Malala Yousafzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize while in chemistry class

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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At the age of 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and now a documentary she executive produced is nominated for an Oscar. And, if she answers our three questions about puzzles correctly, she'll win the inaugural Nobel Pieces Prize.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz.
0:10.0	Hey, Sizzah, don't kill this bill. I'm Bill Curtis. And here is your host at the
0:17.0	Stuttabaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:21.0	Fill again for Peter Segal, it's Josh Gundelman.
0:24.0	Thank you, Bill. And thanks everybody.
0:28.0	We have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to Malala Ysif Sy,
0:32.0	who became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner at age 17.
0:36.0	Now she's 25, and she's an executive producer of an Oscar-nominated documentary.
0:41.0	So yeah, she's still doing things that will make the rest of us feel like we've wasted our time here on Earth.
0:46.0	We want to hear how you've been wasting your time. So give us a call on the player games.
0:51.0	The number is 1-888-8-8-8-8-8-8-924-8-924. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant.
0:59.0	Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:01.0	Hi, this is David Mandel from Denver, Colorado.
1:04.0	Hey David, how you doing?
1:05.0	Doing well, thank you.
1:06.0	Of course, my pleasure. Thanks for being here. I've never been to Denver. What is your number one reason to entice someone to visit?
1:13.0	Sunshine. Over 300 days of sunshine here.
1:16.0	You had that lot to be voted.
1:19.0	That's why I live here. That's the reason.
1:21.0	That's beautiful. You sound like you're very pro-Denver and you hate Seattle.
1:25.0	I love Seattle as well. I lived there for four years. I have family there.
1:30.0	And I love to visit it. But I like to live here and visit Seattle.
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