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Exploring Diplomacy: A Quiz on Historical Representation and Film

This quiz explores key figures in the film 'Diplomacy' along with historical aspects of early modern diplomacy, enhancing understanding of film representation in relation to diplomatic history.

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1 Who played Countess Zicka in the movie Diplomacy?

2 Who played Mion in the movie Diplomacy?

3 Spain was the first to send a permanent representative; it appointed an ambassador to the Court of ________ in 1487.

4 What role did Earle Williams play in the movie Diplomacy?

5 What role did Neil Hamilton play in the movie Diplomacy?

6 Early modern diplomacy's origins are often traced to the states of Northern Italy in the early ________, with the first embassies being established in the thirteenth century.

7 What role did Matt Moore play in the movie Diplomacy?

8 Diplomacy Monitor, a tool for tracking Internet-based ________

9 Who played Reggie Cowan in the movie Diplomacy?

10 Who played Marquise de Zares in the movie Diplomacy?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Winchester Hoard jewellery (pictured), thought to be a diplomatic gift from the Romans, was so chunky that no "self-respecting" Roman would wear it.
  • the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy, but also the author of A History of Vodka, and that his name was thought to be a pen name.
  • when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist.
  • the Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression.
  • the Canadian government rescued six U.S. diplomats during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in a covert operation named the Canadian caper.
  • Zara Yaqob was the first Emperor of Ethiopia (1434–1468) to send a diplomatic mission to Europe.
  • in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.
  • the 1635 Treaty of Sztumska WieÅ› between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden was of much interest to contemporary European diplomacy.
  • American diplomat Elbridge Durbrow was one of the 730 delegates who attended the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944.
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