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Otto von Habsburg - Quiz
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  • 1. Who did Otto von Habsburg marry?
A) Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg
B) Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
C) Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen
D) Princess Elisabeth Maria of Bavaria
  • 2. On what date did Otto von Habsburg marry?
A) 10 May 1951
B) 16 December 1964
C) 11 January 1961
D) 13 September 1954
  • 3. Where did Otto von Habsburg live in retirement?
A) Madrid
B) Mexico City
C) Stockholm
D) Villa Austria in Pöcking
  • 4. How many children did Otto von Habsburg have at the time of his death?
A) Twenty-two
B) Nine
C) Five
D) Seven
  • 5. Which of Otto's children is a twin?
A) Georg von Habsburg
B) Andrea von Habsburg
C) Michaela von Habsburg
D) Karl von Habsburg
  • 6. Who attended Otto von Habsburg's wedding?
A) Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
B) Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden
C) Empress Zita
D) Count Franz Joseph von Kageneck
  • 7. What is the relationship between Otto von Habsburg and his wife, Regina?
A) Fourth cousins
B) Siblings
C) Second cousins
D) First cousins
  • 8. Which title was held by Otto between 1916 and 2011?
A) Grand Duke of Tuscany
B) Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, and Croatia
C) King of Jerusalem
D) Emperor of Austria
  • 9. In what year did Otto von Habsburg die?
A) 1997
B) 2001
C) 1951
D) 2011
  • 10. Which of Otto's children was married to a Duke of Santángelo?
A) Gabriela von Habsburg
B) Monika von Habsburg
C) Andrea von Habsburg
D) Walburga von Habsburg
  • 11. Where is the Villa Austria located?
A) Pöcking near Starnberg
B) Lausanne
C) Madrid
D) Wittlich
  • 12. Who was married to Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg?
A) Eric Alba-Teran d'Antin
B) Christian Meister
C) Karl von Habsburg
D) Georg von Habsburg
  • 13. Which of Otto's children was born in 1961?
A) Gabriela von Habsburg
B) Walburga von Habsburg
C) Georg von Habsburg
D) Karl von Habsburg
  • 14. Which ancestor did Otto and Regina share?
A) Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
B) Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden
C) Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
D) Francis, King-Consort of Spain
  • 15. What is the name of the church where Otto married?
A) Church of Starnberg
B) Church of Wittlich
C) St. Stephen's Cathedral
D) Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers
  • 16. Which child of Otto von Habsburg married Count Archibald Douglas?
A) Monika von Habsburg
B) Walburga von Habsburg
C) Michaela von Habsburg
D) Andrea von Habsburg
  • 17. How many grandchildren did Otto have at the time of his death?
A) Twenty-two
B) Two
C) Four
D) Seven
  • 18. Which of Otto's daughters was divorced in 1997?
A) Gabriela von Habsburg
B) Monika von Habsburg
C) Walburga von Habsburg
D) Michaela von Habsburg
  • 19. What title was associated with Otto starting from 1 April 1922?
A) Prince of New York
B) Duke of Mexico
C) Emperor of Austria
D) King of Sweden
  • 20. Whose intervention helped Otto obtain a passport from the Principality of Monaco in 1946?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) The Austrian Chancellor
C) The King of Spain
D) The Pope
  • 21. What name was Otto required to accept to have his Austrian citizenship approved in 1957?
A) Otto von Austria
B) Dr. Otto Habsburg-Lothringen
C) Otto of the House of Habsburg
D) Archduke Otto
  • 22. On what date did Otto officially declare his loyalty to the Republic of Austria?
A) 5 June 1961
B) 8 May 1956
C) 20 July 1965
D) 31 May 1961
  • 23. What reason did Otto give for renouncing his claims to the throne in 1961?
A) Personal belief in democracy
B) To become a professional politician
C) Purely practical reasons
D) Pressure from the Vatican
  • 24. How did Otto describe the demand to abstain from politics in his 2007 interview?
A) An infamy
B) A reasonable request
C) A minor inconvenience
D) A necessary compromise
  • 25. Which political group was particularly ill-disposed to welcoming back the heir of the deposed dynasty?
A) The Monarchist League
B) The People's Party
C) The Socialists
D) The Green Party
  • 26. Which political party winning an outright majority allowed for Otto to be issued an Austrian passport?
A) The Liberal Party
B) The People's Party
C) The Communist Party
D) The Socialist Party
  • 27. On what date did Otto finally visit his home country for the first time in 48 years?
A) 5 July 1967
B) 31 October 1966
C) 20 July 1965
D) 1 June 1966
  • 28. When did Otto visit Vienna for the first time after his return?
A) 5 July 1967
B) 24 May 1963
C) 31 October 1966
D) 1 June 1966
  • 29. What was Otto von Habsburg's stance on Nazi Fascism in Austria?
A) He remained neutral.
B) He supported it for stability.
C) He absolutely rejected it.
D) He was indifferent to its impact.
  • 30. Whom did Otto urge to resist Nazi Germany in 1938?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Winston Churchill
C) Kurt Schuschnigg
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 31. Which group was reported to be among the strongest supporters of a Habsburg restoration?
A) Soviet communists
B) The German military
C) Austrian Jews
D) The Nazi regime
  • 32. What was the result of the Nazi regime's sentencing of Otto?
A) He was imprisoned in Austria.
B) He was sentenced to death.
C) He was exiled to Russia.
D) He was offered a diplomatic position.
  • 33. What happened to the personal property of the House of Habsburg after the German annexation of Austria?
A) It was returned to the people.
B) It was confiscated.
C) It was donated to the Red Cross.
D) It was protected by international law.
  • 34. Which concentration camp were Otto's cousins Max and Ernst of Hohenberg sent to?
A) Treblinka
B) Dachau
C) Auschwitz
D) Bergen-Belsen
  • 35. Approximately how many Austrians did Otto help flee the country at the beginning of World War II?
A) 500
B) 1,500
C) 50,000
D) 15,000
  • 36. To which country did the family flee after the German invasion of France?
A) Switzerland
B) United Kingdom
C) Portugal
D) Spain
  • 37. Who issued instructions to provide visas for the family to help them leave France?
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Joseph Stalin
C) António Salazar
D) Winston Churchill
  • 38. Where did Otto live from 1940 to 1944?
A) Washington, D.C.
B) Vienna
C) London
D) Cascais
  • 39. What happened to Otto's citizenship in 1941?
A) It was restored by Austria.
B) Hitler personally revoked it.
C) It was granted by the United States.
D) It was never challenged.
  • 40. What was the name of the Nazi document that listed Otto?
A) The Death Warrant List
B) The Habsburg Law
C) The Resistance Directory
D) Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.
  • 41. Which of these was a concern Otto expressed regarding Austria's future after the war?
A) The return of the monarchy
B) Economic collapse
C) Becoming a German province
D) Becoming a Soviet satellite state
  • 42. What series of U.S. stamps did Otto try to influence to keep his homeland in the public mind?
A) The Independence series
B) The Patriot series
C) The Allied Victory series
D) Overrun Countries series
  • 43. Who put an end to the plans for a restoration of Austria-Hungary?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Winston Churchill
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 44. Which region's German-speaking population rights did Otto lobby for?
A) Bohemia
B) Poland
C) South Tyrol
D) Hungary
  • 45. Why were bombardments on Vienna delayed until 1943?
A) Due to bad weather
B) Due to a lack of Allied fuel
C) Due to Nazi diplomatic pressure
D) Due to Otto's influence
  • 46. How old was Otto when his father died?
A) Seven
B) Twelve
C) Nine
D) Ten
  • 47. Where did the Habsburg family relocate after Madeira?
A) Belgium
B) Switzerland
C) Lequeitio
D) Hungary
  • 48. When was the Habsburg Law passed?
A) 3 April 1919
B) 10 October 1918
C) 1 January 1935
D) 12 May 1922
  • 49. How many Austrian municipalities named Otto an honorary citizen between 1931 and 1938?
A) 2,000
B) 1,603
C) 1,000
D) 500
  • 50. Where did Otto's family spend time immediately following the years in Switzerland?
A) Vienna
B) Belgium
C) Madeira
D) Lequeitio
  • 51. When was Otto von Habsburg born?
A) 16 July 1916
B) 20 November 1918
C) 20 November 1912
D) 4 July 2011
  • 52. In what year did Otto become the pretender to the former thrones?
A) 1922
B) 1918
C) 1916
D) 1938
  • 53. In what year did Otto resign as head of the Imperial House?
A) 2007
B) 2000
C) 2011
D) 1999
  • 54. From 1954 until his death, where did Otto reside?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Madrid, Spain
C) Brussels, Belgium
D) Bavaria, Germany
  • 55. Which political movement did Otto lead as President from 1973 to 2004?
A) Austrian Resistance Movement
B) Christian Social Union
C) International Paneuropean Union
D) European Parliament
  • 56. What event in 1989 was Otto a co-initiator of?
A) The Anschluss
B) The fall of the Berlin Wall
C) The dissolution of Austria-Hungary
D) Pan-European Picnic
  • 57. Where is Otto's heart buried?
A) Pannonhalma Archabbey
B) The Imperial Crypt
C) St. Stephen's Cathedral
D) Villa Austria
  • 58. Where was Otto's funeral held?
A) Bavaria
B) The Imperial Crypt
C) St. Stephen's Cathedral
D) Pannonhalma Archabbey
  • 59. Which group did Otto fierceley oppose?
A) The Order of Malta
B) Nazism
C) European integration
D) Catholicism
  • 60. Who baptized Otto von Habsburg?
A) Franz Xaver Cardinal Nagl
B) Franz Joseph I
C) Archduke Charles
D) Franz Ferdinand
  • 61. Who served as the representative for Otto's godfather at his baptism?
A) Archduke Charles
B) Franz Joseph I
C) Franz Ferdinand
D) Franz Xaver Cardinal Nagl
  • 62. When did Otto become Crown Prince?
A) 1912
B) 1918
C) 1944
D) 1916
  • 63. Who ruled Hungary as regent starting in 1920?
A) Miklós Horthy
B) Franz Ferdinand
C) Franz Joseph I
D) Archduke Charles
  • 64. What happened to the monarchies in 1918?
A) They were united
B) They were expanded
C) They became republics led by kings
D) They were abolished
  • 65. With which individual did Otto von Habsburg have a physical altercation in the European Parliament?
A) Karl Habsburg
B) Norbert Darabos
C) Francisco Franco
D) Ian Paisley
  • 66. Which organization was a secretive conservative network that Habsburg was part of during the Cold War?
A) World Vision
B) Le Cercle
C) Mont Pelerin Society
D) The Paneuropean Union
  • 67. How did Otto von Habsburg describe Vladimir Putin in his criticisms from 2002 to 2005?
A) A charismatic leader
B) A democratic reformer
C) A visionary statesman
D) A stone cold technocrat
  • 68. What controversy arose in 1998 regarding Otto von Habsburg's son, Karl?
A) Public criticism of the Pope
B) Involvement in an election scandal
C) The World Vision donation affair
D) Illegal lobbying for the CSU
  • 69. Which dictator did Otto von Habsburg hold in high regard for helping refugees?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Francisco Franco
D) Engelbert Dollfuss
  • 70. Which publication did Otto von Habsburg support that was classified as 'right-wing extremist'?
A) The Bavarian Conservative
B) The Paneuropean Bulletin
C) Neue Rechte Gazette
D) Junge Freiheit
  • 71. What was the subject of the poster held by Ian Paisley during the Pope's speech?
A) Support for the Communist Bloc
B) Down with the European Parliament
C) Pope John Paul II Antichrist
D) Freedom for Northern Ireland
  • 72. How old was Otto von Habsburg when he died?
A) 99
B) 97
C) 100
D) 98
  • 73. How long did the period of mourning last in countries formerly part of Austria-Hungary?
A) 7 days
B) 13 days
C) 3 days
D) 30 days
  • 74. In which year did Otto von Habsburg become a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany?
A) 1978
B) 1990
C) 1916
D) 1957
  • 75. Which academic institution in France awarded Otto von Habsburg a medal?
A) University of Nancy
B) Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
C) University of Paris
D) Royal Moroccan Academy
  • 76. The European Charles Prize of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft is associated with which organization?
A) Paneuropean Union
B) Institut de France
C) Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft
D) Academia da Cultura Portuguesa
  • 77. Where is the university located that awarded Otto von Habsburg an honorary senator title?
A) Pécs, Hungary
B) Maribor, Slovenia
C) Ferrara, Italy
D) Tampa, Florida
  • 78. In what year did Otto von Habsburg become a citizen of the Republic of Croatia?
A) 1957
B) 1919
C) 1978
D) 1990
  • 79. Otto von Habsburg was an honorary doctor of a university in which US state?
A) Texas
B) California
C) Ohio
D) New York
  • 80. In which city is the Academia da Cultura Portuguesa located?
A) Paris
B) Madrid
C) Veszprém
D) Lisbon
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