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Can you name the original occupiable 'Diplomacy' Provinces? Enter a province in the box below Correctly named provinces will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Dyanna You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3905 TV Shows (U.S.) 3017 Broadway Opening Lines 2921 You Do Know Jack 1300 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1217 Same Last Name 1062 And more...
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Austria

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Turkey

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	ESkog:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:27 GMT	2 points
	Some misspellings: "Stevastopol" ==> Sevastopol "Kiehl" ==> Kiel Naples should be acceptable for "Napoli", and Piedmont for "Piemonte".

	JohnJF:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	5 points
	It wouldn't take Istanbul for Constantinople. Has They Might Be Giants taught us nothing?

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:41 GMT	1 point
	Furthermore, "Skagerrak" rather than "Skaggerak" and "Heligoland Bight", not "Helgoland Bight". And where's bonus answer Switzerland? :P So happy someone made this one x

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	Henners:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT	1 point
	I can certainly say i was challenged by this game, Thanks for this!

	Nomiskp:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	2 points
	Isn't Skaggerak spelled Skagerrak?

	Francisco:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:05 GMT	2 points
	I think its typically "Tyrrhenian Sea" now days, so I think that should be an acceptable answer. Switzerland would be a nice bonus. Ireland and the Caspian Sea have been visible on various boards as well. What a great quiz. I found a place to play online recently, playdiplomacy.com. It really takes me back.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	5 points
	@Shploom: dude, you totally don't know what you're talking about.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	2 points
	I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed of myself that I got all of these. I still play online now and again, but it's been many years since I played it for real. There's something missing when you don't have to look out that Austria might see you sneaking off to meet with Italy.

	Caedus:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:51 GMT	-1 points
	Oh god. I missed Baltic Sea; the only one I missed

	Caedus:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	2 points
	Shploom. In Diplomacy it counts the United Kingdom as England.

	lulubelles:	May 1st, 2009 at 01:32 GMT	4 points
	shploom if you'd looked a little closer you would've noticed that also Budapest is not in Austria, Syria and Armenia are not in Turkey and Prussia is not in Germany, its not meant to be wonderfully geographically accurate

	DLJessup:	May 1st, 2009 at 02:35 GMT	8 points
	@lulubelles: Actually, the map for Diplomacy is meant to represent pre-WWI Europe, at which time Prussia was indeed in Germany. Budapest wasn't in Austria, but Austria and Hungary were united in the Dual Monarchy. Similarly, Syria and Armenia weren't in Turkey, mainly because Turkey didn't yet exist; rather Syria, Armenia, and Asia Minor were all part of the Ottoman Empire. The issue in this case is not geographic accuracy so much as that the publishers used shorthand labels for the great powers: "England" for the United Kingdom, "Austria" for Austria-Hungary, and "Turkey" for the Ottoman Empire.

	Sparky:	May 1st, 2009 at 03:24 GMT	0 points
	^Isn't "UK" a more logical shorthand for United Kingdom?

	Frogodo:	May 1st, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	1 point
	Tunisia is out of order alphabetically. I was trying forever to think of something between Sweden and Switzerland...

	DLJessup:	May 1st, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	2 points
	@Frogodo: Tunisia is not out of order; Switzerland is, and the reason why Switzerland is out of order is that it is a bonus answer. (Switzerland is not actually occupiable.)

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	A_is_for_Addict:	May 1st, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	2 points
	I agree with Sparky, UK would have been a more logical shorthand. However I'm guessing they took England for artistic licence, UK doesn't really sound like the name of a powerful nation. England has connotations to the past, when England was relatively powerful. I'm not condoning their use of it though. It pains me to type in Clyde and Edinburgh. Technically, pre-WWI, Wales was part of England, the national status of Wales has increased since then, Cardiff was declared capital of Wales in the 1950s and the border with England was officiated in the 1960's. Despite the Scottish discrepancy, the quiz is accurate and correct, as far as I'm aware, since it's based on a game, not real life.

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	squirrelito:	May 1st, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	-1 points
	so much for the auld alliance, Hugh! In defence of Sam, the Quiz is accurate insofar as it is about the game. Its the game that is wrong. "England" should be "British Empire" (and, as such, should include Ireland as the game is set pre-1922), "Turkey" should be "Ottoman Empire" and "Austria" should be "Austro-Hungarian Empire". I could go on but I can't be mithered

	Leo:	May 2nd, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	6 points
	Okay, no one is understanding the organization of this quiz. There are initially seven players in a game of Diplomacy, England being one of them. The quiz is organized based on the territories each player controls at the beginning of the game, not which country those territories are in. Thus it also has the Unassociated and Sea categories, which no one controls at the beginning of the game. Therefore, the quiz isn't geographic; it's based on who owns what at the beginning of a Diplomacy game. The quiz is accurate; you've just never played Diplomacy.

	A_is_for_Addict:	May 2nd, 2009 at 02:12 GMT	4 points
	Good grief Hugh! If you read what I actually wrote and anything I've wrote about the UK on other geography quizzes you'll know I'm well aware of the current state of the UK and its history. I NEVER said that Scotland and Wales ARE part of England, I said that Wales WAS but no longer is, and that Scotland NEVER WAS part of England. The quiz IS accurate because it's based on A GAME, NOT REAL LIFE i.e. in the game one of the teams is called "England" in real life it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. You are arguing that the game, "Diplomacy", is inaccurate, and in that you are correct, as I explained earlier. I am arguing that this quiz is accurately portraying the game. I'm well aware that some people believe everyone from the UK to be English, and they are wrong.

	TIMTEBOW15:	Jul 9th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	2 points
	NERDS

	Disclaimer:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 06:27 GMT	1 point
	@Huge - Unless you actually know something about the game in question, you are manifestly unqualified to speak here. The quiz it a game. If the game board defined argentina or mars as "England" then it would be a correct answer here.

	omnipotent1:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 06:58 GMT	1 point
	What exactly is a diplomacy province?

	ninjadude7:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 03:58 GMT	1 point
	awesome quiz. ive been hoping someone would make this one. one suggestion though: maybe you should change england to britain since thats just as common in the game ond that way people who've never played might not get so angry