Q 01/05

Pauling's second Nobel Prize, awarded for 1962, was in which category?

A) Peace

B) Physics

C) Medicine

D) Literature

Answer · why

A) Peace

He is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.

Q 02/05

Pauling is one of only two people to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields. Who is the other?

A) Albert Einstein

B) Frederick Sanger

C) Marie Curie

D) John Bardeen

Answer · why

C) Marie Curie

Sanger and Bardeen each won twice, but in the same field.

Q 03/05

In which city was Pauling born in 1901?

A) Seattle

B) Portland

C) San Francisco

D) Sacramento

Answer · why

B) Portland

February 28, his birthday, is Linus Pauling Day in Oregon.

Q 04/05

What kind of business did Pauling's father Herman open in Lake Oswego, Oregon?

A) A hardware store

B) A hotel

C) A newspaper

D) A drugstore

Answer · why

D) A drugstore

He died of a perforated ulcer in 1910, when Linus was nine.

Q 05/05

As teenagers Pauling and a friend set up 'Palmon Laboratories' offering local dairies what service?

A) Milk pasteurising

B) Cheese cultures

C) Bottle sterilising

D) Butterfat testing

Answer · why

D) Butterfat testing

The dairymen would not trust two boys with the job and the business failed.