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60 free Austria trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Austria is a small Alpine republic that used to run an empire, and both halves of that story are in this quiz. The history questions cover the Ostarrîchi document of 996, the Babenbergs and Habsburgs, the sieges of Vienna, Maria Theresa, Franz Joseph and Sisi, the 1867 Compromise, the shot at Sarajevo, the First Republic, Dollfuss, the Anschluss of 1938, the State Treaty and neutrality of 1955, Waldheim, Haider, Kurz and the Ibiza affair. The rest is the Austria people visit: nine states and a capital that is also a state, the Grossglockner and the Danube, Hallstatt and the Wachau, Salzburg and Mozart, Vienna's coffee houses, the New Year's Concert, the Spanish Riding School, the Riesenrad of The Third Man, schnitzel, Sachertorte and Kaiserschmarrn, Grüner Veltliner, Red Bull and Swarovski, Freud, Klimt, Schrödinger and Wittgenstein, Falco and Conchita Wurst, Niki Lauda, Marcel Hirscher and the Sound of Music. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Austria, its cities, rulers, artists and brands, so the dates and figures are reliable.
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Q 01Austria is a federation of how many states?
Nine
Vienna is unique in being both a city and a state.
Q 02Austria's native name Österreich derives from Ostarrîchi, first recorded in 996, meaning what?
Eastern realm
At the time the area was the easternmost part of Bavaria.
Q 03Austria shares borders with how many countries?
Eight
Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Q 04The Grossglockner, Austria's highest mountain, rises to what height?
3,798 m
The Pasterze, Austria's longest glacier, lies on its eastern slope.
Q 05The Eastern Alps make up roughly what share of Austria's territory?
62%
Foothills and the Pannonian lowlands account for most of the rest.
Q 06Which Celtic-era culture, named after an Austrian salt-mining village, left Europe's oldest Celtic evidence?
Hallstatt
The village's salt mine is described as the world's oldest still working.
Q 07Which Roman province, conquered in 16 BC, covered most of modern Austria?
Noricum
Carnuntum in the east was home to 50,000 people for nearly 400 years.
Q 08Rudolph I's 1278 victory at Dürnkrut over Ottokar II of Bohemia began which dynasty's rule in Austria?
The Habsburgs
From then until 1918 Austria's history was largely that of the family.
Q 09The dynasty gained Spain and its empire through the 1496 marriage of Philip the Fair to whom?
Joanna the Mad
Maximilian's earlier marriage to Maria of Burgundy had brought most of the Netherlands.
Q 10Which Polish king commanded the army that relieved the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683?
John III Sobieski
Suleiman the Magnificent's first siege in 1529 had ended with early snowfalls.
Q 11In what year did Maria Theresa's 40-year reign over the Habsburg monarchy begin?
1740
Frederick the Great promptly seized Silesia in the War of the Austrian Succession.
Q 12The Empire of Austria was founded in which year, two years before the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved?
1804
It was a response to Napoleon proclaiming the French Empire.
Q 13Defeat by Prussia at which 1866 battle forced Austria out of the German Confederation?
Königgrätz
The Compromise with Hungary followed in 1867.
Q 14The Ausgleich of 1867 created dual sovereignty between Austria and which kingdom under Franz Joseph I?
Q 21In which year did Austria regain full sovereignty and declare perpetual neutrality?
1955
It joined the United Nations the same year.
Q 22Which former UN Secretary-General became Austrian president in 1986 amid a Wehrmacht controversy?
Kurt Waldheim
He had led the UN from 1972 to 1981.
Q 23Austria joined the European Union on 1 January of which year, after a referendum with two-thirds support?
1995
It signed Schengen the same year and adopted the euro in 1999.
Q 24Sebastian Kurz's first coalition collapsed in 2019 over a corruption scandal named after which island?
Hungary
The empire's laws were published in eight languages.
Q 15Empress Elisabeth, 'Sisi', was fatally stabbed in 1898 in which city?
Geneva
The Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni attacked her; her 44 years as empress remain the longest.
Q 16Whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 led the emperor to declare war on Serbia?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Over a million Austro-Hungarian soldiers died in the war that followed.
Q 17The 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain and Versailles explicitly forbade what for the new Austrian republic?
Union with Germany
The rump state had proclaimed itself part of the German republic in November 1918.
Q 18Which Austrian chancellor built an Austrofascist dictatorship and was killed in a 1934 Nazi coup attempt?
Engelbert Dollfuss
A brief civil war in February 1934 had crushed the Social Democrats.
Q 19The Anschluss, Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, took place in March of which year?
1938
Hitler announced the 'reunification' from Vienna's Heldenplatz two days later.
Q 20Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in which Austrian town near the German border?
Braunau am Inn
He moved to Germany in 1913.
Ibiza
Kurz returned as chancellor with the Greens in 2020 but resigned in October 2021.
Q 25Vienna is home to the headquarters of which oil producers' cartel?
OPEC
Austria is also a founding member of the OECD and Interpol.
Q 26The capital's population exceeds 2 million, roughly what fraction of Austria's total?
A quarter
Graz is second with about 305,000, then Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.
Q 27What did the Romans call the castrum they founded on the site of Vienna in the 1st century?
Vindobona
It gained Roman city rights in 212.
Q 28Austria's red-white-red flag was first recorded in which year?
1230
It comes from the arms of the Babenberg dynasty.
Q 29The Austrian schilling, introduced in 1925 to replace the Krone, earned what nickname for its stability?
The Alpine dollar
It replaced the Krone at 10,000 to one.
Q 30Besides German, which languages are official in parts of Carinthia and Burgenland?
Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian
Some 88.6% of the population speak German languages or dialects natively.