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Nobel Prize Winners trivia quiz

How well do you really know Nobel Prize Winners? Find out in a live duel. QuizDown has over 120 Nobel Prize Winners questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.

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What the Nobel Prize Winners questions cover

  • Literature
  • Peace Prize
  • Economics
  • Medicine
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • American Literature
  • Apartheid
  • Civil Rights
  • ATP Synthesis
  • Ammonia Synthesis
  • Artificial Radioactivity

Try three Nobel Prize Winners questions

Question 1

Which American civil rights leader received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. Malcolm X
  3. Thurgood Marshall
  4. Rosa Parks
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Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 2

Which South African anti-apartheid leader shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk?

  1. Desmond Tutu
  2. Nelson Mandela
  3. Oliver Tambo
  4. Steve Biko
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Nelson Mandela

Question 3

Which Catholic nun known for serving the poor in Kolkata received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. Florence Nightingale
  2. Edith Cavell
  3. Mother Teresa
  4. Clara Barton
Show the answer

Mother Teresa

In a real match you’d have ten seconds for each, and faster right answers score more.

How a Nobel Prize Winners match works

  1. Seven rounds. The same seven Nobel Prize Winners questions for you and your opponent.
  2. Ten seconds each. A right answer in two seconds scores 20; at the buzzer, 11.
  3. The last round counts double. It’s never over until it’s over.

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