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GK Questions: Honours & Awards – Set 4

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  1. The Noble Prizes for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature were started in
    1.1926
    2.1938
    3.1968
    4.1901
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.1901
    Explanation :
    The Noble Prizes for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature were started in 1901 and  Economics was started in 1968

  2. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureates ?
    1.Kailash Satyarthi
    2.Rabindranath Tagore
    3.CV Raman
    4.Mother Teresa
    5.None of these
    Answer -2.RabindranathTagore
    Explanation :
    Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature,Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian ever to get this award for his collection of his poems named “Geetanjali” that featured “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”.

  3. ……………………………….. was/ were Refused the  Nobel Prize
    1.Jean- Paul Sarte
    2.Le Duc Tho
    3.Woodrow Wilson
    4.Both 1 and 2
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4. Both 1 and 2
    Explanation :
    Jean- Paul Sarte(Literature) and Le Duc Tho(Peace) were Refused the Nobel Prize in 1964 and 1973 respectively

  4. Who received the first Nobel Prize in Physics ?
    1.Wilhelm Röntgen
    2.Hendrik Lorentz
    3.Marie Curie
    4.J. J. Thomson
    5.None of these
    Answer – 1.Wilhelm Röntgen
    Explanation :
    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

  5. The Nobel Prize can be given to maximum ………………………….. persons
    1.2
    2.5
    3.4
    4.3
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.3
    Explanation :
    The Nobel Prize can be given to maximum 3 persons

  6. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was …………..
    1.Betty Williams
    2.Mother Teresa
    3.Marie Curie
    4.Aiya Myrdal
    5.None of these
    Answer – 3.Marie Curie
    Explanation :
    The first woman to win a Nobel Prize wasMarie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  7. …………………………. is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes
    1.Linus Pauling
    2.Dorothy Hodgkin
    3.Robert S. Mulliken
    4.Hans Bethe
    5.None of these
    Answer – 1.Linus Pauling
    Explanation :
    Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

  8. Which of the following Organization won the Nobel Peace Prize ?
    1.European Union
    2.UNICEF
    3.NATO
    4.IAEA
    5.None of these
    Answer – 3.NATO
    Explanation :
    European Union, UNICEF and IAEA won the Nobel Peace Prize in different Years.

  9. Who among the following not received the Nobel Prize ?
    1.Barack Obama
    2.Jimmy Carter
    3.Woodrow Wilson
    4.George Walker Bush
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.George Walker Bush
    Explanation :
    Barack Obama and the other US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize are, in chronological order, Theodore Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter

  10. Who became the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 ?
    1.Shirin Ebadi
    2.Joddy williams
    3.Mother Teresa
    4.Malala Yousafzal
    5.None of these
    Answer – 3.Mother Teresa
    Explanation :
    Mother Teresa: She became the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.





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