In September 2011, Polgár competed in the Chess World Cup, a 128-player tournament with a large prize fund and qualification to the top three for the World Championship cycle.

The total prize money for the 2011 race was A $ 6, 175, 000, plus trophies valued at $ 125, 000.

In 2011, Philips won a $ 10 million cash prize from the US Department of Energy for winning its L-Prize competition, to produce a high-efficiency, long operating life replacement for a standard 60-W incandescent lightbulb.

* The 2011 novel " The Stranger's Child " by Booker prize winning British novelist Alan Hollinghurst features fictional War Poet Cecil Valance who shares characteristics of, though is not as talented as, Brooke.

The total prize money for the 2012 US Open championships is $ 24, 054, 000 ( in US dollars ) which represents an increase of more than two million dollars compared to the 2011 edition.

The film was written and directed by the Canadian filmmaking team Astron-6, debuting October 21, 2011, at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival where it took home the top prize of BEST FILM, as well as five other awards.

The film won first prize in the documentary section of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011.

The event included $ 250, 000 in prize money in 2011.

The team captured the sport's highest prize, The SportsQuest Cup, in 2008, 2009 and 2011. The team also won the Kessler prize in 2012.

The total purse exceeded $ 13 million in 2011, with over $ 2. 5 million awarded to the winner, making it one of the richest prize funds in sports.

Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea ( 2000 ) and Let England Shake ( 2011 ) respectively — the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice — eight BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations.

Reflecting on the win in 2011, she said: " quite naturally I look back at that and only remember the events that were taking place across the world and to win the prize on that day — it didn't have much importance in the grand scheme of things " and noted " it was a very surreal day.

The prize amount for 2011 was USD 4000.

* The EMET prize in 2011.

The monetary prize for 2011 was £ 20, 000 for the winner.

He was paired with hockey player Tessa Bonhomme, and on November 14, 2011, the pair won the $ 100, 000 first prize for the charities of their choice, Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta ( Pelletier ) and Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation ‘ CIBC Run for the Cure ’ – Sudbury Run Site ( Bonhomme ).

Finally, for all competitions from 2011 forward, a first prize will always be awarded.

* 2011: No first prize awarded.

In July 2011 Fulmer Village was awarded first prize in the Gurney Cup for Buckinghamshire's best kept village ( population under 500 ).

The total prize pool in 2011 was € 1, 513 million ( US $ 1, 974 million ).

Present-day writers Anne Donovan ( Orange prize winner ), Brian Conaghan, whose first novel The Boy Who Made it Rain was published in June 2011, and award-winning author Des Dillon are all from Coatbridge.

In 2011, four percussion players got silver prize in an ensemble contest in Kagoshima.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.

Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

The real GDP growth rate for 2011 was expected at 3. 7 % but had dropped to. 1 %.

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

The project was still pending completion as of Mar 2011.

Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.

The population of the Andaman was 343, 125 in 2011, having grown from 50, 000 in 1960.

It was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame, along with Sackson, in 2011.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

In 2011, Aon was ranked as the largest insurance broker in the world based on revenue.

The official population of Alicante in 2011 was 334, 329 inhabitants and 771, 061 in the metropolitan area " Alicante-Elche ".

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

According to the 2011 India census, Ajmer district has a population of 2, 584, 913, which was made up of 1, 325, 911 males and 1, 259, 002 females.