Nobel Prize Winners
Instructions: Notable Nobel Prize laureates and their achievements
- 1.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, receiving it in Physics in 1903?
ALise MeitnerBMarie CurieCIrène Joliot-CurieDDorothy Hodgkin - 2.
Which civil rights leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
ANelson MandelaBRosa ParksCMartin Luther King Jr.DMalcolm X - 3.
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on which phenomenon?
ATheory of relativityBMass-energy equivalenceCBrownian motionDPhotoelectric effect - 4.
Which Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in which country?
AEthiopiaBAlbaniaCBangladeshDIndia - 5.
Nelson Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with which South African leader?
ADesmond TutuBP.W. BothaCThabo MbekiDF.W. de Klerk - 6.
Which American author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
AErnest HemingwayBWilliam FaulknerCF. Scott FitzgeraldDJohn Steinbeck - 7.
Who is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?
ALinus PaulingBFrederick SangerCAlbert EinsteinDMarie Curie - 8.
Which scientist won the Nobel Prize for discovering penicillin?
AJoseph ListerBRobert KochCAlexander FlemingDLouis Pasteur - 9.
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate, won the Peace Prize at what age?
A18B16C15D17 - 10.
Which American president received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
ABill ClintonBBarack ObamaCGeorge W. BushDJimmy Carter - 11.
The Nobel Prizes were established according to the will of Alfred Nobel, who invented what?
AThe light bulbBDynamiteCThe telegraphDThe telephone - 12.
Which organization has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times, more than any individual or organization?
AInternational Red CrossBDoctors Without BordersCUnited NationsDAmnesty International - 13.
Which physicist won the Nobel Prize for his theory of quantum electrodynamics and was known for his bongo drumming?
AEnrico FermiBWerner HeisenbergCRichard FeynmanDNiels Bohr - 14.
Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, making him the first what to win the prize?
AMusicianBNon-authorCAmericanDSongwriter - 15.
In which Scandinavian city is the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held, unlike all other Nobel Prizes?
AOsloBCopenhagenCHelsinkiDStockholm