Quiz on Nobel Prize: Part I

1. In which year was the first Nobel Prize awarded?

2. Which Nobel Prize category was established in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden and is known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel?

3. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?

4. Since its conception in 1901 till date, 765 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to men. Do you know how many times women have received this honour?

5. Who is the youngest Nobel Laureate?

6. In which year was Sir C. V. Raman awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics?

7. Who is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics?

8. Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize although he was nominated ___ times for the same.

9. There has been one mother-daughter pair among the Nobel Laureates. Can you name them?

10. Who were the first Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences?

Quiz answers:

1. 1901

2. Economic Sciences

3. Rabindra Nath Tagore for Literature in 1913

4. 41

5. Lawrence Bragg who received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his father in 1915 when he was just 25 years old.

6. 1930

7. Elinor Ostrom, 2009

8. Five

9. Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie

10. Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen, 1969

Author: Meenal Johari (Agra)