- 1. The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually in several categories, including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist, the prizes have been awarded since 1901. The recipients of Nobel Prizes are recognized for their outstanding contributions and achievements in their respective fields, leading to significant advancements in knowledge, culture, and peace around the world.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Florence Nightingale
D) Marie Curie
- 2. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
A) 1850
B) 1925
C) 1970
D) 1901
- 3. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Albert Einstein
- 4. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, Sweden?
A) Literature
B) Peace
C) Physics
D) Chemistry
- 5. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by which country?
A) Sweden
B) United States
C) Norway
D) Germany
- 6. Who was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Wangari Maathai
B) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
C) Leymah Gbowee
D) Malala Yousafzai
- 7. Who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Doris Lessing
- 8. Which author known for 'The Old Man and the Sea' won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Toni Morrison
C) William Faulkner
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 9. Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Alice Walker
- 10. Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
A) Barack Obama
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Jimmy Carter
- 11. Who is known for the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Stephen Hawking
- 12. Which Nobel laureate is known for the discovery of penicillin?
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Wilhelm Roentgen
D) Robert Koch
- 13. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron?
A) Paul Dirac
B) Ernest Rutherford
C) Niels Bohr
D) James Chadwick
- 14. In which year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
A) 1975
B) 1969
C) 1995
D) 1930
- 15. Which Nobel laureate is known for the development of the theory of nuclear fission?
A) Otto Hahn
B) Marie Curie
C) Albert Einstein
D) Enrico Fermi
- 16. Who created the Nobel Prizes?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Alfred Nobel
C) Albert Einstein
D) Galileo Galilei
- 17. Which country has the most Nobel Prize winners?
A) Sweden
B) France
C) United States
D) Germany
- 18. What is the cash award that accompanies a Nobel Prize?
A) 10 million Swedish kronor
B) 100,000 British pounds
C) 5 million euros
D) 1 million US dollars
- 19. Which Nobel Prize category honors achievements in the field of economics?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
C) Nobel Prize in Medicine
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
- 20. Who was the first Nobel laureate to be awarded posthumously?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Marie Curie
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- 21. Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Barack Obama
B) Maya Angelou
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Ralph Bunche
- 22. Which organization is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
A) The Swedish Academy
B) The Nobel Foundation
C) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
D) The Norwegian Nobel Committee
- 23. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of chemistry?
A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 24. What is the name of the medal awarded along with the Nobel Prize?
A) Medal of Honor
B) Nobel Medal
C) Gold Star
D) Prize Medallion
- 25. Who was the first laureate to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Haruki Murakami
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Boris Pasternak
- 26. Which Nobel Prize category recognizes advancements in the field of physics?
A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 27. Which category was the Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel NOT originally intended for?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Economics
D) Literature
- 28. Which Nobel Prize category is associated with advances in medicine?
A) Physiology or Medicine
B) Chemistry
C) Literature
D) Peace
- 29. In what year did Alfred Nobel establish the Nobel Prizes?
A) 1873
B) 1901
C) 1918
D) 1895
- 30. For which work did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) Brownian motion
B) Theory of relativity
C) Photoelectric effect
D) Special relativity
- 31. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2019?
A) Kofi Annan
B) Liu Xiaobo
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Abiy Ahmed
- 32. Who was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
C) Dr. Amartya Sen
D) C.V. Raman
- 33. Who was the only person to decline a Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Henry Kissinger
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Barack Obama
D) Le Duc Tho
- 34. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Gabriela Mistral
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Pearl S. Buck
- 35. In what year did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1921
B) 1915
C) 1947
D) 1935
- 36. Which Nobel laureate is known for his work to end apartheid in South Africa?
A) Thabo Mbeki
B) F.W. de Klerk
C) Nelson Mandela
D) Desmond Tutu
- 37. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Kazuo Ishiguro
D) Haruki Murakami
- 38. Which Nobel laureate is known for his development of the theory of evolution?
A) Alfred Russel Wallace
B) James Watson
C) Charles Darwin
D) Gregor Mendel
- 39. In which city are the Nobel Prizes awarded?
A) Oslo
B) Helsinki
C) Stockholm
D) Copenhagen
- 40. Who was the first literary woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Selma Lagerlöf
- 41. Who was the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) Rigoberta Menchú
B) Shirin Ebadi
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Aung San Suu Kyi
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