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Nobel laureates born in India: GK quiz

12 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: The Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize Outreach) - official laureate data, api.nobelprize.org ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026

  1. Question 1 of 12

    In which field was Amartya Sen awarded the Nobel Prize?

  2. Question 2 of 12

    In which field was Abdus Salam awarded the Nobel Prize?

  3. Question 3 of 12

    In which field was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan awarded the Nobel Prize?

  4. Question 4 of 12

    In which field was Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize?

  5. Question 5 of 12

    In which field was Abhijit Banerjee awarded the Nobel Prize?

  6. Question 6 of 12

    In which field was Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman awarded the Nobel Prize?

  7. Question 7 of 12

    In which field was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize?

  8. Question 8 of 12

    In which field was H. Gobind Khorana awarded the Nobel Prize?

  9. Question 9 of 12

    In which field was Muhammad Yunus awarded the Nobel Prize?

  10. Question 10 of 12

    In which field was Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar awarded the Nobel Prize?

  11. Question 11 of 12

    In which field was Ronald Ross awarded the Nobel Prize?

  12. Question 12 of 12

    In which field was Kailash Satyarthi awarded the Nobel Prize?

The official list (12 rows)

Nobel laureatePrize field
Ronald RossPhysiology or Medicine
Rudyard KiplingLiterature
Rabindranath TagoreLiterature
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanPhysics
H. Gobind KhoranaPhysiology or Medicine
Abdus SalamPhysics
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharPhysics
Amartya SenEconomic Sciences
Muhammad YunusPeace
Venkatraman RamakrishnanChemistry
Kailash SatyarthiPeace
Abhijit BanerjeeEconomic Sciences

Left out or changed by Shishya: HOW CHOSEN: every laureate whose birth country nobelprize.org records as 'India' or 'British India' (the API's birthCountry=India filter returned 12; nobelprize.org web pages returned 403 to WebFetch, so its own official API was read). Names and fields exactly as nobelprize.org gives them. This is 'born in India', not 'Indian citizen': Ronald Ross (born Almora) and Rudyard Kipling (born Bombay) were British; Abdus Salam (born Jhang Maghiana) and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born Lahore) were born in places now in Pakistan; Muhammad Yunus was born in Chittagong, now Bangladesh. Shishya questions should say 'born in (British) India', never 'Indian Nobel laureate', for those five. Left out: Mother Teresa (Peace 1979) - nobelprize.org records her birth in Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje) and her biography there does not state Indian citizenship, so she fails the 'born in or citizen of India per nobelprize.org' rule; the 14th Dalai Lama (born Tibet, not an Indian citizen). Fields are not unique, so no reverse template.

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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