Andorra Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
46 free Andorra trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Andorra is 468 square kilometres of Pyrenees ruled jointly by a Spanish bishop and the President of France, an arrangement that dates from a treaty of 1278 and still works. This quiz covers the country's oddities and its history: the charter tradition ascribes to Charlemagne, the paréages, the tribute of hams and cheeses paid to the bishop, the second-oldest parliament in Europe, the 1993 constitution and the day an adventurer proclaimed himself King Boris I and declared war on the bishop. There are questions on geography too, from Coma Pedrosa and Europe's highest capital to Pas de la Casa on the French border and the roadless UNESCO valley of Madriu-Perafita-Claror, and on modern Andorra: the euro without EU membership, tourism at 80 percent of GDP, the ski slopes, tobacco, the banks, Radio Andorra, Catalan at Eurovision, the national football team's rare wins and Gerard Piqué's FC Andorra. Escudella, trinxat, Meritxell Day and the sardana round it out. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Andorra, its parishes, institutions and history, so the dates and heights are reliable.
30 of 46 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Andorra lies high in which mountain range?
The Pyrenees
The Pyrenees. The country is a knot of valleys averaging 1,996 metres above sea level, so steep that only a sliver of its land can be farmed and most food is imported.
Q 02Andorra's two co-princes are the Bishop of Urgell and which head of state?
The President of France
The President of France. The share began with a medieval French count, passed by inheritance to the kings of Navarre, and joined the French crown when one of them became Henry IV.
Q 03Tradition holds that Andorra was created by which Frankish ruler for help against the Moors?
Charlemagne
Charlemagne. The legend is built into the national anthem, El Gran Carlemany, which is sung in the country's own voice and opens by calling him 'my father'.
Q 04The paréage of 1278 split Andorra between the Bishop of Urgell and which count?
Foix
The Count of Foix. The pact ended a long feud between his family and the bishops, and Andorra has counted 1278 as its birth as a state ever since.
Q 05Under pressure from the EU over tax evasion, Andorra agreed in 2013 to introduce which tax for the first time?
Personal income tax
Personal income tax. For decades there was none, which helped make Andorra's banks a haven for foreign money.
Q 06Before 1993, Andorra's tribute to its episcopal co-prince included six cheeses, six live chickens and six what?
Hams
Hams. The payment in kind was a token relic of feudal dues, and it lapsed when the 1993 constitution cut back the co-princes' powers.
Q 07Andorra's General Council long shared its building with what?
The criminal court
The criminal court, which sat on the ground floor. The house went up in the late 1500s as a family manor; the council bought it in 1702 and stayed until 2011.
Q 08What is kept in the Cabinet of the Seven Keys in Andorra's old parliament house?
Historic state documents
Historic state documents. The cabinet has a lock for every parish, so it was the Closet of the Six Keys until a seventh parish arrived in 1978.
Q 09Andorra's first constitution, approved by referendum in 1993, opened the way for it to join which body that year?
The United Nations
The United Nations, in July 1993. The constitution cut back the co-princes' feudal powers and made Andorra a parliamentary state able to act for itself abroad.
Q 10What did the émigré adventurer Boris Skossyreff proclaim himself in Andorra in July 1934?
King
King, as Boris I. He promised to turn the valleys into a tax haven and declared war on the Bishop of Urgell, who had him arrested within a fortnight.
Q 11Andorra la Vella holds which record among European capital cities?
Greatest elevation
Greatest elevation: 1,023 metres above sea level. In a country whose lowest point is 840 metres up, even a capital on the valley floor outranks every other in Europe.
Q 12Which animals appear on the coat of arms at the centre of Andorra's flag?
Cows
Cows: two red ones, the old arms of Béarn, a French viscounty bound up with Andorra's medieval history. The red cow still counts as a national symbol.
Q 13Which form of transport is missing from Andorra altogether?
Railways
Railways. Good roads link the valleys to France and Spain instead, and the nearest station stands just across the French border.
Q 21The Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley, Andorra's only World Heritage Site, was listed by UNESCO as what?
A cultural landscape
A cultural landscape. For all its wild look, the valley was listed for its people: shepherds' huts, terraced fields, old iron workings and a system of common land dating from the 13th century.
Q 22In 2020 Ordino parish won which UNESCO designation?
Biosphere reserve
Biosphere reserve. UNESCO praised country shaped by centuries of traditional farming and herding, where pine and fir forests shelter the bearded vulture and a rare mountain lizard.
Q 23The Port d'Envalira, the 2,408-metre pass above Pas de la Casa, holds which record for its mountain range?
Highest paved road
Q 14Which peak is Andorra's highest point?
Coma Pedrosa
Coma Pedrosa, in the north-west. Surveys put it between 2,942 and 2,946 metres, so Andorra just misses having a peak of 3,000.
Q 15Andorra's two main rivers meet near the capital to form which principal river?
The Gran Valira
The Gran Valira. It carries almost all of Andorra's water south towards the Mediterranean; only one far corner of the country drains north to the Atlantic.
Q 16Which industry makes up about four-fifths of Andorra's economy?
Tourism
Tourism. Banking also matters; before the visitors came, the valleys lived on sheep, a little farming and handicrafts.
Q 17A 2011 monetary agreement with the EU gave Andorra the right to do what with the euro?
Mint its own coins
Mint its own coins. Andorra had used the euro informally since 2002; the pact made it official, though banknotes stayed off limits, and the first Andorran coins appeared in January 2015.
Q 18Which two currencies did Andorra use side by side before the euro?
The French franc and Spanish peseta
The French franc and Spanish peseta, one from each neighbour, because Andorra never had a currency of its own.
Q 19Andorra is not in the EU, but which arrangement has bound it to the bloc since 1991?
A customs union
A customs union, signed in 1990. Andorran factory goods trade with the EU as if from a member state, while its farm produce is treated as foreign.
Q 20What is odd about Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell Airport, the airport that serves Andorra?
It lies outside Andorra
It lies outside Andorra, about 12 km beyond the border with Spain. No aeroplane can land inside the country, whose only landing places are heliports.
Highest paved road. Since 2002 most traffic has skipped the climb through a toll tunnel almost three kilometres long, bored beneath the pass at about 2,000 metres.
Q 24What is Andorra's national day, 8 September?
Our Lady of Meritxell Day
Our Lady of Meritxell Day honours the country's patron. On that very night in 1972 her old chapel burned down, statue and all, and a modern sanctuary by Ricardo Bofill took its place.
Q 25Which is the largest group of foreign nationals living in Andorra?
Spanish
Spanish. About half of Andorra's residents are foreign nationals, and counted by birthplace the Spanish-born even outnumber the Andorran-born, 34% to 32% on 2024 estimates.
Q 26Andorra competed in Eurovision from 2004 to 2009 as the only country to sing in which language?
Catalan
Catalan. None of Andorra's six entries reached a final: the first, in 2004, scored 12 points, every one of them from Spain.
Q 27Andorra's football team beat which country 1-0 in 2017 for its first competitive win since 2004?
Hungary
Hungary, beaten by a looping first-half header that caught their goalkeeper off guard. It was only the second competitive win in Andorra's history.
Q 28Which footballer's Kosmos group bought FC Andorra in December 2018?
Gerard Piqué
Gerard Piqué. Within months his group paid some €450,000 for a vacant place in Spain's third tier, and in 2022 the club reached the second division for the first time.
Q 29After the Second World War, French judges passed which sentence on Radio Andorra's founder?
Death
Death, passed in his absence for collaboration after he had fled to Spain. Within three years the sentence had been lifted, and his station stayed on the air throughout.
Q 30Which crop is still grown in Andorra's valleys to supply the country's own factories?
Tobacco
Tobacco. Long grown in the valleys, it still goes into Andorran-made cigarettes and cigars, which with furniture are the country's main factory products.