1. Who is the only person to have been awarded two individual, unshared Nobel Prizes? Answer: Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize 2. Which organisation has won the the Nobel Peace Prize thrice? Answer: The International Committee of the Red Cross 3. According to the will of Alfred Nobel, all Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden except for one that is awarded in Oslo, Norway. Which one? Answer: Nobel Peace Prize 4. At 17, Malala Yousafzai is now the youngest laureate. Who is the second youngest laureate now, the one she replaced as the youngest: Answer: Lawrence Bragg, 25, Nobel prize for Physics 1915 5. Who is the oldest ever Nobel laureate? Answer: Leonid Hurwicz, 90, Nobel for Economic Sciences 2007 6. Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel for Literature in 1958. He first accepted but later declined the prize fearing the Soviet authorities. Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel in Literature in 1964 but he refused, as he always declined official honours. Another person later went on to decline a Nobel Prize. Who? Answer: Le Duc Tho for Peace in 1973, as he said there was no actual peace in Vietnam 7. Three Nobel Laureates happened to be under arrest at the time of the Award. We have heard of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. Name the third: Answer: Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and journalist 8. Among the Nobel Laureates, the two most common dates for birthdays are 21 May and Answer: 28 February 9. The average age of all Nobel Laureates in all prize categories between 1901 and 2014 is.....? Answer: 59 years 10. The Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: to Dag Hammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931). From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Following the 2011 announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, it was discovered that one of the Medicine Laureates had passed away three days earlier. The Board of the Nobel Foundation examined the statutes, and an interpretation of the purpose of the rule above led to the conclusion that the awardee should continue to remain a Nobel Laureate, as the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet had announced the names without knowing of the death. Who are we talking about? Answer: Ralph M. Steinman
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