Q 01/05

Barcelona is the capital of which autonomous community of Spain?

A) Valencia

B) Catalonia

C) Aragon

D) Andalusia

Answer · why

B) Catalonia

It is Spain's second-most populous municipality after Madrid, with about 1.7 million people inside the city limits.

Q 02/05

Which architect designed the Sagrada Família, Park Güell and Casa Batlló?

A) Lluís Domènech i Montaner

B) Josep Puig i Cadafalch

C) Ildefons Cerdà

D) Antoni Gaudí

Answer · why

D) Antoni Gaudí

He was struck by a tram in 1926 and, taken for a beggar, was not helped straight away; he is buried in the Sagrada Família's crypt.

Q 03/05

In what year did construction of the Sagrada Família begin?

A) 1882

B) 1898

C) 1912

D) 1926

Answer · why

A) 1882

Gaudí took over from the original architect the following year and worked on it until his death.

Q 04/05

Which pope consecrated the Sagrada Família and proclaimed it a basilica in 2010?

A) John Paul II

B) Benedict XVI

C) Francis

D) Leo XIV

Answer · why

B) Benedict XVI

A different pope blessed the completed central Tower of Jesus Christ in June 2026, on the centenary of Gaudí's death.

Q 05/05

Roughly how much of the Sagrada Família was finished when Gaudí died in 1926?

A) About half

B) About three-quarters

C) All but the towers

D) Less than a quarter

Answer · why

D) Less than a quarter

Anarchists burned the crypt and workshop in 1936, destroying many of his original plans.