# What prize would you offer?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-prize-would-you-offer/325540
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 10, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-prize-would-you-offer/325540 "2005-10-10T11:31:06Z")
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### Author: ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-prize-would-you-offer/325540/1 "2005-10-10T11:31:06Z")

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Recently we’ve had the [Wolfskehl Prize](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WolfskehlPrize.html) for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, and the [Ansari X Prize](http://www.xpcup.com/index.cfm) for getting into space. In the early years of aviation, there were prizes for assorted achievements. Given a decent prize fund - say $10M - what challenge would you lay down for humanity?