- 1. The Nobel Prize is a set of prestigious international awards that are bestowed annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. These prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, and are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to humanity in their respective fields. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a person, and winning one is often considered a career-defining achievement. The awards are presented in a ceremony held on December 10th each year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway. Recipients of the Nobel Prize receive a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award, which varies in amount from year to year. The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901, and their impact on the world has been profound, with many laureates going on to have long-lasting influence on their fields and on society as a whole.
Who was the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Max Planck
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1888
B) 1901
C) 1945
D) 1920
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Geneva
B) Stockholm
C) Oslo
D) Brussels
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Albert Einstein
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Marie Curie
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1955
B) 1969
C) 1985
D) 1975
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Gold
B) Platinum
C) Bronze
D) Silver
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Harvard University
B) Smithsonian Institution
C) Karolinska Institute
D) Max Planck Institute
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Irene Joliot-Curie
D) Marie Curie
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Curie and Lise Meitner
B) Bohr and Rutherford
C) Watson and Crick
D) Fleming and Chain
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
B) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
C) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
D) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Nobel Prize in Medicine
C) Nobel Prize in Physics
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) January 1
B) July 4
C) October 31
D) December 10
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) United Nations
C) European Space Agency
D) National Science Foundation
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Marie Curie
B) Niels Bohr
C) Erwin Schrödinger
D) Albert Einstein
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Amartya Sen
C) Milton Friedman
D) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Leymah Gbowee
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Wangari Maathai
- 17. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) France
B) United States
C) United Kingdom
D) Germany
- 18. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Economics
B) Chemistry
C) Physics
D) Literature
- 19. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 20. Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of the blood groups A, B, and O?
A) Alexander Fleming
B) Paul Ehrlich
C) Karl Landsteiner
D) Robert Koch
- 21. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Lawrence Bragg
C) Niels Bohr
D) Marie Curie
- 22. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yasunari Kawabata
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Hideki Yukawa
D) Mother Teresa
- 23. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) United States
D) United Kingdom
- 24. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Barack Obama
D) Kofi Annan
- 25. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yoshinori Ohsumi
B) Akira Yoshino
C) Shinya Yamanaka
D) Hideki Yukawa
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ralph Bunche
B) Henry Dunant
C) Albert Schweitzer
D) Fredrik Bajer
- 27. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 6
B) 8
C) 10
D) 4
- 28. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Mark Zuckerberg
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Bill Gates
D) Steve Jobs
- 29. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Kofi Annan
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 30. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
B) Linus Pauling
C) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
D) Marie Curie
- 31. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) Albert Camus
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
- 32. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Denmark
B) Sweden
C) Switzerland
D) Norway
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Physiology or Medicine
B) Economics
C) Peace
D) Chemistry
- 34. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) Toni Morrison
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Winston Churchill
D) Bob Dylan
- 35. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Yasser Arafat
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Mother Teresa
- 36. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Stockholm
B) Geneva
C) Oslo
D) Rome
- 37. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jody Williams
B) Emily Greene Balch
C) Mairead Corrigan
D) Jane Addams
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Erwin Schrödinger
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Max Planck
D) Niels Bohr
- 39. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Medicine
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 40. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Dag Hammarskjöld
D) Albert Schweitzer
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Otto Hahn
B) Marie Curie
C) Fritz Haber
D) Linus Pauling
- 42. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Barack Obama
D) Jimmy Carter
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