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
Answer Key
Henry Kissinger won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords that ended US involvement in the Vietnam War.
Trygve Lie of Norway served as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1946 to 1952.
Prince Klemens von Metternich hosted and dominated the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), which redesigned Europe's political map after the Napoleonic Wars.
George Kennan articulated the containment policy in his famous 1947 'Long Telegram' and X Article, shaping US Cold War strategy for decades.
Nelson Mandela negotiated with President F.W. de Klerk to end apartheid and became South Africa's first Black president in 1994.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) in 1947, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accords with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978, mediated by President Jimmy Carter.
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second UN Secretary-General, died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on September 18, 1961.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand skillfully represented France at the Congress of Vienna and managed to protect French interests despite being on the losing side.
Otto von Bismarck, the 'Iron Chancellor,' used diplomacy and warfare to unite the German states into the German Empire in 1871.
President Jimmy Carter mediated the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948.
Henry Kissinger pioneered 'shuttle diplomacy,' traveling between Middle Eastern capitals to negotiate a ceasefire and disengagement agreements after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Kofi Annan of Ghana served as UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
President Woodrow Wilson presented his Fourteen Points to Congress in January 1918, outlining principles for peace including the creation of the League of Nations.