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Answer
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What event did Switzerland host in 1954?
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FIFA World Cup
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Which Swiss mathematician discovered infinitesimal calculus and graph theory?
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Leonhard Euler
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What Swiss tennis player has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles — the most in history by a male player?
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Roger Federer
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What Swiss resort town hosted the Winter Olympics first in 1928 and then in 1948?
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St. Moritz
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What humanitarian organization was founded in Geneva in 1863?
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Red Cross
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Who was the founder of the above?
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Henri Dunant
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Which Swiss confectioner founded the largest food company in the world in 1866?
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Henri Nestlé
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What ski resort plays host to the World Economic Forum since its foundation in 1971?
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Davos
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Who did the Swiss Guard start protecting since 1506?
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The Pope
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What famous philosopher had the greatest influence in the French Revolution?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Switzerland was the last Western country to grant the right to vote to what group in 1971 at federal level?
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Women
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What novel did Johanna Spyri publish in 1881?
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Heidi
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What expert marksman with the crossbow assassinated Albrecht Gessler?
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William Tell
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What French theologian lived most of his life in Geneva during the 16th century?
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John Calvin
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At the congress in what city was the neutrality of Switzerland finally respected and guaranteed by the Great Powers of Europe in 1814?
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Vienna
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What international body was Geneva the headquarters of between 1920—1946
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League of Nations
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What annual musical competition was did Switzerland both host and win in 1956?
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Eurovision
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What group of Swiss religious nonconformists moved to Pennsylvania in the 1700s?
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Amish
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What famous Irish novelist died in Zurich in 1941?
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James Joyce
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What Swiss investment bank was founded in 1862 as the Bank in Winterthur alongside the advent of the Swiss banking industry?
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UBS
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