Q 01/05

What did the Romans call their camp on the site of Vienna?

A) Carnuntum

B) Vindobona

C) Aquincum

D) Juvavum

Answer · why

B) Vindobona

Vindobona's defensive ditch was filled in during a late-12th-century expansion and became the Graben, now a famous shopping street in the heart of Vie...

Q 02/05

In Vienna, the sausage that Germans and Americans call a wiener goes by what name?

A) Bratwurst

B) Frankfurter

C) Knackwurst

D) Weisswurst

Answer · why

B) Frankfurter

Frankfurter: butcher Johann Georg Lahner, who trained in Frankfurt, is credited with launching it in Vienna in the early 1800s under that name, while ...

Q 03/05

Vienna became the seat of which dynasty in the 12th century, before the Habsburgs?

A) The Hohenzollerns

B) The Luxembourgs

C) The Babenbergs

D) The Wittelsbachs

Answer · why

C) The Babenbergs

The Babenbergs ruled Austria from 976 to 1246; when Duke Henry II gave up Bavaria he set up court in Vienna, not at the old family seat of Klosterneub...

Q 04/05

Which Ottoman sultan led the first siege of Vienna in 1529?

A) Mehmed the Conqueror

B) Selim the Grim

C) Suleiman the Magnificent

D) Bayezid the Just

Answer · why

C) Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman the Magnificent had to abandon his heaviest siege guns when they bogged down in rain-soaked mud on the march, and he gave up the siege in und...

Q 05/05

Which king commanded the relief army that broke the Ottoman siege at the Battle of Vienna in 1683?

A) John III Sobieski of Poland

B) Louis XIV of France

C) Leopold I of Austria

D) Charles XI of Sweden

Answer · why

A) John III Sobieski of Poland

John III Sobieski of Poland commanded the relief army that attacked from the Kahlenberg heights; Emperor Leopold I had fled Vienna before the siege be...