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WorksheetsNobel Prize Quiz
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was…
Mother Teresa
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Marie Curie
Shirin Ebadi
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 especially for his discovery of…
the photoelectric effect
the special theory of relativity
the general theory of relativity
quantum mechanics
The youngest Nobel Prize winner, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, was…
Marie Curie
Elizabeth Warren
Malala Yousafzai
Lady Diana
Which of the following fields was not included as a Nobel Prize category at the time the Nobel Prizes were first established?
Medicine
Economics
Physics
Literature
Which of the following famous physicists has not received a Nobel Prize?
Enrico Fermi
Shuji Nakamura
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Which of these famous novelists declined to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Gabriel García Márquez
The maximum number of people who can share a Nobel Prize is…
3
4
5
6
The founder of the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel, was a citizen of which country?
Germany
Hungary
Sweden
Switzerland
The formal Nobel Prize awards ceremony takes place on which day every year?
October 3
November 24
December 10
October 12
The first Nobel Prize was awarded in…
1901
1778
1923
1876
From what invention did Alfred Nobel make his fortune?
Dynamite
Carbon
X-rays
Antibiotics
Why are the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies held on 10 December each year?
It was the day that Alfred Nobel passed away
It was that day he got his patent for dynamite
It was Alfred Nobel's birthday
None of the above
Who selects the Nobel Laureates each year?
The Nobel Foundation
The King of Sweden
Previous year Nobel Prize Winners
The Nobel Prize Awarding Institutions
All the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm except one. Which one?
The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded in Helsinki, Finland
The Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is awarded in Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nobel Prize in Economics
Which family is the most successful when it comes to number of awarded Nobel Prizes?
The Braggs
The Curies
The Einsteins
The Theresas
One organization has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize three times. Which one?
International Committee of the Red Cross
United Nations Peace Keeping Force
Amnesty International
Doctors without Borders
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1953. In what prize category?
Politics
Literature
Peace
Physics
How many of the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women?
52
82
92
100
Which prominent public figure was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King
Albert Einstein
In which year Alfred Nobel was born ?
1833
1843
1853
1863
In 1866 Alfred obtained a patent on a new explosive. What was the explosive called?
Kieselguhr
Dynamite
Nitroglycerine
Uranium
Alfred Nobel had factories and laboratories all over the world and had to travel a lot. Did he have a family?
Yes, he had a wife and children
Yes, he had a wife but she died young
No, he never married
Yes, he married twice
Alfred Nobel died on 10 December 1896, but not in his home country, Sweden. Where did he die?
In St Petersburg, Russia
In Oslo, Norway
In San Remo, Italy
In California, USA
Why did Alfred Nobel establish a prize in his will?
He wanted to honour his father
He didn't want to give any money to his relatives
He wanted to award the greatest benefits to mankind
None of the above
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...
...gravitational waves
...cosmic radiation
...cosmic X-ray sources
none of the above
Which Nobel Laureate had predicted gravitational waves a hundred years ago?
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Ernest Rutherford
John Bardeen
Which microscopy technique did the 2017 Chemistry Laureates develop?
Cryo-electron microscopy
X-ray crystallography
Fluorescence microscopy
None of the above
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.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Alexei Abrikosov
Erwin Schrödinger
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?
Marie Curie
George de Hevesy
Frederick Sanger
Ryōji Noyori
What did Marie and Pierre Curie use their prize money for after sharing the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics?
For building a house
For further scientific research
For paying their children's education
For construction of swimming pool
Rainer Weiss shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 and decided to donate his prize money to his university. What university is that?
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
Harvard University
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich
Gothenburg University
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...
...optical glass fibers
...electrical cables
...copper wires
none of the above
