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Understanding the Nobel Peace Prize

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Nobel Peace Prize, its origins, and its significance in promoting peace.

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1 Where does Nobel Peace Prize come from?

2 The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor ________.

3 "The Nobel Prize in Peace" – Official site of the ________.

4 It also notes that at the end of the nineteenth century, the Norwegian parliament had become closely involved in the ________'s efforts to resolve conflicts through mediation and arbitration.

5 "All Nobel Laureates in Peace" – Index webpage on the official site of the ________.

6 The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in ________.

7 The categories for ________ and physics were obvious choices as he was a trained chemical engineer.

8 Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for choosing ________ as a prize category.

9 [2] Scholars who studied Nobel have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces (Nobel's inventions included ________ and ballistite).

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was Nicholas Butler.
  • three Nobel Peace Prizes have led to withdrawal of members of the awarding Norwegian Nobel Committee.
  • the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat.
  • the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
  • Alf Rolfsen has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of Oslo City Hall, where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held every year.
  • John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
  • Norwegian jurist and peace activist Fredrik Heffermehl claimed that 45 percent of Nobel Peace Prize awards after 1945 are "illegal".
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