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Nobel Prize Quiz

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Abhijit Banerjee received Nobel Prize in —

a)

Peace

b)

Economics

c)

Literature

d)

Chemistry

2.

Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for —

a)

Missionary work

b)

Humanitarian work in Calcutta

c)

Women empowerment

d)

Medical aid

3.

Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize for —

a)

Drama

b)

Poetry (Gitanjali)

c)

Social Work

d)

Education

4.

Which Indian physicist won for the scattering of light?

a)

Hargobind Khorana

b)

C.V. Raman

c)

Jagdish Chandra Bose

d)

S.N. Bose

5.

Whose Nobel field was Welfare Economics?

a)

Amartya Sen

b)

Abhijit Banerjee

c)

Jagdish Bhagwati

d)

Kaushik Basu

6.

Who was the first person to decline a Nobel Prize?

a)

Jean-Paul Sartre

b)

Le Duc Tho

c)

Boris Pasternak

d)

Gandhi

7.

Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?

a)

Stockholm

b)

Oslo

c)

London

d)

Geneva

8.

Nobel Prizes in Medicine are awarded by —

a)

Karolinska Institute, Sweden

b)

Royal Academy

c)

Nobel Foundation

d)

Stockholm University

9.

Nobel Prize in Economics was introduced in —

a)

1960

b)

1969

c)

1972

d)

1980

10.

Nobel Prize medal features the image of —

a)

King of Sweden

b)

Alfred Nobel

c)

A dove

d)

Olive branch

11.

Who was the first American woman Nobel laureate?

a)

Toni Morrison

b)

Pearl S. Buck

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Rosalind Franklin

12.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded for —

a)

Quantum dots

b)

Attosecond physics

c)

Neanderthal DNA

d)

Bank crises

13.

Nobel Peace Prize 2023 winner —

a)

Narges Mohammadi

b)

Ales Bialiatski

c)

Claudia Goldin

d)

Annie Ernaux

14.

Nobel Literature Prize 2023 winner —

a)

Bob Dylan

b)

Jon Fosse

c)

Kazuo Ishiguro

d)

Annie Ernaux

15.

Nobel Medicine Prize 2023 winners —

a)

Svante Pääbo

b)

Karikó & Weissman

c)

Bernanke & Diamond

d)

Aspect & Clauser

16.

Nobel Chemistry Prize 2023 winners worked on —

a)

Quantum dots

b)

CRISPR

c)

DNA repair

d)

Click chemistry

17.

Nobel Economics Prize 2023 winner —

a)

Amartya Sen

b)

Claudia Goldin

c)

Ben Bernanke

d)

Abhijit Banerjee

18.

Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner —

a)

Ales Bialiatski

b)

Malala Yousafzai

c)

Narges Mohammadi

d)

Greta Thunberg

19.

Nobel Literature Prize 2022 winner —

a)

Jon Fosse

b)

Annie Ernaux

c)

Bob Dylan

d)

Salman Rushdie

20.

Nobel Physics Prize 2022 winners —

a)

Aspect, Clauser, Zeilinger

b)

Feynman, Bohr, Dirac

c)

Bertozzi, Sharpless, Meldal

d)

Paabo, Bernanke, Dybvig

21.

Nobel Chemistry Prize 2022 winners discovered —

a)

Click chemistry

b)

CRISPR

c)

DNA sequencing

d)

RNA vaccine

22.

Nobel Medicine Prize 2022 winner —

a)

Svante Pääbo

b)

Drew Weissman

c)

Louis Brus

d)

Morten Meldal

23.

Nobel Economics Prize 2022 winners —

a)

Bernanke, Diamond & Dybvig

b)

Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer

c)

Sen, Goldin, Stiglitz

d)

Fama, Hansen, Shiller

24.

Alfred Nobel belonged to —

a)

France

b)

Sweden

c)

Denmark

d)

Switzerland

25.

The motto of the Nobel Prize is —

a)

For Science and Peace

b)

For the Greatest Benefit to Humankind

c)

Knowledge is Power

d)

Humanity Above All

26.

Which year did Mother Teresa win her Nobel Prize?

a)

1979

b)

1980

c)

1984

d)

1975

27.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was established by —

a)

Alfred Nobel

b)

The Central Bank of Sweden

c)

The Swedish Parliament

d)

Nobel Foundation

28.

Which Nobel Prize category is officially called the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize”?

a)

Literature

b)

Economics

c)

Peace

d)

Medicine

29.

How many Indians have won Nobel Prizes till 2023?

a)

8

b)

5

c)

10

d)

6

30.

Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize for which book?

a)

Gora

b)

Gitanjali

c)

The Home and the World

d)

Chokher Bali

31.

In which city are Nobel Prizes (except Peace) presented?

a)

Oslo

b)

Stockholm

c)

Paris

d)

London

32.

Who received Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccine development?

a)

Karikó & Weissman

b)

Bertozzi & Meldal

c)

Brus & Ekimov

d)

Clauser & Zeilinger

33.

The Nobel Prize for Quantum Dots was awarded in —

a)

2021

b)

2023

c)

2022

d)

2020

34.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded by —

a)

Swedish Academy

b)

Karolinska Institute

c)

Nobel Foundation

d)

Oslo Committee

35.

Alfred Nobel’s nationality was —

a)

German

b)

Swedish

c)

Norwegian

d)

British