Consider the following statement: 1. Nobel ceremony is Dec 10 every year. 2. Literature was added later to the other five. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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- A1 onlyCorrect
- B2 only
- CBoth 1 and 2
- DNeither 1 nor 2
Explanation
Statement 1 is correct because the Nobel Prize ceremony is held annually on December 10 to commemorate the anniversary of Alfred Nobels death.
Statement 2 is incorrect because Literature was one of the original five prizes established by Alfred Nobels will in 1895, along with Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Peace. The prize that was added later is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, which was established in 1968.
Since only the first statement is true, the correct option is A.
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