Famous Diplomats Quiz
Instructions: How well do you recall the diplomats who shaped international relations?
- 1.
Which diplomat served as US Secretary of State and won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War?
ADean RuskBGeorge ShultzCHenry KissingerDCyrus Vance - 2.
Which diplomat helped create the United Nations and served as its first Secretary-General?
ATrygve LieBU ThantCKofi AnnanDDag Hammarskjöld - 3.
Which Austrian diplomat organized the Congress of Vienna after Napoleon's defeat?
AOtto von BismarckBCastlereaghCKlemens von MetternichDTalleyrand - 4.
Which American diplomat developed the 'containment' policy against Soviet expansion?
ADean AchesonBJohn Foster DullesCGeorge MarshallDGeorge Kennan - 5.
Which South African leader negotiated the end of apartheid and became the country's first Black president?
ANelson MandelaBF.W. de KlerkCDesmond TutuDSteve Biko - 6.
Which US diplomat created the Marshall Plan to rebuild post-WWII Europe?
AAverell HarrimanBHarry TrumanCDean AchesonDGeorge Marshall - 7.
Which Egyptian president signed the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978?
AHosni MubarakBAnwar SadatCGamal Abdel NasserDMohamed Morsi - 8.
Which UN Secretary-General died in a mysterious plane crash in Africa in 1961?
AU ThantBDag HammarskjöldCTrygve LieDKurt Waldheim - 9.
Which French diplomat represented France at the Congress of Vienna despite France having lost the Napoleonic Wars?
ANapoleonBMetternichCTalleyrandDLouis XVIII - 10.
Which diplomat was known as the architect of German unification in the 19th century?
AOtto von BismarckBKlemens von MetternichCFriedrich von HolsteinDWilhelm I - 11.
Which American president brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?
AGerald FordBJimmy CarterCRichard NixonDRonald Reagan - 12.
Which US First Lady served as a delegate to the United Nations and helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
ABess TrumanBLady Bird JohnsonCJacqueline KennedyDEleanor Roosevelt - 13.
Which diplomat's 'shuttle diplomacy' helped negotiate a ceasefire in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War?
AZbigniew BrzezinskiBJames BakerCHenry KissingerDGeorge Shultz - 14.
Which Ghanaian diplomat served as UN Secretary-General and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001?
ABan Ki-moonBJavier Pérez de CuéllarCKofi AnnanDBoutros Boutros-Ghali - 15.
Which American president proposed the 'Fourteen Points' as a basis for peace after World War I?
AWoodrow WilsonBCalvin CoolidgeCTheodore RooseveltDWarren Harding