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