Nobel Prize Quiz

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