Answer: Großglockner
At 3798 m above sea level the Großglockner is Austria's highest mountain. It is located at the border of Carinthia and eastern Tyrol in the "Hohe Tauern". The Großvenediger is 3662 m, the Dachstein 2995m and the Oetscher 1893 m above sea level.
From Quiz: Austrian Facts
Answer: Graz
Graz is also the second largest city in Austria.
From Quiz: Styrian Knowledge
Answer: Innsbruck
Innsbruck is the capital of the Tyrol. The name "Innsbruck" comes from the river "Inn" and where a bridge was built. (German: Brücke, Bruck)
From Quiz: Tyrol and Carinthia (Inclusive Eastern Tyrol)
Answer: eight
Austria is bordered on the north by the Czech Republic; on the northeast by Slovakia; on the east by Hungary; on the south by Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland; and on the west by Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany.
From Quiz: Know More About Austria
Answer: The Danube Channel
The Danube Channel (Ger. 'der Donaukanal') is an arm of the Danube. The main) Danube River, which tends to flood, gets no closer than the north-eastern suburbs and these are protected by a large flood plain. The Inn, which gives its name to Innsbruck in the Tirol is well to the west. The Wienzeile is narrow stream in the south and south-western parts of Vienna and flows into the Danube Channel.
From Quiz: Vienna
Answer: Mountains
Austria is highly mountainous, with only 32% percent of the country being below 500 metres (1,640 ft). This is due to the presence of the snowy Alps.
From Quiz: Austrotrivia
Answer: Danube
At 2888 km the Danube is the second longest river in Europe. The Danube flows from Germany through Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and the Ukraine until it flows into the Black Sea.
From Quiz: Austrian Facts
Answer: 23km
The lake is approximately 9km long and 1km wide, and the path around it is 23km long. There are signs placed along the lake path indicating how many kilometres from the starting point at Pertisau. If you decide to do the walk, starting at Pertisau and walking in a clockwise direction is a good way to go, because then the most difficult part comes first. Although there are plenty of places which should supply refreshments on the way, it's a good idea to take some food and plenty of water with you.
From Quiz: Around the Achensee
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle was a pupil at the Stella Matutina, a Jesuit boarding school. The school was closed by the Jesuits in 1977 and the building is now the Landeskonservatorium für Vorarlberg - a music school.
From Quiz: Vorarlberg
Answer: Liezen
Liezen has 3270 sq km, Muerzzuschlag 849, Feldbach 727 and Fuerstenfeld is the smallest of all with 264 (if you don´t count Graz).
From Quiz: Styrian Knowledge
Answer: Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt is right.
From Quiz: Tyrol and Carinthia (Inclusive Eastern Tyrol)
Answer: Graz
Linz is big, but rather boring (and not the biggest city). Salzburg is renowned for its great cultural value, as is Graz, which is also the second biggest town. Munich is not even a part of Austria, it lies in Bavaria, Germany.
From Quiz: All Things Austrian
Answer: 83,870 sq km (32,383 sq mi)
The area of Austria is 83,870 sq km (32,383 sq mi). The land borders of Austria add up to a grand total of 2,534 km.
From Quiz: Austrotrivia
Answer: 2
Upper Austria and Lower Austria are the two federal states with Austria in their name. The others are; Vienna, Burgenland, Carinthia, Styria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
From Quiz: Austrian Facts
Answer: A museum
From Quiz: Around the Achensee
Answer: Schattenburg
The Schattenburg was built by Hugo I of Montfort in the 12th century. Today the castle belongs to the city of Feldkirch and contains a museum and a restaurant. The restaurant is home to the "Schattenburg Schnitzel" - a Wiener Schnitzel big enough to take up an entire plate!
From Quiz: Vorarlberg
Answer: 20%
1.2 million people live in Styria which is about 15% of all Austrians.
From Quiz: Styrian Knowledge
Answer: Lienz
LIENZ is the capital of EASTERN TYROL.
From Quiz: Tyrol and Carinthia (Inclusive Eastern Tyrol)
Answer: nine
They are Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vienna and Vorarlberg.
From Quiz: Know More About Austria
Answer: 1.6 million
The population peaked at just over 2.0 million shortly before 1914, then fell after 1920 with the decline in Austria's international role. In the 1990s it began to rise somewhat again. The figure given is for the city only. If one includes the whole of the built up area, as some sources do, the figure for the late 1990s would be about 2.0 million.
From Quiz: Vienna
Answer: Großglockner
The Großglockner is 3798 metres above sea level. A famous mountain pass runs over it. The Zugspitze is a mere 2962 metres high and is Germany's highest point (although part of it is in Austria). The Dachstein and the Wildspitze are very beautiful areas, but only 2995 and 3768 m high.
From Quiz: All Things Austrian
Answer: German
The official language of Austria is German. About nine million people speak German in Austria. The dialect most commonly used is Bavarian German.
From Quiz: Austrotrivia
Answer: England
An English engineering firm by the name of Walter Basset built the giant Ferris Wheel. Other Ferris Wheels were built around the same time in such diverse places as Chicago and London, although these have long since been demolished.
From Quiz: Amazing Austria
Answer: Screw propeller
The service began after an idea from the Abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Fiecht. The first boat was the St. Josef, which used steam power to drive its screw propeller until it was converted to diesel power in 1951. It was joined in 1889 by another steamship, the St. Benedikt, which was replaced in 1959 by a new diesel powered vessel of the same name. A third vessel (the Stella Maris) was introduced in 1911, and remained in service until 1995 under its later name of Stadt Innsbruck. The St. Josef and the St. Benedikt are still on the lake. There are also two much larger boats which run most of the regular services.
More information about both the history and the current service can be found at www.tirol-schiffahrt.at
From Quiz: Around the Achensee
Answer: Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
With a Maxi Vorarlberg ticket you can travel everywhere in Vorarlberg and also to Buchs (Switzerland), Lindau (Germany) and to Liechtenstein.
From Quiz: Vorarlberg
Answer: Dachstein
The height of the Dachstein is about 3,000 metres (ca 10,000 feet). It's in the north-western part of Styria.
From Quiz: Styrian Knowledge
Answer: Das Goldene Dachl (The Golden Roof)
The Golden Roof. Everybody knows it. It stands in Innsbruck.
Nobody knows what it serves.
From Quiz: Tyrol and Carinthia (Inclusive Eastern Tyrol)
Answer: The Ring
Work on this broad, grandiose and very showy avenue started in 1857 when the fortifications were demolished. The outer earthworks (the glacis, which was about 400 yards wide in places) were levelled off and used for the Ring. Many of the main public buildings, including the City Hall, the main university building, the State Opera House ('Staatsoper') and the Austrian Parliament are situated along the Ring. (The Mariahilfer Strasse is one of the main shopping streets, but not part of the Ring).
From Quiz: Vienna
Answer: FPO
The FPÖ, or "blue" party, is the club of international supervillain Jörg Haider and in power since 1999 together with the ÖVP. The Green Party is only the fourth biggest one, while the Liberal Forum originally consisted of dissenters from the FPÖ and is now near the end because of catastrophic election results. The KPÖ, or Communist Party, lost big during the 1950's and has never since played a role in Austria.
From Quiz: All Things Austrian
Answer: Festung Hohensalzburg
Hohensalzburg was built in 1077 by Archbishop Gebhard and was greatly expanded by Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach from 1495 to 1519.
From Quiz: Amazing Austria
Answer: 3
Construction began in 1888, and the railway was finished and opened for business a year later. Three of the four locomotives which were built at that time were still in service in 1989. Number 4 was taken out of service in 1956. They were manufactured by the Floridsdorf company in Vienna, which specialised in building locomotives for cog railways.
Following damage by fire in May 2008, number 1 was withdrawn from service. Number 4 was being reconstructed in the workshop, so some of the undamaged parts of number 1 were used to complete the work, and number 4 was taken into service in the summer of 2008.
From Quiz: Around the Achensee
Answer: Bodensee
The English name of the Bodensee is Lake Constance
From Quiz: Vorarlberg
Answer: Upper Styria, Eastern Styria and Western Styria
Lower Styria was removed from Austria after WW I, and is now main part of Slovenia.
From Quiz: Styrian Knowledge
Answer: Die Liebburg (The Lieb Castle)
The Liebburg is the symbol. Today it is the town's office-house.
From Quiz: Tyrol and Carinthia (Inclusive Eastern Tyrol)
Answer: German
The official language is German, and about 98 per cent of people in Austria speak German. Only about 2 per cent of the people speak Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Czech and Turkish.
From Quiz: Know More About Austria
Answer: Grossglockner
Grossglockner (Großglockner) is the highest point in Austria at just under 3,800 m (12,460 ft). It is located in the states of Tyrol and Carinthia.
From Quiz: Austrotrivia
Answer: Danube
The Danube is Austria's longest river. The Danube flows 217 miles (350 kilometers) through Austria, and it is possible to visit many beautiful Austrian cities and towns by means of a river cruise along it.
From Quiz: Amazing Austria
Answer: Vienna
The Stephansdom is a cathedral which is located in the heart of Vienna. It is home to a huge bell that very seldom rings. It rings on New Years Eve, catholic holidays, when a Federal president dies and on 2 November to commemorate those who died in World War II. It also rang when the Austrian State Treaty was signed in 1955 and when Pope Benedict visited Austria in 2007. The bell is called the "Pummerin".
From Quiz: Austrian Facts
Answer: Eben
After pushing the train up the steeper part of the route from Jenbach to Eben, the engine runs round to the front of the train for the last (flatter) part of the journey through Maurach to Seespitz. On the return trip the engine remains at the front of the train for the whole time.
More information about both the history and the current service can be found at www.achenseebahn.at
From Quiz: Around the Achensee
Answer: Hohenems
The other three places mentioned are all in Vorarlberg but Hohenems is the only one of them that is a city.
From Quiz: Vorarlberg