NOBLE PRIZE MCQs

 

NOBLE PRIZE 

 • Astronomers cannot be nominated for noble prize

 • Marie curie twice won Noble Prize.

 • First Nobel Prizes were awarded on 10 Dec: 1901.

 • What country awards the Nobel peace prize- Norway

 • Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972-Nobody

 • Who was the first American to receive the Nobel Literature prize Sinclair Lewis

 • Which Nobel Prize is not awarded annually in Stockholm Peace

 • Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Prize in the field of peace.

 • The New York Times received five Pulitzer prizes of 2009 for investigative, breaking news and international reporting, feature photography and criticism.

 • Four persons have been awarded Nobel Prize twice.

 • Van’t Hoff was the first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

 • Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Prize winner for literature. He is from Nigeria.

 • Which field was not included by Alfred Nobel originally... Economics

 • Person getting the nobel peace prize in 2008 was of the country. Finland

 • Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, more than 150 years ago. In what year was he born? Alfred Nobel was born in 1833

 • What did Alfred's father, Immanuel, do for a living? Alfred's father was an engineer and inventor.

 • Alfred Nobel never married.

 • A future Nobel Laureate worked for a short period of time as Alfred Nobel's secretary. Who? Bertha von Suttner

 • Alfred Nobel died on 10 December 1896, but not in Sweden, his home country. Where did he die? Alfred Nobel died in San Remo, Italy.

 • Why did Alfred Nobel establish a prize in his will? Alfred Nobel wanted to award the greatest benefits to mankind.

 • Which Nobel category does not yet have a single female laureate? Economics

 • Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics? Roentgen.

 • Which single winner won the most number of Nobel Prizes? International Committee of the Red Cross.

 • Who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Rabindranath Tagore

 • Mathematicsis not a valid Nobel Prize category.

 • In what year did the most people decline their Nobel Prize? 1939

 • Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice -- in Peace and Chemistry? Linus Pauling

 • Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice -- in both Physics and Chemistry? Marie Curie

 • Name the six categories for which the prizes are awarded. Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

 • For which category was a Nobel Prize given starting 1969? Economics.

 • Who awards the Peace Prize? The Norwegian Nobel Committee.

 • Max Planck received the noble prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of: energy quanta

 • Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

 • Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first Indian/South Asian to win Nobel Prize. (Literature in 1931).

 • Former US Vice-President Al Gore has won Noble Peace Prize 2007 for his campaign against Global Warming.

 • Mr Gore won an Oscar for his climate change film An Inconvenient Truth

 • The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Johnson Bunche

 • Rabindarnath Tagore won first Nobel Prize from South Asia.

 • The first Muslim Nobel Laureate was: Anwar Sadaat of Egypt

 • Nobel Prize holder UN institutions.... UNHCR, UAEA