Who was the first recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize?
- A.Nelson Mandela
- B.Julius Nyerere
- C.Baba Amte
- D.Desmond Tutu
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Julius Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania, who received the Gandhi Peace Prize in its first year, 1995, for his work for peace and for the poor of Africa. Option A is wrong because Nelson Mandela was not the first recipient of this prize; he is remembered above all for the Nobel Peace Prize of 1993, which he shared with F. W. de Klerk of South Africa. Option C is wrong because Baba Amte, who worked among people affected by leprosy at Anandwan, received it in 1999. Option D is wrong because Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, is remembered chiefly for his Nobel Peace Prize of 1984. Along with the first recipient, learn the Indian institutions on the list: the Ramakrishna Mission, ISRO and Gita Press of Gorakhpur.
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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 →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 →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.
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