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Austrian quiz

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1. The capital of Austria is…
Salzburg
Linz
Vienna
2. Languages and dialects of this group are natively spoken by 88.6% of all the Austrians; it
is…
A. German
B. Roman
C. East Slovenian
3. According to statistics of 2017, more than 50% of Austrian citizens were registered as…
Orthodox
Catholic
Protestant
(St. Stefan’s cathedral in Vienna - pic)
4. This fascinating picture showing a kiss of (supposingly) two lovers was created by
Gustav Klimt
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Rudolf von Alt
5. His breakout role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, where he
played SS officer Hans Landa. He’s…
Max Reinhardt
Otto Schenk
Christoph Waltz
6. An Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, at the height of his literary career,
in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world. Well-known for
The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Confusion, he’s…
Stefan Zweig
Georg Trakl
Franz Werfel
7. An Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating
psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, it’s…
Karl Gustav Jung
Sigmund Freud
Steven Pinker
8. Such Austrian sportsmen as Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Franz Klammer, Hermann Maier, Toni
Sailer, Benjamin Raich, Marlies Schild & Marcel Hirscher are widely regarded as some of the
greatest … of all time
footballers
swimmers
alpine skiers
9. A form of singing that involves rapid and repeated changes of register, developed in the
Alps, is called…
Yogelling
Yodeling
Yelling
10. Probably he is the most recognizable Austrian composer of all. Ludwig van Beethoven
created his early works in his shadow, and once Joseph Haydn wrote about him: "posterity
will not see such a talent again in 100 years". Haydn definitely wrote about…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
Johann Strauss II
11. At 2014, this singer won the Eurovision Song Contest. The drag queen portrayed by Thomas
"Tom" Neuwirth, her name was…
Worchita Cunst
Mary Nightingale
Conchita Wurst
He was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination in Sarajevo became a formal
reason to start World War I. His name was…
Franz Ferdinand
Karl Ludwig
Franz Joseph
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