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