Pub quiz questions for the term Nobel Prize.
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Terms: |Nobel Prize|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Pygmalion, the romantic and linguistic tale of Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, is likely the most famous work of the Irish playwright who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. His first names were George and Bernard. What was his surname?
Shaw
Terms: |Nobel Prize| |Physics|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
The physicist Niels Bohr, whose name is inseparably linked with early quantum theory and the study of atomic structure, was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In which country was he born?
Denmark
Terms: |Nobel Prize| |The Forsyte Saga|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
The Forsyte Saga secured a lasting place in English literature for a writer who later received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 and whose name is also linked with the founding of PEN. Who is being described?
John Galsworthy
Terms: |Alexander Fleming| |Medicine| |Nobel Prize|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
By the middle of the twentieth century, Alexander Fleming had already secured his place in scientific history thanks to the discovery that initiated the antibiotic revolution. Honoured with a knighthood in 1944 and a Nobel Prize in 1945, what exactly had Fleming discovered?
Penicillin
Terms: |Ernest Hemingway| |Nobel Prize| |Pulitzer Prize|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
In July 1961, Ernest Hemingway, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, took his own life with a shotgun. Nearly a decade earlier, in 1952, he had published the short novel that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, while the following year he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was the title of that final major work published in his lifetime?
The Old Man and the Sea