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

Marcus Aurelius may have died there in AD 180; the German name Wien comes instead from the small River Wien.

Q 02/05

Vienna is the most populous city on which river?

A) The Rhine

B) The Elbe

C) The Inn

D) The Danube

Answer · why

D) The Danube

The artificial Donauinsel doubles as flood defence and party venue.

Q 03/05

Vienna became the seat of which dynasty in 1155, before the Habsburgs?

A) The Premyslids

B) The Luxembourgs

C) The Babenbergs

D) The Wittelsbachs

Answer · why

C) The Babenbergs

Duke Henry II moved his residence from Klosterneuburg; the Babenbergs ruled Austria from 976 to 1246.

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

He brought over 100,000 men against no more than 21,000 defenders under Niklas Graf Salm, and still failed.

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

The battle was fought on Kahlenberg mountain on 12 September after two months of siege.