The Nobel Prizes are presented every year on 10 December because it is
- A.The birth anniversary of Alfred Nobel
- B.The death anniversary of Alfred Nobel
- C.The day the Nobel Foundation was set up
- D.The day the first prize was announced
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel, who died on 10 December 1896. The ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo are held on that date every year, and the prizes themselves are announced in October, some weeks earlier.
Option A is wrong because Nobel was born in October 1833, and no ceremony is tied to his birthday. Option C refers to the establishment of the Nobel Foundation in 1900, which made the first awards possible the following year but is not the date of the ceremony. Option D confuses the announcement, made each October by the awarding bodies, with the presentation in December. Note the coincidence worth remembering: 10 December is also Human Rights Day, adopted in 1948, so one date can serve two different questions.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Nobel Prizes were instituted under the will of
- A.Alfred Nobel
- B.Andrew Carnegie
- C.Joseph Pulitzer
- D.Cecil Rhodes
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The Swedish chemist who invented dynamite signed his last will in 1895 and left most of his fortune to endow prizes for those who had conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.
Read the full explanation →In which year were the Nobel Prizes awarded for the first time?
- A.1895
- B.1896
- C.1901
- D.1913
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Alfred Nobel's estate had to be settled and the Nobel Foundation established before any prize could be given, so the first awards came five years after his death.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was instituted in 1968 by
- A.The Nobel Foundation
- B.The central bank of Sweden
- C.The Swedish Academy
- D.The Norwegian parliament
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Sveriges Riksbank founded the prize in 1968 to mark its three hundredth anniversary, and it was awarded for the first time in 1969.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in which city?
- A.Stockholm
- B.Oslo
- C.Geneva
- D.Copenhagen
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Alfred Nobel's will directed that the Peace Prize be decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament, while the other prizes were left to Swedish institutions, and the Peace Prize is therefore announced and presented in the Norwegian capital.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian and the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
- A.C. V. Raman
- B.Rabindranath Tagore
- C.Mother Teresa
- D.Har Gobind Khorana
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He also wrote the national anthems sung in India and in Bangladesh.
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