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