# 🕊️ The Nobel Peace Prize Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who founded the Nobel Peace Prize?  
**Answer:** Alfred Nobel  
**Taglines:**  
- He made dynamite... then tried to chill  
- From boom to benevolence  
- “Oops” turned into awards  
- Guilty conscience, global prize  
- Blowing things up, then making amends  

### 2. In what country are the Nobel Peace Prizes awarded?  
**Answer:** Norway  
**Taglines:**  
- Cold country, warm fuzzies  
- Oslo: the chillest place to honor peace  
- Vikings with velvet gloves  
- Nobel goes Nordic  
- Norway: because Sweden already had enough  

### 3. What building hosts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony?  
**Answer:** Oslo City Hall  
**Taglines:**  
- Bureaucracy with a bonus  
- The world’s most peaceful municipal event  
- Peace and permits, same location  
- Where mayors meet messiahs  
- City Hall with a side of salvation  

### 4. In what year was the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded?  
**Answer:** 1901  
**Taglines:**  
- The 20th century started with a hug  
- 1901: no wars yet... ish  
- Pre-WWI optimism  
- The calm before the global storm  
- Peace before pieces  

### 5. What organization administers the Nobel Peace Prize?  
**Answer:** Norwegian Nobel Committee  
**Taglines:**  
- Committee of calm  
- Paper pushers for pacifism  
- The UN’s chill cousin  
- They judge your moral worth  
- If bureaucracy could wear white robes  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of ______ prizes established by Alfred Nobel.  
**Answer:** Five  
**Taglines:**  
- One for peace, four for science and sass  
- The big five, baby  
- Nobel’s gift basket  
- Five ways to be better than everyone else  
- Peace, physics, and other party tricks  

### 2. The Peace Prize is awarded on ______ 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.  
**Answer:** December  
**Taglines:**  
- He died, you win  
- Mourning with medals  
- December: Nobel’s goodbye party  
- Rest in peace, award in peace  
- A date to die for  

### 3. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate is ______ Yousafzai.  
**Answer:** Malala  
**Taglines:**  
- Teenager > most governments  
- Malala said “Try me” to oppression  
- Schoolgirl turned symbol  
- Shots fired, speeches returned  
- Peace and pigtails  

### 4. The Nobel Peace Prize includes a medal, a diploma, and a cash ______.  
**Answer:** Prize  
**Taglines:**  
- Peace pays  
- Diplomas and dough  
- Enlightenment, but make it lucrative  
- Cash for calm  
- Zen with a zero or two  

### 5. Only one U.S. president has received the Nobel Peace Prize *while in office*:  
**Answer:** Barack Obama  
**Taglines:**  
- He won it early. Like, *really* early  
- Peace prize speedrun  
- Yes he did—eventually  
- Awarded for vibes  
- Peacefully controversial  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] Where are the *other* Nobel Prizes awarded (besides Peace)?  
A) Denmark  
B) Sweden ✅  
C) Finland  
D) Switzerland  
**Taglines:**  
- Peace goes Norway, the rest stay Swedish  
- Split custody of glory  
- IKEA of awards  
- Swedish fish, Swedish prizes  
- Stockholm syndrome: Nobel edition  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What Nobel Peace Prize winner was imprisoned for 27 years?  
A) Martin Luther King Jr.  
B) Elie Wiesel  
C) Nelson Mandela ✅  
D) Aung San Suu Kyi  
**Taglines:**  
- Mandela: patience and power  
- Locked up, leveled up  
- The long walk to hardware  
- Cellmate turned statesman  
- From prison to prize  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Which of these organizations has *not* won the Peace Prize?  
A) The United Nations  
B) Greenpeace ✅  
C) International Red Cross  
D) Médecins Sans Frontières  
**Taglines:**  
- Greenpeace: still too edgy  
- No prize, but plenty of flair  
- Nobel snubbed the tree-huggers  
- They didn’t make the peace cut  
- Just missing the peaceful vibes  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What phrase is engraved on the Nobel Peace Prize medal?  
A) “For Humanity and Peace”  
B) “Pro pace et fraternitate gentium” ✅  
C) “Let There Be Peace on Earth”  
D) “In Peace We Trust”  
**Taglines:**  
- Latin: the Nobel flex language  
- “For the peace and brotherhood of men”—but make it dramatic  
- Engraved enlightenment  
- Latin... because English is too mainstream  
- Say it in dead languages for gravitas  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these people *refused* the Nobel Peace Prize?  
A) Kofi Annan  
B) Le Duc Tho ✅  
C) Mikhail Gorbachev  
D) Jimmy Carter  
**Taglines:**  
- Nah bro, I’m good  
- Peace out... literally  
- Thanks but no thanks  
- Vietnam peace talks, peace walks  
- Mic drop from Hanoi
