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