A Few Great Men Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jean Henri Dunant and Frederic Passy

Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland, was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross and initiator of the Geneva Convention. Frederic Passy, France, was the Founder and President of the first French Peace Society.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

As a consequence of the assassination of President McKinley, he became the youngest President of the U.S. For his efforts in bringing about the Russo-Japanese Treaty, Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. He was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any category.

Answer: Charles G. Dawes, III

Charles Dawes, III. was Vice-President under Calvin Coolidge, He was appointed Chairman of the committee of the Allied Reparations Commission, which prepared the 'Dawes Plan'. That document required that Germany pay annual reparations to the Allied nations for World War I. damages.

In 1925 he was co-recipients of the Nobel Peace prize, which was shared with Sir Austen Chamberlain, England.

Answer: Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer was truly a great and unique man. He studied medicine and surgery at the University of Strasbourg, became a medical missionary, and established a hospital in Africa. He studied philosophy, wrote several books on this subject and proposed the need for mankind to observe a 'reverence for life'.

He was devotedly religious and wrote about the history of Jesus and the mysticism of the Apostle Paul. He studied music and became an authority on the religious nature of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

In 1918 he was taken to France and when he returned to Africa in 1924, he had to rebuild his hospital. He treated more than 300 patients with Leprosy.

Answer: Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjold

Hammarskjold was Chief of the Swedish delegation to the U.N. and in April 1953 he was elected secretary general of that organization. He was a very successful mediator and negotiator of international conflicts. He died in a plane crash in September, 1961 and was awarded the Nobel Peace prize posthumously in December, 1961.

Answer: Cordell Hull

Hull was President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of State. During World War II he met with the foreign ministers of Great Britain and the USSR to establish post-war conditions for peace. He worked with other nations to establish trade and defense agreements.

After the war he was appointed senior adviser for the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on International Organizations. For his efforts in promoting the U.N. he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.

Answer: Kissinger

Henry Kissinger was born in Furth, Germany in 1923 and came to the U.S. in 1938. He was a graduate of Harvard University and later a professor on the Harvard staff. He was a part-time political adviser on foreign policy to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and L. B. Johnson.

He was Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He was successful in establishing a cease fire agreement during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Le Duc Tho) in 1973.

Answer: Frank B. Kellogg

Following World War I the international antiwar and disarmament conferences were established in 1920. The Treaty for the Renunciation of war was prepared by Frank Kellogg and Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France. That treaty was signed by 15 nations in 1928 and World war I was declared 'the War to end all wars', a declaration which soon proved totally wrong. Never-the-less, Secretary of State Frank Kellogg was the recipient of the 1929 Nobel Peace prize.

Answer: Elie Wiesel

Wiesel and his family were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. After the war he became a French citizen and attended the University of Paris. When he came to the United States he was appointed professor of humanities at Boston University.

In addition to serving on the Commission on the Holocaust, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. For his work in promoting human rights he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Answer: Marshall

General George C. Marshall served as Army Chief of Staff, military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State under President Truman. The 'Marshall Plan' was developed to assist the war-torn countries of Europe in their rehabilitation and financial recovery. He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1953.