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Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for ending segregation in what country?
South Africa
The U.S.A.
Australia
Guatemala
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Tenzin Gyatso won the Nobel Peace Prize for preserving the heritage of Tibet peacefully under Chinese occupation. Gyatso was the 14th person to hold what religious title?
The Dalai Lama
The Pope
The Emir
The Archbishop[p of Canterbury
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Willy Brandt, the former Chancellor of West Germany, won a Nobel Peace Prize for what system of political cooperation that he established between the East and the West?
Haveraun
Perestroika
Ostpolitik
The Cold Line
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What man won the Nobel Peace Prize for authoring a namesake plan that caused the U.S. to fund multiple European countries' rebuilding efforts in the wake of World War Two?
James Doolittle
George Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
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The writer Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his nonviolent opposition to what nation's single-party communist rule?
Vietnam
North Korea
China
Japan
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In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work helping the poor of what Indian city?
Aghra
New Delhi
Calcutta
Mumbai
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What Egyptian leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 for signing a peace treaty with his homeland's former enemy Israel, promising greater cooperation and coexistence in the future?
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Anwar Sedat
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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In 1998, John Hume of Ireland and David Trimble of the U.K. won Nobel Peace Prizes for ending The Troubles through what treaty?
The Easter Sunday Treaty
The Good Friday Agreement
The Holy Thursday Bull
The Pentecost Proviso
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What President of the United States became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize after he negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War?
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower
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In 2023, Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her unyielding protest against the oppression of women in what country?
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iran
United Arab Emirates
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In 2000, South Korea's Kim Dae-jung won the Nobel Peace Prize because of what policy of reconciliation and openness with his country's northern neighbor?
The Rainy Days Policy
The Thundercloud Policy
The Hurricane Policy
The Sunshine Policy
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What famous Guatemalan humanitarian won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for helping the people of her homeland in the aftermath of a civil war and championing to give them a greater say over their political future?
Rennee San Colomos
Atrie Khaleido
Rigoberta Menchu
Paula Cezarros
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In 1990, what leader of the Soviet Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work of liberalizing and ultimately disbanding the U.S.S.R.?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
Vladimir Lenin
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Dag Hammerskjold won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work turning the U.N. into a practical organization for good. What country did Hammerskjold hail from?
The U.K.
Denmark
Sweden
Prussia
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What United Kingdom disarmament advocate has the distinction of being the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Olympic medal?
Weston Stuart
Timothy Irons-Gayle
Burgess Adderly
Philip Noel-Baker
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What Pakistani woman became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize Winner when, at 17 years of age, she was recognized for her efforts at promoting the education of women in Muslim countries?
Sana Mir
Mahira Khan
Malala Yousafzai
Benazir Bhutto
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What former President of the United States won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his continuous accomplishments in global diplomacy even after he left office in 1980?
Jimmy Carter
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
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Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work opposing what nation's military junta through demonstrations like the 8888 Uprising?
Bangladesh
Taiwan
Thailand
Myanmar
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In 1984, what South African bishop won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing mass nonviolent opposition to Apartheid?
Thabo Mbeki
Steve Biko
Caster Semenya
Desmond Tutu
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The Norwegian explorer and political activist Fridtjof Nansen earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work assisting refugees displaced by what war?
The Korean War
The Seven Years' War
World War One
World War Two
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What major architect of the United Nations and mediator of the original 1940s Israel-Palestine Conflict was the first Black man to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
Dominic Slattery
Luigi Vanga
Thomas Dobbs
Ralph Bunche
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Rene Samuel Cassin of France won the Nobel Peace Prize for writing what United Nations charter that defined the foundational human rights for all people in the world?
The Protectorate
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Defense of Humankind in All Nations
The United Bill of Rights
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Yitzhak Rabin of Israel in 1994 shared a Nobel Peace Prize with what leader of Palestine for creating a greater framework of peace between their nations?
Ismail Hanya
Yasser Arafat
Ahmed Yassin
Khalil al-Wazir
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What famous author of the memoir Night won a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing many atrocities of the Holocaust to light and subsequently acting against genocides throughout the world?
Elie Wiesel
Howard Vogner
Eren Rose
P. Witaker
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In 1973, Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger won Nobel Peace Prizes for bringing foreign involvement in what war to an end through their negotiations?
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Persian Gulf War
The Thai War
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Albert Schweitzer, the minister and entrepreneur, won a Nobel Peace Prize for creating and acting upon what basic philosophy that preached how to balance doing good for others while still taking care of yourself?
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
Hedonism
Reverence for Life
Egalitarianism
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Lester Bowels Pearson of Canada won a Nobel Peace Prize for deploying U.N. aid to help people during the Suez Crisis that caused widespread devastation in what country?
Kuwait
Iraq
Lebanon
Egypt
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In 1964, what American Civil Rights Movement leader won the Nobel Peace Prize for his widespread peaceful demonstrations like his march on Washington D.C. where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
Fred Hampton
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What 44th President of the United States won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for helping to resolve some of the bad blood caused by the War on Terror and starting joint coalitions with Middle Eastern countries to locate extremists?
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
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In 2005, Mohamed ElBaradei won the Nobel Peace Prize for which of the following accomplishments?
Rallying peaceful demonstrations to grant Egyptian women the right to vote.
Advancing nuclear energy while opposing its use in weapons.
Outlawing segregation in Egypt.
His work as a lawyer saving twenty innocent people from the death penalty.
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