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Can you name the countries that can claim a Nobel Prize winner?
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MSUKent
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IMPORTANT: Includes both birth countries and countries where Nobel Prize was won. # = total number of Nobel Prize winners.
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Countries with a Nobel Prize Winner Quiz
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Created Oct 4, 2011 in
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Featured Feb 28, 2012
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BombaySapphire
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:10 GMT
7 points
Enjoyed the quiz immensely, except I kept telling myself not to try Tibet because it's not independent.
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bsd987
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:11 GMT
-15 points
Need to clarify that not all of these are sporcle recognized countries.
hscer
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 03:33 GMT
18 points
Anybody want to try and top Sweden for most embarrassing miss?
RandallPinkston
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 04:25 GMT
6 points
Can you accept Timor L'este please?
recklessness
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 10:03 GMT
-1 points
Mother Teresa was from Albania and she won Nobel Peace Prize.
MSUKent
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 10:16 GMT
6 points
@recklessness: Per the Nobel website, she was born in what is now the Republic of Macedonia.
MSUKent
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 10:18 GMT
5 points
ALL: I've liberated Tibet (from the quiz, not China). All other countries, to my knowledge, are Sporcle-recognized. Please let me know if you believe otherwise. @RandallPinkston: Now accepted.
Kieraen
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 18:25 GMT
12 points
Very western-centric award the nobel prizes arn't they?
sennomulo
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT
10 points
Yes, I tried Nauru. :-P
save_ferris15
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 22:28 GMT
5 points
No Kyrgyzstan? Outrageous!
dzeke
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Oct 5th, 2011 at 23:10 GMT
4 points
JMG Le Clezio also had Mauritian citizenship.
hdh
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 00:53 GMT
3 points
Who's the St. Lucian winner?
segacs
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 01:35 GMT
1 point
East Timor threw me off because of the alphabetical order of the quiz. In Sporcle quizzes, it's usually under "T" for Timor-Leste. I had Denmark and Egypt, and kept stubbornly trying Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic and Ecuador as the only countries alphabetically between the two.
caramba
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 03:05 GMT
6 points
Would be nice to see totals for each country, but that may be a lot of work.
british
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 04:19 GMT
1 point
Kyrgyzstan? No Nobel Prize? Hard to believe...
tsneller
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 08:24 GMT
1 point
Would be better if the extra column had the number of nobel prizes each country has won (whether it is there to help you from the start or only appears when you answer)
MSUKent
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 13:04 GMT
3 points
@segacs: I can movie East Timor under T. ALL: I will try to do totals for each country but it will be a lot of work.
ILoveSBSP
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 14:15 GMT
2 points
@hdh Amazingly,there are 2 Nobel prize winners in St Lucia,it's hard to Derek Walcott and Arthur Lewis was born in this small island.
MSUKent
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 15:29 GMT
6 points
ALL: I've added the total number of winners from each country. If someone was born and won the prize in the same country, that country gets one. If someone was born in one country and won it in another, each get country gets one. Basically, countries don't get to count a winner twice. NOTE: These counts were done by me by looking at a very long list. They are more ballparks than hard-and-fast numbers.
LCFCKris
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 16:57 GMT
-1 points
good but just guessing for random countries isnt that fun haha
Quakke
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 20:38 GMT
9 points
Welcome to sporcle, where you try saint lucia and timor-leste before even thinking about Egypt and Kenya.
rockgolf
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 20:59 GMT
7 points
@msuKent: Given Sporclers' familiarity with the list of all countries, putting it in alphabetical order makes it easy to fill in gaps. Why not sort it by most Nobel Prizes awarded and then, maybe, by name of country, to add an extra challenge?
Q_Pheevr
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Oct 6th, 2011 at 21:40 GMT
2 points
I like rockgolf's suggestion of sorting by number of Nobels.
In other news, I missed Trinidad and Tobago, even though V.S. Naipaul appears in my one published quiz. Oops.
HER
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 02:30 GMT
13 points
Can I give a HUGE thank you for accepting just "Bosnia"? I know it's not technically correct, but darn it I hate typing out Herzegovina. On Sporcle quizzes I always have a brief debate with myself about whether or not it's worth getting one or two more right versus typing out all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Same goes for Equatorial Guinea and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
MSUKent
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 10:24 GMT
3 points
@rockgolf: I think it's worth considering. Let me ponder. ALL: 2011 winners just added.
MSUKent
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 10:36 GMT
6 points
Per rockgolf's suggestion, I've re-ordered them by number of prize winners (as opposed to alphabetically by country). Please let me know if you prefer this format.
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historybuff1861
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 16:55 GMT
-25 points
Poland should have 26 but Al gore I guess thinks that he is more deserving then the polish women that saved hundreds of kids lives during the holocaust glad he didn't get elected not that what we got was any good...
rockgolf
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 17:45 GMT
6 points
@Historybuff: Way out of line. Gore had no say as to who or who else did or did not get a Nobel prize.
hdh
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Oct 7th, 2011 at 21:27 GMT
4 points
I honestly tried Liberia when playing the quiz yesterday. If I had waited one more day I could have been right.
Zvi
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Oct 8th, 2011 at 22:18 GMT
2 points
There have been 10 Israeli Nobel Laureates: Schechtman, Yonath, Aumann, Ciechanover, Hershko, Agnon, Begin, Peres, Rabin and Kahneman
Wolf359
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Oct 9th, 2011 at 01:28 GMT
5 points
I thought Greece had two laureates for literature - Giorgos Seferis in '63 and Oysseas Elytis in '79.
ravenmaniac
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Oct 9th, 2011 at 06:12 GMT
2 points
There are 10 Israeli nobel prize winners.
emh:
Oct 9th, 2011 at 14:58 GMT
2 points
Nice quiz. Just wanted to mention that you seem to be missing Colombia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the '82 winner in literature - is from there.
emh:
Oct 9th, 2011 at 15:05 GMT
1 point
BTW, you may want to use this as your source or at least to verify your hand counts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country
naali
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Oct 11th, 2011 at 13:45 GMT
2 points
@hscer: as far as the MOST EMBARRASSING miss is concerned: I live in Germany. When I had 56 seconds left, I thought: "hmmm... there's a country boasting 94 Nobel Prizes, must be a really big country that one... UK? France? Italy? India? China? Japan? I've got them all... what could it be?" Figured out it was Germany in the VERY last second. A very embarrassing near-miss!
zewa
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Jan 29th, 2012 at 01:54 GMT
2 points
If you include ''countries where Nobel Prize was won'' as said above, then because of Ivo Andric there has to be either Yugoslavia or Serbia because when he accepted the award he used to live in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Serbia today. But nice quiz ;)
Game published: Feb 28th, 2012 at 04:03 GMT
uxyzapenje
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Feb 28th, 2012 at 04:17 GMT
2 points
Ivo Andric from Serbia?
tal_00
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Feb 28th, 2012 at 04:35 GMT
2 points
The numbers are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country
suncountrynwa
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Feb 28th, 2012 at 04:37 GMT
16 points
Timor-Leste has more than Indonesia? Who knew...
mccullen
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Feb 28th, 2012 at 04:49 GMT
41 points
my Backspace key is delighted that this quiz is finally over.
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