Prize

A prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them. Some prizes are also associated with extravagant awarding ceremonies, such as the Oscars.

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Prizes are given for a number of reasons: to highlight noteworthy or exemplary behaviour, and to provide incentives in competitions, etc. In general, prizes are regarded in a positive light, and their winners are admired. However, many prizes, especially the more famous ones, have often caused controversy and jealousy.

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Specific types of prizes include:

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• First prize, second prize, third prize etc.
• Consolation Prize: an award given to those who do not win an event but are deserving of recognition. In most cases, these individuals put forth valiant efforts.
• Booby prize: typically awarded as a joke or insult to whomever finished last.

Award: An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. Awards are often signified by trophies, certificates, plaques, medals, badges, pins or ribbons. An award can simply be the public acknowledgment of excellence....

Controversy: A controversy is a contentious dispute, a disagreement in opinions over which parties are actively arguing. Controversies can range from private disputes between two individuals to large-scale social upheavals. Controversies in mathematics and the sciences are generally eventually solved. It is the ...

Jealousy: Jealousy is an emotion experienced by one who perceives that another person is giving something that s/he wants (typically attention, love, or affection) to a third party. For example, a child will likely become jealous when her parent gives sweets to a sibling but not to her. While the child's j...

Prize related Images and Photos (experimental)

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Portrait of a Prize Hereford Steer 1874	Excellent of Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Murray Kempton Smoking Pipe at Typewriter	This 7-Year Old Stallion Understandably Won First Prize at the Agricultural Show at Niort	Albert Einstein German Born Physicist Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921