Liechtenstein Trivia
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42 free Liechtenstein trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Liechtenstein is a country you can walk across in a day, doubly landlocked, ruled by a prince who can veto laws, using another country's currency and another country's diplomats. It abolished its army after 80 men marched off to a war and 81 came back, discovered at the 1936 Olympics that its flag was Haiti's, gave women the vote in 1984, and has won more Olympic medals per head than anyone, all of them on skis. This Liechtenstein trivia quiz covers all of it. Forty-three questions run from geography (Vaduz, Schaan, the Rhine, Grauspitz, the eleven municipalities, Malbun) through history (Roman Raetia, the Walsers, the purchase of Schellenberg and Vaduz, 1719, the Confederation of the Rhine, 1866, the army of 1868, the Swiss customs treaty of 1923, the Anschluss scare, the Beneš decrees, the 2003 referendum, the 2008 tax affair) to politics and culture (Hans-Adam II and Alois, the Landtag, the flag and crown, the anthem, German dialects, Catholicism, Hilti, LGT, FC Vaduz, the Wenzels). Roughly a third are easy, a third medium, and the rest are for people who really know the Alps. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia and official pages, so the dates, numbers and names are ones you can rely on.
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Q 01Which Renaissance master painted Ginevra de' Benci, sold by Liechtenstein's prince to Washington's National Gallery in 1967?
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci: the princely family was selling art treasures to raise money, and the gallery paid at least $5 million for the portrait.
Q 02Where did most of the Russian soldiers Liechtenstein refused to hand over to the Soviets in 1945 finally settle?
Argentina
Argentina: Liechtenstein kept sheltering them despite Soviet pressure, though many others in the group had chosen to go home.
Q 03Liechtenstein and which other country are the world's only two doubly landlocked states?
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: it only became a doubly landlocked country when it left the Soviet Union, a state with coastlines.
Q 04As of 2026, why had Liechtenstein never competed in the Eurovision Song Contest?
No EBU member broadcaster
No EBU member broadcaster: Liechtenstein tried to enter in 1976, but only broadcasters can join the EBU, and it had none.
Q 05In 1997, who did the Pope appoint as the first archbishop of Liechtenstein's new archdiocese?
The bishop of Chur
The bishop of Chur: moving Wolfgang Haas to Vaduz left lasting strains on Liechtenstein's church and political life.
Q 06As of 2024, which Liechtenstein municipality had more residents than the capital, Vaduz?
Schaan
Schaan: late in the fourth century, a small fort was built there to help guard the empire's frontier.
Q 07The emperor who made Liechtenstein a principality in 1719 was the father of which famous empress?
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa: Charles VI spent his reign getting Europe to accept a daughter as his heir, yet Prussia invaded soon after he died.
Q 08The Liechtenstein family takes its name from a castle south of which city?
Vienna
Vienna: the castle passed to other families in the 13th century, and Prince Johann I bought it back in the early 1800s.
Q 09Liechtenstein became fully independent in 1866 upon the dissolution of what?
The German Confederation
The German Confederation: it broke up after the Austro-Prussian War, and two years later Liechtenstein disbanded its army.
Q 10By popular legend, Liechtenstein's 80 soldiers returned from their last campaign in 1866 with what?
One extra man
One extra man: the soldiers had guarded an Alpine pass against Italy and never saw any fighting.
Q 11Why did Liechtenstein abolish its army in 1868?
It cost too much
It cost too much: even so, the constitution still obliges every fit citizen to defend the country in an emergency.
Q 12In March 1939, as local Nazis plotted a coup, Liechtenstein's prince made a state visit to which capital?
Berlin
Berlin: back home, the plotters hoped clashes would bring in German troops, but no invasion came.
Q 13What is the currency of Liechtenstein?
Swiss franc
Swiss franc: Liechtenstein switched after Austria-Hungary's collapse sent the Austrian currency into freefall.
Q 21Which Liechtenstein mountain village keeps a distinctive Walser dialect, brought by settlers around 1300?
Triesenberg
Triesenberg: the municipality deliberately cultivates its Walser speech as part of its local identity.
Q 22Which power-tool maker is headquartered in Liechtenstein?
Hilti
Hilti: close to bankruptcy after World War II, it recovered by developing tools that drive nails into concrete.
Q 23In 2008, the boss of which company resigned after raids exposed his secret Liechtenstein foundation?
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post: Klaus Zumwinkel stepped down, and in 2009 he got a two-year suspended sentence and had to pay €1 million.
Q 14Who became Prince of Liechtenstein in 1989?
Hans-Adam II
Hans-Adam II: before taking the throne, he turned the family-owned bank from a small local lender into an international financial group.
Q 15Which power did a 2003 referendum give Liechtenstein's prince?
Dismissing the government
Dismissing the government: the prince had threatened to abdicate and leave the country if voters refused, and voters backed him.
Q 16Liechtenstein's Prince Johann I, a Habsburg cavalry commander, negotiated peace with Napoleon after which 1805 battle?
Austerlitz
Austerlitz: the peace that followed stripped Austria of Tyrol and its Venetian lands.
Q 17In 1984, Liechtenstein became the last European country to grant women what?
The right to vote
The right to vote: only men could vote in the 1984 referendum, and it passed by just 119 votes after men rejected it in 1971 and 1973.
Q 18Liechtenstein added a crown to its flag in 1937 after finding at the 1936 Olympics it matched which country's?
Haiti
Haiti: the flags met at Games in which Haiti's only athlete never actually competed.
Q 19Liechtenstein's national anthem shares its melody with which other anthem?
God Save the King
God Save the King: only in 1963, after decades of dispute, did parliament adopt the revised lyrics sung today.
Q 20Liechtenstein's national motto is 'For God, Prince and' what?
Fatherland
Fatherland: it is customary to raise a hand when the national anthem cheers the prince and the fatherland.
Q 24At the start of World War I, what did France, Russia and Britain do to Liechtenstein's citizens?
Interned them
Interned them: its customs union with Austria-Hungary made the Allies doubt that Liechtenstein was truly neutral.
Q 25By the 2018 Winter Games, Liechtenstein had won ten Olympic medals, all in which sport?
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing: Liechtenstein had even boycotted the 1956 Summer Games in a Cold War protest.
Q 26Which skier won Liechtenstein's first two Olympic gold medals, at Lake Placid in 1980?
Hanni Wenzel
Hanni Wenzel: born in Bavaria, she became a Liechtenstein citizen only in 1974, after winning that year's world slalom title.
Q 27What is Liechtenstein's only ski area?
Malbun
Malbun: in 1968, five stray artillery shells from an exercise across the border hit the resort, damaging only a few chairs.
Q 28In which competition did FC Vaduz, Liechtenstein's most successful club, play in 2024–25?
The Swiss Challenge League
The Swiss Challenge League: Liechtenstein has no national league, so its clubs all play in the Swiss league system.
Q 29In a 2006 World Cup qualifier, Liechtenstein won 4-0 away against which landlocked country?
Luxembourg
Luxembourg: the win ended Liechtenstein's long wait for a first away victory, with Franz Burgmeier scoring twice.
Q 30What did Liechtenstein begin issuing for itself in 1912?
Stamps
Stamps: yet that first 1912 issue was still produced under Austrian direction.