Statistics for Notable Nobelists

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Prize	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Peace	2009	Newly elected President whose win puzzled many	Barack Obama	95%
Peace	1993	Brought an end to apartheid in South Africa	Nelson Mandela	94%
Physics	1921	Came up with the Theory of Relativity	Albert Einstein	91%
Physics, Chemistry	1903, 1911	First woman to win. First person to win twice.	Marie Curie	89%
Literature	1954	American author known for his white beard and heavy drinking	Ernest Hemingway	68%
Literature	2016	First person to win a prize for their songwriting	Bob Dylan	66%
Peace	1999	Group also known as Médecins Sans Frontières	Doctors Without Borders	66%
Literature	1953	British politician who wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"	Winston Churchill	60%
Medicine	1945	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	58%
Peace	1994	PLO leader who briefly ceased hostilities	Yasser Arafat	57%
Medicine	1962	Discovered the structure of DNA	Francis Crick	48%
Medicine	1962	Discovered the structure of DNA	James Watson	46%
Literature	1982	Colombian author known for "magical realism"	Gabriel García Márquez	38%
Physics	1922	Danish quantum theorist	Niels Bohr	38%
Literature	1964 (declined)	Existentialist French author whose partner was Simone de Beauvoir	Jean-Paul Sartre	37%
Literature	1969	Absurdist Irish playwright who wrote "Waiting for Godot"	Samuel Beckett	33%
Peace	1993	Brought an end to apartheid in South Africa	F. W. de Klerk	31%
Economics	1994	Game theorist who was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"	John Nash	28%
Economics	1976	Most well-known of the "Chicago School" economists	Milton Friedman	22%
Chemistry, Peace	1954, 1962	Brilliant chemist, anti-nuclear activist, vitamin C quack	Linus Pauling	14%