Who is the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Prize?
- A.Malala Yousafzai
- B.Kailash Satyarthi
- C.Rudyard Kipling
- D.Lawrence Bragg
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Malala Yousafzai, who was seventeen when she shared the Peace Prize in 2014 for her campaign for the right of girls to go to school. That makes her the youngest laureate in any category in the history of the prize.
Option B, Kailash Satyarthi, shared the same Peace Prize with her for his work against the exploitation of children in India, so the pairing of the two names in one year is itself an examinable fact. Option C, Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, was forty-one when he won the Literature Prize in 1907 and remains the youngest winner in that category, not overall. Option D, Lawrence Bragg, was twenty-five when he shared the Physics Prize in 1915 with his father, which is the youngest in the sciences. Note which record each name holds before answering.
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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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