Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?
- A.1973
- B.1979
- C.1980
- D.1962
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, 1979. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work among the destitute and the dying in Kolkata through the Missionaries of Charity, which she had founded in 1950. Option A is wrong because 1973 is the year she became the first recipient of the Templeton Prize, a different award. Option C is wrong because 1980 is the year she was given the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, which came a year after the Nobel. Option D is wrong because 1962 is the year of her Ramon Magsaysay Award. All four years belong to her, which is what makes the question difficult, so learn the sequence: Magsaysay 1962, Templeton 1973, Nobel 1979, Bharat Ratna 1980. Note also that the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded, has its headquarters in Kolkata.
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View allThe Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in which city?
- A.Stockholm
- B.Oslo
- C.Geneva
- D.Copenhagen
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Alfred Nobel's will placed the peace prize in the hands of a Norwegian body, so the winner is chosen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the prize is presented at Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Read the full explanation →The first Nobel Peace Prize, in 1901, was awarded to Frederic Passy and:
- A.Henry Dunant
- B.Fridtjof Nansen
- C.Woodrow Wilson
- D.Theodore Roosevelt
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The Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant, whose account of the battlefield at Solferino led to the founding of the Red Cross and to the first Geneva Convention, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize of 1901 with the French campaigner Frederic Passy.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times?
- A.UNICEF
- B.International Committee of the Red Cross
- C.Medecins Sans Frontieres
- D.World Food Programme
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The correct answer is B, the International Committee of the Red Cross, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917 and 1944 for its work in the two World Wars and again in 1963, the centenary year of its founding.
Read the full explanation →Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with:
- A.Malala Yousafzai
- B.Nadia Murad
- C.Abiy Ahmed
- D.Maria Ressa
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The prize for 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi of India, who founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan against child labour, and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who campaigned for girls' education and who remains the youngest person to receive any Nobel Prize.
Read the full explanation →The Gandhi Peace Prize was instituted in which year?
- A.1969
- B.1991
- C.1995
- D.2000
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The Government of India instituted the Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995, the year of the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is administered by the Ministry of Culture.
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