- 1. The Nobel Prize has a long and prestigious history in Sweden. Founded by the inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 in six categories: Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded based on the will of Alfred Nobel, who left the majority of his fortune to fund the prizes. The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, with the Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. The Nobel Prizes are highly regarded around the world, honoring individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to humanity and society.
When was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1945
B) 1867
C) 1901
D) 1923
- 2. In which city in Sweden are the Nobel Prize ceremonies held?
A) Uppsala
B) Stockholm
C) Gothenburg
D) Malmo
- 3. Who is known as the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) King Carl XVI Gustaf
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Ingmar Bergman
D) Queen Silvia
- 4. What is the Nobel Peace Prize medal made of?
A) Silver
B) Gold
C) Bronze
D) Platinum
- 5. Who selects the Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
A) Norwegian Nobel Committee
B) MacArthur Foundation
C) Swedish Academy
D) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 6. What is the name of the foundation that manages the Nobel Prizes?
A) Nobel Foundation
B) Swedish Cultural Foundation
C) Royal Swedish Academy
D) Swedish Nobel Committee
- 7. What is the Nobel Prize diploma traditionally made of?
A) Handmade paper
B) Parchment
C) Canvas
D) Acetate
- 8. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1950
B) 1969
C) 1985
D) 1974
- 9. Which Nobel Prize category did Nelson Mandela receive in 1993?
A) Literature
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Medicine
- 10. Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Alice Munro
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Herta Müller
- 11. Who was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Kailash Satyarthi
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 12. Who was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Bob Dylan
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) William Faulkner
D) Rudyard Kipling
- 13. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the most women?
A) Physics
B) Economics
C) Literature
D) Chemistry
- 14. Who served as the first Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation?
A) Carl XVI Gustaf
B) Brian Schmidt
C) Ragnar Sohlman
D) Alfred Nobel
- 15. What is the official language of the Nobel Prize ceremonies?
A) French
B) English
C) German
D) Swedish
- 16. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate?
A) Mother Teresa
B) William Faulkner
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Albert Einstein
- 17. Which Nobel Prize winner is famed for his work on the theory of relativity?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Albert Einstein
- 18. Where are the Nobel Prize medals minted?
A) Monnaie de Paris, France
B) Royal Mint, UK
C) Myntverket, Sweden
D) US Mint, USA
- 19. Which Nobel laureate was a former U.S. President?
A) Donald Trump
B) Bill Clinton
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Barack Obama
- 20. Which Nobel Prize category was added most recently?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Economic Sciences
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory?
A) Robert Solow
B) John Nash
C) Milton Friedman
D) Paul Samuelson
- 22. In what month are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) September
B) March
C) December
D) July
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of cognitive development?
A) Ivan Pavlov
B) Sigmund Freud
C) B. F. Skinner
D) Jean Piaget
- 24. Who received a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
A) James Watson and Francis Crick
B) Barbara McClintock
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Linus Pauling
- 25. Who was the chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Sweden?
A) Karl Landsteiner
B) Svante Arrhenius
C) Marie Curie
D) Alfred Nobel
- 26. Which literary laureate is known for his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Alice Munro
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 27. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Rita Levi-Montalcini
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 28. Which Swedish diplomat is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981?
A) Dag Hammarskjöld
B) Raoul Wallenberg
C) Folke Bernadotte
D) Olof Palme
- 29. Which Nobel laureate was known for his nonviolent movement for civil rights and received the Peace Prize in 1964?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Desmond Tutu
C) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 30. Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A) Karolinska Institute
B) Harvard University
C) University of Oxford
D) Max Planck Institute
- 31. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Physics
B) Peace
C) Medicine
D) Literature
- 32. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jane Addams
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Mother Teresa
- 33. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with the Nobel Assembly?
A) Medicine
B) Peace
C) Economic Sciences
D) Literature
- 34. Who is the most recent Nobel Prize laureate in Literature as of 2021?
A) Alice Munro
B) Kazuo Ishiguro
C) Olga Tokarczuk
D) Abdulrazak Gurnah
- 35. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Haruki Murakami
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Bob Dylan
- 36. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Thomas Mann
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Sully Prudhomme
- 37. Who was the first laureate to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Albert Camus
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 38. In what field did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry focus?
A) Economic development
B) Cancer research
C) Lithium-ion batteries
D) Climate change
- 39. Which Nobel laureate was known for his work on the Green Revolution and received the Peace Prize in 1970?
A) Rigoberta Menchú Tum
B) Wangari Maathai
C) Muhammad Yunus
D) Norman Borlaug
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