- 1. The Nobel Prize is a set of prestigious international awards that are bestowed annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. These prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, and are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to humanity in their respective fields. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a person, and winning one is often considered a career-defining achievement. The awards are presented in a ceremony held on December 10th each year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway. Recipients of the Nobel Prize receive a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award, which varies in amount from year to year. The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901, and their impact on the world has been profound, with many laureates going on to have long-lasting influence on their fields and on society as a whole.
Who was the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Marie Curie
B) Niels Bohr
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Max Planck
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1901
B) 1920
C) 1888
D) 1945
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Brussels
C) Oslo
D) Geneva
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Marie Curie
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1969
B) 1975
C) 1985
D) 1955
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Bronze
B) Platinum
C) Gold
D) Silver
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Max Planck Institute
B) Harvard University
C) Karolinska Institute
D) Smithsonian Institution
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Irene Joliot-Curie
D) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Curie and Lise Meitner
C) Fleming and Chain
D) Bohr and Rutherford
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
B) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
C) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
D) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) January 1
B) December 10
C) July 4
D) October 31
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) United Nations
B) National Science Foundation
C) European Space Agency
D) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Niels Bohr
C) Marie Curie
D) Erwin Schrödinger
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) Milton Friedman
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Amartya Sen
D) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Leymah Gbowee
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Wangari Maathai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 17. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) United Kingdom
B) Germany
C) United States
D) France
- 18. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Economics
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Physics
- 19. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Toni Morrison
D) Pablo Neruda
- 20. Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of the blood groups A, B, and O?
A) Alexander Fleming
B) Karl Landsteiner
C) Robert Koch
D) Paul Ehrlich
- 21. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics?
A) Lawrence Bragg
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Niels Bohr
- 22. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Mother Teresa
C) Yasunari Kawabata
D) Hideki Yukawa
- 23. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) Sweden
B) United States
C) France
D) United Kingdom
- 24. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?
A) Barack Obama
B) Kofi Annan
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 25. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Shinya Yamanaka
B) Hideki Yukawa
C) Yoshinori Ohsumi
D) Akira Yoshino
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Fredrik Bajer
B) Ralph Bunche
C) Henry Dunant
D) Albert Schweitzer
- 27. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 10
B) 8
C) 6
D) 4
- 28. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Steve Jobs
B) Mark Zuckerberg
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Bill Gates
- 29. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Kofi Annan
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Nelson Mandela
- 30. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Linus Pauling
C) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
D) Marie Curie
- 31. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Albert Camus
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
- 32. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Sweden
B) Switzerland
C) Norway
D) Denmark
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Economics
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Physiology or Medicine
- 34. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Bob Dylan
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Toni Morrison
- 35. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Mother Teresa
B) Yasser Arafat
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Nelson Mandela
- 36. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Geneva
B) Stockholm
C) Oslo
D) Rome
- 37. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Emily Greene Balch
B) Jody Williams
C) Jane Addams
D) Mairead Corrigan
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Max Planck
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Niels Bohr
D) Erwin Schrödinger
- 39. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Peace
B) Medicine
C) Literature
D) Chemistry
- 40. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Albert Schweitzer
C) Dag Hammarskjöld
D) Linus Pauling
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Otto Hahn
B) Fritz Haber
C) Marie Curie
D) Linus Pauling
- 42. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Barack Obama
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