The gold Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Newcastle's Arthur Henderson in 1934 for his work on international disarmament in the run up to WWII.
Dr. Norman Borlaug is one of only three Americans to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal (America's highest civilian honor) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Like all of the evening's winners, his prize came in the form of a gold-plated Shure microphone - commonly known as the "Elvis microphone".
Since that thrilling night and excellent party in Accra, I've gone on to win a United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal in the Richard Ortega Prize for coverage of the UN and its agencies in Uganda.
Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
The prize for each category is a gold-coloured raspberry trophy.
So gold mining firm Gold Corp opened up a set of its geological data to the net and offered a half-million dollar prize fund to anyone who could "find gold".
But there is one prize in Singaporean racing that still eludes him: the Gold Cup.
There is no prize money on offer: athletes compete only for the glory of gold, silver and bronze.
But by keeping your eye on the prize and continuing to put in time and practice, you will earn your shot at the gold.
In the 1920s, German chemist Fritz Haber, a Nobel Prize winner, thought it possible to extract enough gold from oceans to pay his country's debt after World War I.
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