The chair of an award awarded by a selection committee in this organization is Zaw Zaw, a Myanmar businessman who holds suspiciously close ties to the country’s military junta. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this organization whose president Gianni Infantino awarded President Trump with a Peace Prize in 2025 in recognition of his “extraordinary” efforts to promote peace through diplomacy.
ANSWER: FIFA [accept the FIFA Peace Prize]
[10m] President Trump received his controversial Peace Prize the day after the leaders of these two countries met in Washington to make peace. The March 23 movement, or M23, is a paramilitary force backed by one of these countries in the other.
ANSWER: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo [accept Republic of Rwanda or Republika y’u Rwanda in place of Rwanda; accept DRC or DROC or Republique Democratique du Congo or RDC or Congo (Kinshasa) in place of Democratic Republic of the Congo; prompt on Congo; reject “Republic of the Congo” or “Congo (Brazzaville)”]
[10h] After re-gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump, Maria Machado likened the moment to this man’s gifting of a gold medal depicting Washington’s image to Simón Bolívar.
ANSWER: Marquis de Lafayette [or Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette]
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