Chai Pe Quiz June - Quiz on Nobel Prize winners

"Kochi Metro" - The June edition of Chai Pe Quiz |
LAURELS FOR LAURETES - A Quiz on Nobel Prize Winners for school students |
Hosted by Aravind Anil & Anant Nambiar |
Date: 25.6.17 |Venue: ChaiCofi Cafe, Kochi.

4. 2 Rounds.
Written Round –8 Qs.
Clockwise –12 Qs.

5. Written Round 8 Qs.
Theme : COUNTRY HEADS WHO HAVE WON
THE NOBEL PRIZE.
10 Points per question
(all are multiple part questions).

6. 15 Laureates of Nobel Prize were Heads of
Government when they received it.
Out of this, 6 were re-electedto office later for a
further term.
1. JuanManuel Santos
2. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
3. A
4. B
5. Anwar Sadat
6.Hjalmar Branting-the PM of C.

7. In late 2015, A announced that his administration is
renamingthis geographical entity to Denali, the
name that natives have long used, in an attempt to
pacify the natives in a dispute that has stretched on
for more than a century.
However, it faced stiff opposition, as many wanted to
preserve the current name, christened in honor of
the then President of the country, in late 19
th
C.
A: ID this gentleman, whose certain one-on-one
would make this the ideal first question of this meet?
What was renamedthus? (Image follows)

11. During the closing weeks of his 2
nd
term in 2010, he
controversially inaugurated various unachieved projects
including the "new presidential offices" despite the fact that
these offices do not exist yet, the new Juan Santamaria
International Airportin San Jose et al.
B: ID this 1987 Nobel recipient?
His country has pledged to achieve ______ __________ by
2021. Only 2 countries –Vatican City & Bhutan has achieved
it till date and several other nations aims to achieve it in near
future –incl. Iceland, Maldives, New Zealand, Norway,
Tuvalu& Sweden. FITB with a scientific term?

15. A popular website illustrated this 6’5’’ tall “celebrity” X
as a movie character Ywhile publishing an interview
with X, where he admitted that he ‘wants to become
the next Y’, and wished a series of 10 movies to be
made on him, just like Y had sequels I –V.
Who ? As whom?
C: Which country, home to the 1921 Nobel winning
PM Hjalmar Branting, does he belong to?
Image follows.

19. 15 Laureates of Nobel Peace Prize were Heads of
Government at the Time of the receiving the
award.
Out of this, 5 were reelected to office later for a
further term.
From the rest, 5 more belongs to the scope of
this Quiz. They are laid down as follows: D,E,F
,G & H.

20. After being the second recipient of the ______ ______
Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, an
annual award instituted in 1986 named after the formed
head of the country Z, Dannounced that he’ll contribute
the entire prize money to the proposed “Model Cultural
Centre” in the capital of his country,which couldplay a
pivotal role in the propagation of the Z’s culture in his
nation. When set up a year later, this institution was
named after the first head of Z.
D: ID this 1988 Nobel recipient,who has famously
featured in a Pizza Hut ad?
FITB or Name the Prize?
Who was the institution named after? (images follow)

25. Recently, protests from students at Princeton University
against the Monmouth University, made them remove the
bust of this former president from their campus building.
The protests cited that the President with a racial history,
who deniedthe admission of Blackstudents to Princeton,
should be stripped off the honor.
E: Which US President?
Which organization was formed as a result of the last of the
‘14Points’ outlined by him in the famous “January 8 Speech”
of 1918, which suggested that “a general associationof
nations must be formed under specific covenants for the
purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political
independence and territorial integrity”.

29. The footballer pictured captained this English club based in
Hampshire to victory in 2008 FA Cup, thus enabling them to
qualify for European competition for the first time in their
history.
ID the player, more common to us since 2014 thanks to a
particular stint?
FITB or ID the club?
F:ID the gentleman whose 1906 Nobel Peace Prize is
attributed to his role in mediating the Treaty of __________
(which shares it’s name with the Club), which ended the
Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

32. This Soviet Democratic Party leader and former German
chancellor, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, had fled to
Scandinavia during WWII and worked as a leftist journalist
when he took this pseudonymto avoid detection, which
he later adopted.
The dramatic scene where he knelt down in front of the
memorial for victims of a WWII era Ghetto uprisal–
which happened in the capital of a neighboring country,
was mentioned by Shashi Tharoorin his famous Oxford
Union speech.
G: Who is this 1971 Nobel recipient?
Where did the uprisinghappen? (Video follows)

36. In 1963, he was the first of the only 8 people to be
made an honorary citizen of the USA. He was also
named the G.O.A.T of his nation in a 2002 poll by the
national television, with 2
nd
in the list being a
construction engineer, 3
rd
a women, 4
th
a biologist, 5
th
a poet and 6
th
a physicist.
H: Who?
About whose invasions to his country, twice in the
history in 55 BC and 54 BC, was the theme of the first
of his 4-volume book, titled ‘A History of the _______-
Speaking Peoples’?

40. Clockwise 10 Questions
On Pounce : +10,-5
On Bounce : +10,-0

41. Along with Francisco Acuñade Figueroa, he
hold the distinction of most of these entities,
with 2 of them. Some might even argue that
DionysiosSolomoscan also be considered a
part of this highly exclusive group, although
he is not widely considered so.
Who is he?
What is the distinction he shares with the
guys above.

44. J is the first (and only) amongst a certain “group”
of people to be awarded the Nobel. (S)He
initially ignored the Committee’s attempt to
reach him/her and later said that (s)he wouldn't
be able to attend the ceremony due to previous
commitments. It was accepted on his/her behalf
by the Ambassador to Sweden from J’s country.
J has also won a ‘Pulitzer Prize Special Citations
and Award’ accolade and an Academy Award
too.

47. K is said to have been born in a University campus and
was named by another Nobel Laureate.
K is conscious about gender inequality and uses
female pronouns like she/her instead of he/him in
his/her works.
K is currently married to a member of the famous
Rothschild banking family of England. Amongst K’s
children, there is one actor and a small-time hip-hop
musician.
K was also 4
th
on the list of most popular Nobel
Laureates in that field.
K?

50. His birth name in their local language means
‘troublemaker’ and was on the US terror watch list
until 2008.
He also appeared in a cameo role in the 1992 biopic of
Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee.
He also married the former first lady of a of a
neighbouring country.
He was also the last recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize
which is the Russian equivalent to the Nobel and is
also an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

53. M shares a dubious distinction with Leon Lederman, which
might give him a bad reputation amongst the members of
the Academy.
This person said that he felt “inherently gloomy about the
prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are
based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as
ours—whereas all the testing says not really.” which led to
a lot of backlash and eventually almost leading to
bankruptcy.
M’s discovery for which (s)he received the shared prize
also came under controversy as a fellow member was not
given the due recognition he/she deserved.
Who is M?
What distinction with Leon Lederman?

56. According to mythology, this character fell in
love with one of his sculptures, which then
came to life.
Name this character?
How could the above answer be associated
with the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate of
1925?

59. X, after the death of his/her spouse, began a romantic
relationship with a former student of the spouse. This
student was married and hence X was labelled as a
homewrecker.
The public got outraged at this news. So much so, that the
Nobel committee asked X not to come to receive the prize
in person. But X still attended the ceremony, stating “I
believe that there is no connection between my scientific
work and the facts of private life. I cannot accept ... that
the appreciation of the value of scientific work should be
influenced by libel and slander concerning private life.”.
X found a supporter in Albert Einstein, who met X at the
Solvay Conference, and wrote a letter to X encouraging X
to continue with their research.

62. This person has a lot of Nobel distinctions to his
name :
Only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel
Prizes
One of only four individuals to have won more
than one Nobel Prize
One of only two people to be awarded Nobel
Prizes in different fields
He is considered as the father of molecular
biology and also developed the electronegativity
scale for elements of the periodic table.

65. #kolstylz
Who has won the most Nobel Prizes?

68. This person had imposed some conditions on his wife, like
B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they
are not completely necessary for social reasons.
C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach
me in any way;
2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;
3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest
if I request it.
D. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children,
either through words or behaviour.
He was so confident of winning the prize that he promised this
wife his prize money, 2 years before he actually won the prize.
He also has a medical named after him, by which exceptionally
bright children start talking late into their life.

71. In 1939, Erik GottfridChristian Brandt, a social democratic member of the
Swedish parliament, nominated someone for the Nobel that year.
Some excerpts goes like :
“a man, who in the opinion of millions of people, is a man who more than
anyone in the world has deserved this highly respected reward.”
“Authentic documents reveal that in September 1938 world peace was in
great danger; it was only a matter of hours before a new European war
could break out. The man who during this dangerous time saved our part
of the world from this terrible catastrophe was without no doubt ____. In
the critical moment he voluntarily did not let weapons speak although he
had the power to start a world war.”
“By his glowing love for peace, earlier documented in his famous book
____ –next to the Bible perhaps the best and most popular piece of
literature in the world
The letter ends with him being referred to as the Prince of Peace on Earth

74. FINAL SCORE
Winners : 127.5 pts.
(AnandRajagopal, Abhishek P, Shashank
Menon, Sidharth)
Runners Up: 120 pts.
(PrathyushPadmanabhan, NiranjanM Kumar,
MuhasinWahab, SraddhaRajiv, Varun)