- What was the exact phrasing of the Ig Nobel committee's citation for Dan Quayle?
- What founding principle of the Ig Nobel Prize does the Quayle award illustrate?
Ig Nobel Prize
The satirical prizes that honor research that makes people laugh, then think.
- How did the Ig Nobel committee justify awarding him the literature prize?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee consider Graham's project a fitting inaugural biology award?
- Why was the Beano award considered unusual among Ig Nobel Prizes?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee frame the Pepsi 349 fiasco as a form of solidarity?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee credit Batra's book sales with averting the depression it predicted?
- What was the Ig Nobel committee actually mocking — the science or the arithmetic of credit?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee treat AutoVision's working engineering as the problem rather than the achievement?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee consider a paper on zipper injuries worth honoring seriously?
- Why was Featherstone significant to the Ig Nobel tradition beyond winning the prize itself?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee place this grim, serious study in the Peace category?
- What kind of research does the Ig Nobel Biology prize typically single out?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee treat the Tamagotchi's success as an economic discovery?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee classify a scented suit under environmental protection?
- What made the Ig Nobel committee treat a technical standard as a literary text?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee consider the doughnut shop a legitimate subject for academic sociology?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee compare scepticism about evolution to scepticism about gravity?
- What later discovery made André Geim the only person to hold both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel Prize?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee choose to award the Economics prize to Iceland's bank executives?
- Who is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize?
- Which financial institutions were honoured by the 2010 Ig Nobel Economics prize and why?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee include BP among the Chemistry prize recipients?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee consider a government report worthy of a Literature prize?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee award the Peace Prize jointly to Lukashenko and the state police?