The Brilliant Minds Club: How Well Do You Know Nobel Laureates?

#14 Week 4

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Sigrun Sørumgård
January 20, 2025

From game-changing discoveries to world peace winners, test your knowledge of the geniuses who shaped our world!

  1. Which organization has won the Nobel Peace Price three times?

  2. What are the six categories someone can win a Nobel Prize in?

  3. In what year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?

  4. Why are the Nobel Prize award ceremonies held on 10 December each year?

  5. Which family is the most successful when it comes to number of awarded Nobel Prizes?

  6. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1953. In what prize category?

  7. Which author was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, but declined the prize because she/he had consistently declined all official honours

  8. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024?

  9. And who won the first Nobel Peace Prize?

  10. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners, both people and organizations?

The Wonder Wall

  • Since the start, in 1901, there are some years when the Nobel Prizes have not been awarded. The total number of times are 49. Most of them during World War I (1914-1918) and II (1939-1945).

  • The youngest winner is Malala Yousafzai. She won the Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.

  • Three laureates were in prison when they received the award, all of them winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935, Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991 and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in 2010.

Yesterday´s Answers

  1. Liquid. Until the mid-1800s chocolate was primarily consumed as a drink rather than the candy bars we know today.

  2. Bitter Water. The original drinking chocolate made by the Mayan and Aztec people was unsweetened and, hence, quite bitter.

  3. Cocoa butter

  4. About 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans come from West African countries. Côte d’Ivoire is responsible for some two million metric tons of cocoa every year.

  5. England.

  6. Switzerland is the country that is responsible for the most amount of chocolate consumed per capita. In Switzerland, the average person consumes approximately 8.8 kg of chocolate every year.

  7. Easter

  8. Belgium

  9. Hazelnuts

  10. It is believed that chocolate arrived in Europe during the 1500s, probably brought over from the region of Mexico by Spanish friars who had traveled to the Americas.