Consider the following UN organisations/agencies :
- 1.World Food Programme
- 2.United Nations Children's Fund
- 3.United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 4.International Labour Organisation
How many of the above has/have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice ?
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Answer: A. Only UNHCR has won the Nobel Peace Prize twice (1954 and 1981). UNICEF won once (1965), the ILO once (1969) and the World Food Programme once (2020). So the answer is 1.
Watch for: Students recall that the ICRC won several times and assume other UN bodies did too.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Wrong because only UNHCR, not two of these, has won twice.
- C. Wrong because WFP, UNICEF and ILO each won only once.
- D. Wrong because only one of the four has won twice.
Source to check: Official Nobel Prize website (nobelprize.org), list of Peace Prize laureates
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