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Famous Swiss and Austrian People

Name these famous people who have Swiss or Austrian origins.
Includes fictional characters marked in red
Quiz by alberici
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First submittedDecember 19, 2014
Times taken12,287
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Austrians
Clue
Answer
Composer born in Salzburg
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Bodybuilding governator
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Scarred F1 driver
Niki Lauda
"Sound of Music" patriarch
Baron von Trapp
Guillotined wife of Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
His assassination sparked WWI
Franz Ferdinand
Symbolist painter of "The Kiss"
Gustav Klimt
He is called
"Father of the Symphony"
Joseph Haydn
"The Blue Danube"
Johann Strauss II
"Rock Me Amadeus"
Falco
Swiss
Clue
Answer
20x tennis Grand Slam winner
Roger Federer
Folk hero and apple shooter
William Tell
"The Social Contract"
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
The first Bond girl
Ursula Andress
e = 2.71828...
Leonhard Euler
Goat-herding girl of the Alps
Heidi
Doctor who re-animated a corpse
Victor Frankenstein
Slovak-born woman who won 5
Grand Slam titles
Martina Hingis
Founder of the Red Cross
Henry Dunant
Mononymic pioneer of
modern architecture
Le Corbusier
EsaKivi
+2
Level 93
Dec 20, 2014
As a big fan of cross-country skiing, I would have really liked to see Olympic champion and World Cup winner Dario Cologna in a quiz such as this. He's a superstar in his native Switzerland, only behind Federer when talking about popular athletes, I believe. But of course he's not that known in the US, as is the case with any cross-country skier.
buck1017
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Level 77
Dec 20, 2014
Please accept "Antoinette" and "Tell"
plattitude
+1
Level 92
Dec 23, 2014
Agreed with Tell at least. Stared at it for 20 seconds wondering if I was misremembering, before I decided to try his first name.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 24, 2014
Those will work now, sorry.
Arp2600
+5
Level 86
Dec 27, 2014
Please don't accept "Marie" nor "Antoinette"...
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Oct 31, 2023
Yes, please don't!
ruudsje
+1
Level 69
Jan 28, 2015
Habsburg (Lorraine) should work both for Marie Antoinette and Franz Ferdinand, these people had last names too.
Tinu
+3
Level 41
Jan 29, 2015
Not exactly last names, more appropriately dynastic names (:
BobSaget
+1
Level 78
Jan 28, 2015
Happy birthday, Composer born in Salzburg!
MayaB
+8
Level 73
Jan 28, 2015
Oh, god, I read "Doctor Who re-animated a corpse" and I started wondering in which episode was that?! :D I guess I watch it a bit to often.
LarryLovage
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Level 55
Jan 28, 2015
The instructions should include this: "I know what you're thinking, but no, Einstein and Hitler are not in this quiz."
What
+2
Level 27
Jan 29, 2015
Einstein was German, he only lived temporarily in Switzerland.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Jan 29, 2015
Especially when one of the clues begins with e =

Also, though Einstein was born in Germany he also took Swiss nationality, and then eventually became American. It's not inaccurate to say that he was German, Swiss, American, or Ashkenazi Jew.

Yossarian
+1
Level 64
Jan 28, 2015
Couldn't spell Klimt for the life of me. Kept throwing in a silent P.
chempstead98
+1
Level 28
Jan 28, 2015
I knew Schwarzenegger, but I, ya know, couldn't spell it.
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 82
Oct 15, 2023
pro tip: the Quizmaster accepts Ahnold for Schwarzenegger :-)
Tinu
+2
Level 41
Jan 29, 2015
According to Wikipedia's List of common misconceptions, Victor Frankenstein was not a doctor, but a medical student. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Tinu
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Level 41
Jan 29, 2015
How relative everything is. I suppose it is entirely appropriate to list the fictionalised baron von Trapp as a famous Austrian, at least from the American perspective (in the US, his fame is probably still unconquered). But in Austria itself, the film is known (and its existence acknowledged with some embarrassment) only thanks to the Anglophone tourists making pilgrimages to the holy sites where it was shot (:

One could object that the von Trapps were an actual family, but then again, in real life they were never all that famous (disregarding their connection to the musical). Also, the real Georg von Trapp was not a baron, but a knight.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jan 29, 2015
So... Austrians don't know much about film history, then? It's not like we're referencing Encino Man.
Tinu
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Level 41
Mar 7, 2015
The thing is that The Sound of Music is not, from a global perspective, a major event of film history. It is a local phenomenon (admittedly the locality in question being the huge Anglophone world).
Djilas
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Level 82
Oct 1, 2016
Not just anglophone world, the movie is famous in many other countries.

In my experience only Austrians in Salzburg know it, others may have heard some something but don't really know the film. The "official" reason is that it's mostly ficition and that there is an earlier film about the Trapps, closer to reality. But the reason SOM hasn't been shown much in Austria has very likely more to do with the film showing other Austrians quite willingly embracing nazism ...

dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Oct 31, 2023
I don't think the Sound of Music is as big a deal in most of the world as you think it is, kalba.
McCoy
+5
Level 62
Apr 16, 2015
The most famous person from Austria is missing: Adolf Hitler!

Its crazy that the people from Austria always try to forget about this fact.

alberici
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Level 74
Apr 16, 2015
That's not true. I am quite aware of the fact that Hitler is Austrian, but he's already in the quiz "Famous Germans". I omitted Hitler in order to vary a bit. It'd be rather boring if we had the same persons as answers in every quiz, wouldn't it?
McCoy
+3
Level 62
Apr 17, 2015
as Hitler is not a German, is should be erased from the quizzes of famous germans, so thats why I made a quizz about famous germans, without Hitler, has he as to be on YOUR quizz about Austria.

So please try out my quizz:

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/51892/famous-people-from-germany

alberici
+2
Level 74
Apr 17, 2015
Hitler is partly German. And I don't want him on my quiz either. See? That guy is so notorious that nobody wants him... :)
Djilas
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Level 82
Oct 1, 2016
It is said that Austrians brilliantly managed to convince the world that Hitler is German and Beethoven Austrian :)
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jan 24, 2020
Brüno?
Chunkydonkey
+1
Level 58
May 20, 2016
Please accept "Trapp" for SOM patriarch!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 22, 2019
Why? vincent van gogh isn't called vincent gogh either.
Skittle123
+3
Level 20
Jul 26, 2016
Conchita wurst!
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 68
Oct 31, 2023
YES, PLEASE !!
Gassu
+1
Level 70
Mar 14, 2017
Update please, Roger Federer has 18 Grand Slams ;)
Gassu
+1
Level 70
Aug 22, 2017
Uhm...he has already 19! It's really time for an update!
ubsaral
+1
Level 85
Feb 17, 2018
now twenty
Gassu
+1
Level 70
Feb 19, 2018
Yeah please honor Roger. He‘s peRFect!
iuvas
+1
Level 94
Feb 11, 2019
somehow, looking at Schwarzenegger listed between Mozart and Freud made me feel uneasy
kaderschaufel
+1
Level 71
Jul 30, 2019
Wow, I got more Austrians than Swiss, and I'm Swiss myself. Probably because Switzerland was poorer than Austria before the wars, they had fewer people who could change the world.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 22, 2019
You should rephrase the doctor who question. Now it reads: Doctor Who, reanimated a corpse. Instead of:(a) doctor, who reanimated a corpse. I did not get the answer because of this, while ofcourse I know about frankenstein. (and no that didnt mean regardless of the confusing sentence the "reanimated corpse"should/would tip me off immediately. It would not be a weird plot at all for doctor who, so I didnt even give it a second thought. I just thought some famous swiss must have played a corpse/zombie on doctor who.
alberici
+3
Level 74
Aug 22, 2019
There is no comma in the clue. And I think the facts that « who » is in lowercase letters makes it kind of clear that it is not about « Doctor Who », don’t you think?
RKS
+2
Level 65
Sep 16, 2019
maybe change "scarred F1 driver" to something a bit more respectful and worthy. R.I.P Nikki
SwissO
+6
Level 35
Oct 9, 2019
How is saying that someone is "scarred" disrespectful? It's not like it's an insult...!
Grabajay
+3
Level 64
Nov 15, 2019
Please update, Roger has 20 grand slams :-)
lexxie
+1
Level 79
Aug 14, 2021
yes, please Quizmaster, it's already been 3 and a half years since his 20th title. It's time for a little update
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 14, 2021
Okay. Updated.
EytanMelech
+1
Level 67
Feb 22, 2020
Just realized the title of the quiz when Clara Barton wasn't working for the Red Cross.
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 57
Feb 6, 2021
Might want to add Hedy Lamarr
stylus
+2
Level 76
Feb 4, 2022
will he succeed and hit the apple, or miss and shoot the arrow straight into his son?

only time Will Tell.

cledun2
+1
Level 89
Feb 13, 2022
No Hitler, no Calvin.... I am disappoint
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 67
Feb 8, 2024
ed?
WWEFan619
+1
Level 60
Sep 19, 2022
Highly appreciate seeing Niki Lauda on this quiz.
Kazzkolo
+2
Level 52
Jul 15, 2023
Tell was called Wilhelm, not William.
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