Lobkowicz Palace - Quiz
Lobkowicz Palace
  • 1. In which city is the Lobkowicz Palace located?
A) Vienna
B) Warsaw
C) Budapest
D) Prague
  • 2. What is unique about the ownership of the Lobkowicz Palace within the Prague Castle complex?
A) It is the only privately owned building
B) It is owned by the Catholic Church
C) It is owned by the Czech government
D) It is owned by the Prague Castle administration
  • 3. Who began the construction of the Lobkowicz Palace in the 16th century?
A) Vratislav of Pernštejn
B) Ferdinand Zdenko
C) Zdeněk Vojtěch
D) Jaroslav of Pernštejn
  • 4. When was the Lobkowicz Palace first opened to the public as a museum?
A) 15 May 1989
B) 10 November 1945
C) 2 April 2007
D) 1 January 2002
  • 5. How many galleries are used to display the Lobkowicz Collections?
A) 35
B) 50
C) 10
D) 22
  • 6. Which artist has works displayed in the Lobkowicz Palace Museum?
A) Diego Velázquez
B) Claude Monet
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Leonardo da Vinci
  • 7. Who brought the Infant Jesus of Prague statue to the Palace?
A) Maria Maximiliana Manrique de Lara y Mendoza
B) Polyxena
C) Jaroslav of Pernštejn
D) Vratislav of Pernštejn
  • 8. Where is the original Infant Jesus of Prague statue currently located?
A) Lobkowicz Palace
B) National Museum
C) Prague Castle
D) Church of Our Lady Victorious
  • 9. Who protected the Catholic Imperial Ministers after the Second Defenestration of Prague?
A) Zdeněk Vojtěch
B) Polyxena
C) Tomas G. Masaryk
D) Jaroslav of Pernštejn
  • 10. Around 1811, what was the Lobkowicz Palace used for?
A) A government office
B) A royal school
C) A hospital for wounded soldiers
D) A royal prison
  • 11. For how many years was the palace confiscated by Nazi and Communist authorities?
A) 40 years
B) 25 years
C) 100 years
D) 63 years
  • 12. Who returned the palace to the Lobkowicz family in 2002?
A) The restitution process following laws enacted by Václav Havel
B) Tomas G. Masaryk
C) The Nazi forces
D) The Communist government
  • 13. Which musical composer has original manuscripts displayed in the museum?
A) Chopin
B) Beethoven
C) Bach
D) Vivaldi
  • 14. What is the function of the 17th-century baroque Concert Hall at the palace?
A) Storing military paraphernalia
B) Housing the Infant Jesus statue
C) Hosting classical music concerts
D) Serving as a government office
  • 15. Who completed the construction of the Lobkowicz Palace?
A) Jaroslav of Pernštejn
B) Zdeněk Vojtěch
C) Vratislav of Pernštejn
D) Maximilian Lobkowicz
  • 16. In what style did Václav Eusebius redesign the palace?
A) Italianate
B) Gothic
C) Renaissance
D) Neoclassical
  • 17. Which room in the palace features frescoed walls with trompe l'oeil statues of emperors?
A) Imperial Hall
B) Concert Hall
C) Balcony Room
D) Main Entrance
  • 18. What architectural feature was added to the palace for the 1791 coronation?
A) Italianate towers
B) A decorative gate
C) Panoramic balconies
D) A new roof
  • 19. Where can remnants of 16th-century murals and graffito work still be seen?
A) The Imperial Hall
B) Interior courtyards
C) The Concert Hall
D) The palace exterior
  • 20. Who created the first complete catalogue of the Lobkowicz Collections in 1907?
A) Václav Eusebius
B) Max Dvořák
C) Fabián Václav Harovník
D) Joseph František Maximilian
  • 21. When was the Lobkowicz family able to reassemble the collection?
A) 1791
B) Early 1990s
C) 1907
D) After the Thirty Years War
  • 22. The Lobkowicz Collection reflects the life of Central Europe for how many centuries?
A) Over seven centuries
B) Ten centuries
C) Three centuries
D) Two centuries
  • 23. Approximately how many paintings are in the Lobkowicz Collections?
A) 2,000
B) 1,500
C) 500
D) 1,000
  • 24. Which artwork is cited as one of the three most prestigious in the collection?
A) David with the Head of Goliath
B) The Hay Harvest
C) Caritas Romana
D) St. Martin Dividing his Cloak
  • 25. Who painted 'Hygieia Nourishing the Sacred Serpent'?
A) Peter Paul Rubens
B) Lucas Cranach the Younger
C) Pieter Brueghel the Elder
D) Canaletto
  • 26. Which artist created the panoramic views of London found in the collection?
A) Canaletto
B) Diego Velázquez
C) Paolo Veronese
D) Jan Brueghel the Elder
  • 27. Who was commissioned to paint oils and watercolors of Lobkowicz residences?
A) Giovanni Paolo Pannini
B) Franz Schrotzberg
C) Hans von Aachen
D) Carl Robert Croll
  • 28. The 'Jezeri Bust' is a gold reliquary head of which saint?
A) St. Barbara
B) St. Ursula
C) St. Catherine
D) St. Martin
  • 29. The Italian ceramics ordered in 1551 feature which animal representing the Pernstejn crest?
A) A lion
B) A horse
C) An eagle
D) A bull
  • 30. What kind of ceramics did the Dutch workshops at Delft produce?
A) Hard-paste porcelain
B) Stoneware
C) Terra cotta
D) Tin-glazed earthenware
  • 31. Which factory first produced hard-paste porcelain in Europe?
A) Deruta
B) Meissen
C) Delft
D) Prague
  • 32. From which region did the craftsmen who created the marquetry and jewelry cabinets come?
A) Delft
B) Rome
C) Dresden
D) Eger
  • 33. Which painter created 'David with the Head of Goliath'?
A) Diego Velázquez
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Giovanni Battista Salvi
D) Paolo Veronese
  • 34. What subject is depicted in the engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi?
A) Rome
B) Prague
C) London
D) Amsterdam
  • 35. When was the Music Archive returned to the family?
A) October 1941
B) October 1799
C) October 1998
D) October 1989
  • 36. Which regime sent the archive to the Czech Museum of Music?
A) The Communist regime
B) The Nazi regime
C) The Austrian Empire
D) The Austro-Hungarian monarchy
  • 37. Which composer's hand written re-orchestration of Handel’s Messiah is in the archive?
A) Haydn
B) Gluck
C) Mozart
D) Beethoven
  • 38. Which Beethoven symphony is NOT mentioned as being in the archive?
A) Fourth
B) Third (Eroica)
C) Sixth (Pastoral)
D) Fifth
  • 39. Who taught Philip Hyacinth and Anna Wilhelmina Althan to play the lute?
A) Denis Gaultier and Jacques de Saint-Luc
B) Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Andreas Bohr
C) Michael Leichamschneider
D) Engelbert Klingler
  • 40. Which family member championed the opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck?
A) Ferdinand Philip, 6th Prince
B) Philip Hyacinth, 4th Prince
C) Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince
D) Ferdinand August, 3rd Prince
  • 41. Which prince had the greatest impact on the history of Western music?
A) Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince
B) Ferdinand August, 3rd Prince
C) Ferdinand Philip, 6th Prince
D) Philip Hyacinth, 4th Prince
  • 42. Which symphonies were dedicated to the 7th Prince by Beethoven?
A) Third, Fifth, and Sixth
B) Third, Fourth, and Fifth
C) Third, Fourth, and Sixth
D) Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
  • 43. Who helped provide the annual stipend that allowed Beethoven to compose freely?
A) Archduke Rudolf and Prince Ferdinand Kinsky
B) Michael Leichamschneider and Anton Posch
C) Denis Gaultier and Charles Mouton
D) Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Andreas Bohr
  • 44. Who made the rare set of six silver trumpets in 1716?
A) Anton Posch
B) Jacob Stainer
C) Michael Leichamschneider
D) Engelbert Klingler
  • 45. Where is the Music Archive currently housed?
A) Lobkowicz Palace
B) Czech Museum of Music
C) Roudnice Castle
D) Nelahozeves Castle
  • 46. When did hunting become an important activity for Central European nobility?
A) From the early medieval period
B) Only after the 19th century
C) Starting in the 17th century
D) From the late Renaissance period onwards
  • 47. Which Prague workshop produced items for the Lobkowicz family?
A) Adam Brand
B) Hubert von Sonnenburg
C) Mauritius Becher
D) Johannes Vogt
  • 48. What kind of rifles were produced for the Lobkowicz Militia in the 18th century?
A) Matchlock rifles
B) Repeating rifles
C) Percussion cap rifles
D) Flintlock rifles
  • 49. Where were the most elaborate 18th-century rifles and pistols with mother-of-pearl inlay produced?
A) Prague
B) Roudnice
C) Silesia
D) Vienna
  • 50. Who was the Bavarian cartographer who wrote the Illustrated geography and history of Bohemia?
A) Mauritius Vogt
B) Leopold Becher
C) Adam Brand
D) Hubert von Sonnenburg
  • 51. When did the exhibition featuring Mauritius Vogt's work end?
A) 31 May 1994
B) 31 May 2015
C) 31 May 2000
D) 31 May 2010
  • 52. What was the previous name of the organization Lobkowicz Collections o.p.s.?
A) American Friends for the Preservation of Czech Culture
B) The Bohemian Art Association
C) Roudnice Lobkowicz Foundation
D) The Lobkowicz Militia Foundation
  • 53. When was the non-profit organization Lobkowicz Collections o.p.s. established?
A) 1993
B) 1650
C) 2015
D) 1994
  • 54. Which painting was restored by Hubert von Sonnenburg?
A) The Illustrated geography of Bohemia
B) The Portrait of the Lobkowicz Militia
C) The Hunting Trophies of Roudnice
D) Hygieia Nourishing the Sacred Serpent
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