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