home
Menu
Create
Random
0
0
0
thumbnail

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Try to name the people and organizations that have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Items in blue indicate an organization
This quiz will be updated very infrequently unless a well-known person wins
Quiz by HistoryPunk
Rate:
Featured Quiz
Last updated: October 20, 2021
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
First submittedOctober 12, 2012
Times taken10,602
Average score18.8%
Rating4.17
Quiz and answer stats >>
Friends stats >>
15:00
Enter winner here:
0
 / 133 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Year
Winner
2021
Maria Ressa
Dmitry Muratov
2020
World Food Programme
2019
Abiy Ahmed
2018
Denis Mukwege
Nadia Murad
2017
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons
2016
Juan Manuel Santos
2015
Tunisian National Dialogue
Quartet
2014
Kailash Satyarthi
Malala Yousafzai
2013
Organisation for the
Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons
2012
European Union
2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Leymah Gbowee
Tawakkul Karman
2010
Liu Xiaobo
2009
Barack Obama
2008
Martti Ahtisaari
2007
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
2007
Al Gore
2006
Grameen Bank
2006
Muhammad Yunus
2005
International Atomic Energy
Agency
2005
Mohamed ElBaradei
2004
Wangari Maathai
2003
Shirin Ebadi
2002
Jimmy Carter
2001
United Nations
2001
Kofi Annan
2000
Kim Dae Jung
1999
Doctors Without Borders
1998
David Trimble
John Hume
1997
Jody Williams
1996
Jose Ramos-Horta
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1995
Pugwash Conferences
on Science and
World Affairs
1995
Joseph Rotblat
1994
Yasser Arafat
Yitzhak Rabin
Shimon Peres
1993
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
1992
Rigoberta Menchu
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
1989
The Dalai Lama
1988
United Nations
Peace-Keeping Forces
1987
Oscar Arias
Year
Winner
1986
Elie Wiesel
1985
International Physicians
for the Prevention
of Nuclear War
1984
Desmond Tutu
1983
Lech Walesa
1982
Alfonso Garcia Robles
Alva Myrdal
1981
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
1980
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
1979
Mother Teresa
1978
Menachem Begin
Anwar Al-Sadat
1977
Amnesty International
1976
Mairead Corrigan
Betty Williams
1975
Andrei Sakharov
1974
Eisaku Sato
Sean MacBride
1973
Le Duc Tho (refused)
Henry Kissinger
1972
not awarded
1971
Willy Brandt
1970
Norman Borlaug
1969
International Labour
Organization
1968
Rene Cassin
1967
not awarded
1966
not awarded
1965
UNICEF
1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
League of Red Cross Societies
International Committee
of the Red Cross
1962
Linus Pauling
1961
Dag Hammarskjold
1960
Albert Lutuli
1959
Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958
Georges Pire
1957
Lester B. Pearson
1956
not awarded
1955
not awarded
1954
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
1953
George Marshall
1952
Albert Schweitzer
1951
Leon Jouhaux
1950
Ralph Bunche
1949
John Boyd Orr
1948
not awarded
1947
Friends Service Council
American Friends Service
Committee
1946
Emily Balch
John Mott
1945
Cordell Hull
1944
International Committee
of the Red Cross
Year
Winner
1943
not awarded
1942
not awarded
1941
not awarded
1940
not awarded
1939
not awarded
1938
Nansen International Office
for Refugees
1937
Robert Cecil
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935
Carl von Ossietzky
1934
Arthur Henderson
1933
Norman Angell
1932
not awarded
1931
Jane Addams
Nicholas Butler
1930
Nathan Soderblom
1929
Frank B. Kellogg
1928
not awarded
1927
Ferdinand Buisson
Ludwig Quidde
1926
Aristide Briand
Gustav Stresemann
1925
Austen Chamberlain
1925
Charles Dawes
1924
not awarded
1923
not awarded
1922
Fridtjof Nansen
1921
Hjalmar Branting
Christian Lous Lange
1920
Leon Bourgeois
1919
Woodrow Wilson
1918
not awarded
1917
International Committee
of the Red Cross
1916
not awarded
1915
not awarded
1914
not awarded
1913
Henri La Fontaine
1912
Elihu Root
1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Alfred Hermann Fried
1910
International Peace Bureau
1909
Auguste Beernaert
Paul d'Estournelles
de Constant
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Fredrik Bajer
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Louis Renault
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
1905
Bertha von Suttner
1904
Institut de Droit International
1903
Randal Cremer
1902
Elie Ducommun
Charles Albert Gobat
1901
Henry Dunant
Frederic Passy
Suggested Quizzes See all >>
Countries that Start with B
Countries that Start with G
Countries with the Most Nobel Prizes
Top 100 Greatest NBA Players
More from HistoryPunk See all >>
History - Words that Come After
Things that Happened in Michigan
Impossible Roman History
U.S. Five-Star Generals and Admirals
51 Comments
Lemurlover3
+4
Level 39
Oct 13, 2012
Come on people, LINUS PAULING!!
MarcusStone
+2
Level 20
Jan 18, 2015
Try reading a little bit about the man first. It's not like he was Obama, the only Peace Prize Winner that had a hit-list.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
Oct 25, 2021
^From a guy who admires Pol Pot your attacks mean very little. Now if you see this you're going to lie and imply that you didn't mean it literally. Give it a rest already.
DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 85
Oct 20, 2021
I can never remember the Peanuts characters' last names. I aced the WWII years, though.
What
+6
Level 27
Oct 13, 2012
Frank B. Kellogg? Is that the guy who invented my breakfast? :D
kevlarkev
+2
Level 63
Dec 13, 2013
you beat me to it
bostjan
+1
Level 72
Oct 28, 2021
He was one of the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Act. That document circulated internationally, causing many nations to renounce war as a means of political leverage. It was ratified shortly before WWII.
catcat
+2
Level 60
Mar 31, 2013
It is Albert Luthuli, notLutuli
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 16, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lutuli

But Luthuli will work now

kalbahamut
+13
Level 81
Apr 8, 2013
Interesting quiz. I only got 21 but that was enough to put me in the 94th percentile. Too bad that the prize used to mean something.. and then it basically became a big joke when they gave one to terrorist Yasser Arafat. As if to drive home the point of their descent into self-parody, then they decided to hand out awards to Al Gore (for making a movie that had nothing to do with peace), Barack Obama (for being elected), and the European Union (for.... ???? ) in less than a decade.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
May 22, 2013
oh and I forgot them notoriously giving the award one year to carpet-bombing Kissinger, and his counterpart in the VietCong.
TheWombat
+9
Level 73
Oct 29, 2014
Arafat won it jointly with Rabin, another avowed terrorist, so it's swings and roundabouts really...
rocamorar
+11
Level 78
Dec 20, 2016
Kissinger is the worse offender, IMO. Absolutely no justification for this one. I can see the reasoning between Arafat and Rabin, but they should not have won it. And giving it to Obama was just ridiculous.

The EU is justifiable, I'm sure. They certainly work for peace and have been able to maintain it within their borders. But surely there were/are much better candidates.

The peace and literature Nobel prizes are becoming more and more a joke. They are being given to completely undeserving recipients, and it's more about politics than actual merits.

protector441
+1
Level 48
Oct 31, 2021
Rabin was actually quite a cool guy, who changed his opinion about Israeli politics later in life and even died because of that killed by a real terrorist.

But do not forget as early as in 1979 the prize was awarded to an Israeli hard-line terrorist and war criminal Menachem Begin for literally nothing at all, just because Egypt decided to recognize Israel.

camus
+9
Level 78
Nov 26, 2018
They hand out a prize money of about 1.5 million US-Dollars. What are the EU or Obama gonna do with that? Seems more reasonable to give the money to individuals or organizations that need it to continue their work.
evilcheeser
+5
Level 74
Oct 25, 2021
Kind of wonder when you think it meant something. Woodrow "kept us out of war but actually didn't whilst being unspeakably racist" Wilson for proposing the League of Nations which didn't work at all and effectively did nothing? Or is the second decade already too late?

No question that a lot of undeserving people have got one, but really how does one measure contributions to peace? So I guess I'll cut them some slack.

aliberti68
+2
Level 54
Aug 5, 2013
Only 21/ 121 I think spelling got me on Gorbachev and Kissinger. Missed a lot that I should have gotten.
Jerry928
+11
Level 76
Jun 9, 2014
So Gandhi was never awarded the Peace Prize - incredible. Especially when you consider one or two war-makers who did receive it.
protector441
+3
Level 48
Oct 31, 2021
One or two? I can list at list four: Kissinger, Arafat, Obama and Menachem Begin. Even the 1993 combo of Mandela and de Klerk is somewhat controversial - one terrorist and one apartheid racist - though there is a reasoning behind that.
dwo
+1
Level 93
Oct 16, 2014
Needs updating.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 16, 2015
Updated. I'll probably update this one every 2 or 3 years unless someone really famous wins.
alberici
+5
Level 74
Oct 19, 2015
Only "Malala" should be an acceptable answer. Most people just know her by her First Name.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 20, 2015
Okay
Gamer1162
+2
Level 60
Oct 13, 2016
Colombian President Jose Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize.
kapulani3
+2
Level 74
Nov 24, 2016
I didn't come up with many and the only way I came up with what I did was thinking of the most useless and/or undeserving names since the awards inception. The only award (not in the entertainment business) that is given out to the most worthless of people/organizations.
WolfCam
+2
Level 66
Oct 29, 2017
Is it not ironic that that the peace prize is named for the person who invented Dynamite?
jkabq
+5
Level 63
Feb 13, 2018
not really.
sumguy
+2
Level 85
Nov 21, 2018
Dynamite is mostly used in demolition, not combat.
Baxtergrad
+2
Level 51
Jan 7, 2021
Still isn't what you would call "peaceful"
TheodoreE45
+8
Level 93
Oct 8, 2021
Not at all considering it wasn't just named after him, it was created and envisioned by him. If I recall, the story goes that when Alfred Nobel's brother died, a major newspaper in Sweden mistakenly thought Alfred died and published a *very* unflattering obituary titling him as the 'Merchant of Death.' Needless to say he was hurt by this and, in an effort to improve his legacy, devised a group of awards to honor the world's foremost figures of peace, literature, chemistry, medicine/physiology, and physics.
kogatora
+2
Level 93
Jun 3, 2018
needs updating, two more laureates to add already
promastermage
+2
Level 63
Oct 5, 2018
Please update for 2016–2018. Thanks!
sumguy
+2
Level 85
Nov 21, 2018
Seconded.
ronnysal
+3
Level 36
Jan 13, 2019
1997: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with its international coordinator, Jody Williams. The ICBL is missing from the list. Also: The "Institute of International Law" should be acceptable, not just its French translation. And the International Peace Bureau is often called simply "the Bureau". Thanks!
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 67
Nov 12, 2020
ADD JOSEPH STALIN (an interesting fact joke)
TheodoreE45
+4
Level 93
Oct 21, 2021
I'm either missing the joke or you have your history wrong. I think I'm just missing the joke.
joeythelemur
+10
Level 83
Oct 20, 2021
I'm sure this won't last, but the Obama listing on the Peace Price entry on Wikipedia currently states he was presented the award "for his extraordinary efforts to drone strike the Middle East." +1 for accuracy.
DictatorTal
+2
Level 87
Oct 25, 2021
Not really, it actually says "On October 9, 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.'

Well... that didn't age well, did it?

(Still, I don't disagree with your point.)

Djilas
+1
Level 83
Oct 20, 2021
WFP doesn't work
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 20, 2021
WFP will work now.
camus
+4
Level 78
Oct 21, 2021
Typing "Brand" got me Briand although I was going for Brandt.
bestanford
+1
Level 71
Oct 25, 2021
same
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Oct 25, 2021
same here
protector441
+1
Level 48
Oct 31, 2021
same... shall not be like that, because I got an answer I would never guess myself... please correct
Geografen
+3
Level 68
Oct 22, 2021
International Campaign to Ban Landmines is missing. (1997)
Algernon
+1
Level 73
Oct 29, 2021
A tad more leeway on the spelling for 1986’s winner, please. Ohh and also if you could accept whatever wrong spelling I tried for 1990’s winner that would be nice too! Lol
protector441
+3
Level 48
Oct 31, 2021
Most well-deserved prizes:

1. Henry Kissinger for carpet-bombing of Laos and Cambodia during Vietnam war & his role in Operation Condor and in mass killings in Suharto´s Indonesia

2. Menachem Begin for initiating war and terrorism in British Palestine & instigation of Lebanese civil war and massacres in Sabra and Shatila & Egypt´s recognition of Israel

3. Arafat for spreading terrorism worldwide with unification of Islamist and communist groups and huge contibution to Lebanese civil war

4. Obama for having dark skin & his efforts to drone-strike the Middle East and principal role in the destruction of Libya

5. Al Gore for professional spreading of fake news about global warming/climate change via fabricated "documentary"

6. Mandela and de Klerk for leading racist apartheid regime & for leading terror campaign to allegedly stop it

7. Mother Theresa for Christian fundamentalism & her opposition to pain killers and modern discoveries

8. EU for existing without breaking up

protector441
+2
Level 48
Oct 31, 2021
Oh, and I almost forgot honourable mention of prizes, that did not age well:

Suu Kyi and Abiy Ahmed

But jokes aside, it´s pretty sad to see such individuals next to organizations like IAEA, OPCW, Red Cross or MSF and personalities like Nadia Murad, Malala Yousafzai or Muhammad Yunus.

stylus
+3
Level 77
Apr 16, 2022
you can argue gore doesn't deserve a nobel peace prize for his work but climate change is definitively not fake news. wasn't then, isn't now.
TheodoreE45
+2
Level 93
Dec 1, 2023
And now the least deserving person to ever win this award has passed away. Man I wish there was a good Anthony Bourdain quote to describe him...
azerifactory
+1
Level 45
Dec 17, 2023
This needs an update
Save Your Progress
Similar Quizzes by Tag

Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024

Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site