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Embarrassing chapters in Swiss history - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 75 times
- The average score is 7 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| This major part of the Swiss population is denied the right to vote until 1971. | Women | 98%
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| Despite UN sanctions, Swiss banks keep collaborating with the racist regime of this country in the 1980s. | South Africa | 68%
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| Swiss troops shoot 13 anti-fascist protesters and wound more than 60 in this city in 1932. | Geneva | 59%
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| This act of violence of a husband against his own wife is legal until 1992. | rape | 59%
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| This once renowned airline files for bankruptcy in 2001 after years of mismanagement. | Swissair | 59%
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| In this canton, the right mentioned above has to be dictated by the Federal Supreme Court in 1990. | Appenzell Innerrhoden | 54%
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| Nigerian immigrant Mike Ben Peter dies in 2018 after being pinned to the ground by six police officers for six minutes in this city in Western Switzerland. | Lausanne | 46%
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| The Swiss national soccer team loses 1-2 on home ground to the national team of this tiny country - then number 152 in the Fifa ranking - in a World Cup qualifyer in 2008. | Luxembourg | 45%
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| 88 workers, most of them Italians, die in a possibly foreseeable ice avalanche when constructing the Mattmark dam in this canton in 1965. | Valais | 43%
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| Swiss Confederate troops are heavily defeated by French and Venetian forces near this Lombard town in 1515, ending Swiss expansion in Northern Italy. | Marignano | 32%
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| Massive overspending in the planned purchase of this French jet fighter leads to a major scandal in Switzerland in the 1960s. | Mirage | 25%
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| This police commander who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in the late 1930s is fired for malfeasance in office and only rehabilitated in 1995. | Paul Grüninger | 21%
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| This Swiss cyclist and two-time Vuelta winner admits doping in 1998. | Alex Zülle | 18%
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| This president fails to liberate two Swiss hostages on a journey to Libya in 2009 but brags about returning their luggage. | Hans-Rudolf Merz | 18%
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| This Swiss bank robber manages to escape from prison eight times. | Walter Stürm | 7%
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