- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories such as peace, literature, and sciences to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. The awards honor outstanding achievements that have had a lasting impact on society, promoting progress, innovation, and collaboration. Winners of the Nobel Prize are recognized for their exceptional talents, dedication, and groundbreaking work, inspiring future generations to strive for excellence and pursue their own potential to create positive change in the world.
Who established the Nobel Prizes?
A) Marie Curie
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Albert Einstein
D) Thomas Edison
- 2. In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) 1925
B) 1950
C) 1850
D) 1901
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) New York
C) Geneva
D) Oslo
- 4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Ada Lovelace
D) Dorothy Hodgkin
- 5. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Isaac Newton
D) Albert Einstein
- 6. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes achievements in economics?
A) Economic Sciences
B) Political Science
C) Management Studies
D) Social Sciences
- 7. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners in history?
A) France
B) Sweden
C) Germany
D) United States
- 8. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Maya Angelou
C) Oprah Winfrey
D) Rosa Parks
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Karolinska Institute
B) Johns Hopkins University
C) Harvard University
D) University of Oxford
- 10. Which Nobel laureate is known for his contributions to game theory?
A) John Nash
B) Enrico Fermi
C) Richard Feynman
D) Ernest Rutherford
- 11. Who was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
C) Abdus Salam
D) Chien-Shiung Wu
- 12. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and what else?
A) Monetary award
B) Travel voucher
C) Crystal trophy
D) Book voucher
- 13. Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Harold Pinter
D) Boris Pasternak
- 14. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was first awarded in which year?
A) 2000
B) 1985
C) 1969
D) 1950
- 15. Who is the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
A) Malvin Ruderman
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) William Lawrence Bragg
D) Frederick G. Banting
- 16. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from India?
A) Amartya Sen
B) Raghuram Rajan
C) Abhijit Banerjee
D) Muhammad Yunus
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Finland
B) Sweden
C) Norway
D) Denmark
- 18. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the anniversary of which notable event?
A) Alfred Nobel's death
B) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption
C) League of Nations founding
D) World War I end
- 19. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution?
A) Baruch Spinoza
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Charles Darwin
D) Rene Descartes
- 20. Which Nobel laureate is known for her work on gender identity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Alice Munro
B) Toni Morrison
C) Doris Lessing
D) Elfriede Jelinek
- 21. Who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Desmond Tutu
C) Le Duc Tho
D) Jimmy Carter
- 22. Which Nobel laureate is known for her environmental activism and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
A) Shirin Ebadi
B) Liu Xiaobo
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Wangari Maathai
- 23. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria?
A) Youyou Tu
B) Tomas Lindahl
C) William Campbell
D) Satoshi Omura
- 24. What was the name of the famous American novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) William Faulkner
D) Toni Morrison
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the youngest recipient?
A) Peace
B) Medicine
C) Physics
D) Economics
- 26. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden?
A) Medicine
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Economics
- 27. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Vienna
B) Berlin
C) Oslo
D) Stockholm
- 28. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Yitzhak Rabin
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Desmond Tutu
- 29. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded for distinguished writing in the English language?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Medicine
D) Peace
- 30. Who was the first artist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907?
A) Naguib Mahfouz
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 31. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner served as the President of South Africa?
A) Cyril Ramaphosa
B) F. W. de Klerk
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Nelson Mandela
- 32. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005?
A) Thomas Schelling
B) Amartya Sen
C) Milton Friedman
D) Paul Samuelson
- 33. How many categories are there for the Nobel Prizes?
A) 8
B) 4
C) 3
D) 6
- 34. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Toni Morrison
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Wole Soyinka
- 35. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Barbara McClintock
B) Toni Morrison
C) Jane Addams
D) Alice Munro
- 36. Who was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Gerty Cori
C) Barbara McClintock
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 37. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Henry Dunant
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 38. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Literature
B) Physics
C) Peace
D) Chemistry
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