Q 01/05

In which city was Marie Antoinette born?

A) Paris

B) Munich

C) Prague

D) Vienna

Answer · why

D) Vienna

Vienna was the capital of France's old enemy, so her marriage to the French heir was meant to seal the peace, and those who opposed the alliance never...

Q 02/05

Marie Antoinette was the youngest daughter of which formidable ruler?

A) Empress Maria Theresa

B) Queen Anne of Great Britain

C) Catherine the Great

D) Empress Elizabeth of Russia

Answer · why

A) Empress Maria Theresa

Empress Maria Theresa reigned for 40 years and bore 16 children, and used her daughters' marriages to seal alliances, sending the youngest to France.

Q 03/05

Which royal house was Marie Antoinette born into?

A) Bourbon-Parma

B) Wittelsbach

C) Hohenzollern

D) Habsburg-Lorraine

Answer · why

D) Habsburg-Lorraine

Habsburg-Lorraine was barely a generation old: her parents' marriage in 1736 had founded it, joining the last Habsburg heiress to the Duke of Lorraine...

Q 04/05

Marie Antoinette was born the day after Lisbon's great earthquake, on which sombre Catholic feast?

A) All Saints' Day

B) Holy Innocents' Day

C) Our Lady of Sorrows

D) All Souls' Day

Answer · why

D) All Souls' Day

All Souls' Day is when Catholics pray for the dead; the earthquake had struck on All Saints' Day, and some later read her birth in its shadow as a bad...

Q 05/05

Which composer performed for the young Marie Antoinette at Schönbrunn Palace in 1762?

A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

B) Joseph Haydn

C) Antonio Salieri

D) Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer · why

A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was six, as was she; the story goes that he slipped and fell, was helped up by the little archduchess and declared he would ma...