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ChemQuest 3.0

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first woman chemist to win a Nobel Prize was…

a)

Mother Teresa

b)

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Shirin Ebadi

2.

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

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

6

3.

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

4.

The first Nobel Prize was awarded in…

a)

1901

b)

1778

c)

1923

d)

1876

5.

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

a)

Kieselguhr

b)

Dynamite

c)

Nitroglycerine

d)

Uranium

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Name the nobel Laureate in the picture ?

a)

Venkatesh Ramakrishnan  

b)

C.V.Raman

c)

Bose

d)

Sathyariti

9.

The Scientist who received 1984 Chemistry Nobel prize for development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix is

a)

Robert Bruce Merrifield

b)

Henry Taube

c)

Aaron Klug

d)

Paul Berg

10.

Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discoveries on

a)

development of use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds into important reagents in organic synthesis respectively

b)

for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures

c)

development of use of phosphorus- and boron- containing compounds into important reagents in organic synthesis respectively

d)

for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy

11.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 is awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for their contribution towards

a)

development of a method for genome editing

b)

development of lithium-ion batteries

c)

development of asymmetric organocatalysis

d)

design and synthesis of molecular machines

12.

The three gentlemen in the photo are

a)

Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien

b)

Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki

c)

Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock

d)

Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose

13.

Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for

a)

Pd-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

b)

Cu-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

c)

for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

d)

for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis

14.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa won The 2016 Chemistry Nobel Prize for

a)

for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

b)

for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

c)

for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

d)

for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

15.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals is credited to

a)

Arieh Warshel

b)

Dan Shechtman

c)

Robert J. Lefkowitz

d)

Ada E. Yonath

16.

The development of lithium-ion batteries by John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino was awarded the Chemistry Nobel in

a)

2017

b)

2020

c)

2019

d)

2018

17.

The development of a method for genome editing for 2020 Chemistry Nobel Award is credited to Jennifer A. Doudna and?

a)

Richard Henderson

b)

Thomas A. Steitz

c)

Roger D. Kornberg

d)

Emmanuelle Charpentier

18.

The 1950 Chemistry Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery and development of the diene synthesis to?

a)

Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg

b)

Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge

c)

Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder

d)

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov

19.

No Nobel Prize was awarded during the years

a)

1940-42

b)

1939-41

c)

1943-45

d)

That never happened

20.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920

was awarded to?

a)

Walther Hermann Nernst in recognition of his work in Thermochemistry

b)

Fritz Haber for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements

c)

Richard Martin Willstätter for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll

d)

Victor Grignard for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry

21.

Who is the youngest receiver of Nobel prize in the field of Chemistry

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Frederic Joliot

c)

Frederick G. Banting

d)

Lawrence Bragg

22.

The two Nobel laureates in Chemistry who were not allowed by their government to accept the prize are?

a)

Germans Richard Kuhn and Adolf Butenandt

b)

Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin

c)

Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley

d)

Walter Norman Haworth and

Paul Karrer

23.

The first ever Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to

a)

Svante August Arrhenius

b)

Hermann Emil Fischer

c)

Adolf von Baeyer

d)

Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff

24.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded how many times and to how many individuals till date?

a)

113 and 188

b)

114 and 187

c)

113 and 187

d)

114 and 188

25.

Linus Carl Pauling for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances was awarded Chemistry Nobel in the year

a)

1952

b)

1954

c)

1956

d)

1958