Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the photoelectric effect?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Richard Feynman
c) Enrico Fermi
d) J. Robert Oppenheimer
Answer: a) Albert Einstein
Which American author received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contribution to American literature?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Mark Twain
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: a) Ernest Hemingway
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on promoting education and gender equality?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Oprah Winfrey
c) Malala Yousafzai
d) Angela Merkel
Answer: c) Malala Yousafzai
Which American scientist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the molecular structure of DNA?
a) Linus Pauling
b) Francis Crick
c) James Watson
d) Kary Mullis
Answer: b) Francis Crick
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the genetic basis of cancer?
a) Harold Varmus
b) James D. Watson
c) Baruch S. Blumberg
d) Alfred G. Gilman
Answer: a) Harold Varmus
Which American economist was honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis?
a) Paul Krugman
b) Milton Friedman
c) John Maynard Keynes
d) Amartya Sen
Answer: b) Milton Friedman
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on the theory of superconductivity?
a) Robert H. Grubbs
b) John Bardeen
c) Murray Gell-Mann
d) Brian Kobilka
Answer: b) John Bardeen
Which American president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War?
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) Jimmy Carter
Answer: c) Theodore Roosevelt
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium?
a) Marie Curie
b) Barbara McClintock
c) Rosalind Franklin
d) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Answer: a) Marie Curie
Which American playwright received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and innovative drama?
a) Tennessee Williams
b) Arthur Miller
c) August Wilson
d) Eugene O’Neill
Answer: d) Eugene O’Neill
Who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the structure of antibodies?
a) Carl Cori
b) Albert Sabin
c) Joshua Lederberg
d) Gerald M. Edelman
Answer: d) Gerald M. Edelman
Which American economist was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information?
a) Paul Samuelson
b) Joseph Stiglitz
c) Richard Thaler
d) Robert Shiller
Answer: b) Joseph Stiglitz
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the phonograph and his work on the incandescent light bulb?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Alexander Graham Bell
c) Nikola Tesla
d) Samuel Morse
Answer: a) Thomas Edison
Which American scientist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the principles governing chemical reactions?
a) Robert F. Curl
b) Gilbert N. Lewis
c) Robert H. Grubbs
d) Linus Pauling
Answer: b) Gilbert N. Lewis
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in advocating for children’s rights and welfare?
a) Eleanor Roosevelt
b) Rosa Parks
c) Aung San Suu Kyi
d) Jane Addams
Answer: d) Jane Addams
Which American chemist was honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy?
a) Robert Lefkowitz
b) Dudley R. Herschbach
c) Linus Pauling
d) Richard R. Ernst
Answer: d) Richard R. Ernst
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as dramatic narration?
a) John Updike
b) Saul Bellow
c) Toni Morrison
d) Bob Dylan
Answer: b) Saul Bellow
Which American economist was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his empirical analysis of asset prices?
a) Paul Krugman
b) Robert Shiller
c) Eugene Fama
d) Joseph Stiglitz
Answer: b) Robert Shiller
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
a) Anthony Fauci
b) Robert C. Gallo
c) David Baltimore
d) Jonas Salk
Answer: b) Robert C. Gallo
Which American physicist was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of the theory of quarks and gluons?
a) Steven Weinberg
b) Sheldon Glashow
c) Richard Feynman
d) Murray Gell-Mann
Answer: d) Murray Gell-Mann
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to the creation of a national dialogue on racial reconciliation and human rights in the United States?
a) Coretta Scott King
b) Maya Angelou
c) Angela Davis
d) Rosa Parks
Answer: a) Coretta Scott King
Which American biologist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetic control of organ development and programmed cell death?
a) Craig Venter
b) James E. Rothman
c) Eric Betzig
d) Edward B. Lewis
Answer: d) Edward B. Lewis
Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to the modern American short story?
a) J.D. Salinger
b) Kurt Vonnegut
c) John Cheever
d) Isaac Bashevis Singer
Answer: c) John Cheever
Which American economist was honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the dynamics of economic growth?
a) Robert Solow
b) Paul Romer
c) Oliver Williamson
d) Angus Deaton
Answer: b) Paul Romer
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of computer-based methods in quantum chemistry?
a) Ahmed Zewail
b) Mario J. Molina
c) Walter Kohn
d) John A. Pople
Answer: d) John A. Pople
Which American diplomat and peace activist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in negotiating peace treaties?
a) Henry Kissinger
b) Jimmy Carter
c) George C. Marshall
d) Cordell Hull
Answer: a) Henry Kissinger
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Hall effect, which has important applications in condensed matter physics?
a) Robert A. Millikan
b) Albert A. Michelson
c) John Bardeen
d) Klaus Hasselmann
Answer: a) Robert A. Millikan
Which American author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in “The Old Man and the Sea?
a) John Steinbeck
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) Saul Bellow
d) William Faulkner
Answer: b) Ernest Hemingway
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanisms underlying the vesicular trafficking system?
a) Randy W. Schekman
b) Michael Rosbash
c) James Rothman
d) James Peebles
Answer: a) Randy W. Schekman
Which American economist received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games?
a) Robert Shiller
b) Paul Milgrom
c) Kenneth Arrow
d) Robert F. Engle
Answer: b) Paul Milgrom
Who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the structure and function of the ribosome?
a) Martin Karplus
b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
c) Kip S. Thorne
d) Roger D. Kornberg
Answer: b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Which American playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contribution to the renewal of the theatrical art?
a) Arthur Miller
b) Eugene O’Neill
c) Tennessee Williams
d) August Wilson
Answer: a) Arthur Miller
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy?
a) Nicolaas Bloembergen
b) John L. Hall
c) Daniel C. Tsui
d) Jack Kilby
Answer: a) Nicolaas Bloembergen
Which American president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Camp David Accords, which led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel?
a) Jimmy Carter
b) Ronald Reagan
c) George H.W. Bush
d) Bill Clinton
Answer: a) Jimmy Carter
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a key role in cellular aging?
a) James E. Rothman
b) Carol W. Greider
c) Michael Rosbash
d) Roger Penrose
Answer: b) Carol W. Greider
Which American chemist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry?
a) John A. Pople
b) Dudley R. Herschbach
c) Linus Pauling
d) Richard R. Ernst
Answer: a) John A. Pople
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in advocating for the rights of women and girls, particularly in conflict-affected areas?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Aung San Suu Kyi
c) Malala Yousafzai
d) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Answer: d) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Which American economist was honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity?
a) Paul Krugman
b) Joseph Stiglitz
c) Robert Solow
d) Amartya Sen
Answer: a) Paul Krugman
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction?
a) Murray Gell-Mann
b) John Bardeen
c) Frank Wilczek
d) Richard Feynman
Answer: c) Frank Wilczek
Which American author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his vivid and ironic poetry, which has renewed the great American song tradition?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Robert Frost
d) Bob Dylan
Answer: d) Bob Dylan
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in promoting nuclear disarmament and reducing the role of nuclear weapons in international affairs?
a) Jimmy Carter
b) Barack Obama
c) Ronald Reagan
d) Henry Kissinger
Answer: b) Barack Obama
Which American physicist was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect?
a) Richard Feynman
b) John Bardeen
c) Klaus Hasselmann
d) Daniel C. Tsui
Answer: d) Daniel C. Tsui
Who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements, or “jumping genes”?
a) Barbara McClintock
b) Carol W. Greider
c) Elizabeth H. Blackburn
d) Jennifer Doudna
Answer: a) Barbara McClintock
Which American economist was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of markets with search frictions?
a) Oliver Williamson
b) Alvin E. Roth
c) Richard H. Thaler
d) Eugene F. Fama
Answer: b) Alvin E. Roth
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the understanding of complex chemical processes on solid surfaces?
a) Ahmed Zewail
b) Dudley R. Herschbach
c) Gerhard Ertl
d) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Answer: c) Gerhard Ertl
Which American author received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contribution to the American epic tradition?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) John Steinbeck
c) William Faulkner
d) Saul Bellow
Answer: c) William Faulkner
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter?
a) J. Michael Kosterlitz
b) Kip S. Thorne
c) F. Duncan M. Haldane
d) Roger Penrose
Answer: c) F. Duncan M. Haldane
Which American diplomat received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords, which ended the Vietnam War?
a) Henry Kissinger
b) George C. Marshall
c) Cordell Hull
d) John Foster Dulles
Answer: a) Henry Kissinger
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in facilitating a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israel and Egypt?
a) Jimmy Carter
b) Kofi Annan
c) Shimon Peres
d) Yasser Arafat
Answer: a) Jimmy Carter
Which American biologist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres?
a) Roger D. Kornberg
b) James Peebles
c) Roger W. Sperry
d) David J. Wineland
Answer: c) Roger W. Sperry
