Thursday, March 19, 2020

THE NOBEL LAUREATES - 3



Q1. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the "Green Belt Movement", an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees and environmental conservation?



A. Wendy Bowman

B. Wangari Maathai

C. Edwin Gariguez






Q2. Which Russian Author had to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 as one of his famous Novels published in 1957 enraged the ruling "Communist Party of Soviet Union" for its critical stand on "October Revolution" of 1917?



A. Maxim Gorky

B. Vladimir Nabokov

C. Boris Pasternak






Q3. Who among the following is a co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the hepatitis B virus (identified the hepatitis B virus and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine)?



A. Baruch Samuel Blumberg

B. Roger Guillemin

C. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek




Q4. Which Nobel Prize winner in Literature was Mexico's ambassador to India in 1960s and wrote the book "In Light of India"?




A. Octavio Paz

B. Alfonso Garcia Robles

C. Jose Saramago




Q5. Who is the first Nobel Prize winner to be born outside Europe?



A. Ernest Rutherford

B. Ronald Ross

C. Rabindranath Tagore





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