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Wednesday’s Question: There are only two people who have ever won a Nobel Prize AND an Oscar. George Bernard Shaw and THIS musician. Who?

“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…”

 

George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel prize for literature in 1925 and the Oscar in 1938 for Best Writing, Screenplay for assisting in the adaptation of his play “Pygmalion.”

In 2000, THIS artist won the Oscar in the Best Song category for “Things Have Changed” from “Wonder Boys.” In 2016, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Oct. 13, becoming the first songwriter to claim this honor.

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