Q 01/05

The Alps stretch across how many countries, counting the microstates?

A) 4

B) 6

C) 7

D) 8

Answer · why

D) 8

The arc runs roughly 1,200 km from Nice on the Mediterranean to Vienna at the edge of the Pannonian Basin, and two of the eight are microstates.

Q 02/05

Which microstate holds the smallest share of the Alps, just 0.001% of the range?

A) Liechtenstein

B) Monaco

C) San Marino

D) Andorra

Answer · why

B) Monaco

Austria has the largest share at 28.7%, ahead of Italy and France; Switzerland, the country most associated with the range, holds only 13.2%.

Q 03/05

Ötzi the Iceman was discovered on a glacier at the Austria-Italy border in which year?

A) 1998

B) 1991

C) 2004

D) 2011

Answer · why

B) 1991

Two hikers spotted the body on 19 September 1991 and assumed it was a recently dead mountaineer; it turned out to be Europe's oldest known natural hum...

Q 04/05

Ötzi's remains are on permanent display in a museum in which city?

A) Innsbruck

B) Bolzano

C) Vienna

D) Munich

Answer · why

B) Bolzano

A land survey found the body lay 92.56 metres inside Italian territory, which is why the Iceman ended up in South Tyrol's capital rather than in Austr...

Q 05/05

Ötzi carried an axe whose blade was made almost entirely of which metal?

A) Bronze

B) Iron

C) Copper

D) Tin

Answer · why

C) Copper

The blade is 99.7% pure, and high levels of the same metal plus arsenic in his hair suggest he may have been involved in smelting it.