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