Question:	Pick one answer below:	Correct Answer
Of German, French, Italian & Romansh, which language did not evolve from the Romans’ Latin?		Romansh
What does the German word Doppelzimmer mean?	Haunted house  /  alpen music / double room	double room
When were the Alps created?	1 billion BC  /  500 million BC  / 500 thousand BC	500 million BC
In the Alps, the Helvetia were a Celtic tribe, conquered by Julius Caesar in 53 BC.	True or False	True
When was Confederation Helvetia (CH) first founded from three cantons (or states), to resist outsiders such as the Habsburgs?	1291  /  1676  /  1848	1291
When you use a Swiss ATM, what is a CHF?	(Hint: “CH” doesn’t stand for chocolate.)	CHF is the official ISO code for the Swiss Franc, the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
A Genevan reversed the colors on the Swiss flag and founded the Red Cross humanitarian organization in the year _____.	1291  /  1864  /  1917	1864
In 1848 the Swiss adopted a bicameral parliament modeled after USA’s, but with less executive power.	True or False	True
Zürich’s technical college graduated 25 Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein, and Wilhelm Röntgen (who discovered X-rays).	True or False	True
Zürich was founded by Romans in 58 BC as a customs post; and now it has the world’s largest gold marketplace.	All true  /  All false  / Only true about the gold	All true
In Switzerland, sgraffito is:	Illegal / A fresco / A façade of dark paint revealed by scraping off white plaster / a fresco & a scraped façade	A façade of dark paint revealed by scraping off white plaster (but can also include a fresco)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was an Erasmian humanist who founded the Swiss Evangelic Reformed Church, and planted the seeds of Swiss democracy and the American Presbyterian Church.	True or False	True

Fun Swiss Facts:

• Did you know that Switzerland legalized use of marijuana in 2002?  (But sales are not legal).
• The Swiss Guard have been famously fierce mercenaries from the 15^th to 19^th centuries, but now only 100 are left, serving just the Pope & Vatican City.
• Switzerland stayed neutral in both world wars, yet today every fit man serves in the army and stays in the reserves, and every household contains a bomb shelter and gun!  
• In 2002, Switzerland finally joined the United Nations. More recently, the Swiss almost voted away their military.
• Swiss commas are decimal points, and vice versa:   €1,50 is one and a half euros, and an American mile contains 5.280 feet. Also, when counting on your fingers, #1 is your thumb!
• Switzerland has 3 official languages: German=64%, French=20%, and Italian=7%.   A fourth language, Romansh (or Romansch), is spoken by only 0.5%.        Other languages include: Serbo-Croatian=1.5%, Albanian=1.3%, Portuguese=1.2%, Spanish=1.1%, and English=1%       (2000 census)
• An American’s “second floor” of a building is the first floor in Europe.

Give me a Lift	Does the car in this lift run along ground rails, or run hanging from a cable in the air?	Does each car usually carry less than 10 people, or more than 10?	Does this lift system have  1-2 cars, or more than 2 cars?	Do you board cars while they are moving or stopped?
“Cable car” =	Suspended on a cable	more than 10 per car	1-2 cars	while stopped
“Gondola” =	Suspended on a cable	less than 10 per car	More than 2 cars	while moving
“Funicular” =	Steep ground rail car pulled by a cable looped to 2nd car	more than 10 per car	1-2 cars	while stopped
“Cogwheel train” =	Rail car driven along an extra toothed rail in center	more than 10 per car	More than 2 cars	while stopped

* Note: The car compartment of a cable car is also sometimes called a “gondola”.