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What Nobel Prize winner formulated a namesake "uncertainty principle" which stated that even observing data in some cases impacts that data?
Werner Heisenberg
Francis Crick
J. R. Oppenheimer
Antonio de Saldanha
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Pablo Neruda is known informally as the national poet of what country because of his works directly criticizing the dictator Augusto Pinochet?
Venezuela
Suriname
Chile
Brazil
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What Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Night won a Nobel Peace Prize?
Elie Wiesel
Gorgy Stitka
Meir Kats
Berner Khein
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What Nobel Prize winner discovered the namesake cycle through which cells gain energy from oxygen and food?
Johannes Gutenberg
Mikhail Len Gower
Albert Einstein
Hans Adolph Krebs
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What "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Like a Rolling Stone" songwriter won a Nobel Prize for his "musical poetry"?
Mick Jagger
Bob Dylan
Stephen Tyler
Jimmy Page
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Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage were novels by what Nobel Prize winner?
Robert Frost
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
William Golding
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Mother Theresa was a Nobel Prize winning social activist known for her work tending to the poor in what city?
Bali
Beijing
Bangkok
Calcutta
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Boris Pasternak's Nobel-Prize-winning book Doctor Zhivago earned him the ire of what nation which Pasternak was a native of?
Kyrgyzstan
Romania
The Soviet Union
Germany
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Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, and Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize together for their collective discovery of what quality?
RADAR signals
Radioactivity
The spectrum of energy
The relation between mass and density
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Mo Yan won a Nobel Prize for his works collectively titled Red Sorghum that told the history of what country which Mo Yan was a native of?
Sri Lanka
China
Vietnam
Cambodia
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Svante Paabo is a biologist who won a Nobel Prize for founding what study of how humans genetically evolved throughout history?
Paleogenetics
Anthrobiology
Runicorpus
Neanderology
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"The Second Coming" and "No Second Troy" are both works by what Nobel Prize winning poet from Ireland?
Bram Stoker
James Joyce
W. B. Yeats
Samuel Beckett
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What leader of the U.K. during WWII won a Nobel Prize for Literature because of his famous pieces of rhetoric as well as his memoirs from both World Wars?
Neville Chamberlain
Pitt the Elder
Jonathan Barker
Winston Churchill
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Frederick Sanger won a pair of Nobel Prizes because of his work discovering how to sequence which of the following?
Hair molecules
Eye tissue
Fingerprints
D.N.A.
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Song of Solomon and Beloved are two ground-breaking literary novels that earned what author a Nobel Prize?
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Nikki Giovanni
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What final Premier of Soviet Russia won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work deescalating tensions during the Cold War?
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Yuri Andropov
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Rabindranath Tagore is a famous poet regarded as a cultural hero of Bengal. In what country is the region of Bengal?
Cambodia
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
India
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What Nobel-Prize-winning scientist discovered how genes are transposed?
Barbara McClintock
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Suzette Keene
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What scientist won a Nobel Prize for his Theory of Relativity that became a basis of quantum physics?
Hugh Colliver
Robert Geils
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
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The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men are two famous works by what California author?
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
O. Henry
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What American president won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War?
Franklin Pierce
Warren G. Harding
Theodore Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
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Alexander Fleming won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of what revolutionary fungal antibiotic?
Ibuprofen
Penicillin
Albuterol
Rhinocort
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Watt and "Waiting for Godot" are two famous post-modernist works by what author?
Joseph Conrad
Smauel Beckett
Michael Karson
Franklin Herstadt
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Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared a Nobel Peace Prize for their collective efforts in negotiating an end to what war?
The Chinese Revolution
The Persian Gulf War
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
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What scientist won a Nobel Prize for constructing the world's first nuclear reactor in Chicago?
Enrico Fermi
Matthew Fornos
Albert Renee
Peter Gilden
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James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of D.N.A., but it was later discovered that they plagiarized the work of what other scientist?
Lisa Greene-Underhill
Valerie Berinday
Daisy Timothies
Rosalind Franklin
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Frank B. Kellogg won a Nobel Peace Prize for creating the Kellogg-Briand Pact which stated that the participating nations would not start armed conflicts following what war's devastation?
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
World War One
World War Two
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What person was the first ever to win two Nobel Prizes?
Phineas Wade
Albert Einstein
Frederick Pierce
Marie Curie
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Yoshinori Ohsumi was a Nobel-Prize-winning scientist who discovered much about what process where old cells disintegrate and are recycled into newer ones?
The Biers Cycle
Autophagy
Cellular kaleidoscopy
The Frost Cycle
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What civil rights activist won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end segregation through his powerful nonviolent rhetoric including his "I Have a Dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Jesse Jackson
Howard Fleur
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