Statistics for Embarrassing chapters in Swiss history

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  • This quiz has been taken 71 times
  • The average score is 7 of 15

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HintAnswer% Correct
This major part of the Swiss population is denied the right to vote until 1971.Women
98%
Despite UN sanctions, Swiss banks keep collaborating with the racist regime of this country in the 1980s.South Africa
69%
Swiss troops shoot 13 anti-fascist protesters and wound more than 60 in this city in 1932.Geneva
63%
This act of violence of a husband against his own wife is legal until 1992.rape
59%
This once renowned airline files for bankruptcy in 2001 after years of mismanagement.Swissair
59%
In this canton, the right mentioned above has to be dictated by the Federal Supreme Court in 1990.Appenzell Innerrhoden
57%
Nigerian immigrant Mike Ben Peter dies in 2018 after being pinned to the ground by six police officers for six minutes in this city in Western Switzerland.Lausanne
52%
88 workers, most of them Italians, die in a possibly foreseeable ice avalanche when constructing the Mattmark dam in this canton in 1965.Valais
48%
The Swiss national soccer team loses 1-2 on home ground to the national team of this tiny country - then number 152 in the Fifa ranking - in a World Cup qualifyer in 2008.Luxembourg
46%
Swiss Confederate troops are heavily defeated by French and Venetian forces near this Lombard town in 1515, ending Swiss expansion in Northern Italy.Marignano
37%
Massive overspending in the planned purchase of this French jet fighter leads to a major scandal in Switzerland in the 1960s.Mirage
26%
This police commander who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in the late 1930s is fired for malfeasance in office and only rehabilitated in 1995.Paul Grüninger
26%
This Swiss cyclist and two-time Vuelta winner admits doping in 1998.Alex Zülle
22%
This president fails to liberate two Swiss hostages on a journey to Libya in 2009 but brags about returning their luggage.Hans-Rudolf Merz
22%
This Swiss bank robber manages to escape from prison eight times.Walter Stürm
11%

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