10th December saw the first Nobel prizes. I can tell you it's not Christmas: therefore we have no bells …
Q1)10th December saw the first Nobel Prizes awarded: in which year … ?
Q2)More to the point, who won the first Nobel Physics Prizes … ?
Q3)More to the point, who — in 1989 — won the Nobel Peace Prize … ?
Q4)How many Nobel Prizes, currently, are there … ?
Q5)Name one of them …
Q6)Albert Nobel, the man who founded the Prizes, owned which armaments company: Bofors, Bushmaster Firearms or Lürssen … ?
Q7)Nobel famously invented dynamite: in which year of the 1860s did he patent it … ?
Q8)More to the point, in which year of the 1850s did he register his first patent … ?
Q9)Moving on … In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded … ?
Q10)Who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize? (The award ceremony is today: 10th December, 2014.)
Here's last week's questions and answers …
Questions.
Q1)3rd December saw the release of the first Laurel and Hardy film: in which year of the 1920s?
Q2)The film was called 'Putting Pants on…' who: Phillip, Phyllis or Fred?
Q3)The who concerned, needed pants — or trousers, for those of us who aren't American — as he was constantly wearing what: a skirt, a sarong or a kilt?
Q4)'Putting Pants …' was the first time Laurel and Hardy were credited as a team. They first worked together on 'The Lucky Dog', when: 1920, 1921 or 1922?
Q5)Was 'Putting Pants …' a silent film?
Q6)'Unaccustomed As We Are' was one of the pair's early talkies. When was it released: 1927, 1929 or 1931?
Q7)Their first feature film was released in 1931. What was it called: 'Excuse Us', 'Pardon Us' or 'Pardon Me'?
Q8)Laurel and Hardy's fan club takes its name from what's arguably their best film. The film's called 'The Sons Of The …' what?
Q9)Which of the pair was English: Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy?
Q10)Finally … the other half of the pair was from which US state?
Answers.
A1)1927.
A2)Phillip.
A3)A kilt. (The earliest known ones have been dated to the 1600s: the modern 'walking' kilt was designed by a Quaker from Lancashire.)
A4)1921.
A5)Yes.
A6)1929.
A7)'Pardon Us'. (I'm not counting two earlier features — 'The Hollywood Revue of 1929' and 'The Rogue Song' — as the pair weren't the headlining stars of the films.)
A8)'The Sons Of The Desert'. (The club, itself, has some 150 chapters.)
A9)Stan Laurel: the skinny one.
A10)Georgia.
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