Q 01/05

Prague sits on which river?

A) The Danube

B) The Elbe

C) The Morava

D) The Vltava

Answer · why

D) The Vltava

It flows into the Elbe north of the city; Smetana's tone poem about the river is known abroad as The Moldau.

Q 02/05

Prague is nicknamed the City of a Hundred Spires after a count by which 19th-century mathematician?

A) Bernard Bolzano

B) Christian Doppler

C) Ernst Mach

D) Kurt Godel

Answer · why

A) Bernard Bolzano

Today's estimate is around 500 spires; other nicknames are the Golden City and the Mother of Cities.

Q 03/05

Which legendary prophetess foresaw Prague as 'a great city whose glory will touch the stars'?

A) Ludmila

B) Libuse

C) Drahomira

D) Vlasta

Answer · why

B) Libuse

Her husband Premysl founded the Premyslid dynasty; she prophesied from the fort at Vysehrad.

Q 04/05

The first bridge over Prague's river, built in 1170, was named after whom?

A) Vitus, the patron saint

B) Judith, the king's wife

C) Charles, the emperor

D) Wenceslas, the duke

Answer · why

B) Judith, the king's wife

The Judith Bridge was destroyed by a flood in 1342, and Charles Bridge replaced it.

Q 05/05

Charles IV, who made Prague an imperial capital from 1346, belonged to which new royal dynasty?

A) Habsburg

B) Premyslid

C) Luxembourg

D) Jagiellon

Answer · why

C) Luxembourg

He laid out the New Town himself, founded the university and started the cathedral and the bridge that carries his name; the Premyslids had died out i...