- 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) Max Planck
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Marie Curie
D) Niels Bohr
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1920
B) 1888
C) 1945
D) 1901
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Geneva
B) Oslo
C) Brussels
D) Stockholm
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Nelson Mandela
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1985
B) 1975
C) 1955
D) 1969
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Gold
B) Silver
C) Platinum
D) Bronze
- 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) Rosalind Franklin
B) Marie Curie
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) Fleming and Chain
B) Watson and Crick
C) Bohr and Rutherford
D) Curie and Lise Meitner
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
B) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
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 Literature
B) Nobel Prize in Medicine
C) Nobel Prize in Physics
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) December 10
B) January 1
C) July 4
D) October 31
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) United Nations
C) European Space Agency
D) National Science Foundation
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Erwin Schrödinger
B) Albert Einstein
C) Marie Curie
D) Niels Bohr
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Milton Friedman
D) Amartya Sen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Leymah Gbowee
C) Wangari Maathai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 17. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) Germany
B) United Kingdom
C) United States
D) France
- 18. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Chemistry
B) Physics
C) Literature
D) Economics
- 19. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Toni Morrison
- 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) Niels Bohr
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Lawrence Bragg
- 22. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Hideki Yukawa
C) Yasunari Kawabata
D) Mother Teresa
- 23. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) United States
B) Sweden
C) United Kingdom
D) France
- 24. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Barack Obama
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Kofi Annan
- 25. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yoshinori Ohsumi
B) Hideki Yukawa
C) Shinya Yamanaka
D) Akira Yoshino
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ralph Bunche
B) Henry Dunant
C) Fredrik Bajer
D) Albert Schweitzer
- 27. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 6
B) 8
C) 4
D) 10
- 28. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Steve Jobs
C) Bill Gates
D) Mark Zuckerberg
- 29. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Kofi Annan
- 30. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Marie Curie
B) Linus Pauling
C) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
D) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- 31. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Albert Camus
- 32. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Switzerland
B) Denmark
C) Sweden
D) Norway
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Peace
B) Physiology or Medicine
C) Chemistry
D) Economics
- 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) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Mother Teresa
C) Yasser Arafat
D) Nelson Mandela
- 36. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Stockholm
B) Rome
C) Geneva
D) Oslo
- 37. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Mairead Corrigan
B) Emily Greene Balch
C) Jody Williams
D) Jane Addams
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Erwin Schrödinger
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Max Planck
D) Niels Bohr
- 39. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Medicine
B) Literature
C) Chemistry
D) Peace
- 40. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Albert Schweitzer
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Linus Pauling
D) Dag Hammarskjöld
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Fritz Haber
C) Marie Curie
D) Otto Hahn
- 42. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Barack Obama
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Jimmy Carter
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