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Famous People Quiz for 23 August 2016

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Question 1: For what discovery did Sir Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley receive the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

A
Conductive polymers
B
An ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase
C
The catalytic properties of RNA
D
Fullerenes