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