Some sample questions from this category:
* Which of these American Presidents has not been the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize?
* The Nobel Peace Prize winner from 1979 was born in Albania, and her real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. By what name was she universally known?
* What world organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 for its work in helping children around the world?
* This Polish trade-union leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 in part for his 'solidarnosc' movement. What was his name?
* This famous U.S. chemist not only won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 1954, but also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his outspoken opposition of nuclear testing. Who was he?
* What was the name of the Burmese (Myanmar) woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, and later was imprisoned for her protests of the Burmese government?
* What international organization won Nobel Peace Prizes during both World War 1 (1917) and World War 2 (1944) for its work in caring for the casualties of war?
* Much to the chagrin of the Chinese government, this exiled leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Who was he?
* What Secretary-General of the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously in 1961, after he had died in a plane crash?
* Who of the following was NOT a Nobel Peace Prize winner from South Africa?
* Which highly distinquished Jewish, English-speaking, woman-author was born in South Africa, was fiercely political in her writings and whose most widely read novels included, 'The Conservationist' and 'Burger's Daughter'?
* Which famous, highly honored German-American woman, with extensive training in mathematics and physics, demonstrated that the atomic nucleus has a structure containing successive proton-neutron shells held together by highly complex forces?
* Which famous, very highly honored woman won the Nobel Prize twice, but in two different categories?
* Which famous, highly honored woman was a prominent suffragist, social reformer and founder of the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois?
* Which famous noble woman was the founder of a new field of science called, 'Protein Crystallography' and with her family, worked for more than 30 years in programs for World Peace?
* Which highly motivated woman dedicated her time, efforts and career to banning and clearing anti-personnel land mines?
* Which famous, highly honored woman, whose first language was Chinese, wrote 'East Wind, West Wind' as her first novel in 1925, which started her on a very successful writing career?
* Which German-Swedish woman initially wrote romantic poems but then her writings changed to a Jewish theme, inspired by the tragedies of Jewish history?
* Which famous Italian-American woman was affiliated with the Institute of Cell Biology, Rome, Italy and made a major contribution to the understanding of the action of human growth hormone on peripheral nervous tissue?
* Which Northern Irish-British woman was co-founder of an organization now known as, 'The Community Peace People'?
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