- 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) Albert Einstein
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Thomas Edison
- 2. In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) 1925
B) 1850
C) 1901
D) 1950
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Geneva
C) New York
D) Oslo
- 4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Dorothy Hodgkin
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Marie Curie
D) Ada Lovelace
- 5. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Isaac Newton
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Albert Einstein
- 6. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes achievements in economics?
A) Economic Sciences
B) Social Sciences
C) Political Science
D) Management Studies
- 7. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners in history?
A) France
B) Sweden
C) United States
D) Germany
- 8. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Maya Angelou
C) Oprah Winfrey
D) Toni Morrison
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) University of Oxford
B) Karolinska Institute
C) Johns Hopkins University
D) Harvard University
- 10. Which Nobel laureate is known for his contributions to game theory?
A) Richard Feynman
B) John Nash
C) Ernest Rutherford
D) Enrico Fermi
- 11. Who was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
A) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
B) Abdus Salam
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Chien-Shiung Wu
- 12. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and what else?
A) Book voucher
B) Crystal trophy
C) Travel voucher
D) Monetary award
- 13. Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Harold Pinter
B) Doris Lessing
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 14. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was first awarded in which year?
A) 1969
B) 1985
C) 2000
D) 1950
- 15. Who is the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
A) William Lawrence Bragg
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Malvin Ruderman
D) Frederick G. Banting
- 16. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from India?
A) Abhijit Banerjee
B) Raghuram Rajan
C) Amartya Sen
D) Muhammad Yunus
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Sweden
B) Norway
C) Denmark
D) Finland
- 18. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the anniversary of which notable event?
A) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption
B) Alfred Nobel's death
C) World War I end
D) League of Nations founding
- 19. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution?
A) Baruch Spinoza
B) Rene Descartes
C) Charles Darwin
D) Sigmund Freud
- 20. Which Nobel laureate is known for her work on gender identity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Munro
D) Elfriede Jelinek
- 21. Who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Nelson Mandela
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) Toni Morrison
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) William Faulkner
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the youngest recipient?
A) Peace
B) Physics
C) Economics
D) Medicine
- 26. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden?
A) Literature
B) Economics
C) Medicine
D) Peace
- 27. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Berlin
B) Vienna
C) Stockholm
D) Oslo
- 28. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Yitzhak Rabin
- 29. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded for distinguished writing in the English language?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Medicine
- 30. Who was the first artist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 31. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner served as the President of South Africa?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Cyril Ramaphosa
C) Nelson Mandela
D) F. W. de Klerk
- 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) Paul Samuelson
B) Milton Friedman
C) Thomas Schelling
D) Amartya Sen
- 33. How many categories are there for the Nobel Prizes?
A) 3
B) 6
C) 8
D) 4
- 34. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Toni Morrison
D) Chinua Achebe
- 35. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Alice Munro
B) Barbara McClintock
C) Toni Morrison
D) Jane Addams
- 36. Who was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Gerty Cori
D) Barbara McClintock
- 37. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
C) Henry Dunant
D) Kofi Annan
- 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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