Question

Malala Yousafzai, a symbol of defiance and courage in the fight against terrorism in the Pashtun tribal areas in Pakistan, is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize. How old is Malala Yousafzai ? 
1. 17 years
2. 21 years
3. 25 years
4. 29 years

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : 17 years

The correct answer is 17 years.

• Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley, now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
• Using the name “Gul Makai,” she exposed the situation of Swat valley due to Taliban, & questioned the motives of the Taliban on BBC.
•  Over the course of the next three years, she became known throughout Pakistan for their determination to give Pakistani girls access to free quality education. 

• Awards:
  • The International Children’s Peace Prize (2011).
  • Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize(2011),
  • The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought(2013),
  • In October 2014, Malala, along with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, was named a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
  • At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive this prize. Hence, option 1 is correct.
• Books:
  • An autobiography  “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban",
  • " We are Displaced".

• Nobel Prizes:
  • Instituted in 1895, as per the will of Alfred Nobel.
  • The first distribution of the prizes took place on December 10, 1901.
  • Prizes, as established by Nobel's will, are:
    • The Nobel Prize for Physics, The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences confers the prizes),
    • The Nobel Prize for Literature(the Swedish Academy confers the prize),
    • The Nobel Prize for Peace (The Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo confers the prize).,
    • The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969.
  • Laureates receive a heavily decorated diploma together with a gold medal and the prize money.
  • The youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize: Malala Yousafzai; at the age of 17, received Nobel Peace Prize (2014).
  • The oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize: John B. Goodenough; at the age of 97, received Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019).
• 2020 Nobel winners:
  • Physics: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez ( for the understanding of the universe, including work on black holes),
  • Medicine: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, (for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus),
  • Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, (for the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing),
  • Peace: The World Food Program, Rome.
    • Established in 1961,
    • Parent organization: United Nations General Assembly;
    • Heads: David Beasley, Ertharin Cousin
  • Literature: Louise Gluck
  • Economics: Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, (for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats).