Daily Quiz | On the Nobel Prize
File photo of a Nobel medal displayed during a ceremony in New York.
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If Alfred Nobel designated Karolinska Institutet to decide the winners of the prize in Physiology or Medicine, which institution chooses the Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Answer : The Norwegian Parliament (Storting)
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As per the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, ‘in no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons’. Which category has never had three laureates in a year?
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Who is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes and that too in different categories?
Answer : Linus Pauling in 1954 (Chemistry) and 1962 (Peace)
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What distinction is shared by Dag Hammarskjöld (Peace, 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Literature, 1931) that cannot occur again?
Answer : Awarded the prize posthumously. Post 1974, as per the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless the laureate has passed away after the announcement
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The only pair of siblings to have been awarded the prize are Jan Tinbergen and Nikolaas Tinbergen in 1969 and 1973 respectively, though in different categories. Which categories?
Answer : Jan Tinbergen in Economics and Nikolaas Tinbergen in Physiology.
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Who hands over the prize to the Laureates and how is the Peace Prize different?
Answer : The King of Sweden and in the case of the Peace Prize, though the King of Norway is present, the Chairman of the Nobel Committee hands over the prize.
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