Q 01/05

Budapest shoppers pay in which currency, launched in 1946 to end the worst hyperinflation ever recorded?

A) Koruna

B) Forint

C) Złoty

D) Leu

Answer · why

B) Forint

Forint. It replaced the pengő on 1 August 1946, when prices were doubling about every 15 hours, the fastest inflation ever measured.

Q 02/05

Which entertainer, born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, became a star after emigrating to America as a child?

A) Harry Houdini

B) Charlie Chaplin

C) Buster Keaton

D) Al Jolson

Answer · why

A) Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini. His family left Budapest in 1878 to join his rabbi father in Appleton, Wisconsin, and he later named himself after the French magician ...

Q 03/05

The Danube flows through Budapest on its way to which sea?

A) Adriatic Sea

B) Baltic Sea

C) Black Sea

D) Aegean Sea

Answer · why

C) Black Sea

Black Sea. The river was the Roman Empire's frontier for centuries on its way there, which is why a legionary fortress once stood where Budapest is no...

Q 04/05

After its 1873 merger, Budapest shared the role of imperial capital with which other city?

A) Prague

B) Vienna

C) Berlin

D) Munich

Answer · why

B) Vienna

Vienna. The 1867 Compromise turned the Austrian Empire into the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, and the three towns merged six years later to form i...

Q 05/05

Which side of the Danube is Pest on?

A) East

B) West

C) South

D) North

Answer · why

A) East

East. Pest lies on the flat edge of the Great Plain, facing hilly Buda across the river, and its name may come from a Slavic word for an oven or a cav...