Level 4 - The Nobel Peace Prize - General aspects Notes: Click on "Grade Quiz" (at bottom of form) to see how you do! Incorrect answers will be checked, and the number of correct answers displayed. Answers are available after the quiz is graded (click on the [Ans] buttons). The quiz requires Netscape Navigator 3.01 or later, or MS Internet Explorer 4. It will not run correctly under earlier versions or other browsers.

1

The first Nobel Prizes was awarded in the year..

-- Choose an answer -- 1898 1901 1906 1910

2

The first Peace Prize was divided equally between:

-- Choose an answer -- Dunant and Passy Moneta and Renault Arnoldson and Bajer Ducommun and Gobat

3

The Nobel committee of five members (elected for a six year term) is appointed by the:

-- Choose an answer -- UN Norwegian parliament EU King of Norway

4

Members of the committee can not be re-elected

True     False

5

The new chairmann (since 2003) of The Norwegian Nobel Committee is:

-- Choose an answer -- Francis Seiersted Gunnar Berge Ole D. Mjøs Hanna Kvanmo

6

So far all committee members have been Norwegians

True     False

7

The Secretary to the Committee and Director of the Nobel Institute is:

-- Choose an answer -- Norways prime minister Geir Lundestad The committee chairman

8

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 was amounted to:

-- Choose an answer -- SEK 7,000 000 SEK 10, 000 000 SEK 15,000 000 SEK 20 000 000

9

Out of the five Nobel Committee members, there are three are women:

True     False

10

A Norwegian has never received the Nobel Peace Prize:

True     False

11

The actual peace prize ceremony is held in the:

-- Choose an answer -- Oslo City Hall University Aula Nobel Institute

12

Who presents the diploma and the medal to the Peace Prize winner?

-- Choose an answer -- Norways prime minister The King of Norway The committe chairman

13

Former Nobel Peace Prize laureates can not nominated candidates to the prize

True     False

14

What has become a tradition in the last year’s to honour the Peace Prize winner?

-- Choose an answer -- The Nobel Concert The Nobel Theatre The Nobel Opera The Nobel Art evening

15

Who performed “Georgia On My Mind” to honour laureate Jimmy Carter in Oslo, december 2002?

-- Choose an answer -- Willy Nelson Paul McCartney Santana A-ha