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