- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories such as peace, literature, and sciences to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. The awards honor outstanding achievements that have had a lasting impact on society, promoting progress, innovation, and collaboration. Winners of the Nobel Prize are recognized for their exceptional talents, dedication, and groundbreaking work, inspiring future generations to strive for excellence and pursue their own potential to create positive change in the world.
Who established the Nobel Prizes?
A) Marie Curie
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Albert Einstein
D) Thomas Edison
- 2. In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) 1925
B) 1850
C) 1901
D) 1950
- 3. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
A) Geneva
B) New York
C) Oslo
D) Stockholm
- 4. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Dorothy Hodgkin
B) Marie Curie
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Ada Lovelace
- 5. Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Albert Einstein
C) Isaac Newton
D) Nikola Tesla
- 6. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes achievements in economics?
A) Economic Sciences
B) Social Sciences
C) Political Science
D) Management Studies
- 7. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners in history?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) United States
D) Germany
- 8. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Oprah Winfrey
- 9. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by which institution?
A) Harvard University
B) Karolinska Institute
C) Johns Hopkins University
D) University of Oxford
- 10. Which Nobel laureate is known for his contributions to game theory?
A) Richard Feynman
B) Ernest Rutherford
C) John Nash
D) Enrico Fermi
- 11. Who was the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
A) Abdus Salam
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
D) Chien-Shiung Wu
- 12. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and what else?
A) Crystal trophy
B) Travel voucher
C) Book voucher
D) Monetary award
- 13. Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?
A) Harold Pinter
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Doris Lessing
D) Boris Pasternak
- 14. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was first awarded in which year?
A) 1985
B) 2000
C) 1950
D) 1969
- 15. Who is the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Frederick G. Banting
C) William Lawrence Bragg
D) Malvin Ruderman
- 16. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner served as the President of South Africa?
A) F. W. de Klerk
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Cyril Ramaphosa
D) Desmond Tutu
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented on the anniversary of which notable event?
A) World War I end
B) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption
C) League of Nations founding
D) Alfred Nobel's death
- 18. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B) Henry Dunant
C) Kofi Annan
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 19. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Sweden
B) Finland
C) Denmark
D) Norway
- 20. Who famously declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Le Duc Tho
- 21. Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
A) Chemistry
B) Peace
C) Physics
D) Literature
- 22. Which Nobel Prize category has been won by the youngest recipient?
A) Medicine
B) Economics
C) Peace
D) Physics
- 23. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden?
A) Literature
B) Peace
C) Economics
D) Medicine
- 24. Who received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1994?
A) Yitzhak Rabin
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Nelson Mandela
- 25. In which city are the Nobel Prizes traditionally awarded?
A) Oslo
B) Berlin
C) Stockholm
D) Vienna
- 26. Who was the first artist to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907?
A) Naguib Mahfouz
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 27. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria?
A) Youyou Tu
B) Satoshi Omura
C) Tomas Lindahl
D) William Campbell
- 28. What was the name of the famous American novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Toni Morrison
C) William Faulkner
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 29. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Nadine Gordimer
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Toni Morrison
- 30. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on game theory and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005?
A) Amartya Sen
B) Thomas Schelling
C) Paul Samuelson
D) Milton Friedman
- 31. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Jane Addams
B) Toni Morrison
C) Barbara McClintock
D) Alice Munro
- 32. How many categories are there for the Nobel Prizes?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8
- 33. Which Nobel laureate is known for her environmental activism and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?
A) Wangari Maathai
B) Liu Xiaobo
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Shirin Ebadi
- 34. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from India?
A) Raghuram Rajan
B) Amartya Sen
C) Abhijit Banerjee
D) Muhammad Yunus
- 35. Which Nobel Prize category is awarded for distinguished writing in the English language?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Medicine
D) Peace
- 36. Which Nobel laureate is known for her work on gender identity and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Toni Morrison
C) Elfriede Jelinek
D) Alice Munro
- 37. Who was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine?
A) Gerty Cori
B) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Barbara McClintock
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution?
A) Rene Descartes
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Baruch Spinoza
D) Charles Darwin
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