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2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following Nobel laureate won the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year
A
Barack Obama
B
Aung San Suu Kyi
C
Svetlana Alexievich
D
Alice Munro
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“The faculty and students of the Harvard Foundation are pleased to honor Aung San Suu Kyi as the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year, ” said S.

Detailed explanation-2: -Announcement of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, presented by Kaci Kullmann Five, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on 7 October 2016.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only one Nobel recipient has won the Prize three times. Switzerland-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the only 3-time recipient of the Nobel Prize, being conferred with Peace Prize in 1917, 1944, and 1963.

Detailed explanation-4: -Amartya Sen, (born November 3, 1933, Santiniketan, India), Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant who shared a Prize of 150, 782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7, 731, 004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov.

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