- 1. The Nobel Prize has a long and prestigious history in Sweden. Founded by the inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, the prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 in six categories: Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded based on the will of Alfred Nobel, who left the majority of his fortune to fund the prizes. The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, with the Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. The Nobel Prizes are highly regarded around the world, honoring individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to humanity and society.
When was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1945
B) 1867
C) 1901
D) 1923
- 2. In which city in Sweden are the Nobel Prize ceremonies held?
A) Stockholm
B) Uppsala
C) Gothenburg
D) Malmo
- 3. Who is known as the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) King Carl XVI Gustaf
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Queen Silvia
D) Ingmar Bergman
- 4. What is the Nobel Peace Prize medal made of?
A) Platinum
B) Bronze
C) Silver
D) Gold
- 5. Who selects the Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
A) MacArthur Foundation
B) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
C) Swedish Academy
D) Norwegian Nobel Committee
- 6. What is the name of the foundation that manages the Nobel Prizes?
A) Swedish Cultural Foundation
B) Royal Swedish Academy
C) Nobel Foundation
D) Swedish Nobel Committee
- 7. What is the Nobel Prize diploma traditionally made of?
A) Canvas
B) Parchment
C) Acetate
D) Handmade paper
- 8. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1950
B) 1969
C) 1985
D) 1974
- 9. Which Nobel Prize category did Nelson Mandela receive in 1993?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Medicine
D) Peace
- 10. Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Herta Müller
B) Alice Munro
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Toni Morrison
- 11. Who was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Kailash Satyarthi
- 12. Who was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Bob Dylan
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) William Faulkner
D) Gabriela Mistral
- 13. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the most women?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Economics
D) Physics
- 14. Who served as the first Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation?
A) Brian Schmidt
B) Carl XVI Gustaf
C) Ragnar Sohlman
D) Alfred Nobel
- 15. What is the official language of the Nobel Prize ceremonies?
A) French
B) English
C) German
D) Swedish
- 16. Who was the chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Sweden?
A) Svante Arrhenius
B) Karl Landsteiner
C) Alfred Nobel
D) Marie Curie
- 17. Which Nobel Prize category was added most recently?
A) Literature
B) Chemistry
C) Economic Sciences
D) Peace
- 18. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Rita Levi-Montalcini
D) Margaret Thatcher
- 19. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Bob Dylan
C) Haruki Murakami
D) J.K. Rowling
- 20. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Peace
B) Medicine
C) Literature
D) Physics
- 21. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Mother Teresa
C) Albert Einstein
D) William Faulkner
- 22. Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A) Harvard University
B) Karolinska Institute
C) Max Planck Institute
D) University of Oxford
- 23. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with the Nobel Assembly?
A) Literature
B) Medicine
C) Economic Sciences
D) Peace
- 24. In what month are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) March
B) December
C) September
D) July
- 25. In what field did the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry focus?
A) Climate change
B) Economic development
C) Lithium-ion batteries
D) Cancer research
- 26. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of cognitive development?
A) Jean Piaget
B) Ivan Pavlov
C) Sigmund Freud
D) B. F. Skinner
- 27. Which Nobel Prize winner is famed for his work on the theory of relativity?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Albert Einstein
C) Isaac Newton
D) Stephen Hawking
- 28. Which Nobel laureate was a former U.S. President?
A) Donald Trump
B) Barack Obama
C) Bill Clinton
D) Jimmy Carter
- 29. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Sully Prudhomme
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 30. Which Swedish diplomat is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981?
A) Folke Bernadotte
B) Raoul Wallenberg
C) Dag Hammarskjöld
D) Olof Palme
- 31. Which Nobel laureate was known for his nonviolent movement for civil rights and received the Peace Prize in 1964?
A) Desmond Tutu
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
- 32. Which literary laureate is known for his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Alice Munro
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 33. Which Nobel laureate was known for his work on the Green Revolution and received the Peace Prize in 1970?
A) Norman Borlaug
B) Muhammad Yunus
C) Rigoberta Menchú Tum
D) Wangari Maathai
- 34. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Mother Teresa
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Jane Addams
- 35. Who received a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) James Watson and Francis Crick
C) Linus Pauling
D) Barbara McClintock
- 36. Who is the most recent Nobel Prize laureate in Literature as of 2021?
A) Abdulrazak Gurnah
B) Alice Munro
C) Olga Tokarczuk
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
- 37. Who was the first laureate to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Albert Camus
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
- 38. Where are the Nobel Prize medals minted?
A) Monnaie de Paris, France
B) Myntverket, Sweden
C) Royal Mint, UK
D) US Mint, USA
- 39. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory?
A) Paul Samuelson
B) Robert Solow
C) John Nash
D) Milton Friedman
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