- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist, the prizes have been awarded since 1901. The recipients of Nobel Prizes are recognized for their outstanding contributions and achievements in their respective fields, leading to significant advancements in knowledge, culture, and peace around the world.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Ada Lovelace
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1925
B) 1970
C) 1901
D) 1850
- 3. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Albert Einstein
C) Winston Churchill
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 4. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, Sweden?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Peace
D) Physics
- 5. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Germany
B) Norway
C) United States
D) Sweden
- 6. Who was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Leymah Gbowee
C) Wangari Maathai
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 7. Who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Doris Lessing
- 8. Which author known for 'The Old Man and the Sea' won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Toni Morrison
D) William Faulkner
- 9. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Alice Walker
D) Toni Morrison
- 10. Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
A) Bill Clinton
B) Barack Obama
C) George W. Bush
D) Jimmy Carter
- 11. Who is known for the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Isaac Newton
C) Albert Einstein
D) Galileo Galilei
- 12. Which Nobel laureate is known for the discovery of penicillin?
A) Alexander Fleming
B) Wilhelm Roentgen
C) Robert Koch
D) Louis Pasteur
- 13. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron?
A) James Chadwick
B) Paul Dirac
C) Ernest Rutherford
D) Niels Bohr
- 14. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1975
B) 1995
C) 1969
D) 1930
- 15. Which Nobel laureate is known for the development of the theory of nuclear fission?
A) Marie Curie
B) Otto Hahn
C) Enrico Fermi
D) Albert Einstein
- 16. Who created the Nobel Prizes?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Isaac Newton
D) Alfred Nobel
- 17. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners?
A) United States
B) Sweden
C) Germany
D) France
- 18. Which category was the Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel NOT originally intended for?
A) Physics
B) Economics
C) Chemistry
D) Literature
- 19. Who was the first laureate to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Haruki Murakami
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 20. What is the name of the medal awarded along with the Nobel Prize?
A) Medal of Honor
B) Gold Star
C) Prize Medallion
D) Nobel Medal
- 21. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work to end apartheid in South Africa?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Thabo Mbeki
C) Desmond Tutu
D) F.W. de Klerk
- 22. Who was the only person to decline a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Henry Kissinger
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Le Duc Tho
D) Barack Obama
- 23. Who was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize?
A) Dr. Amartya Sen
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) C.V. Raman
D) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 24. Who was the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Rigoberta Menchú
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Shirin Ebadi
- 25. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of physics?
A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 26. What is the cash award that accompanies a Nobel Prize?
A) 100,000 British pounds
B) 10 million Swedish kronor
C) 1 million US dollars
D) 5 million euros
- 27. For which work did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Special relativity
B) Photoelectric effect
C) Brownian motion
D) Theory of relativity
- 28. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Pearl S. Buck
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Sully Prudhomme
- 29. In what year did Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prizes?
A) 1918
B) 1873
C) 1895
D) 1901
- 30. Who was the first Nobel laureate to be awarded posthumously?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Erik Axel Karlfeldt
C) Albert Einstein
D) Marie Curie
- 31. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2019?
A) Abiy Ahmed
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Kofi Annan
D) Liu Xiaobo
- 32. Who was the first literary woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Selma Lagerlöf
B) Toni Morrison
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Nadine Gordimer
- 33. In what year did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1935
B) 1921
C) 1915
D) 1947
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Kazuo Ishiguro
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
D) Haruki Murakami
- 35. Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Ralph Bunche
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Barack Obama
- 36. Which organization is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
A) The Swedish Academy
B) The Norwegian Nobel Committee
C) The Nobel Foundation
D) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 37. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of chemistry?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 38. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with advances in medicine?
A) Chemistry
B) Physiology or Medicine
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 39. Which Nobel laureate is known for his development of the theory of evolution?
A) Gregor Mendel
B) Charles Darwin
C) Alfred Russel Wallace
D) James Watson
- 40. In which city are the Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) Oslo
B) Helsinki
C) Stockholm
D) Copenhagen
- 41. Which Nobel Prize category honors achievements in the field of economics?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Nobel Prize in Medicine
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
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