- 1. The Nobel Prize is a set of prestigious international awards that are bestowed annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. These prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, and are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to humanity in their respective fields. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a person, and winning one is often considered a career-defining achievement. The awards are presented in a ceremony held on December 10th each year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway. Recipients of the Nobel Prize receive a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award, which varies in amount from year to year. The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901, and their impact on the world has been profound, with many laureates going on to have long-lasting influence on their fields and on society as a whole.
Who was the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Max Planck
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Niels Bohr
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1888
B) 1901
C) 1945
D) 1920
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Brussels
C) Geneva
D) Oslo
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Albert Einstein
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Marie Curie
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1955
B) 1969
C) 1975
D) 1985
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Platinum
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Bronze
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Max Planck Institute
B) Smithsonian Institution
C) Harvard University
D) Karolinska Institute
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Irene Joliot-Curie
D) Marie Curie
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Fleming and Chain
B) Curie and Lise Meitner
C) Bohr and Rutherford
D) Watson and Crick
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
B) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
C) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
D) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) July 4
B) January 1
C) October 31
D) December 10
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) United Nations
B) European Space Agency
C) National Science Foundation
D) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Erwin Schrödinger
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) Amartya Sen
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
D) Milton Friedman
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Leymah Gbowee
D) Wangari Maathai
- 17. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Kofi Annan
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 18. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) France
B) United States
C) United Kingdom
D) Germany
- 19. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yasunari Kawabata
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Hideki Yukawa
D) Mother Teresa
- 20. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) John Steinbeck
C) Albert Camus
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 21. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Albert Schweitzer
C) Dag Hammarskjöld
D) Mahatma Gandhi
- 22. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Rome
B) Geneva
C) Stockholm
D) Oslo
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Max Planck
D) Erwin Schrödinger
- 24. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jody Williams
B) Emily Greene Balch
C) Mairead Corrigan
D) Jane Addams
- 25. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Bill Gates
B) Mark Zuckerberg
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Steve Jobs
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ralph Bunche
B) Albert Schweitzer
C) Henry Dunant
D) Fredrik Bajer
- 27. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Bob Dylan
C) Winston Churchill
D) Toni Morrison
- 28. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) France
B) Sweden
C) United States
D) United Kingdom
- 29. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 10
B) 6
C) 4
D) 8
- 30. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Medicine
B) Peace
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 31. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Barack Obama
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Woodrow Wilson
- 32. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Toni Morrison
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Economics
B) Physiology or Medicine
C) Chemistry
D) Peace
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Yasser Arafat
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Mother Teresa
- 35. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Norway
B) Switzerland
C) Denmark
D) Sweden
- 36. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Marie Curie
C) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
D) Linus Pauling
- 37. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Niels Bohr
C) Lawrence Bragg
D) Marie Curie
- 38. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Barack Obama
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 39. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Literature
B) Economics
C) Chemistry
D) Physics
- 40. Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of the blood groups A, B, and O?
A) Paul Ehrlich
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Robert Koch
D) Karl Landsteiner
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Marie Curie
C) Otto Hahn
D) Fritz Haber
- 42. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Shinya Yamanaka
B) Akira Yoshino
C) Yoshinori Ohsumi
D) Hideki Yukawa
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