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