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