Year | Nationality | Reason for Award | Answer | % Correct |
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2009 | American | "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" | Barack H. Obama | 81%
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South African | Nelson Mandela | 74%
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2001 | N/A | "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" | United Nations (UN) | 70%
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2012 | N/A | "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" | European Union | 67%
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1989 | Tibetan | No reason given. | The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) | 63%
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1993 | South 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%
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2002 | American | "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%
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Ghanaian | Kofi Annan | 59%
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1990 | Soviet/Russian | "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 59%
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American | Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. | 56%
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1983 | Polish | No reason given. | Lech Walesa | 56%
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Pakistani | Malala Yousafzai | 56%
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1906 | American | No reason given. | Theodore Roosevelt | 56%
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Israeli | Yitzhak Rabin | 56%
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1964 | American | No reason given. | Martin Luther King Jr. | 52%
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1977 | N/A | No reason given. | Amnesty International | 48%
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1978 | Egyptian | No reason given. | Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat | 48%
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1994 | Palestinian | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" | Yasser Arafat | 48%
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1917 | 1944 | 1963 | N/A | No reason given. | Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) | 44%
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1984 | South African | No reason given. | Desmond Mpilo Tutu | 44%
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1973 | American | No reason given. | Henry A. Kissinger | 44%
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1901 | Swiss | No reason given. | Jean Henry Dunant | 44%
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N/A | No reason given. | Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies) | 44%
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1979 | Several, Albanian at death. | No reason given. | Mother Teresa | 44%
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Israeli | Shimon Peres | 44%
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1919 | American | No reason given. | Thomas Woodrow Wilson | 44%
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1971 | West German | No reason given. | Willy Brandt | 44%
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Israeli | No reason given. | Menachem Begin | 41%
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1991 | Myanmarese/Burmese | "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" | Aung San Suu Kyi | 33%
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1953 | American | No reason given. | George Catlett Marshall | 33%
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1965 | N/A | No reason given. | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | 33%
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1952 | French, German | No reason given. | Albert Schweitzer | 30%
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1976 | British | No reason given. | Betty Williams | 30%
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American | Jody Williams | 30%
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1957 | Canadian | No reason given. | Lester Bowles Pearson | 30%
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1999 | N/A | "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents" | Médecins Sans Frontières | 30%
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1975 | Soviet | No reason given. | Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov | 26%
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1926 | French | No reason given. | Aristide Briand | 26%
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1905 | Austro-Hungarian | No reason given. | Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau | 26%
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1935 | German | No reason given. | Carl von Ossietzky | 26%
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2011 | Liberian | "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%
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1922 | Norwegian | No reason given. | Fridtjof Nansen | 26%
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German | No reason given. | Gustav Stresemann | 26%
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North Vietnamese | No reason given. | Le Duc Tho | 26%
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British | No reason given. | Mairead Corrigan | 26%
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1938 | N/A | No reason given. | Office International Nansen Pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees) | 26%
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1961 | Swedish | No reason given. | Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold | 22%
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British | David Trimble | 22%
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1998 | Irish, British | "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" | John Hume | 22%
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1962 | American | No reason given. | Linus Carl Pauling | 22%
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Bangladeshi | Muhammad Yunus | 22%
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N/A | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | 19%
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1969 | N/A | No reason given. | International Labour Organization (ILO) | 19%
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2016 | Colombian | "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end" | Juan Manuel Santos | 19%
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2008 | Finnish | "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts" | Martti Ahtisaari | 19%
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1954 | 1981 | N/A | No reason given. | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | 19%
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1992 | Guatemalan | "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%
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1974 | Irish | No reason given. | Sean MacBride | 19%
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2003 | Iranian | "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%
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1960 | South African | No reason given. | Albert Lutuli | 15%
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Mexican | No reason given. | Alfonso Garcia Robles | 15%
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1982 | Swedish | No reason given. | Alva Myrdal | 15%
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1986 | American | No reason given. | Elie Wiesel | 15%
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French | No reason given. | Frédéric Passy | 15%
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American | No reason given. | John Raleigh Mott | 15%
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1995 | British, 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%
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2010 | Chinese | "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" | Liu Xiaobo | 15%
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2005 | Egyptian | "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%
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1925 | British | No reason given. | Sir Austen Chamberlain | 15%
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2004 | Kenyan | "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" | Wangari Muta Maathai | 15%
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East Timorese | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | 11%
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1929 | American | No reason given. | Frank Billings Kellogg | 11%
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2006 | Bangladeshi | "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" | Grameen Bank | 11%
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1996 | East Timorese | "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor" | José Ramos-Horta | 11%
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2014 | Indian | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education" | Kailash Satyarthi | 11%
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Liberian | Leymah Gbowee | 11%
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2015 | Tunisian | "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%
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1970 | American | No reason given. | Norman E. Borlaug | 11%
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1987 | Costa 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%
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N/A | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | 11%
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Yemeni | Tawakkol Karman | 11%
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1980 | Argentinian | No reason given. | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | 7%
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N/A | American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) | 7%
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1936 | Argentinian | No reason given. | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 7%
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American | No reason given. | Charles Gates Dawes | 7%
| |
Japanese | No reason given. | Eisaku Sato | 7%
| |
1947 | N/A | No reason given. | Friends Service Council (The Quakers) | 7%
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2007 | N/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%
|
1997 | N/A | "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" | International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) | 7%
|
1985 | N/A | No reason given. | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | 7%
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2000 | South 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%
|
2013 | N/A | "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons" | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | 7%
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1950 | American | No reason given. | Ralph Bunche | 7%
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1910 | N/A | No reason given. | Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau) | 4%
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1937 | British | No reason given. | Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Elgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) | 4%
|
1945 | American | No reason given. | Cordell Hull | 4%
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1902 | Swiss | No reason given. | Élie Ducommun | 4%
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1912 | American | No reason given. | Elihu Root | 4%
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1946 | American | No reason given. | Emily Greene Balch | 4%
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1907 | Italian | No reason given. | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | 4%
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1958 | Belgian | No reason given. | Georges Pire | 4%
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1904 | N/A | No reason given. | Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law) | 4%
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1931 | American | No reason given. | Jane Addams | 4%
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1951 | French | No reason given. | Léon Jouhaux | 4%
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1920 | French | No reason given. | Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois | 4%
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1949 | British | No reason given. | Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin | 4%
|
German | No reason given. | Ludwig Quidde | 4%
| |
American | No reason given. | Nicholas Murray Butler | 4%
| |
1959 | British | No reason given. | Philip J. Noel-Baker | 4%
|
1968 | French | No reason given. | René Cassin | 4%
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1911 | Dutch | No reason given. | Tobias Michel Karel Asser | 4%
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1988 | N/A | No reason given. | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | 4%
|
1903 | British | No reason given. | William Randal Cremer | 4%
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Austro-Hungarian | No reason given. | Alfred Hermann Fried | 0%
| |
1934 | British | No reason given. | Arthur Henderson | 0%
|
1909 | Belgian | No reason given. | Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert | 0%
|
Swiss | No reason given. | Charles Albert Gobat | 0%
| |
1927 | French | No reason given. | Ferdinand Buisson | 0%
|
Danish | No reason given. | Fredrik Bajer | 0%
| |
1913 | Belgian | No reason given. | Henri La Fontaine | 0%
|
1921 | Swedish | No reason given. | Karl Hjalmar Branting | 0%
|
1908 | Swedish | No reason given. | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | 0%
|
1930 | Swedish | No reason given. | Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Soderblom | 0%
|
French | No reason given. | Louis Renault | 0%
| |
French | No reason given. | Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque | 0%
| |
1933 | British | No reason given. | Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) | 0%
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