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Friday, December 3, 2010

Question 913

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty."
He later said about Alfred Nobel, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
He is incidentally the only person to win the Nobel prize as well as the Oscar(for Best Adapted Screenplay). Who?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

17 comments:

  1. Guessin... George Bernard Shaw

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  2. george bernard shaw.....
    only person other dan al gore to win both oscar n nobel was a give away actually..........

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  3. The last clue was a dead giveaway. George Bernard Shaw. Otherwise I would have answered Jean Paul Sartre.

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  4. George Bernard Shaw (Nobel for Literature and Oscar for Pygmalion)

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  5. George Bernard Shaw...
    There's one famous incident with him and Churchill...
    Churchill:I don't shake hands with fools!
    GBShaw:(offering his hand) I do!

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  6. Easy Man... George Bernard Shaw !!!
    For Pygmalion...

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