- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist, the prizes have been awarded since 1901. The recipients of Nobel Prizes are recognized for their outstanding contributions and achievements in their respective fields, leading to significant advancements in knowledge, culture, and peace around the world.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Florence Nightingale
D) Ada Lovelace
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1901
B) 1925
C) 1850
D) 1970
- 3. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Winston Churchill
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Albert Einstein
- 4. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, Sweden?
A) Peace
B) Chemistry
C) Physics
D) Literature
- 5. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Norway
B) Sweden
C) Germany
D) United States
- 6. Who was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Wangari Maathai
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Leymah Gbowee
- 7. Who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Doris Lessing
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 8. Which author known for 'The Old Man and the Sea' won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Toni Morrison
B) William Faulkner
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 9. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Alice Walker
- 10. Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
A) Barack Obama
B) George W. Bush
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Bill Clinton
- 11. Who is known for the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Isaac Newton
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Albert Einstein
- 12. Which Nobel laureate is known for the discovery of penicillin?
A) Wilhelm Roentgen
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Robert Koch
- 13. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron?
A) James Chadwick
B) Paul Dirac
C) Ernest Rutherford
D) Niels Bohr
- 14. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1995
B) 1930
C) 1975
D) 1969
- 15. Which Nobel laureate is known for the development of the theory of nuclear fission?
A) Marie Curie
B) Enrico Fermi
C) Albert Einstein
D) Otto Hahn
- 16. Who created the Nobel Prizes?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Isaac Newton
- 17. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners?
A) Sweden
B) Germany
C) United States
D) France
- 18. Which category was the Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel NOT originally intended for?
A) Physics
B) Literature
C) Economics
D) Chemistry
- 19. Who was the first laureate to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Haruki Murakami
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 20. What is the name of the medal awarded along with the Nobel Prize?
A) Nobel Medal
B) Medal of Honor
C) Prize Medallion
D) Gold Star
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work to end apartheid in South Africa?
A) F.W. de Klerk
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Thabo Mbeki
- 22. Who was the only person to decline a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Henry Kissinger
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Le Duc Tho
D) Barack Obama
- 23. Who was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
C) Dr. Amartya Sen
D) C.V. Raman
- 24. Who was the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Shirin Ebadi
C) Rigoberta Menchú
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of physics?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 26. What is the cash award that accompanies a Nobel Prize?
A) 5 million euros
B) 10 million Swedish kronor
C) 1 million US dollars
D) 100,000 British pounds
- 27. For which work did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Special relativity
B) Theory of relativity
C) Brownian motion
D) Photoelectric effect
- 28. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Pearl S. Buck
C) Gabriela Mistral
D) Rudyard Kipling
- 29. In what year did Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prizes?
A) 1901
B) 1895
C) 1918
D) 1873
- 30. Who was the first Nobel laureate to be awarded posthumously?
A) Erik Axel Karlfeldt
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Marie Curie
D) Albert Einstein
- 31. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2019?
A) Liu Xiaobo
B) Abiy Ahmed
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Kofi Annan
- 32. Who was the first literary woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Selma Lagerlöf
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Toni Morrison
- 33. In what year did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1935
B) 1921
C) 1947
D) 1915
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Haruki Murakami
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
- 35. Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Barack Obama
C) Maya Angelou
D) Ralph Bunche
- 36. Which organization is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
A) The Swedish Academy
B) The Nobel Foundation
C) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
D) The Norwegian Nobel Committee
- 37. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of chemistry?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Medicine
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 38. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with advances in medicine?
A) Peace
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Physiology or Medicine
- 39. Which Nobel laureate is known for his development of the theory of evolution?
A) Alfred Russel Wallace
B) James Watson
C) Charles Darwin
D) Gregor Mendel
- 40. In which city are the Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) Helsinki
B) Stockholm
C) Copenhagen
D) Oslo
- 41. Which Nobel Prize category honors achievements in the field of economics?
A) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) Nobel Prize in Physics
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
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