AWARDS

Which Nobel prize laureate is currently living under house arrest ?

• Lech Welesa

• Aung San Suu Kyi

• Kim Dae Jung

• Eisaku Sato

Answer explanation

Lech Welsa - NPP 1983

first democratically elected President of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish President elected in popular vote.

Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. He was a 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Eisaku sato - Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972. He is the third-longest serving Prime Minister, and ranks second in longest uninterrupted service as Prime Minister. NPP 1974

Who won the 1930 Nobel prize for physiology for developing the modern system of classification of blood groups ?

• Philip Levine

• Karl Landsteiner

• Edmund Locard

Answer explanation

Dr. Edmond Locard was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science

Which organization has received most Nobel peace Prizes

• World Food programme

• European Union

• The International Committee of the Red Cross

• Office of UNHCR

Answer explanation

WFP - 2020

RED CROSS - 1917 , 1944 , 1963

EU - 2012

UNHCR - 1981, 1954

Who is the first woman to win Nobel prize in physiology

• Rita Levi Montalcini

• Gertrude B.Elion

• Gerty Cori

• Cristiane Nusslein

Who has won both Nobel Peace prize and the nobel for chemestry?

• Benjamin List

• Linus Pauling

• Marie Curie

Answer explanation

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.^[5]

Who is the first African American and person of colour to win the Nobel Peace Prize

• A.Philip Randolph

• Ralph Bunche

• Martin Luther King.Jr

• Barack Obama

Who is the first African American woman to win pulitzer prize for fiction ?

• Maya Angelou

• Toni morrison

• Alice Walker

• Shirin Ebadi

Who is the first Englishman to win Nobel prize for literature

• William Faulkner

• Rudyard Kipling

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• John Steinbeck

Which is not one of the 3 films tied for most academy award wins of all time?

• La La Land

• The Return of the King (2003)

• Ben Hur ( 1959 )

• Titanic ( 1997)

Who is the American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history.

• Meryl Streep

• Edith Head

• Katherine Hepburn