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Liu Xiaobo awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Take the Nobel Peace prize quiz

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the richest and most prestigious awards in the world. The prize includes a $1.5 million award. But how much do you really know about the Nobel Peace Prize?

10. Of what Nobel Peace Prize laureate did MIT linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky say: "In defense of the committee, we might say that the achievement of doing nothing to advance peace places [the winner] on a considerably higher moral plane than some of the earlier recipients"?

  • By Eoin O'Carroll CSMonitor.com

A) Jimmy Carter

B) Barack Obama

C) Henry Kissinger

D) Muhammad Yunus

(Answer on the next page)

Previous answer: D

North Vietnamese General Lê Ðức Thọ was awarded the prize along with US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in 1973, for the pair's secret talks that eventually led to a cease-fire in Indochina. Lê declined the award, saying that Kissinger had violated the truce. Kissinger accepted the award. The award to Kissinger and Lê prompted two Norwegian Nobel Committee members to resign.

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