Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Question 1

2014

Answer 1

Kailash Satyarthi (India)
Malala Yousafzi (Pakistan)

or their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”[112] (At age 17, Ms. Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize recipient.)

Question 2

2013

Answer 2

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (International)

for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons

Question 3

2012

Answer 3

EU

Question 4

2011

Answer 4

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia)
Tawakkul Karman (Yemen)

or their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work

Question 5

2010

Answer 5

Lui Xiaobo (China)

for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”

Question 6

2009

Answer 6

Barack Obama (US)

for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

Question 7

2007

Answer 7

Al Gore (Climat Change)

Question 8

2002

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter

“for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development

Question 9

2001

Answer 9

Kofi Annan (Ghana) (was sec of UN at the time)

Question 10

1994

Answer 10

Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres

Question 11

1993

Answer 11

Nelson Mandela

Question 12

1990

Answer 12

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 13

1989

Answer 13

14th Dalai Lama

Question 14

1986

Answer 14

Elie Wiesel

Question 15

1979

Answer 15

Mother Teresa

Founder of Missionaries of Charity”

Question 16

1978

Answer 16

Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin

“for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel

Question 17

1973

Answer 17

Henry Kissinger

For the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces

Question 18

1970

Answer 18

Norman Borlaug

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center;”[67] “for his contributions to the “green revolution” that was having such an impact on food production particularly in Asia and in Latin America.

Question 19

1964

Answer 19

MLK

Question 20

1953

Answer 20

George C. Marshall

Question 21

1931

Answer 21

Jane Addams

Question 22

1919

Answer 22

Woodrow Wilson (League of Nations)

Question 23

1906

Answer 23

Theodore Roosevelt (his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war a)