Question

Nobel Peace Prize, 2016 was awarded to a
1. Non-Governmental Organisation
2. Missionary
3. Head of a State
4. Rebel party leader

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Head of a State

The correct answer is Head of a State.

• The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
• He is the 15th Head of State or Government at the time of the award.
• The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialists, inventors, and armaments.
• Nobel Prize
  • It was started on December 10, 1901, in the honor of Alfred Nobel.
  • It was awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics( started in 1968).
  • All Noble Prizes was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded in Oslo, Norway.
• Norwegian Noble Committee
  • It awards the Nobel Prize in Peace.
  • Karolinska Institute awards the noble prize in medicine.
  • Swedish Academy awards the noble prize in literature.
  • The Sveriges Riksbank awards the noble prize in Economics.

• Nobel Prize Winners in 2021

Fields	Winners
Physics	Klaus Hasselmann Syukuro Manabe Giorgio Parisi
Chemistry	Benjamin List David MacMillan
Medicine	Ardem Patapoutian David Julius
Literature	Abdulrazak Gurnah
Peace	Dmitry Muratov Maria Ressa
Economics	Guido Imbens Joshua Angrist David Card