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