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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Explanation
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. Option A is wrong because UNICEF, the United Nations children's fund, received the prize once, in 1965. Option C is wrong because Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, received it once, in 1999. Option D is wrong because the World Food Programme received it once, in 2020, for feeding people in conflict zones. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the organisation with two prizes, in 1954 and 1981, so a question may also ask for that. Remember the numbers as three for the Red Cross and two for the UNHCR.
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Practice Questions
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 →Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?
- A.1973
- B.1979
- C.1980
- D.1962
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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.
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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