- 1. The Nobel Prize has a long and prestigious history in Sweden. Founded by the inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 in six categories: Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded based on the will of Alfred Nobel, who left the majority of his fortune to fund the prizes. The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, with the Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. The Nobel Prizes are highly regarded around the world, honoring individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to humanity and society.
When was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1867
B) 1945
C) 1923
D) 1901
- 2. In which city in Sweden are the Nobel Prize ceremonies held?
A) Gothenburg
B) Stockholm
C) Malmo
D) Uppsala
- 3. Who is known as the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Queen Silvia
C) King Carl XVI Gustaf
D) Ingmar Bergman
- 4. What is the Nobel Peace Prize medal made of?
A) Gold
B) Silver
C) Platinum
D) Bronze
- 5. Who selects the Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
A) Swedish Academy
B) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
C) MacArthur Foundation
D) Norwegian Nobel Committee
- 6. What is the name of the foundation that manages the Nobel Prizes?
A) Swedish Cultural Foundation
B) Nobel Foundation
C) Royal Swedish Academy
D) Swedish Nobel Committee
- 7. What is the Nobel Prize diploma traditionally made of?
A) Parchment
B) Canvas
C) Handmade paper
D) Acetate
- 8. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1969
B) 1985
C) 1950
D) 1974
- 9. Which Nobel Prize category did Nelson Mandela receive in 1993?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Medicine
- 10. Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Herta Müller
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Alice Munro
- 11. Who was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Kailash Satyarthi
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 12. Who was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) William Faulkner
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Bob Dylan
D) Gabriela Mistral
- 13. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the most women?
A) Physics
B) Economics
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 14. Who served as the first Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation?
A) Ragnar Sohlman
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Carl XVI Gustaf
D) Brian Schmidt
- 15. What is the official language of the Nobel Prize ceremonies?
A) French
B) Swedish
C) English
D) German
- 16. Who was the chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Sweden?
A) Svante Arrhenius
B) Marie Curie
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Karl Landsteiner
- 17. Which Nobel Prize category was added most recently?
A) Literature
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Economic Sciences
- 18. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Rita Levi-Montalcini
D) Marie Curie
- 19. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
A) Haruki Murakami
B) Bob Dylan
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Toni Morrison
- 20. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Physics
B) Medicine
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 21. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) William Faulkner
D) Mother Teresa
- 22. Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A) Max Planck Institute
B) Harvard University
C) Karolinska Institute
D) University of Oxford
- 23. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with the Nobel Assembly?
A) Medicine
B) Peace
C) Literature
D) Economic Sciences
- 24. In what month are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) March
B) September
C) December
D) July
- 25. In what field did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry focus?
A) Economic development
B) Lithium-ion batteries
C) Climate change
D) Cancer research
- 26. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of cognitive development?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Jean Piaget
C) Ivan Pavlov
D) Sigmund Freud
- 27. Which Nobel Prize winner is famed for his work on the theory of relativity?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Isaac Newton
D) Albert Einstein
- 28. Which Nobel laureate was a former U.S. President?
A) Barack Obama
B) Donald Trump
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Bill Clinton
- 29. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Thomas Mann
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 30. Which Swedish diplomat is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981?
A) Folke Bernadotte
B) Olof Palme
C) Raoul Wallenberg
D) Dag Hammarskjöld
- 31. Which Nobel laureate was known for his nonviolent movement for civil rights and received the Peace Prize in 1964?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Nelson Mandela
- 32. Which literary laureate is known for his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Alice Munro
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 33. Which Nobel laureate was known for his work on the Green Revolution and received the Peace Prize in 1970?
A) Norman Borlaug
B) Muhammad Yunus
C) Rigoberta Menchú Tum
D) Wangari Maathai
- 34. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jane Addams
B) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Mother Teresa
- 35. Who received a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
A) James Watson and Francis Crick
B) Barbara McClintock
C) Linus Pauling
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 36. Who is the most recent Nobel Prize laureate in Literature as of 2021?
A) Abdulrazak Gurnah
B) Olga Tokarczuk
C) Alice Munro
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
- 37. Who was the first laureate to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Albert Camus
D) George Bernard Shaw
- 38. Where are the Nobel Prize medals minted?
A) Myntverket, Sweden
B) Monnaie de Paris, France
C) US Mint, USA
D) Royal Mint, UK
- 39. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory?
A) Robert Solow
B) John Nash
C) Milton Friedman
D) Paul Samuelson
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