Nobel Prize
Nobel was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. This topic is part of Awards within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 61 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Nobel Prize trivia questions
The Nobel Prizes were established by the will of whom?
Answer: Alfred Nobel
Bonus fact: Nobel was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
Which Nobel category is presented in Oslo while the others are awarded in Stockholm?
Answer: Peace
Bonus fact: The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held in Norway.
Which field was added later and is technically a memorial prize rather than one of Nobel's original prizes?
Answer: Economic sciences
Bonus fact: The economics prize was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968.
Einstein received the Nobel Prize primarily for explaining what effect?
Answer: Photoelectric effect
Bonus fact: His 1921 Nobel Prize recognized work on the photoelectric effect.
Which Nobel Prize is awarded in Oslo rather than Stockholm?
Answer: Peace Prize
Bonus fact: The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Norway.
Who won a Nobel Prize partly for decoding bee dances?
Answer: Karl von Frisch
Bonus fact: Von Frisch shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Which 1942 novel does the Nobel Prize site identify as Albert Camus's literary breakthrough?
Answer: The Stranger
Bonus fact: Camus received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
Which novel does the Nobel Prize site identify as Nadine Gordimer's international breakthrough?
Answer: The Conservationist
Bonus fact: Gordimer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 and was active in the anti-apartheid movement.
In what year did Yasunari Kawabata receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: 1968
Bonus fact: Kawabata's novel Snow Country was published in 1937.
In what year did Chinese writer Mo Yan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: 2012
Bonus fact: Mo Yan was born in Gaomi, China, and Red Sorghum helped bring him international recognition.
In what year did Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: 1971
Bonus fact: Neruda's Nobel biography notes that he was also a diplomat and political figure as well as a poet.
In what year did Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: 1990
Bonus fact: Paz's major prose work The Labyrinth of Solitude was published in 1950.