| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| In 1994, this anti-apartheid campaigner became South Africa's first black president | Nelson Mandela | 100%
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| This former leader of the Soviet Union was credited for his role in ending the Cold War | Mikhail Gorbachev | 91%
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| This Pakistani education activist was shot by the Taliban in 2012 while campaigning for female education | Malala Yousafzai | 83%
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| This former US Vice-President was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in spreading awareness about global warming | Al Gore | 78%
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| Despite being known for her humanitarian work in India, this famous nun was actually born in present-day North Macedonia | Mother Teresa | 78%
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| According to Tom Lehrer, satire died when this former US Secretary of State was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize | Henry Kissinger | 74%
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| In the same year that racial segregation was formally outlawed in the United States, this non-violent civil rights activist won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize | Martin Luther King | 74%
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| In 1919, this former US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as the principal founder of the League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson | 74%
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| The first black Archbishop of Cape Town, this South African Anglican was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent anti-apartheid activism | Desmond Tutu | 70%
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| This trade union official was the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, and later became the country's first democratically-elected president | Lech Wałęsa | 70%
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| In 1994, these three men were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in normalising Israeli-Palestinian relations through the Oslo Accords (name any one of them) | Yasser Arafat / Yitzhak Rabin / Shimon Peres | 70%
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| In 2012, this international organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" over six decades | European Union | 65%
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| Alongside the above, this former South African president also won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending apartheid | F.W. de Klerk | 57%
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| The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to this humanitarian organisation on three occasions, largely for its role in upholding international humanitarian law and rules of war | International Committee of the Red Cross | 57%
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| This Ghanaian diplomat received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his work as Secretary-General of the United Nations | Kofi Annan | 57%
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| Between 1989 and 2010, this pro-democracy activist was placed under extended house arrest by Myanmar's military junta | Aung San Suu Kyi | 52%
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| This sixth Israeli prime minister and founder of Likud was jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Anwar es-Sadat for negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt | Menachem Begin | 35%
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| After twenty years of hostility, this Ethiopian prime minister was credited with resolving the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict in 2018 | Abiy Ahmed | 26%
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| The 1998 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to these two men for their leading roles in the Northern Irish Good Friday Agreement (name either) | John Hume / David Trimble | 26%
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| For her efforts in advancing women's rights, this first female president of Liberia was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 22%
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