How much do you know about Austria? What do you know about its people? We give you 10 questions, each divided into 3 parts. And we give you 6 answers. Make your choice and write down your answers. For every correct answer you get 1 point. If you answer correctly on all 3 parts of the same question you get 1 extrapoint, that is 4 points on that question.

All set? Good luck!

Question  1: In which province can you find the following cities?

A: Innsbruck		1: Burgenland
B: Klagenfurt		2: Lower Austria
C: Kapfenberg		3: Carinthia
		4: Styria
		5: Tyrol
		6: Upper Austria

Question  2: What do the following Austrian words mean?

A: Marille		1: orange
B: Ribisel		2: apricot
C: Zwetschke		3: strawberry
		4: plum
		5: currant
		6: gooseberry

Question  3: Who was the composer of

A: the symphony: "The Titan"		1: Gustav Mahler
B: "Der Bettelstudent"		2: Franz Schubert
C: The "Marriage of Figaro"		3: Karl Millöcker
		4: Johann Strauss jr
		5: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		6: Robert Stolz

Question 4: Where are the following sights to be found?

A: Uhrturm (clocktower)		1: Bregenz
B: Lindwurm (wyvern)		2: Klagenfurt
C: Goldenes Dachl (golden roof)		3: Eisenstadt
		4: Innsbruck
		5: Vienna
		6: Graz

Question 5: Which three of these lakes are situated in the Salzkammergut?

	1: Achensee
	2: Bodensee (Lake Constance)
	3: Hallstätter See
	4: Mondsee
	5: Traunsee
	6: Wörthersee

Question 6: In which year happened the following?

A: Austria becomes an archduchy.		1: 1453
B: The second seige of Vienna by the Turks.		2: 1529
C: Burgenland becomes part of Austria.		3: 1683
		4: 1713
		5: 1815
		6: 1921

Question 7: Austria has dominated alpine skiing for decades. Where did the following skiers win their olympic goldmedals in downhill?

A: Annemarie Pröll		1: Sapporo
B: Franz Klammer		2: Lake Placid
C: Toni Sailer		3: St. Moritz
		4: Grenoble
		5: Innsbruck
		6: Cortina d'Ampezzo

Question 8: Here are three important Hapsburg Emperors. But who was the father of each?

A: Maximilian I		1: Leopold I
B: Karl VI		2: Karl V
C: Franz Joseph I		3: Friedrich III
		4: Ferdinand I
		5: Archduke Franz Karl
		6: Archduke Karl II

Question 9: Put each Nobel Prize together with the right winner.

A: Peace 1905		1: Erwin Schrödinger
B: Medicin 1930		2: Victor Franz Hess
C: Chemistry 1938		3: Richard Kuhn
		4: Karl Landsteiner
		5: Bertha von Suttner
		6: Wolfgang Pauli

Question 10: Which occupation was theirs?

A: Otto Wagner		1: actor
B: Herbert von Karajan		2: writer
C: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller		3: architect
		4: conductor
		5: couturier
		6: painter

® Bernhard Kauntz, 2004

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