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