Every exam question

The shared question bank, with the right answer and the explanation. The ones that depend on your canton and commune are in the quiz.

• Which of the following institutions was created in 1863?
• Which battle was lost in 1515 by the at the time invincible Swiss Army?
• In which year did Napoleon and his troops cross the Alps through the Great St Bernard Pass to surprise the Austrians?
• Which cantons were regrouped as the Säntis Canton between 1798 and 1803?
• When was the Perpetual Neutrality of Switzerland stablished?
• Who bombed Schaffhausen in 1944 by mistake ?
• What was the last canton to abolish the death penalty following a civil trial in 1940?
• Where was the World Wide Web created?
• Between 1798 and 1803 the Swiss Confederation adopted another official name. Which name was it?
• The Battle ofMorgarten was characterized by a surprise Swiss attack against:
• Even not possessing a coastal territory, the Swiss Confederation created its Navy in:
• Which melody was used as the base melody of the Swiss Psalm?
• In which canton are the document of the Federal Charter of 1291 stored?
• During the The Roman Empire, which Swiss city had its name changed to ‘Turicum’?
• Where is the Guillaume Tell memorial located?
• Which swiss city is known by being the host of the biggest contemporary art fair of the world?
• The city of Locarno is known by:
• Which holiday does the canton of Lucern commemorate in the first Saturday of July?
• Which art and cultural movement emerged in Zürich in the beginning of the 20th century?
• What are the 3 officially bilingual cantons of Swizerland?
• How many times a century does the ‘Fête des Vignerons’ take place in Vevey?
• Which prize did the Swiss author Hermann Hesse received in 1946?
• Which Renaissance intellectual was buried at the Cathedral of Basel?
• What does St. Nicolas share along the streets of Fribourg on the 6th of December?
• Which traditional Swiss Carnival starts at 4 o’clock in the morning?
• Being Uri the least expensive canton of Switzerland, which one is the most expensive?
• What’s the duration of the Recruits School, the first and mandatory part of the Army training in Switzerland?
• The spring welcoming holiday, called Sechse-Läuten, is celebrated in which canton?
• What does the ‘Landsgemeinde’ represent?
• Which traditional Swiss sport was imported by the mercenaries from the latin countries?
• What’s a ‘Silversterkläuse’?
• Which public organization is responsable for organizing the traditional ‘The Patrouille des Glaciers’ each 2 years?
• What’s the particularity of the Swiss National Flag?
• Which material has a 96% recycling rate in Switzerland?
• Which swiss city is the head office of the Olympic Committee?
• How many times did the resort town of St. Moritz host the Winter Olympic Games?
• Where does the ‘Le Bol d’Or’ take place?
• Which Swiss personality received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901?
• The ‘Jet d’Eau’, the most famous symbol of Geneva, was installed in:
• Nicolas de Flüe was responsible for the act which allowed which Cantons join the Confederation?
• The Swiss Guard is responsible for the protection of:
• When was the Letter of Alliance signed by the confederates?
• What are the main tasks of the Swiss Federal State?
• What does the Swiss Constitution ultimately represent?
• In what years did the Swiss Constitution suffered modifications?
• According to the Swiss Constitution, what are the fundamental rights of the citizens?
• According to the Swiss Constitution, what are the fundamental duties of the citizens?
• Which chatters, acts, or/and conventions has Switzerland signed?
• According to most of the democratic States, what are the political fundamental rights of the citizens?
• According to the Swiss Constitution, what are the 2 additional political rights of the citizens?
• According to the Swiss Constitution, what’s the power of a Popular Initiative?
• According to the Swiss Constitution, what’s the power of a Facultative Referendum?
• To be adopted, the Popular Initiative has to:
• To be adopted, the Facultative Referendum has to:
• To be adopted, the Compulsory Referendum has to:
• In what alternative, the majority scrutin is NOT applied:
• In what alternative, the proportional scrutin is NOT applied:
• Which are the the conditions for the existence of a democracy?
• Which form of government is more favorable of achieving economic prosperity, individual development and peace?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Representative Democracy?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Semi-Direct Democracy?
• Which form of democracy was adopted in Switzerland?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Confederation?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Federation?
• Which of the following powers represent the Legislative power in Switzerland?
• Which of the following powers represent the Executive power in Switzerland?
• Which of the following government systems was adopted in Switzerland?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of the National Council?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of the State Council?
• Which alternative does NOT represent the competences of the Legislative Power?
• Which of the following powers represent the Federal Assembly in Switzerland?
• How many seats does the Federal Council hold for their counselors?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of the Federal Council?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of the President of the Confederation?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of the Federal Court?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Regulatory State?
• Which alternative does NOT represent characteristics of a Welfare State?
• Which of the following was the latest insurance to be provided by the Swiss State:
• How’s the State intervention level in Switzerland?
• When did Switzerland become officially neutral?
• Which of the following does not represent an advantage of the neutrality?
• Which of the following international organizations, doesn’t have its headquarters situated in Geneva?
• When did Switzerland enter the United Nations as a member?
• When were the series of bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the European Union signed?
• Who was the first woman elected for the Federal Council in 1984?
• In which swiss canton was the women's suffrage imposed by the Federal Court?
• What’s the magic formula of the Swiss Federal Council?
• Which text has inspired the Swiss Constitution in 1848?
• What was the most important consequence of the General Strike of 1918?
• What was the first swiss village to grant women with the right of vote?
• What was the last Swiss canton, created in 1979?
• At the federal level, when did women obtain the right to vote in Switzerland?
• Which Swiss executive power is the Federal Assembly responsible for electing?
• What’s the Council of States?
• The amount of signatures needed for a referendum at the federal level is 50’000. How many signatures are necessary for a federal popular initiative be legitimized?
• In which Swiss canton the compulsory voting is applied?
• Which expenses represented more than 25% of the Swiss budget in 2004?
• How many candidates are elected by the citizens for the National Council?
• How long do the parents have to register a birth of a child?
• When was the death penalty permanently abolished in Switzerland?
• What’s the biggest lake entirely situated in Swiss territory?
• What’s the longest glacier of Switzerland, situated at the canton of Valais?
• The capital Berne possesses another denomination in the official documents, which one?
• Which mountain range is located in Switzerland?
• What’s the highest point in Switzerland?
• Which are the highest town and city in Switzerland, respectively?
• What’s the highest point in the canton of Grisons?
• What’s the highest mountain entirely situated in Swiss territory?
• In which lake are the Brissago islands located?
• Which massif was drilled to create a tunnel in 1881?
• Which national language is specially spoken at the East part of Switzerland?
• What’s called the tunnel which links the canton of Bern and Valais?
• The source of the Rhine river is located near which pass?
• In which lake is located the island of Ufenau?
• Which river is the symbol of the language frontier ‘Röstigraben’?
• Which Swiss canton possesses the biggest amount of mountains of 4’000 meters or higher?
• Which traffic engineering project was completed 1980 and considered an engineering masterpiece at the time?
• The Limmat river crosses which important city of Switzerland?
• Where the famous Kapellbrüke, the bridge that caught fire in 1993, is located?
• Which are the biggest and the smallest cantons (in Km²) of Switzerland, respectively?
• Where is located the last important port before the Rhin River Falls in Schaffhouse?
• What’s the deepest lake in Switzerland, with 372 meters?
• What’s the highest mountain in Jura?
• What’s the highest vineyard of Europe?
• What’s the biggest vineyard village in Switzerland?
• What’s the highest point of the Canton of Bern?
• Considering that 26 Cantons constitute the Confederation, how many of them only posses one seat at the Council of the States?
• Which company received an amount of 60 billions of francs to bailout its funds in 2008?
• What’s the official currency of the Principality of Liechtenstein?
• Being Switzerland a neoliberal country, in which policy area they have a very regulatory and interventionist attitude?
• Which German immigrant was the responsible for the invention of the powdered milk?
• Which form of energy is responsible for two-thirds of the Swiss electricity?
• Which company did Gottlieb Düttweiler found in 1925?
• Where were Louis Chevrolet born?
• What's the origin of the first people in Switzerland, during the Metal Age?
• Which people colonised Switzerland, along with the Celtics?
• Which were the first Swiss Cantons, stablished in 1291?
• Who are the 'Waldstätten'?
• What was the consequence of the Battle of Morgarten in 1315?
• What was the characterist of the Battle of Sempach?
• What did 'Perpetual Peace', pact between France and Switzerland, proposed?
• What are the 2 main religion groups in Switzerland?
• What Swiss city became famous because of John Calvin?
• What was the consequence of the Kappel Wars?
• Which city was called the 'Protestant Rome' in the XVI century?
• Which treaty was responsible for the total independence of Switzerland?
• What was the main sector of Swiss economy at the XVIII century?
• Which religion figure died in Geneva in 1564?
• Where does the World Economic Forum hold its Annual Meetings?
• Which of the following names appears on Switzerland’s postal stamps?
• Which of the following cities is called Switzerland’s San Francisco?
• Who is the Swiss national (legendary) hero?
• Switzerland is a Confederation today. However, it was a Republic for a short time in the past. Who was responsible for this?
• Who was the first woman elected Swiss President?
• Berne became the federal capital of Switzerland in 1848. When the city was originally founded?
• The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland took place in the 16th century. Who led the Reformation in the country?
• The second battle of Villmergen took place in 1712. Which is the other name given to this battle?
• In 1963, Switzerland joined which of these organizations?
• Switzerland was founded one hundred years after its capital city, Berne, was founded. In what year that happened?