Austria is an alpine republic on the Danube, once the heart of a great European empire.
This quiz asks 20 questions about Austrian food, symbols, places, history and famous Austrians.
One run asks 20 questions from a bank of 40, so two runs do not ask the same set.
How to play
- Each round shows one question and four answers. Tap the answer you think is right.
- You have three lives. Each wrong answer costs one life.
- After each answer, the game shows a short explanation of the right answer.
- The quiz saves your best score and best time.
What counts in this quiz
- The bank holds 40 questions about Austria: food, drink, symbols, geography, history, music, people, science, business, sport, language, society, money.
- Every question has exactly one right answer among the four options.
What's not included, and why
- Facts that change with the news are not in the bank. The quiz asks no questions about sitting politicians or the rankings of today.
- Questions that need a map, such as naming every region of Austria, live in the map quizzes.
Good to know
- Vienna's central cemetery holds the graves of Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.
- The oldest zoo still in operation opened at Schönbrunn in Vienna in 1752.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in the Austrian state of Styria.
- The snow globe was invented in Vienna around 1900.