- 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) 1923
D) 1901
- 2. In which city in Sweden are the Nobel Prize ceremonies held?
A) Uppsala
B) Gothenburg
C) Malmo
D) Stockholm
- 3. Who is known as the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) King Carl XVI Gustaf
B) Ingmar Bergman
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Queen Silvia
- 4. What is the Nobel Peace Prize medal made of?
A) Gold
B) Platinum
C) Silver
D) Bronze
- 5. Who selects the Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) Swedish Academy
C) Norwegian Nobel Committee
D) MacArthur Foundation
- 6. What is the name of the foundation that manages the Nobel Prizes?
A) Nobel Foundation
B) Swedish Nobel Committee
C) Royal Swedish Academy
D) Swedish Cultural Foundation
- 7. What is the Nobel Prize diploma traditionally made of?
A) Canvas
B) Acetate
C) Handmade paper
D) Parchment
- 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) Peace
B) Chemistry
C) Medicine
D) Literature
- 10. Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Pearl S. Buck
B) Alice Munro
C) Herta Müller
D) Toni Morrison
- 11. Who was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Kailash Satyarthi
- 12. Who was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Gabriela Mistral
B) Bob Dylan
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) William Faulkner
- 13. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the most women?
A) Literature
B) Physics
C) Economics
D) Chemistry
- 14. Who served as the first Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation?
A) Brian Schmidt
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Carl XVI Gustaf
D) Ragnar Sohlman
- 15. What is the official language of the Nobel Prize ceremonies?
A) German
B) English
C) Swedish
D) French
- 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) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Galileo Galilei
- 18. Where are the Nobel Prize medals minted?
A) Monnaie de Paris, France
B) Royal Mint, UK
C) US Mint, USA
D) Myntverket, Sweden
- 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) Peace
B) Literature
C) Chemistry
D) Economic Sciences
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory?
A) Paul Samuelson
B) John Nash
C) Milton Friedman
D) Robert Solow
- 22. In what month are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) July
B) September
C) December
D) March
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of cognitive development?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Ivan Pavlov
C) Jean Piaget
D) B. F. Skinner
- 24. Who received a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
A) Barbara McClintock
B) Linus Pauling
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) James Watson and Francis Crick
- 25. Who was the chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Sweden?
A) Karl Landsteiner
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Svante Arrhenius
D) Marie Curie
- 26. Which literary laureate is known for his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Alice Munro
D) Chinua Achebe
- 27. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 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) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
B) Desmond Tutu
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Nelson Mandela
- 30. Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A) University of Oxford
B) Harvard University
C) Max Planck Institute
D) Karolinska Institute
- 31. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Peace
B) Physics
C) Literature
D) Medicine
- 32. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jane Addams
B) Mother Teresa
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 33. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with the Nobel Assembly?
A) Medicine
B) Economic Sciences
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 34. Who is the most recent Nobel Prize laureate in Literature as of 2021?
A) Abdulrazak Gurnah
B) Kazuo Ishiguro
C) Alice Munro
D) Olga Tokarczuk
- 35. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
A) Haruki Murakami
B) Toni Morrison
C) Bob Dylan
D) J.K. Rowling
- 36. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Thomas Mann
- 37. Who was the first laureate to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Albert Camus
- 38. In what field did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry focus?
A) Climate change
B) Economic development
C) Lithium-ion batteries
D) Cancer research
- 39. Which Nobel laureate was known for his work on the Green Revolution and received the Peace Prize in 1970?
A) Wangari Maathai
B) Muhammad Yunus
C) Norman Borlaug
D) Rigoberta Menchú Tum
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