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1. Some basic numbers.... Up to 2014, which of our under the Southern Cross countries collected more Nobel Prizes (all categories, since the start of Nobel Prize Awards)?
2. Which is the category in which Australia collected the most prizes over the years?
3. But remaining with the Medicine Nobels....Alan Cormack and Sydney Brenner also won it; also Cesar Milstein and Bernardo Hussey. Which pair of countries have got the Nobel in Medicine thanks to these 4 gentlemen?
4. These two "giants" of international Literature won the Nobel Prize for their country in 1945 and 1971. Who were they and which was their country?
5. And talking about literature....We have another pair of excellent writers who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 and 2003. Which were they and which country are they from?
6. We know Australia takes the lead, as far as 2014, in Nobel Prizes....but which is the second country following it really close?
7. "The Rainbow Nation" is the leader among the Southern Cross countries in winning which category of Nobel Prizes?
8. Mikhail Gorbachov, many German and Dutch professors as well as many universities worlwide, suggested this popular president for the Peace Nobel Prize candidate for 2014 although he immediately said he would not accept it. Who is this president and from which country?
9. The King of Sweden gives the Nobel Prizes in Stockholm every year. But he doesn't give the Nobel Prize of Peace. Which country gives that award?
10. Which of the Southern Cross countries is the only one which has ever won (up to the end of 2014) Nobel Prizes in Economics and Physics?
11. Which country under the Southern Cross was the first to receive a Nobel Prize as early as 1915?
12. Which of our "Southern Cross" countries won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Politics?
13. The leader of the Chemistry Nobel Prize up to 2014 is split among these two Southern Cross countries.
14. This country won its only Nobel Prize in its history (up to the end of 2014). Which country are we talking about and in which category did it win?
15. Up to the end of 2014, Brazil never won a single Nobel Prize ever.
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