Quiz
1. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
2. Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993?
3. What woman, who wrote Lay Down Your Arms, 1892, was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905?
4. What Roman Catholic missionary to India won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
5. What woman won the Nobel Prize for Science in 1903 for discovering radioactivity?
6. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Science in 1947?
7. What woman won the Nobel Prize for Science in 1988 for her development of drug treatments for leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, viral herpes, urinary and respiratory tract infections, and AIDS?
8. What Italian writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, published her first work in a fashion magazine?
9. What American author, who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931?
10. What American woman won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Science for her discovery of how the olfactory system works?
1. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Selma Lagerlof
2. Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993?
Toni Morrison
3. What woman, who wrote Lay Down Your Arms, 1892, was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905?
Bertha von Suttner
4. What Roman Catholic missionary to India won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
Mother Teresa
5. What woman won the Nobel Prize for Science in 1903 for discovering radioactivity?
Marie Curie
6. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Science in 1947?
Gerty Radnitz Cori
7. What woman won the Nobel Prize for Science in 1988 for her development of drug treatments for leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, viral herpes, urinary and respiratory tract infections, and AIDS?
Gertrude Belle Elion
8. What Italian writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, published her first work in a fashion magazine?
Grazia Deledda
9. What American author, who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931?
Pearl Buck
10. What American woman won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Science for her discovery of how the olfactory system works?
Linda Buck