General Awareness 2015


1. Nobel Prizes were given for the first time in?
Ans: 1901

2. The first woman to get a Nobel Prize:
Ans: Marie Curie


3. The Nobel Prizes are distributed on ______ every year:
Ans: December 10

4. The only subject in which organizations are eligible for Nobel Prize:
Ans: Peace

5. The first organization to get a Nobel Prize?
Ans: Institute of International Law

6. The first Arab writer to get a Nobel Prize?
Ans: Najuih Mahfouz

7. The first Pakistani to get a Nobel Prize was Abul Salam in 1979 for?
Ans: Physics

8. The author who got a Nobel prize for literature from Asia after Tagore? 
Ans: Yasunari Kawabata

9. The first Indian to get a Noble Prize in 1913?
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore

10. The Nobel Prize in   is known as Bank of Sweden Prize?
Ans: Economics

11. The Nobel Peace prize is given by:
Ans: Chairman, Norwegian Nobel Committee

12. Which is known as Alternative Nobel?
Ans: Right Livelihood Award

13. The first Englishman to get a Nobel Prize for literature?
Ans: Rudyard Kipling

14. The only woman to get two Nobel Prizes:
Ans: Marie Curie

15. The first father and daughter to get a Nobel Prize:
Ans: Pierre Curie and Irene Curie

16. The Nobel Laureate who is known as "Mandela of Asia":
Ans: Aung San Suu Kyi

17. The first African woman to get a Nobel Prize:
Ans: Wangari Maathai

18. The first woman with the citizenship of an Asian Country to get a Nobel Peace Prize:
Ans: Mother Teresa

19. The maximum number of persons who can share Nobel Prize?
Ans: 3

20. Which organization got Nobel Prize for the maximum number of times? Ans: Scouts and Guides

21. In which subject maximum numbers of persons are honored in the history of Nobel Prizes?
Ans: Physics

22. Albert Einstein got Noble Prize in connection with:
Ans: Photo Electric Effect

23. The subjects in which, women got less number of Nobel Prizes?
Ans: Economics

24. Which country has got the largest number of Nobel Prizes?
Ans: USA

25. Which Asian Country has the largest number of Nobel Laureates?
Ans: Japan

26. The only Prime Minister to get a Nobel Prize for literature:
Ans: Winston Churchill

27. Roman Rolland, the author 'Mahatma Gandhi' got Nobel Prize for literature in 1915. His Nationality was?
Ans: French

28. In which year Nelson Mandela shared Nobel Prize with F.W.de Klerk?
Ans: 1993

29. The first UN secretary General to be conferred Nobel Peace prize:
Ans: Dag Hammarskjold

30. Only US President who attended the Nobel Prize ceremony while holding power?
Ans: Barak Obama

31. Pablo Neruda who got the Nobel literature prize in 1971 belonged to: 
Ans: Chile

32. Gabriel Garcia Marquez who get Nobel Literature Prize in 1982 belonged to:
Ans: Colombia

33. The first Bangladeshi to get a Nobel Prize is Mohammed Yunus in 2006 for:
Ans: Peace

34. Peace Prize laureate who authored "Freedom in Exile"?
Ans: Dalai Lama

35. What was the major invention of Alfred Nobel who instituted the Nobel Prize?
Ans: Dynamite

36. At present in how many subjects the Nobel prizes are given?
Ans: 6

37. The subject in which Alfred Nobel did not institute Nobel Prize?
Ans: Economics

38. The Nobel Prize in peace is given at:
Ans: Oslo

39. The Nobel prizes except peace prize are distributed at:
Ans: Stockholm

40. The Nobel Prizes are declared in the month of:
Ans: October

41. Which is known as 'Nobel Prize of Environmentalists'?
Ans: Goldman Prize

42. Which is known as 'Little Nobel'?
Ans: UNESCO Peace Prize

43. The first to get a Nobel Prize for physics?
Ans: W Roentgen

44. In which year Martin Luther King got Nobel Prize?
Ans: 1964

45. T. S. Eliot of United Kingdom got Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. His famous work is:
Ans: The Waste Land

46. Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese author who got a Nobel Prize in   ______ committed suicide in 1972 through Harakiri?
Ans: 1968

47. V S Naipaul the _____ Writer who got Nobel Prize in 2001 wrote the famous books about India. An area of Darkness, India wounded civilization, India — A million Mutinies now.
Ans: British

48. Norman Borlaug, the father of Green Revolution, got the Nobel Peace Prize in:
Ans: 1970

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