- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories such as peace, literature, and sciences to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. The awards honor outstanding achievements that have had a lasting impact on society, promoting progress, innovation, and collaboration. Winners of the Nobel Prize are recognized for their exceptional talents, dedication, and groundbreaking work, inspiring future generations to strive for excellence and pursue their own potential to create positive change in the world.
Who established the Nobel Prizes?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Albert Einstein
C) Thomas Edison
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) 1850
B) 1950
C) 1901
D) 1925
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) New York
C) Oslo
D) Geneva
- 4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Ada Lovelace
B) Marie Curie
C) Dorothy Hodgkin
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 5. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Isaac Newton
- 6. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes achievements in economics?
A) Management Studies
B) Economic Sciences
C) Political Science
D) Social Sciences
- 7. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners in history?
A) Germany
B) Sweden
C) France
D) United States
- 8. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Oprah Winfrey
C) Maya Angelou
D) Toni Morrison
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) University of Oxford
B) Johns Hopkins University
C) Karolinska Institute
D) Harvard University
- 10. Which Nobel laureate is known for his contributions to game theory?
A) Ernest Rutherford
B) Richard Feynman
C) John Nash
D) Enrico Fermi
- 11. Who was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
A) Chien-Shiung Wu
B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
C) Abdus Salam
D) Rabindranath Tagore
- 12. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and what else?
A) Book voucher
B) Travel voucher
C) Monetary award
D) Crystal trophy
- 13. Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Harold Pinter
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Doris Lessing
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 14. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was first awarded in which year?
A) 1950
B) 1985
C) 1969
D) 2000
- 15. Who is the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
A) Frederick G. Banting
B) Malvin Ruderman
C) William Lawrence Bragg
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 16. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner served as the President of South Africa?
A) F. W. de Klerk
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Cyril Ramaphosa
D) Desmond Tutu
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the anniversary of which notable event?
A) League of Nations founding
B) Alfred Nobel's death
C) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption
D) World War I end
- 18. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Kofi Annan
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Henry Dunant
- 19. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Denmark
B) Finland
C) Sweden
D) Norway
- 20. Who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Le Duc Tho
- 21. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Literature
- 22. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the youngest recipient?
A) Physics
B) Peace
C) Economics
D) Medicine
- 23. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden?
A) Economics
B) Medicine
C) Peace
D) Literature
- 24. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Yitzhak Rabin
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Nelson Mandela
- 25. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Vienna
B) Berlin
C) Stockholm
D) Oslo
- 26. Who was the first artist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907?
A) Naguib Mahfouz
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 27. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria?
A) Satoshi Omura
B) William Campbell
C) Youyou Tu
D) Tomas Lindahl
- 28. What was the name of the famous American novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) William Faulkner
- 29. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Toni Morrison
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Wole Soyinka
- 30. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005?
A) Milton Friedman
B) Amartya Sen
C) Paul Samuelson
D) Thomas Schelling
- 31. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Barbara McClintock
B) Alice Munro
C) Toni Morrison
D) Jane Addams
- 32. How many categories are there for the Nobel Prizes?
A) 4
B) 8
C) 6
D) 3
- 33. Which Nobel laureate is known for her environmental activism and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
A) Liu Xiaobo
B) Wangari Maathai
C) Shirin Ebadi
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 34. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from India?
A) Abhijit Banerjee
B) Raghuram Rajan
C) Muhammad Yunus
D) Amartya Sen
- 35. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded for distinguished writing in the English language?
A) Medicine
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 36. Which Nobel laureate is known for her work on gender identity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Munro
D) Elfriede Jelinek
- 37. Who was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine?
A) Gerty Cori
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Barbara McClintock
D) Rosalind Franklin
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution?
A) Baruch Spinoza
B) Charles Darwin
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Rene Descartes
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