🏅 For the Greatest Benefit to Humankind! Test Your Nobel Prize Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia Questions!

How well do you know the Nobel Prizes and their laureates? Challenge yourself with our comprehensive list of 50 Nobel Prize trivia questions spanning all categories!

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Easy Level

  1. Who was the founder of the Nobel Prize?
  2. In what year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?
  3. What are the five original Nobel Prize categories?
  4. Which famous scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of relativity?
  5. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
  6. Which South African leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?
  7. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?
  8. What is the name of the sixth Nobel Prize category added in 1968?
  9. Which organization has won the Nobel Peace Prize most frequently?
  10. Who was the youngest person to ever receive a Nobel Prize?
  11. Which famous civil rights leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
  12. Which country awards the Nobel Peace Prize?
  13. Who was the first Asian Nobel laureate?
  14. Which scientist won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?
  15. Which US president won the Nobel Peace Prize while in office?

Medium Level

  1. Which Nobel Prize category was Alfred Nobel's own field of expertise?
  2. Who has declined the Nobel Prize after being awarded it?
  3. Which Nobel laureate discovered penicillin?
  4. Which family has the most Nobel Prizes among its members?
  5. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was also a US Secretary of State?
  6. Who was the first person to win multiple Nobel Prizes?
  7. Which Nobel Prize is not awarded in Stockholm?
  8. Which scientist won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
  9. Who was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
  10. Which Nobel laureate developed the theory of quantum mechanics?
  11. Which writer refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958?
  12. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
  13. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War?
  14. Which Nobel laureate in Literature wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
  15. Who was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields?
  16. Which Nobel Prize winner discovered the neutron?
  17. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
  18. Which Nobel laureate developed the polio vaccine?
  19. Which Nobel Prize winner in Literature wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
  20. Who was the first organization to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Hard Level

  1. Which Nobel laureate was forced by the Nazi regime to decline the prize?
  2. Who is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
  3. Which Nobel Prize winner was also a US Vice President?
  4. Who was the first posthumous Nobel Prize winner (before the rules changed in 1974)?
  5. Which Nobel laureate in Physics was known for his work on the photoelectric effect?
  6. Who was the first Nobel laureate born in the 20th century?
  7. Which Nobel Prize winner discovered the electron?
  8. Who was the first Nobel laureate from China?
  9. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs?
  10. Who was the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
  11. Which Nobel laureate in Chemistry discovered fullerenes?
  12. Who was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
  13. Which Nobel laureate developed the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technique?
  14. Who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
  15. Which Nobel Prize winner in Literature wrote in Russian but was a US citizen at the time of the award?