Nobel Prize Winners and Achievements 2015 Quiz

Question 1

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015?

Accepted Answer

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald

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Stephen Smale and Lawrence Krauss

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David Wineland and Reinhard Genzel

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Adolf Gruenbaum and John L. Hall

Question 2

Who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015?

Accepted Answer

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar

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Arun Kumar, John Paulson and Michael Faraday

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Richard Hendricks, Donald Knuth and Claude Shannon

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Peter Higgs, John Ellis and Bert Rand

Question 3

Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015?

Accepted Answer

William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou

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Peter Dracken, Marin Carpenter and John Mac

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John Snow, Jenner and Fleming

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Alfred Nobel, Maria Curie and Louis Pasteur

Question 4

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015?

Accepted Answer

Svetlana Alexievich

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Milan Kundera

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Paulo Coelho

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Haruki Murakami

Question 5

Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015?

Accepted Answer

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

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Kofi Annan

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Barack Obama

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Malala Yousafzai

Question 6

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015?

Accepted Answer

Angus Deaton

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Thomas Piketty

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Joseph Stiglitz

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Paul Krugman

Question 7

Tu Youyou, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is from which country?

Accepted Answer

China

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Taiwan

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South Korea

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Japan

Question 8

In which field did 2015 Nobel Prize winner Satoshi Omura contribute?

Accepted Answer

Microbiology and parasitic disease research

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Artificial intelligence

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Nuclear physics

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Modern literature

Question 9

Svetlana Alexievich, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, primarily writes in which genre?

Accepted Answer

Documentary literature and oral history

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Science fiction

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Poetry

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Thriller novels

Question 10

Which of the following was part of the group of physicists who won the 2015 Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Takaaki Kajita

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Tomas Lindahl

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Svetlana Alexievich

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Angus Deaton

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