- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist, the prizes have been awarded since 1901. The recipients of Nobel Prizes are recognized for their outstanding contributions and achievements in their respective fields, leading to significant advancements in knowledge, culture, and peace around the world.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Marie Curie
D) Florence Nightingale
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1901
B) 1970
C) 1850
D) 1925
- 3. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Albert Einstein
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Nelson Mandela
- 4. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, Sweden?
A) Peace
B) Chemistry
C) Physics
D) Literature
- 5. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Germany
B) United States
C) Sweden
D) Norway
- 6. Who was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Leymah Gbowee
B) Wangari Maathai
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 7. Who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Doris Lessing
- 8. Which author known for 'The Old Man and the Sea' won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Toni Morrison
C) William Faulkner
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 9. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Zora Neale Hurston
- 10. Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
A) Bill Clinton
B) Barack Obama
C) Jimmy Carter
D) George W. Bush
- 11. Who is known for the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Galileo Galilei
- 12. Which Nobel laureate is known for the discovery of penicillin?
A) Wilhelm Roentgen
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Robert Koch
- 13. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron?
A) James Chadwick
B) Ernest Rutherford
C) Niels Bohr
D) Paul Dirac
- 14. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1969
B) 1995
C) 1930
D) 1975
- 15. Which Nobel laureate is known for the development of the theory of nuclear fission?
A) Enrico Fermi
B) Albert Einstein
C) Otto Hahn
D) Marie Curie
- 16. Who created the Nobel Prizes?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Galileo Galilei
- 17. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners?
A) Sweden
B) Germany
C) France
D) United States
- 18. Which category was the Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel NOT originally intended for?
A) Literature
B) Physics
C) Economics
D) Chemistry
- 19. Who was the first laureate to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Haruki Murakami
- 20. What is the name of the medal awarded along with the Nobel Prize?
A) Gold Star
B) Prize Medallion
C) Nobel Medal
D) Medal of Honor
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work to end apartheid in South Africa?
A) F.W. de Klerk
B) Thabo Mbeki
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Desmond Tutu
- 22. Who was the only person to decline a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Henry Kissinger
C) Barack Obama
D) Le Duc Tho
- 23. Who was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize?
A) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Dr. Amartya Sen
D) C.V. Raman
- 24. Who was the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Rigoberta Menchú
D) Shirin Ebadi
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of physics?
A) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
B) Nobel Prize in Medicine
C) Nobel Prize in Physics
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
- 26. What is the cash award that accompanies a Nobel Prize?
A) 100,000 British pounds
B) 5 million euros
C) 1 million US dollars
D) 10 million Swedish kronor
- 27. For which work did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Photoelectric effect
B) Theory of relativity
C) Brownian motion
D) Special relativity
- 28. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Pearl S. Buck
B) Sully Prudhomme
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Gabriela Mistral
- 29. In what year did Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prizes?
A) 1901
B) 1873
C) 1918
D) 1895
- 30. Who was the first Nobel laureate to be awarded posthumously?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Erik Axel Karlfeldt
D) Marie Curie
- 31. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2019?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Abiy Ahmed
C) Kofi Annan
D) Liu Xiaobo
- 32. Who was the first literary woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Selma Lagerlöf
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Toni Morrison
- 33. In what year did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1921
B) 1947
C) 1915
D) 1935
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Kazuo Ishiguro
C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
D) Haruki Murakami
- 35. Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Barack Obama
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Ralph Bunche
- 36. Which organization is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
A) The Swedish Academy
B) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
C) The Norwegian Nobel Committee
D) The Nobel Foundation
- 37. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of chemistry?
A) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
B) Nobel Prize in Medicine
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
- 38. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with advances in medicine?
A) Peace
B) Physiology or Medicine
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 39. Which Nobel laureate is known for his development of the theory of evolution?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Gregor Mendel
C) Alfred Russel Wallace
D) James Watson
- 40. In which city are the Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) Stockholm
B) Helsinki
C) Oslo
D) Copenhagen
- 41. Which Nobel Prize category honors achievements in the field of economics?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
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