- 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) Niels Bohr
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1920
B) 1945
C) 1901
D) 1888
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Oslo
C) Brussels
D) Geneva
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Marie Curie
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1955
B) 1985
C) 1975
D) 1969
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Bronze
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Platinum
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Smithsonian Institution
B) Karolinska Institute
C) Max Planck Institute
D) Harvard University
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
D) Irene Joliot-Curie
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Bohr and Rutherford
C) Fleming and Chain
D) Curie and Lise Meitner
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
B) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
C) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
D) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) December 10
B) October 31
C) July 4
D) January 1
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) United Nations
C) National Science Foundation
D) European Space Agency
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Erwin Schrödinger
B) Niels Bohr
C) Marie Curie
D) Albert Einstein
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Milton Friedman
C) Amartya Sen
D) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Leymah Gbowee
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Wangari Maathai
- 17. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Desmond Tutu
- 18. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) United States
B) Germany
C) France
D) United Kingdom
- 19. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yasunari Kawabata
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Mother Teresa
D) Hideki Yukawa
- 20. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) Albert Camus
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
- 21. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Albert Schweitzer
B) Dag Hammarskjöld
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Linus Pauling
- 22. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Stockholm
B) Rome
C) Geneva
D) Oslo
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Werner Heisenberg
B) Erwin Schrödinger
C) Niels Bohr
D) Max Planck
- 24. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Emily Greene Balch
B) Jody Williams
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) Albert Schweitzer
B) Fredrik Bajer
C) Henry Dunant
D) Ralph Bunche
- 27. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) Winston Churchill
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Bob Dylan
D) Toni Morrison
- 28. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) France
D) Sweden
- 29. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 10
B) 8
C) 4
D) 6
- 30. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Peace
B) Medicine
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 31. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Barack Obama
D) Jimmy Carter
- 32. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Physiology or Medicine
B) Chemistry
C) Economics
D) Peace
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Yasser Arafat
B) Mother Teresa
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Nelson Mandela
- 35. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Sweden
B) Denmark
C) Norway
D) Switzerland
- 36. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
D) Marie Curie
- 37. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Albert Einstein
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) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Kofi Annan
D) Barack Obama
- 39. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Physics
B) Economics
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 40. Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of the blood groups A, B, and O?
A) Robert Koch
B) Karl Landsteiner
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Paul Ehrlich
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Otto Hahn
B) Fritz Haber
C) Marie Curie
D) Linus Pauling
- 42. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Shinya Yamanaka
B) Yoshinori Ohsumi
C) Akira Yoshino
D) Hideki Yukawa
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