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Spies
YGK These Spies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The “spymaster” to Elizabeth I | Sir Francis Walsingham |
| The person who fled to Europe with prominent Protestants after the accession of Mary I and became radicalized against Catholicism | Sir Francis Walsingham |
| The event upon witnessing which Walsingham became radicalized against Catholicism | St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre |
| The personal secretary to Elizabeth who amassed a web of contacts including a key cryptographer | Sir Francis Walsingham |
| The cryptographer who uncovered Mary, Queen of Scots’s complicity in the Babington Plot | Thomas Phelippes |
| Walsingham recruited Antony Standen to spy on this person in 1587 | Tuscany’s ambassador to Spain |
| The person Lord Henry Seymour quipped “you have fought more with your pen than…our English navy fought with their enemies” | Sir Francis Walsingham |
| The author commonly believed to have been a spy for Walsingham (though unproven) | Christopher Marlowe |
| The adventurer and libertine from the Republic of Venice known as the "Ace of Spies" | Giacomo Casanova |
| The name of Casanova's French-language memoir, where he described his spying | Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life) |
| The country for which Casanova worked as a spy gathering information on British ships in Dunkirk | France |
| The condition under which Casanova was allowed to return to Venice in 1774 | Performing espionage work for the republic |
| The soldier in the Continental Army who participated in only one failed spying mission | Nathan Hale |
| The age at which Hale was hanged as a spy | 21 |
| The disguise Nathan Hale used in New York City | A Dutch schoolmaster |
| The British commander-in-chief who interrogated Nathan Hale before hanging him | William Howe |
| The purported final words of Nathan Hale, used in Patriot propaganda | “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” |
| The spy ring organized by Benjamin Tallmadge under the supervision of George Washington | The Culper Ring |
| The alias of the chief agent of the Culper Ring, Abraham Woodhull | Samuel Culper |
| The name of the chief agent of the Culper Ring whose alias was Samuel Culper | Abraham Woodhull |
| The location near which the Culper Ring operated successfully | New York City |
| The plot exposed by the Culper Ring that used a massive counterfeiting scheme | Plot to render Continental currency worthless |
| The British officer John André was conspiring with to hand over West Point | Benedict Arnold |
| The intelligence officer who was captured on his return from a night meeting with Arnold | Major John Andre |
| The person who suspected that Arnold was an accomplice and had Andre tried and hanged as a spy | George Washington (or Tallmadge first suspected) |
| The society woman from Virginia whose 1866 memoir provides a highly embellished chronicle of her exploits | Belle Boyd |
| The general whose troop maneuvers Belle Boyd claims she reported to Stonewall Jackson's men | James Shields |
| The general whose men received intelligence from Belle Boyd, who ran across a battlefield | Stonewall Jackson |
| The detective agency whose operatives tracked Belle Boyd, leading to her arrest in 1862 | Allan Pinkerton's operatives |
| The person whose letters Belle Boyd was sailing to England with when her blockade runner was captured | Jefferson Davis |
| The French military officer and spy for the German Empire who perpetrated the acts of espionage wrongfully pinned on Alfred Dreyfus | Ferdinand Esterhazy |
| The incident prompted by the wrongful pinning of espionage on Alfred Dreyfus | The Dreyfus Affair |
| The sensitive missive that was key evidence against Dreyfus (found in a trash can) | Bordereau |
| This person’s (not a specific name) letter was acquired by Georges Picquart, incriminating Esterhazy | German attache in Paris |
| The person who requested a closed-door trial that exonerated him in 1898, seen as a cover-up | Ferdinand Esterhazy |
| The Russian-born spy known as the “Ace of Spies” | Sidney Reilly |
| The Scotland Yard agent for whom Reilly worked as an informant and who may have created his identity | William Melville |
| The place where Reilly stole defense plans that sparked the Russo-Japanese War | Port Arthur |
| The person Reilly tried to convince to sell his oil rights to the British government on a Rothschild family yacht | William Knox D’Arcy |
| The pseudonym Reilly used in Germany to steal weapons plans | Karl Hahn |
| Sidney Reilly may have led a failed 1918 plot to overthrow these people in Russia | Bolsheviks |
| The exotic dancer who used her neutral Dutch citizenship to spy for France, and possibly Germany, in WWI | Mata Hari |
| The birth name of Mata Hari | Margaretha Zelle |
| The persona adopted by Margaretha Zelle to further her career | Malay princess |
| The year French intelligence arrested and convicted Mata Hari for spying for Germany | 1917 |
| The married couple from New York City who supplied Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
| The informant recruited by Julius Rosenberg whose raw intelligence was typed up by Ethel | Russell McNutt |
| The brother of Ethel Rosenberg who worked at Los Alamos and ferried Julius diagrams of atomic weapons | David Greenglass |
| The spy whose implication of his courier Harry Gold led to the Rosenbergs being found out in 1950 | Klaus Fuchs |
| The lawyer who aggressively prosecuted the Rosenbergs (later a key figure in the McCarthy Era) | Roy Cohn |
| The location where the Rosenbergs were executed in the electric chair | Sing Sing Prison |
| The government project that confirmed Julius Rosenberg's guilt in 1995 | The Venona Project |
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