize winner from 1979 was born in Albania, and her real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. By what name was she universally known?
* What world organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 for its work in helping children around the world?
* This Polish trade-union leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 in part for his 'solidarnosc' movement. What was his name?
* This famous U.S. chemist not only won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 1954, but also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his outspoken opposition of nuclear testing. Who was he?
* What was the name of the Burmese (Myanmar) woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, and later was imprisoned for her protests of the Burmese government?
* What international organization won Nobel Peace Prizes during both World War 1 (1917) and World War 2 (1944) for its work in caring for the casualties of war?
* Much to the chagrin of the Chinese government, this exiled leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Who was he?
* What Secretary-General of the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously in 1961, after he had died in a plane crash?
* Who of the following was NOT a Nobel Peace Prize winner from South Africa?
* Which highly distinquished Jewish, English-speaking, woman-author was born in South Africa, was fiercely political in her writings and whose most widely read novels included, 'The Conservationist' and 'Burger's Daughter'?
* Which famous, highly honored German-American woman, with extensive training in mathematics and physics, demonstrated that the atomic nucleus has a structure containing successive proton-neutron shells held together by highly complex forces?
* Which famous, very highly honored woman won the Nobel Prize twice, but in two different categories?
* Which famous, highly honored woman was a prominent suffragist, social reformer and founder of the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois?
* Which famous noble woman was the founder of a new field of science called, 'Protein Crystallography' and with her family, worked for more than 30 years in programs for World Peace?
* Which highly motivated woman dedicated her time, efforts and career to banning and clearing anti-personnel land mines?
* Which famous, highly honored woman, whose first language was Chinese, wrote 'East Wind, West Wind' as her first novel in 1925, which started her on a very successful writing career?
* Which German-Swedish woman initially wrote romantic poems but then her writings changed to a Jewish theme, inspired by the tragedies of Jewish history?
* Which famous Italian-American woman was affiliated with the Institute of Cell Biology, Rome, Italy and made a major contribution to the understanding of the action of human growth hormone on peripheral nervous tissue?
* Which Northern Irish-British woman was co-founder of an organization now known as, 'The Community Peace People'?

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