Statistics for History of Switzerland

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This quiz has been taken 63 times
The average score is 12 of 24

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1506	This small army unit starts protecting the pope	Papal Swiss Guard	81%
1191	This newly-founded city is (allegedly) named after a bear	Bern	79%
2003	This tennis player wins the first of his 20 Grand Slam titles	Roger Federer	77%
1856	Credit Suisse, this type of institution, is established in Zürich	a bank	75%
1938	This language is made official	Romansh	75%
1971	This people group is given the right to vote	women	75%
1804	Friedrich Schiller writes this legendary drama about a Swiss marksman and folk hero who shot an apple off the head of his son	William Tell	70%
1564	This theologian and reformer who rejected papal authority dies in Geneva	John Calvin	64%
1815	This principle of foreign policy which hasn't been changed ever since is adopted	neutrality	62%
1860	Henry Dunant co-founds this humanitarian movement	Red Cross	62%
2002	This national airline goes bankrupt	Swissair	58%
1954	Germany unexpectedly wins this tournament in Bern	FIFA World Cup	57%
1315	In a decisive victory, Swiss defeat this superpower at Morgarten	the Habsburgs	53%
1798	Napoleon establishes this puppet government	{Helvetic} Republic	42%
2009	The construction of this type of Islamic architecture becomes prohibited by law	minarets	40%
1693	This religion nowadays known for a simple lifestyle find its beginnings in Switzerland	Amish	38%
1707	This famous mathematician is born in Basel	Leonhard Euler	36%
1882	The opening of this mountain rail line brings the era of alpine postcoaches to an end	Gotthard line	32%
1648	Switzerland is granted independence in this treaty	Peace of {Westphalia}	30%
1979	This rebellious canton coins the Confederation	Jura	25%
1291	According to tradition, this event marks the beginning of the Swiss confederacy	Rütli {oath}	21%
1847	This civil war marks the last military conflict on Swiss territory	{Sonderbund} War	17%
1848	The transformation into a federal state culminates in the record of this	a Constitution	15%
c. 450 BC	This greek-influenced Celtic culture flourishes in present-day Switzerland	{La} {Tène} culture	8%