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Nobel Prize Quiz

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was…

a)

Mother Teresa

b)

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Shirin Ebadi

2.

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 especially for his discovery of…

a)

the photoelectric effect

b)

the special theory of relativity

c)

the general theory of relativity

d)

quantum mechanics

3.

The youngest Nobel Prize winner, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, was…

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Elizabeth Warren

c)

Malala Yousafzai

d)

Lady Diana

4.

Which of the following fields was not included as a Nobel Prize category at the time the Nobel Prizes were first established?

a)

Medicine

b)

Economics

c)

Physics

d)

Literature

5.

Which of the following famous physicists has not received a Nobel Prize?

a)

Enrico Fermi

b)

Shuji Nakamura

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Albert Einstein

6.

Which of these famous novelists declined to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

Jean-Paul Sartre

b)

John Steinbeck

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Gabriel García Márquez

7.

The maximum number of people who can share a Nobel Prize is…

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

6

8.

The founder of the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel, was a citizen of which country?

a)

Germany

b)

Hungary

c)

Sweden

d)

Switzerland

9.

The formal Nobel Prize awards ceremony takes place on which day every year?

a)

October 3

b)

November 24

c)

December 10

d)

October 12

10.

The first Nobel Prize was awarded in…

a)

1901

b)

1778

c)

1923

d)

1876

11.

From what invention did Alfred Nobel make his fortune?

a)

Dynamite

b)

Carbon

c)

X-rays

d)

Antibiotics

12.

Why are the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies held on 10 December each year?

a)

It was the day that Alfred Nobel passed away

b)

It was that day he got his patent for dynamite

c)

It was Alfred Nobel's birthday

d)

None of the above

13.

Who selects the Nobel Laureates each year?

a)

The Nobel Foundation

b)

The King of Sweden

c)

Previous year Nobel Prize Winners

d)

The Nobel Prize Awarding Institutions

14.

All the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm except one. Which one?

a)

The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded in Helsinki, Finland

b)

The Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway

c)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is awarded in Copenhagen, Denmark

d)

The Nobel Prize in Economics

15.

Which family is the most successful when it comes to number of awarded Nobel Prizes?

a)

The Braggs

b)

The Curies

c)

The Einsteins

d)

The Theresas

16.

One organization has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize three times. Which one?

a)

International Committee of the Red Cross

b)

United Nations Peace Keeping Force

c)

Amnesty International

d)

Doctors without Borders

17.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1953. In what prize category?

a)

Politics

b)

Literature

c)

Peace

d)

Physics

18.

How many of the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women?

a)

52

b)

82

c)

92

d)

100

19.

Which prominent public figure was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

Albert Einstein

20.

In which year Alfred Nobel was born ?

a)

1833

b)

1843

c)

1853

d)

1863

21.

In 1866 Alfred obtained a patent on a new explosive. What was the explosive called?

a)

Kieselguhr

b)

Dynamite

c)

Nitroglycerine

d)

Uranium

22.

Alfred Nobel had factories and laboratories all over the world and had to travel a lot. Did he have a family?

a)

Yes, he had a wife and children

b)

Yes, he had a wife but she died young

c)

No, he never married

d)

Yes, he married twice

23.

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

a)

In St Petersburg, Russia

b)

In Oslo, Norway

c)

In San Remo, Italy

d)

In California, USA

24.

Why did Alfred Nobel establish a prize in his will?

a)

He wanted to honour his father

b)

He didn't want to give any money to his relatives

c)

He wanted to award the greatest benefits to mankind

d)

None of the above

25.

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, jointly awarded the 2017 Physics Prize, ensured that over four decades of effort led to a final observation of...

a)

...gravitational waves

b)

...cosmic radiation

c)

...cosmic X-ray sources

d)

none of the above

26.

Which Nobel Laureate had predicted gravitational waves a hundred years ago?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Ernest Rutherford

d)

John Bardeen

27.

Which microscopy technique did the 2017 Chemistry Laureates develop?

a)

Cryo-electron microscopy

b)

X-ray crystallography

c)

Fluorescence microscopy

d)

None of the above

28.

Who said “There must be luck, of course, definitely, but there must be also something else. And this else is the knowledge" while receiving Nobel Prize in 2003.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Alexei Abrikosov

d)

Erwin Schrödinger

29.

This calibration catalogue of amino acids belonged to the only chemist that has been awarded two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, year 1958 and 1980. Who is the chemist?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

George de Hevesy

c)

Frederick Sanger

d)

Ryōji Noyori

30.

What did Marie and Pierre Curie use their prize money for after sharing the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics?

a)

For building a house

b)

For further scientific research

c)

For paying their children's education

d)

For construction of swimming pool

31.

Rainer Weiss shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 and decided to donate his prize money to his university. What university is that?

a)

Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)

b)

Harvard University

c)

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich

d)

Gothenburg University

32.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith. Kao calculated how light could be transmitted over long distances through...

a)

...optical glass fibers

b)

...electrical cables

c)

...copper wires

d)

none of the above