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