Science, Arts and Culture
Science, Arts, Food and Culture
36 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
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- Near which Swiss city is CERN, the European particle physics laboratory?
- Which scientist worked at the patent office in Bern and published his famous papers in 1905?
- Which type of cheese, with large holes, is a well-known Swiss export?
- Which dish consists of melted cheese eaten with bread dipped in a shared pot?
- Which Swiss painter, born near Bern, is known for his colourful abstract works such as 'Twittering Machine'?
- Which Swiss sculptor is known for very thin, elongated figures?
- Which Swiss company is famous for its pocket knife with a red handle and white cross?
- Which Alpine musical instrument is a long wooden horn?
- Which type of singing, with quick changes between chest voice and head voice, is a Swiss tradition?
- Which famous international jazz festival is held each summer on Lake Geneva?
- Which Swiss city on the Rhine hosts a major yearly fair of contemporary art, held in June?
- Which chocolate type was first made in Switzerland in 1875 by Daniel Peter?
- At which institution in Zurich did Albert Einstein study to become a teacher of physics and mathematics?
- Which mathematician, born in Basel in 1707, wrote the identity ?
- Which Swiss psychologist is known for his stages of children's cognitive development?
- Which Swiss psychiatrist founded analytical psychology?
- What was invented at CERN in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee?
- What is the name of the large machine at CERN that collides particles in an underground ring about 27 kilometres long?
- Which particle was announced as found at CERN in 2012?
- Which Basel family produced several noted mathematicians and scientists, including Daniel, who described a law of fluid flow?
- In which Swiss town was the architect Le Corbusier born?
- Which Swiss fabric fastener was invented after the engineer noticed burrs on his dog's fur?
- Which carnival is on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage in Switzerland, held in early spring?
- Which Swiss watchmaking towns are on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
- Which vineyard terraces on Lake Geneva are a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
- Which railways in Graubünden are a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
- Which Swiss painter, born in Bern in 1853, is known for large Alpine landscapes and symbolist works?
- Which Swiss oat dish, invented in Zurich around 1900, is eaten for breakfast?
- For which achievement did Albert Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921?
- Which principle, described by Daniel Bernoulli, states that a faster flow of a fluid goes with lower pressure?
- In Piaget's theory, which is the first of the four stages of cognitive development?
- Which statement describes the role of the Large Hadron Collider?
- Why does a UNESCO World Heritage listing, such as that of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, matter for a site?
- Which statement about Swiss Standard German in literature is correct?
- Which person is the Swiss author of 'Heidi', and what is the setting?
- Which Swiss writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1919?