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50 questions covering every section of the note.
This Lok Sewa practice set has 50 multiple-choice questions (Subject: Current Affairs · For: Kharidar, Nayab Subba, Section Officer · Level: Easy). Take the quiz above first; after that, use the study list below to revise every question with its correct answer and a short explanation.
Study list: all 50 questions with answers and explanations
The Nobel Prize was founded by:
- A) Alfred Nobel ✔
- B) Ramon Magsaysay
- C) Joseph Pulitzer
- D) Albert Einstein
Why: The Nobel Prize was set up by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer, who left most of his fortune to fund prizes for work that benefits humanity.
Alfred Nobel invented:
- A) Telephone
- B) Dynamite ✔
- C) Radio
- D) Electric bulb
Why: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. The fortune he made from explosives later funded the Nobel Prizes.
The first Nobel Prizes were given in:
- A) 1895
- B) 1901 ✔
- C) 1910
- D) 1969
Why: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, five years after Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
The Nobel Prize in Economics was added in:
- A) 1901
- B) 1945
- C) 1969 ✔
- D) 1990
Why: The economics prize (Sveriges Riksbank Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel) was created by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969. It was not in Nobel's will.
Where is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
- A) Stockholm
- B) Oslo ✔
- C) Geneva
- D) Copenhagen
Why: The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, as Nobel's will asked. The other prizes are given in Stockholm.
Nobel Prizes are presented on:
- A) 1 January
- B) 10 December ✔
- C) 24 October
- D) 8 March
Why: Nobel Prizes are presented every year on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
Which award is called the Nobel Prize of Asia?
- A) Ramon Magsaysay Award ✔
- B) Booker Prize
- C) Pulitzer Prize
- D) Fields Medal
Why: The Ramon Magsaysay Award is called Asia's Nobel Prize. It honours people and groups in Asia for outstanding public service.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is given by an organisation in:
- A) India
- B) Japan
- C) Philippines ✔
- D) Thailand
Why: The award is given by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila, Philippines, and is named after a former Philippine president.
The Magsaysay Award was set up in:
- A) 1945
- B) 1957 ✔
- C) 1969
- D) 1980
Why: The Magsaysay Award was set up in 1957, the year President Ramon Magsaysay died in a plane crash.
Which Nepali eye surgeon won the Magsaysay Award in 2006?
- A) Sanduk Ruit ✔
- B) Bhagwan Koirala
- C) Govinda KC
- D) Arjun Karki
Why: Dr Sanduk Ruit won the Magsaysay Award in 2006 for low-cost cataract surgery that has restored sight to many thousands of people.
Mahabir Pun is known for:
- A) Bringing wireless internet to remote villages ✔
- B) Climbing Everest
- C) Writing Muna Madan
- D) Building Dharahara
Why: Mahabir Pun won the Magsaysay Award in 2007 for the Nepal Wireless Networking Project, which brought internet to remote hill villages such as Nangi in Myagdi.
The Pulitzer Prize is mainly for:
- A) Films
- B) Journalism and literature ✔
- C) Mathematics
- D) Sports
Why: The Pulitzer Prize is mainly for journalism and literature (it also has a music category). It is given in the USA through Columbia University.
The Oscar is given for:
- A) Music
- B) Films ✔
- C) Literature
- D) Science
Why: The Oscar (Academy Award) is given for achievement in films, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the USA.
The Grammy Award is given for:
- A) Films
- B) Music ✔
- C) Sports
- D) Journalism
Why: The Grammy Award is given for music, by the Recording Academy in the USA.
The Booker Prize is given for:
- A) Fiction ✔
- B) Peace
- C) Physics
- D) Journalism
Why: The Booker Prize is given for the best novel (fiction) written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Which award is for mathematics?
- A) Fields Medal ✔
- B) Grammy
- C) Booker
- D) Oscar
Why: The Fields Medal is a top award for mathematics, given by the International Mathematical Union. There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics.
The Right Livelihood Award is also called the:
- A) Alternative Nobel ✔
- B) Asian Nobel
- C) Green Oscar
- D) Nobel of Africa
Why: The Right Livelihood Award, set up in 1980 in Sweden, is called the 'Alternative Nobel'. It honours practical solutions to global problems.
Which is the most famous award for a Nepali book?
- A) Madan Puraskar ✔
- B) Booker Prize
- C) Pulitzer
- D) Sahitya Akademi Award
Why: Madan Puraskar is the best-known award for a Nepali book. It is given each year for the best book published in Nepali.
Madan Puraskar is given by:
- A) Madan Puraskar Guthi ✔
- B) Nepal Rastra Bank
- C) Tribhuvan University
- D) Ministry of Finance
Why: Madan Puraskar is given by the Madan Puraskar Guthi in Lalitpur, which also runs the Madan Puraskar Library.
How many Nobel Prize fields are there today?
- A) Four
- B) Five
- C) Six ✔
- D) Seven
Why: There are six fields today: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace (the five in Nobel's will) and Economics (added in 1969).
The first Nobel Peace Prize (1901) was shared by Henri Dunant and:
- A) Frédéric Passy ✔
- B) Alfred Nobel
- C) Woodrow Wilson
- D) Albert Schweitzer
Why: The first Peace Prize (1901) was shared by Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, and Frédéric Passy, a French peace campaigner.
The first Nobel Prize in Physics went to:
- A) Wilhelm Röntgen ✔
- B) Albert Einstein
- C) Marie Curie
- D) Max Planck
Why: Wilhelm Röntgen of Germany won the first Physics Prize in 1901 for discovering X-rays.
The first Asian to win a Nobel Prize was:
- A) Rabindranath Tagore ✔
- B) CV Raman
- C) Amartya Sen
- D) Mother Teresa
Why: Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won the Literature Prize in 1913, mainly for 'Gitanjali'.
Who won the Nobel Prize twice in different sciences?
- A) Marie Curie ✔
- B) Einstein
- C) Linus Pauling
- D) Bohr
Why: Marie Curie won Physics in 1903 (radioactivity, shared) and Chemistry in 1911 (radium and polonium). She is the only person with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
The youngest Nobel laureate is:
- A) Malala Yousafzai ✔
- B) Lawrence Bragg
- C) Greta Thunberg
- D) Mother Teresa
Why: Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan is the youngest laureate. She won the Peace Prize in 2014 at 17, shared with Kailash Satyarthi of India.
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for:
- A) The photoelectric effect ✔
- B) Relativity
- C) Atomic bomb
- D) Gravity
Why: Einstein won the 1921 Physics Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, not for relativity.
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in:
- A) 1979 ✔
- B) 1989
- C) 1995
- D) 2001
Why: Mother Teresa won the Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poorest people in Kolkata, India.
The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in:
- A) 1989 ✔
- B) 1979
- C) 1999
- D) 2009
Why: The 14th Dalai Lama won the Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent approach.
Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in:
- A) Economics ✔
- B) Peace
- C) Literature
- D) Physics
Why: Amartya Sen of India won the Economics Prize in 1998 for his work on welfare economics, poverty and famines.
CV Raman won the Nobel Prize for:
- A) Raman effect (light scattering) ✔
- B) Relativity
- C) Penicillin
- D) DNA
Why: C. V. Raman won the 1930 Physics Prize for the Raman effect, the scattering of light. He was the first Asian to win a Nobel in science.
Nobel Prizes (except Peace) are awarded in:
- A) Stockholm ✔
- B) Oslo
- C) Geneva
- D) Paris
Why: All Nobel Prizes except Peace are presented in Stockholm, Sweden. The Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel Prize ceremonies are held on 10 December because it is:
- A) Alfred Nobel's death anniversary ✔
- B) His birthday
- C) UN Day
- D) Human Rights Day only
Why: 10 December is Alfred Nobel's death anniversary. He died on 10 December 1896 in San Remo, Italy.
The Abel Prize is given for:
- A) Mathematics ✔
- B) Peace
- C) Literature
- D) Medicine
Why: The Abel Prize is given for mathematics by Norway, and was first awarded in 2003. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.
The Turing Award is often called the Nobel Prize of:
- A) Computing ✔
- B) Physics
- C) Economics
- D) Music
Why: The Turing Award, given by the ACM since 1966, is called the Nobel Prize of computing. It is named after Alan Turing.
The Fields Medal is awarded every:
- A) Four years ✔
- B) Year
- C) Two years
- D) Ten years
Why: The Fields Medal is awarded every four years, at the International Congress of Mathematicians, to mathematicians under 40.
The Goldman Environmental Prize is called the:
- A) Green Nobel ✔
- B) Asian Nobel
- C) Alternative Nobel
- D) Junior Nobel
Why: The Goldman Environmental Prize, given since 1990 to grassroots environmental activists, is known as the 'Green Nobel'.
Ramon Magsaysay was a President of:
- A) The Philippines ✔
- B) Indonesia
- C) Thailand
- D) Malaysia
Why: Ramon Magsaysay was the 7th President of the Philippines (1953–1957). The award named after him was set up after his death.
Sanduk Ruit won the Magsaysay Award in:
- A) 2006 ✔
- B) 2007
- C) 1990
- D) 2015
Why: Dr Sanduk Ruit won the Magsaysay Award in 2006 for his low-cost cataract surgery and eye-care work.
Mahabir Pun won the Magsaysay Award in:
- A) 2007 ✔
- B) 2006
- C) 2010
- D) 2002
Why: Mahabir Pun won the Magsaysay Award in 2007 for using wireless technology to bring the internet to remote villages.
Which Nepali journalist won the Magsaysay Award in 2002?
- A) Bharat Dutta Koirala ✔
- B) Kanak Mani Dixit
- C) Kishor Nepal
- D) Narayan Wagle
Why: Bharat Dutta Koirala, a senior journalist, won the Magsaysay Award in 2002 for journalism and for training journalists in Nepal.
The Ballon d'Or is given in:
- A) Football ✔
- B) Cricket
- C) Tennis
- D) Hockey
Why: The Ballon d'Or is a football award for the best player of the year, given by France Football magazine since 1956.
The Jnanpith Award is India's award for:
- A) Literature ✔
- B) Science
- C) Sports
- D) Peace
Why: The Jnanpith Award is India's top award for literature, given to writers in Indian languages. It was first given in 1965.
The Bharat Ratna is India's highest:
- A) Civilian award ✔
- B) Military award
- C) Sports award
- D) Film award
Why: The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award, started in 1954.
Param Vir Chakra is India's highest:
- A) Military gallantry award ✔
- B) Civilian award
- C) Literary award
- D) Sports award
Why: The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest military award for gallantry in war.
The Pulitzer Prize was established by:
- A) Joseph Pulitzer ✔
- B) Alfred Nobel
- C) Ramon Magsaysay
- D) Bill Gates
Why: The Pulitzer Prize was set up by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a US newspaper publisher, and was first given in 1917.
The Booker Prize is given for:
- A) Fiction in English ✔
- B) Poetry only
- C) Science
- D) Music
Why: The Booker Prize is given for a novel in English published in the UK or Ireland. It was first awarded in 1969.
Oscars are presented by the:
- A) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ✔
- B) UNESCO
- C) BBC
- D) FIFA
Why: The Oscars are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is why they are also called the Academy Awards.
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in:
- A) 2009 ✔
- B) 2008
- C) 2012
- D) 2016
Why: US President Barack Obama won the Peace Prize in 2009, in his first year in office, for efforts in international diplomacy.
Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with:
- A) FW de Klerk ✔
- B) Desmond Tutu
- C) Kofi Annan
- D) Arafat
Why: Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk shared the 1993 Peace Prize for peacefully ending apartheid.
Which organisation has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times?
- A) International Committee of the Red Cross ✔
- B) UN
- C) UNICEF
- D) WHO
Why: The International Committee of the Red Cross won the Peace Prize three times: 1917, 1944 and 1963 (the 1963 prize was shared with the League of Red Cross Societies).