Q 01/05

Which Austro-Hungarian submarine ace of World War I became the father portrayed in The Sound of Music?

A) Felix von Luckner

B) Georg von Trapp

C) Gottfried von Banfield

D) Lothar von Arnauld

Answer · why

B) Georg von Trapp

Georg von Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of the war. His first wife was the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, inv...

Q 02/05

Which city, merged from three towns in 1873, opened mainland Europe's first electric underground in 1896?

A) Budapest

B) Vienna

C) Berlin

D) Bucharest

Answer · why

A) Budapest

Budapest built the Millennium Underground Railway, the world's second electrified underground after London's. The line under Andrássy Avenue has run e...

Q 03/05

Which magician was born Erik Weisz in 1874 in the Hungarian capital of Austria-Hungary?

A) Howard Thurston

B) Harry Kellar

C) Harry Houdini

D) David Devant

Answer · why

C) Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini left Hungary as a child when his family settled in Appleton, Wisconsin, where his father served as a rabbi.

Q 04/05

Which engineer behind the Volkswagen Beetle was born in Austria-Hungary, in northern Bohemia, in 1875?

A) Nikolaus August Otto

B) Gottlieb Daimler

C) Ferdinand Porsche

D) Rudolf Diesel

Answer · why

C) Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche also created the first petrol-electric hybrid vehicle, the Lohner-Porsche, long before he designed racing cars for Auto Union.

Q 05/05

Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family; which other national language of Europe does too?

A) Turkish

B) Basque

C) Albanian

D) Finnish

Answer · why

D) Finnish

Finnish shares several hundred word roots with Hungarian: water is vesi in one and víz in the other, and hand is käsi and kéz.