Nobel Prizes & 2025 Winners MCQs with Answers
60+ solved Nobel Prize MCQs — Alfred Nobel, all six categories, Pakistani laureates (Abdus Salam & Malala Yousafzai), repeat winners (Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, Frederick Sanger, John Bardeen) and the complete 2025 Nobel Prize winners. Practice for CSS, PMS, PPSC, FPSC & NTS.
Nobel Prize MCQs — Master Bank for Pakistani Competitive Exams
The Nobel Prize is one of the highest-frequency Current Affairs / General Knowledge topics in Pakistan’s CSS, PMS, PPSC, FPSC, NTS, IBA and provincial PCS exams — every paper carries 3–6 MCQs from this single topic. This page consolidates 60+ solved MCQs with answers across the entire Nobel syllabus: founder Alfred Bernhard Nobel, history (1901 onwards), all six categories (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences), Pakistani laureates (Abdus Salam, Malala Yousafzai), repeat winners (Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, Frederick Sanger, John Bardeen) and the complete 2025 winners in every category.
Complete Nobel Prize 2025 Winners
| Category | Winner(s) | Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry 2025 | Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar M. Yaghi | For the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) |
| Economics 2025 | Joel Mokyr, Peter Howitt, Philippe Aghion | For identifying prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress and the theory of creative destruction |
| Literature 2025 | László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) | For his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art |
| Peace 2025 | María Corina Machado (Venezuela) | For her tireless work promoting democratic rights for Venezuela and her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy |
| Physics 2025 | John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis | For the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit |
| Physiology or Medicine 2025 | Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi | For their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance |
Key Nobel Prize Facts to Memorise
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel — Swedish chemist who invented dynamite; left his fortune in his will to fund the Nobel Prize.
- Country — Sweden awards Nobel Prizes (Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway; the rest in Stockholm, Sweden).
- Award date — every year on 10 December (Alfred Nobel’s death anniversary).
- Instituted — 1900 (Nobel Foundation); first prizes awarded in 1901.
- Six categories — Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, Economic Sciences (added 1969).
- Top Nobel-winning country — USA, followed by United Kingdom, then Germany.
- Youngest laureate ever — Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan, Peace 2014, age 17).
- First Pakistani laureate — Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979).
- Two-time laureates — Marie Curie (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911), Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962), Frederick Sanger (Chemistry 1958 & 1980), John Bardeen (Physics 1956 & 1972).
- Linus Pauling — only person ever to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
- First international organisation to win — Institute of International Law.
- 2025 ceremony — announced October 2025; awarded 10 December 2025.
Exam tip: For CSS / PMS / PPSC, lock five anchors — 1901 (first prizes), 10 December (annual award date), 6 categories, USA = top country, and the names of the 2025 winners in each category. Together these cover ~80% of all Nobel-Prize MCQs.
Frequently Asked Questions
María Corina Machado of Venezuela won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for Venezuela and her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis jointly won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan is the youngest Nobel laureate ever — she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.
Dr Abdus Salam was the first Pakistani Nobel laureate, winning the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification theory. The second Pakistani laureate is Malala Yousafzai (Peace 2014).
Yes — essential. Nobel Prize MCQs are tested in every CSS Current Affairs, PMS, PPSC, FPSC, NTS, IBA, OTS and provincial PCS one-paper exam. Expect 3–6 MCQs from this topic in any current-affairs paper.
Yes. Click the Download PDF button in the hero or quiz section to get all 60+ Nobel Prize MCQs with correct answers as a branded QuizWing PDF for offline revision.