Nobel Prizes Quiz: Test Your Knowledge!

NOBEL PRIZES AND WINNERS 1) Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? a) Marie Curie b) Rosalind Franklin c) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin d) Ada Yonath 2) In which year was the Nobel Prize in Physics first awarded? a) 1895 b) 1901 c) 1918 d) 1926 3) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for...

NOBEL PRIZES AND WINNERS 1) Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? a) Marie Curie b) Rosalind Franklin c) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin d) Ada Yonath 2) In which year was the Nobel Prize in Physics first awarded? a) 1895 b) 1901 c) 1918 d) 1926 3) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the structure of DNA? a) Linus Pauling b) Francis Crick and James Watson c) Rosalind Franklin d) Rita Levi-Montalcini 4) Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of relativity? a) Albert Einstein b) Niels Bohr c) Max Planck d) Werner Heisenberg 5) Who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin? a) Alexander Fleming b) Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain c) Paul L. Modrich d) Osamu Shimomura 6) Who was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize? a) Nelson Mandela b) Kofi Annan c) Albert Luthuli d) Wangari Maathai 7) Which Indian physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory? a) Homi J. Bhabha b) C. V. Raman c) Satyendra Nath Bose d) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 8) Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? a) Gabriel García Márquez b) Pablo Neruda c) Mario Vargas Llosa d) Octavio Paz 9) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to game theory? a) Milton Friedman b) John Nash c) Friedrich Hayek d) Amartya Sen 10) Who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin? a) Frederick Banting and John Macleod b) James D. Watson and Francis Crick c) Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain d) Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings 11) Which Nobel laureate is known for his theory of black holes and singularities? a) Stephen Hawking b) Albert Einstein c) Richard Feynman d) Werner Heisenberg 12) Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end apartheid in South Africa? a) Nelson Mandela b) F. W. de Klerk c) Desmond Tutu d) Albert Luthuli 13) Which scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radioactivity? a) Pierre Curie and Marie Curie b) Ernest Rutherford c) Antoine Henri Becquerel d) Linus Pauling 14) Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “The Old Man and the Sea”? a) Ernest Hemingway b) William Faulkner c) John Steinbeck d) Gabriel García Márquez 15) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of the nervous system? a) Santiago Ramón y Cajal b) Camillo Golgi c) Roger Guillemin d) Eric Kandel 16) Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the photoelectric effect? a) Max Planck b) Albert Einstein c) Werner Heisenberg d) Niels Bohr 17) Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy for children’s rights and education? a) Malala Yousafzai b) Aung San Suu Kyi c) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf d) Leymah Gbowee 18) Which scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron? a) J. J. Thomson b) Ernest Rutherford c) Robert Millikan d) Albert Michelson 19) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the periodic law? a) Dmitri Mendeleev b) Marie Curie c) Linus Pauling d) Frederick Sanger 20) Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “Beloved”? a) Toni Morrison b) Alice Munro c) Doris Lessing d) Nadine Gordimer 21) Who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the polio vaccine? a) Jonas Salk b) Albert Sabin c) Edward Jenner d) Louis Pasteur 22) Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of evolution by natural selection? a) Charles Darwin b) Gregor Mendel c) Thomas Hunt Morgan d) James D. Watson e) 23) Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace agreements in the Middle East? a) Yitzhak Rabin b) Anwar Sadat c) Jimmy Carter d) Shimon Peres 24) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron? a) James Chadwick b) Enrico Fermi c) Werner Heisenberg d) Niels Bohr 25) Who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)? a) Kary Mullis b) Frederick Sanger c) Linus Pauling d) Francis Crick 26) Which scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of the ribosome? a) Ada Yonath b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan c) Thomas A. Steitz d) Brian K. Kobilka 27) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”? a) John Steinbeck b) Ernest Hemingway c) William Faulkner d) Gabriel García Márquez 28) Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights in Burma? a) Aung San Suu Kyi b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf c) Shirin Ebadi d) Leymah Gbowee 29) Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of general relativity? a) Albert Einstein b) Max Planck c) Niels Bohr d) Werner Heisenberg 30) Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the Higgs boson?  a) François Englert and Peter Higgs b) David J. Wineland and Serge Haroche c) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess d) Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald 31) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the first chemical synthesis of a gene? a) Kary Mullis b) Frederick Sanger c) Har Gobind Khorana d) Walter Gilbert 32) Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”? a) J.D. Salinger b) F. Scott Fitzgerald c) Harper Lee d) John Steinbeck 33) Who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat climate change? a) Al Gore b) Wangari Maathai c) Kofi Annan d) Greta Thunberg 34) Which scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of DNA repair mechanisms? a) Aziz Sancar b) Paul L. Modrich c) Tomas Lindahl d) Elizabeth Blackburn 35) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe? a) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess b) Albert A. Michelson c) Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson d) Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman 36) Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the lithium-ion battery? a) John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino b) Paul L. Modrich c) Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson d) Frances H. Arnold 37) Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “The Lord of the Flies”? a) William Golding b) George Orwell c) Aldous Huxley d) Ernest Hemingway 38) Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace agreements in Northern Ireland? a) John Hume b) David Trimble c) Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan d) Juan Manuel Santos 39) Which Nobel laureate is known for his work on the theory of superconductivity? a) John Bardeen b) Lev Davidovich Landau c) Robert B. Laughlin d) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 40) Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis B virus? a) Baruch S. Blumberg b) J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus c) Harald zur Hausen d) Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 41) Which of the following countries Awards the Nobel Prizes a) Finland b) United States c) France d) Sweden 42) One of the Following is not a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize a) Desmond Tutu b) Wole Soyinka c) Malala Yousafzai d) Lemah Gbowe 43) The Nobel Prizes are awarded in the following Categories except a) Medicine & Physiology b) Physics c) Chemistry d) Mathematics 44) The Nobel Prize is Peace is awarded by a different Country to the rest. The Country is a) United Kingdom b) Norway c) Australia d) Canada 45) Which of these people did not win a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology a) Karl Landsteiner b) Albert Einstein c) Alexander Fleming d) Francis Crick 46) The only Nigerian to ever win a Nobel Prize won it in what Year a) 1986 b) 1989 c) 1987 d) 1988 47) The Nobel Prize is not awarded in the following except A. Economics B. Business C. Geography D. Insurance 48) Who is the Patron Of The Nobel Prize a) Winifred Noble b) Alfred Nobel c) Wilfred Jingle-Bells d) Fred Bells 49) Which Country has the most Nobel Laureates a) Nigeria b) Australia c) Netherlands d) United States 50) The Nobel Prize that was won by a Nigerian was won in what Category a) Peace b) Chemistry c) Literature d) Medicine or Physiology 51) One of the Following has been Awarded a Nobel Prize in Two different categories a) Marie Curie b) Albert Einstein c) Wilhelm Roentgen d) David Baltimore