- 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) Niels Bohr
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Max Planck
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1945
B) 1901
C) 1888
D) 1920
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Geneva
C) Oslo
D) Brussels
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Marie Curie
D) Albert Einstein
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1955
B) 1975
C) 1969
D) 1985
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Bronze
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Platinum
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Max Planck Institute
B) Karolinska Institute
C) Harvard University
D) Smithsonian Institution
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Irene Joliot-Curie
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Bohr and Rutherford
C) Fleming and Chain
D) Curie and Lise Meitner
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
B) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
C) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
D) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) Nobel Prize in Medicine
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) October 31
B) December 10
C) July 4
D) January 1
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) National Science Foundation
C) European Space Agency
D) United Nations
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Erwin Schrödinger
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Niels Bohr
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) Amartya Sen
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Milton Friedman
D) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Wangari Maathai
B) Leymah Gbowee
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 17. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) United States
B) France
C) Germany
D) United Kingdom
- 18. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Economics
D) Literature
- 19. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 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) Marie Curie
B) Niels Bohr
C) Albert Einstein
D) Lawrence Bragg
- 22. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Hideki Yukawa
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Mother Teresa
D) Yasunari Kawabata
- 23. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) United Kingdom
B) France
C) Sweden
D) United States
- 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) Malala Yousafzai
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Kofi Annan
- 25. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Hideki Yukawa
B) Shinya Yamanaka
C) Yoshinori Ohsumi
D) Akira Yoshino
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Henry Dunant
B) Albert Schweitzer
C) Ralph Bunche
D) Fredrik Bajer
- 27. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 4
B) 10
C) 8
D) 6
- 28. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Bill Gates
C) Mark Zuckerberg
D) Steve Jobs
- 29. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 30. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
C) Linus Pauling
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) Norway
B) Denmark
C) Sweden
D) Switzerland
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Chemistry
B) Physiology or Medicine
C) Economics
D) Peace
- 34. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Bob Dylan
C) Toni Morrison
D) Winston Churchill
- 35. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Mother Teresa
C) Yasser Arafat
D) Mahatma Gandhi
- 36. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Oslo
B) Rome
C) Geneva
D) Stockholm
- 37. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Mairead Corrigan
B) Emily Greene Balch
C) Jane Addams
D) Jody Williams
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Erwin Schrödinger
D) Max Planck
- 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) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 40. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Dag Hammarskjöld
B) Linus Pauling
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Albert Schweitzer
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Fritz Haber
B) Marie Curie
C) Linus Pauling
D) Otto Hahn
- 42. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Barack Obama
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Theodore Roosevelt
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