Science trivia
Name a Nobel Prize winner
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a Nobel Prize winner”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 343 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 11 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Albert Einstein
- Marie Curie
- Nelson Mandela
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mother Teresa
- Barack Obama
- Malala Yousafzai
- Bob Dylan
- Ernest Hemingway
- Winston Churchill
- Dalai Lama
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Toni Morrison
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Samuel Beckett
- Seamus Heaney
- W. B. Yeats
- George Bernard Shaw
- Rudyard Kipling
- Albert Camus
- John Steinbeck
- William Faulkner
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Desmond Tutu
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Jimmy Carter
- Al Gore
- Henry Kissinger
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Elie Wiesel
- Yasser Arafat
- Kofi Annan
- Alexander Fleming
- Pierre Curie
- Niels Bohr
- Max Planck
- Werner Heisenberg
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Paul Dirac
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard Feynman
- Peter Higgs
- Ernest Rutherford
- Linus Pauling
- Francis Crick
- James Watson
- Ivan Pavlov
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Rabindranath Tagore
- John Nash
- Daniel Kahneman
- Milton Friedman
- Paul Krugman
- Jennifer Doudna
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Pablo Neruda
- Bertrand Russell
- T. S. Eliot
- Thomas Mann
How deep does “Name a Nobel Prize winner” go?
- The Tip11 answers · 10 ptsAlbert Einstein · Marie Curie · Nelson Mandela
- Below the Surface50 answers · 25 ptsToni Morrison · Gabriel García Márquez · Samuel Beckett …
- The Deep72 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss209 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 72 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 209 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 343 answers in total, 343 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Mo Yan”. Longest: “Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar”.
- A, J and M are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
- 144 answers can be typed more than one way: “Pamuk” counts as Orhan Pamuk.
How to go deeper
- Start with A: 33 of the answers begin with it.
- Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Nelson Mandela are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Units of measurement go far beyond metres and grams.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a Nobel Prize winner”?
- The usual first answers are Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a Nobel Prize winner”?
- 343 in all: 11 on The Tip, 50 Below the Surface, 72 in The Deep, 209 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a Nobel Prize winner” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Mo Yan” and the longest is “Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar”.
- How hard is “Name a Nobel Prize winner”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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