- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories such as peace, literature, and sciences to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. The awards honor outstanding achievements that have had a lasting impact on society, promoting progress, innovation, and collaboration. Winners of the Nobel Prize are recognized for their exceptional talents, dedication, and groundbreaking work, inspiring future generations to strive for excellence and pursue their own potential to create positive change in the world.
Who established the Nobel Prizes?
A) Marie Curie
B) Thomas Edison
C) Albert Einstein
D) Alfred Nobel
- 2. In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) 1901
B) 1925
C) 1950
D) 1850
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Geneva
C) New York
D) Oslo
- 4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Dorothy Hodgkin
- 5. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Albert Einstein
D) Isaac Newton
- 6. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes achievements in economics?
A) Social Sciences
B) Management Studies
C) Economic Sciences
D) Political Science
- 7. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners in history?
A) France
B) United States
C) Germany
D) Sweden
- 8. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Oprah Winfrey
B) Maya Angelou
C) Rosa Parks
D) Toni Morrison
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) University of Oxford
B) Johns Hopkins University
C) Karolinska Institute
D) Harvard University
- 10. Which Nobel laureate is known for his contributions to game theory?
A) John Nash
B) Enrico Fermi
C) Richard Feynman
D) Ernest Rutherford
- 11. Who was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
A) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Chien-Shiung Wu
D) Abdus Salam
- 12. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and what else?
A) Travel voucher
B) Monetary award
C) Book voucher
D) Crystal trophy
- 13. Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Harold Pinter
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Boris Pasternak
- 14. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was first awarded in which year?
A) 2000
B) 1985
C) 1950
D) 1969
- 15. Who is the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
A) William Lawrence Bragg
B) Frederick G. Banting
C) Malvin Ruderman
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 16. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from India?
A) Raghuram Rajan
B) Abhijit Banerjee
C) Muhammad Yunus
D) Amartya Sen
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Norway
B) Denmark
C) Finland
D) Sweden
- 18. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the anniversary of which notable event?
A) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption
B) World War I end
C) League of Nations founding
D) Alfred Nobel's death
- 19. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution?
A) Rene Descartes
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Baruch Spinoza
D) Charles Darwin
- 20. Which Nobel laureate is known for her work on gender identity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Alice Munro
C) Doris Lessing
D) Elfriede Jelinek
- 21. Who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
A) Le Duc Tho
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Nelson Mandela
- 22. Which Nobel laureate is known for her environmental activism and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
A) Wangari Maathai
B) Shirin Ebadi
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Liu Xiaobo
- 23. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria?
A) William Campbell
B) Tomas Lindahl
C) Youyou Tu
D) Satoshi Omura
- 24. What was the name of the famous American novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949?
A) William Faulkner
B) Toni Morrison
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the youngest recipient?
A) Peace
B) Economics
C) Physics
D) Medicine
- 26. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden?
A) Peace
B) Literature
C) Economics
D) Medicine
- 27. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Stockholm
B) Berlin
C) Oslo
D) Vienna
- 28. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Yitzhak Rabin
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Jimmy Carter
- 29. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded for distinguished writing in the English language?
A) Medicine
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 30. Who was the first artist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 31. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner served as the President of South Africa?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Cyril Ramaphosa
C) F. W. de Klerk
D) Desmond Tutu
- 32. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005?
A) Thomas Schelling
B) Paul Samuelson
C) Amartya Sen
D) Milton Friedman
- 33. How many categories are there for the Nobel Prizes?
A) 3
B) 6
C) 4
D) 8
- 34. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Toni Morrison
- 35. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Barbara McClintock
B) Jane Addams
C) Toni Morrison
D) Alice Munro
- 36. Who was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Barbara McClintock
C) Gerty Cori
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 37. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Henry Dunant
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 38. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Physics
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