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