Mini Poll: About the Nobel Prize
Current Totals:
Which of the following local citizens or institutions would you most likely nominate for a Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Developer Joe Edwards, for hanging the world's largest manmade moon on the Moonrise Hotel :
12%
Architect Gyo Obata, for the design of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center:
24%
Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, for that nasty curve ball:
11%
The Gateway Arch, for being itself and for not falling over:
14%
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Which of the following local citizens would you most likely nominate for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Andy Karandzieff of Crown Candy Kitchen (1401 St. Louis Avenue) for the "Malt Challenge":
47%
Kimora Lee Simmons for her new fragrance, Baby Phat Fabulosity:
3%
Teri Bearden of Merb's Candies (4000 S. Grand) for those Bionic Apples:
25%
Nhat Nguyen of Urban (3126 S. Grand) for his drink "The Socialite," a concoction of gin, elderflower liqueur, rosewater, and a squeeze of lemon:
14%
Dr. Phil Dembo of 1stDATESTL for pheremonic convergence:
12%
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Which of the following local citizens would you most likely nominate for a Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Laurel K. Hamilton, for making vampires cool before they were trendy:
12%
Joanna Campbell Slan, for her set-in-St. Louis novels, including "Paper, Scissors, Death":
7%
Robert Duffy, for his work as associate editor of the St. Louis Beacon:
17%
Jeannette Batz Cooperman (@jcooperman) for her elegant 140-character essays on Twitter:
29%
Jim Merkel, for his charming histories of south St. Louis in the St. Louis Suburban Journal:
21%
Whoever moderates comments on STLToday.com for making them somewhat less awful:
15%
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Which of the following local citizens would you most likely nominate for the Nobel Foundation's Prize in Economics?
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Martin Casas, for his FrontYard Features free movies in City neighborhoods:
19%
David Nicklaus, for his grouchy financial columns in the Post-Dispatch:
20%
Frazer Cameron, owner of Frazer's Restaurant and Lounge (1911 Pestalozzi St.) for his Monday Night Football specials (prize to be shared with every St. Louis restaurant offering Recession Specials):
21%
Julie Niemann, for her piquant commentaries on almost every economic issue on almost every media outlet:
39%
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Which of the following local citizens would you most likely nominate for a Nobel Prize in Medicine?
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Kay Quinn, KSDK (Channel 5) medical reporter and anchor:
10%
Dave Duncan, pitching coach and arm surgeon:
4%
Dr. Jeffrey Lowell, transplant surgeon and the region's disaster coordinator:
16%
Dr. Sonny Saggar, founder of Downtown Urgent Care :
50%
Alderwoman Lyda Krewson, for her sponsorship of the "St. Louis City Smoke Free Air Act of 2009" (prize to be shared with co-sponsors Marlene Davis, Kacie Starr Triplett, Donna Baringer, and Shane Cohn):
19%
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Which of the following local citizens would you most likely nominate for a Nobel Peace Prize?
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Peter Fischer of the Gateway Foundation for City Garden:
8%
Jack Danforth, elder statesman,for leadership in many civic causes:
29%
Frankie Muse Freeman, the civil rights attorney for a lifetime of being first:
5%
Randy Grim of Stray Rescue for not dogging it:
49%
Maxine Clark of St. Louis-based Build-a-Bear Workshop for being so nice:
2%
Jessica Hentoff, founder and ringmaster of the Circus Harmony Foundation for sending flying children to the Middle East:
7%
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Does U.S. President Barack Obama deserve to have won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
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Note: Due to rounding, results for some questions may not total 100%.
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