Statistics for Nobel Prize Winners in Peace

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  • This quiz has been taken 34 times
  • The average score is 28 of 129

Answer Stats

YearNationalityReason for AwardAnswer% Correct
2009American"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"Barack H. Obama
81%
South AfricanNelson Mandela
74%
2001N/A"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"United Nations (UN)
70%
2012N/A"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"European Union
67%
1989TibetanNo reason given.The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
63%
1993South African"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"Frederik Willem de Klerk
59%
2002American"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"Jimmy Carter
59%
GhanaianKofi Annan
59%
1990Soviet/Russian"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
59%
AmericanAlbert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
56%
1983PolishNo reason given.Lech Walesa
56%
PakistaniMalala Yousafzai
56%
1906AmericanNo reason given.Theodore Roosevelt
56%
IsraeliYitzhak Rabin
56%
1964AmericanNo reason given.Martin Luther King Jr.
52%
1977N/ANo reason given.Amnesty International
48%
1978EgyptianNo reason given.Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
48%
1994Palestinian"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"Yasser Arafat
48%
1917 | 1944 | 1963N/ANo reason given.Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
44%
1984South AfricanNo reason given.Desmond Mpilo Tutu
44%
1973AmericanNo reason given.Henry A. Kissinger
44%
1901SwissNo reason given.Jean Henry Dunant
44%
N/ANo reason given.Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
44%
1979Several, Albanian at death.No reason given.Mother Teresa
44%
IsraeliShimon Peres
44%
1919AmericanNo reason given.Thomas Woodrow Wilson
44%
1971West GermanNo reason given.Willy Brandt
44%
IsraeliNo reason given.Menachem Begin
41%
1991Myanmarese/Burmese"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"Aung San Suu Kyi
33%
1953AmericanNo reason given.George Catlett Marshall
33%
1965N/ANo reason given.United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
33%
1952French, GermanNo reason given.Albert Schweitzer
30%
1976BritishNo reason given.Betty Williams
30%
AmericanJody Williams
30%
1957CanadianNo reason given.Lester Bowles Pearson
30%
1999N/A"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"Médecins Sans Frontières
30%
1975SovietNo reason given.Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
26%
1926FrenchNo reason given.Aristide Briand
26%
1905Austro-HungarianNo reason given.Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
26%
1935GermanNo reason given.Carl von Ossietzky
26%
2011Liberian"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
26%
1922NorwegianNo reason given.Fridtjof Nansen
26%
GermanNo reason given.Gustav Stresemann
26%
North VietnameseNo reason given.Le Duc Tho
26%
BritishNo reason given.Mairead Corrigan
26%
1938N/ANo reason given.Office International Nansen Pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
26%
1961SwedishNo reason given.Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
22%
BritishDavid Trimble
22%
1998Irish, British"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"John Hume
22%
1962AmericanNo reason given.Linus Carl Pauling
22%
BangladeshiMuhammad Yunus
22%
N/AInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
19%
1969N/ANo reason given.International Labour Organization (ILO)
19%
2016Colombian"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"Juan Manuel Santos
19%
2008Finnish"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"Martti Ahtisaari
19%
1954 | 1981N/ANo reason given.Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
19%
1992Guatemalan"in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"Rigoberta Menchu Tum
19%
1974IrishNo reason given.Sean MacBride
19%
2003Iranian"for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children"Shirin Ebadi
19%
1960South AfricanNo reason given.Albert Lutuli
15%
MexicanNo reason given.Alfonso Garcia Robles
15%
1982SwedishNo reason given.Alva Myrdal
15%
1986AmericanNo reason given.Elie Wiesel
15%
FrenchNo reason given.Frédéric Passy
15%
AmericanNo reason given.John Raleigh Mott
15%
1995British, Polish"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"Joseph Rotblat
15%
2010Chinese"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"Liu Xiaobo
15%
2005Egyptian"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"Mohamed ElBaradei
15%
1925BritishNo reason given.Sir Austen Chamberlain
15%
2004Kenyan"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"Wangari Muta Maathai
15%
East TimoreseCarlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
11%
1929AmericanNo reason given.Frank Billings Kellogg
11%
2006Bangladeshi"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"Grameen Bank
11%
1996East Timorese"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"José Ramos-Horta
11%
2014Indian"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"Kailash Satyarthi
11%
LiberianLeymah Gbowee
11%
2015Tunisian"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"National Dialogue Quartet
11%
1970AmericanNo reason given.Norman E. Borlaug
11%
1987Costa Rican"for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year"Oscar Arias Sanchez
11%
N/APugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
11%
YemeniTawakkol Karman
11%
1980ArgentinianNo reason given.Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
7%
N/AAmerican Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
7%
1936ArgentinianNo reason given.Carlos Saavedra Lamas
7%
AmericanNo reason given.Charles Gates Dawes
7%
JapaneseNo reason given.Eisaku Sato
7%
1947N/ANo reason given.Friends Service Council (The Quakers)
7%
2007N/A"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
7%
1997N/A"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
7%
1985N/ANo reason given.International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
7%
2000South Korean"for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular"Kim Dae-Jung
7%
2013N/A"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
7%
1950AmericanNo reason given.Ralph Bunche
7%
1910N/ANo reason given.Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
4%
1937BritishNo reason given.Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Elgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
4%
1945AmericanNo reason given.Cordell Hull
4%
1902SwissNo reason given.Élie Ducommun
4%
1912AmericanNo reason given.Elihu Root
4%
1946AmericanNo reason given.Emily Greene Balch
4%
1907ItalianNo reason given.Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
4%
1958BelgianNo reason given.Georges Pire
4%
1904N/ANo reason given.Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law)
4%
1931AmericanNo reason given.Jane Addams
4%
1951FrenchNo reason given.Léon Jouhaux
4%
1920FrenchNo reason given.Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
4%
1949BritishNo reason given.Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
4%
GermanNo reason given.Ludwig Quidde
4%
AmericanNo reason given.Nicholas Murray Butler
4%
1959BritishNo reason given.Philip J. Noel-Baker
4%
1968FrenchNo reason given.René Cassin
4%
1911DutchNo reason given.Tobias Michel Karel Asser
4%
1988N/ANo reason given.United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
4%
1903BritishNo reason given.William Randal Cremer
4%
Austro-HungarianNo reason given.Alfred Hermann Fried
0%
1934BritishNo reason given.Arthur Henderson
0%
1909BelgianNo reason given.Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert
0%
SwissNo reason given.Charles Albert Gobat
0%
1927FrenchNo reason given.Ferdinand Buisson
0%
DanishNo reason given.Fredrik Bajer
0%
1913BelgianNo reason given.Henri La Fontaine
0%
1921SwedishNo reason given.Karl Hjalmar Branting
0%
1908SwedishNo reason given.Klas Pontus Arnoldson
0%
1930SwedishNo reason given.Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Soderblom
0%
FrenchNo reason given.Louis Renault
0%
FrenchNo reason given.Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
0%
1933BritishNo reason given.Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
0%

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