Sunday, March 15, 2020

THE NOBEL LAUREATES - 1



Q1. The aftermath of which battle witnessed by Henry Dunant propelled him to found Red Cross?


A. Battle of Solferino

B. Crimean War

C. Sonderbund War



Q2. Rudyard Kipling, the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature was born in which Indian city?


A. Dehradun

B. Kanpur

C. Mumbai



Q3. In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate at the age of 17. Who was the youngest Nobel laureate before her?


A. Werner Heisenberg

B. Lawrence Bragg

C. Mairead Corrigan



Q4. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to three female political activists - two Africans (both from Liberia) and one Asian female for their persistence in obtaining equal rights for women. To which country did the Asian female laureate belong to?


A. Yemen

B. Saudi Arabia

C. Lebanon



Q5. Which Nobel Prize winner discovered the polio virus in 1909 along with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper?


A. Robert Koch

B. Karl Landsteiner

C. William P. Murphy






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