Ig Nobel Prize - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Every ceremony for this award presented by Annals of Improbable Research since 1991 has been called the First Annual prize ceremony. For 10 points each:

[10e] Identify this satirical award whose name puns on that of a prestigious Swedish prize and a word meaning “dishonorable.”

ANSWER: Ig Nobel Prize [reject “Nobel Prize”]

[10h] This physicist, the only winner of both an Ig Nobel and an actual Nobel, won the former for levitating a frog using diamagnetism and the latter for isolating graphene along with Konstantin Novoselov.

ANSWER: Andre Geim (“GUY’m”) [or Sir Andre Konstantin Geim]

[10m] Gideon Gono won an Ig Nobel for his work on this currency giving people a way to “cope with a wide range of numbers” due to early 2000s hyperinflation. Ig Nobel winners receive a ten-trillion banknote of this currency.

ANSWER: Zimbabwean dollars [or Zimbabwe dollars; reject “dollars”]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	8	21.25	88%	100%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	100%	0%
North	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	8	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
UK	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley D	UCSC	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley F	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
UCSB	Claremont Scripps	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCI	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	USC	0	0	0	0
McGill A	Queen's B	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Guelph A	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto I	Carleton	10	0	10	20
Toronto J	McGill C	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto K	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Western Ontario	10	10	10	30
FIU	UF A	10	0	10	20
Melbourne B	UF B	0	0	0	0
OSU B	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	CWRU C	10	0	10	20
Pitt A	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
MSU A	OSU C	10	0	0	10
MSU B	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
OSU A	Pitt C	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	10	0	10	20
North Carolina C	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	NC State	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Penn A	10	0	10	20
VCU A	George Washington A	10	0	0	10
George Mason A	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	Missouri A	10	0	0	10
Truman State	SIUE	10	0	0	10
WashU D	WashU A	10	0	10	20
WashU C	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
UIC	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Louisville A	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Kentucky	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
BU	Cornell-UG	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	10	0	10	20
Harvard	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	10	30
British Columbia D	Washington B	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia B	10	0	10	20
British Columbia C	Washington A	10	0	0	10
Manchester B	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
RIT B	Syracuse	10	0	10	20