- 1. The Nobel Prize is a set of prestigious international awards that are bestowed annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. These prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, and are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to humanity in their respective fields. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a person, and winning one is often considered a career-defining achievement. The awards are presented in a ceremony held on December 10th each year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway. Recipients of the Nobel Prize receive a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award, which varies in amount from year to year. The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901, and their impact on the world has been profound, with many laureates going on to have long-lasting influence on their fields and on society as a whole.
Who was the founder of the Nobel Prizes?
A) Marie Curie
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Max Planck
D) Niels Bohr
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1888
B) 1945
C) 1920
D) 1901
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Stockholm
B) Oslo
C) Brussels
D) Geneva
- 4. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Marie Curie
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Albert Einstein
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 5. In which year did the Nobel Prize in Economics begin?
A) 1985
B) 1955
C) 1969
D) 1975
- 6. The Nobel Medals are made of which metal?
A) Gold
B) Platinum
C) Bronze
D) Silver
- 7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Karolinska Institute
B) Smithsonian Institution
C) Max Planck Institute
D) Harvard University
- 8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Irene Joliot-Curie
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to which duo for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
A) Fleming and Chain
B) Curie and Lise Meitner
C) Watson and Crick
D) Bohr and Rutherford
- 10. The Nobel Prize in Economics is officially known as what?
A) Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
B) Nobel Economic Achievement Award
C) Economics Nobel Laureate Prize
D) Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- 11. Which Nobel Prize is sometimes referred to as the 'Blue Riband of Science'?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 12. The Nobel Prizes are awarded on which date each year?
A) January 1
B) December 10
C) October 31
D) July 4
- 13. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by which institution?
A) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
B) European Space Agency
C) National Science Foundation
D) United Nations
- 14. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Marie Curie
C) Erwin Schrödinger
D) Albert Einstein
- 15. The Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded to whom?
A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Milton Friedman
C) Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
D) Amartya Sen
- 16. Who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Wangari Maathai
C) Leymah Gbowee
D) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 17. Which Nobel laureate is famous for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Desmond Tutu
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Kofi Annan
- 18. Which country has the highest number of Nobel Prize winners?
A) United States
B) Germany
C) France
D) United Kingdom
- 19. Who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Yasunari Kawabata
C) Hideki Yukawa
D) Mother Teresa
- 20. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' and a Nobel laureate?
A) Albert Camus
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
- 21. Which Nobel laureate was the first to receive the Peace Prize posthumously?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Linus Pauling
C) Dag Hammarskjöld
D) Albert Schweitzer
- 22. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Oslo
B) Geneva
C) Stockholm
D) Rome
- 23. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of the electron structure and quantum mechanics?
A) Werner Heisenberg
B) Erwin Schrödinger
C) Max Planck
D) Niels Bohr
- 24. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jody Williams
B) Jane Addams
C) Mairead Corrigan
D) Emily Greene Balch
- 25. Which Nobel laureate is known for his invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Steve Jobs
C) Mark Zuckerberg
D) Bill Gates
- 26. Who was the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Albert Schweitzer
B) Henry Dunant
C) Fredrik Bajer
D) Ralph Bunche
- 27. Who is the only recipient of both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
A) Winston Churchill
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Toni Morrison
D) Bob Dylan
- 28. In which country is the Nobel Prize awarded?
A) Sweden
B) United Kingdom
C) France
D) United States
- 29. How many Nobel Prize categories are there?
A) 6
B) 10
C) 4
D) 8
- 30. Which Nobel Prize category does NOT have a cap on the number of laureates that can be awarded in a single year?
A) Medicine
B) Literature
C) Chemistry
D) Peace
- 31. Who is the first US president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Barack Obama
- 32. Who refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Toni Morrison
- 33. The Nobel Prize in which category is traditionally awarded first in the Nobel Prize week?
A) Chemistry
B) Peace
C) Economics
D) Physiology or Medicine
- 34. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his efforts on behalf of the Palestinian people?
A) Mother Teresa
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Yasser Arafat
D) Nelson Mandela
- 35. In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
A) Norway
B) Switzerland
C) Sweden
D) Denmark
- 36. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry?
A) Marie Curie
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
D) Linus Pauling
- 37. Who was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Lawrence Bragg
C) Albert Einstein
D) Marie Curie
- 38. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Barack Obama
C) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 39. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Economics
- 40. Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of the blood groups A, B, and O?
A) Paul Ehrlich
B) Karl Landsteiner
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Robert Koch
- 41. Which Nobel Prize winner is known for the development of the Haber Process for the synthesis of ammonia?
A) Otto Hahn
B) Linus Pauling
C) Marie Curie
D) Fritz Haber
- 42. Who was the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Yoshinori Ohsumi
B) Akira Yoshino
C) Shinya Yamanaka
D) Hideki Yukawa
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