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