- 1. The Nobel Prize has a long and prestigious history in Sweden. Founded by the inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 in six categories: Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded based on the will of Alfred Nobel, who left the majority of his fortune to fund the prizes. The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, with the Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. The Nobel Prizes are highly regarded around the world, honoring individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to humanity and society.
When was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1901
B) 1923
C) 1945
D) 1867
- 2. In which city in Sweden are the Nobel Prize ceremonies held?
A) Uppsala
B) Stockholm
C) Malmo
D) Gothenburg
- 3. Who is known as the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Ingmar Bergman
C) King Carl XVI Gustaf
D) Queen Silvia
- 4. What is the Nobel Peace Prize medal made of?
A) Silver
B) Platinum
C) Bronze
D) Gold
- 5. Who selects the Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) MacArthur Foundation
C) Norwegian Nobel Committee
D) Swedish Academy
- 6. What is the name of the foundation that manages the Nobel Prizes?
A) Nobel Foundation
B) Swedish Nobel Committee
C) Swedish Cultural Foundation
D) Royal Swedish Academy
- 7. What is the Nobel Prize diploma traditionally made of?
A) Acetate
B) Parchment
C) Canvas
D) Handmade paper
- 8. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1969
B) 1985
C) 1950
D) 1974
- 9. Which Nobel Prize category did Nelson Mandela receive in 1993?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Medicine
- 10. Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Pearl S. Buck
B) Herta Müller
C) Alice Munro
D) Toni Morrison
- 11. Who was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Kailash Satyarthi
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 12. Who was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) William Faulkner
C) Bob Dylan
D) Gabriela Mistral
- 13. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the most women?
A) Physics
B) Literature
C) Economics
D) Chemistry
- 14. Who served as the first Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Carl XVI Gustaf
C) Brian Schmidt
D) Ragnar Sohlman
- 15. What is the official language of the Nobel Prize ceremonies?
A) German
B) English
C) Swedish
D) French
- 16. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate?
A) Mother Teresa
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) William Faulkner
D) Albert Einstein
- 17. Which Nobel Prize winner is famed for his work on the theory of relativity?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Isaac Newton
D) Albert Einstein
- 18. Where are the Nobel Prize medals minted?
A) Myntverket, Sweden
B) Royal Mint, UK
C) US Mint, USA
D) Monnaie de Paris, France
- 19. Which Nobel laureate was a former U.S. President?
A) Bill Clinton
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Donald Trump
D) Barack Obama
- 20. Which Nobel Prize category was added most recently?
A) Peace
B) Economic Sciences
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory?
A) Milton Friedman
B) John Nash
C) Paul Samuelson
D) Robert Solow
- 22. In what month are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) March
B) September
C) December
D) July
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of cognitive development?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Ivan Pavlov
C) Jean Piaget
D) Sigmund Freud
- 24. Who received a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Barbara McClintock
C) Linus Pauling
D) James Watson and Francis Crick
- 25. Who was the chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Sweden?
A) Marie Curie
B) Svante Arrhenius
C) Karl Landsteiner
D) Alfred Nobel
- 26. Which literary laureate is known for his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Alice Munro
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Chinua Achebe
- 27. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Marie Curie
D) Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 28. Which Swedish diplomat is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981?
A) Olof Palme
B) Dag Hammarskjöld
C) Folke Bernadotte
D) Raoul Wallenberg
- 29. Which Nobel laureate was known for his nonviolent movement for civil rights and received the Peace Prize in 1964?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- 30. Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A) Harvard University
B) Karolinska Institute
C) University of Oxford
D) Max Planck Institute
- 31. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Peace
B) Physics
C) Medicine
D) Literature
- 32. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jane Addams
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Mother Teresa
- 33. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with the Nobel Assembly?
A) Medicine
B) Peace
C) Economic Sciences
D) Literature
- 34. Who is the most recent Nobel Prize laureate in Literature as of 2021?
A) Alice Munro
B) Abdulrazak Gurnah
C) Olga Tokarczuk
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
- 35. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Toni Morrison
C) Bob Dylan
D) Haruki Murakami
- 36. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Sully Prudhomme
D) Thomas Mann
- 37. Who was the first laureate to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Albert Camus
- 38. In what field did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry focus?
A) Cancer research
B) Economic development
C) Climate change
D) Lithium-ion batteries
- 39. Which Nobel laureate was known for his work on the Green Revolution and received the Peace Prize in 1970?
A) Muhammad Yunus
B) Rigoberta Menchú Tum
C) Norman Borlaug
D) Wangari Maathai
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