Answers to the Young World Quiz (December 09, 2000)

Answers :

1. 1901. It is given every year on December 10, the date of Alfred Nobel's death and now called the "Nobel Day";

2. Physics, Chemistry, Physiology (or medicine), Literature and Peace;

3. A medallion and a hand-painted diploma;

4. Mathematics;

5. Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden);

6. Rabindranath Tagore (1913, Literature), Sir C.V. Raman (1930, Physics), Mother Teresa (1979, Peace) and Prof. Amartya Sen (1998, Economic Sciences);

7. Curie for Physics (1906) and Chemistry (1911) and Pauling for Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962);

8. Dr. Hargobind Khorana (Medicine) and Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Physics);

9. Law of Photoelectric Effect;

10. 1917, 1944 and 1963. All were Peace Prizes;

11. Vietnam's Le Duc Tho in 1973 by declining the Peace Prize;

12. The youngest Laureate ever, at the age of 25;

13. Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi (Peace, 1991), Tensin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama (Peace, 1989) and Pakistan's Abdus Salam (1979, Physics);

14. Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919);

15. The Ig Nobel Prize It is given away at Harvard University's Sanders Theater.

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