Where by "alpine", I mean "Alpine". Sure, a few geography questions, but we also hit some language, history, sport, botany, theater, uh, graphic design, anthropology maybe?, ... Something for everyone -- or at least for many different people. Have fun with it, and enjoy high places.
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| 2 | FryedBetaKappa | 405 | 96 |
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| 3 | BradburnA | 397 | 94 |
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| 4 | grimesr | 383 | 92 |
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| 5 | CoenM | 372 | 89 |
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| 6 | VerandaGardener | 361 | 87 |
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| 7 | BeningoS | 297 | 84 |
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| 7 | LearyField | 297 | 84 |
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| 9 | RichmondJ | 278 | 80 |
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| 10 | MatherV | 277 | 78 |
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| 11 | EmilyT | 276 | 75 |
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| 13 | KaufmanK | 264 | 71 |
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| 16 | MartaMJackson | 255 | 64 |
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| 20 | MattK | 235 | 53 |
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While they were once popular throughout the Alpine region, the wearing of Lederhosen is now primarily restricted to Bavaria. Translate Lederhosen into English.
What city, with a population of 140,000 human residents and four bears, functions as the capital of Switzerland?
What is the common name of the wildflower shown in the image linked below, Leontopodium alpinum.
What Swiss folk hero and subject of a Gioacchino Rossini opera based on a Friedrich Schiller play is revered for having assassinated a tyrannical Habsburg reeve (at range)?
There are 29 peaks in the Alps that top 4,000 meters. One of those is the Matterhorn (4,478m). Another, the second-highest peak in Europe at 4,809m, lends its name to a pen. Name this other peak.
Fill in the blank to complete the following ordered list: Slalom, Giant Slalom, _____, Downhill.
What confectionary brand is known for its depictions of a Swiss Braunvieh and its copious use of Pantone 2665C (roughly equivalent to 7c55c7 in hexadecimal RGB)? (edited at 8:06 am, June 14, 2016 (PDT))
Built beneath the Franco-Swiss border, by what three-word name (or corresponding three-letter abbreviation) is the world's "single largest machine", with a 17-mile circumference and built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, best known (in English)?
The Kehlsteinhaus, which nowadays serves as a beer garden and restaurant for tourists, was built on a ridge above the town of Berchtesgaden as a 50th birthday gift for what potentate?
Shown in the image linked below, what city, capital of the Piedmont, is home to Juventus F.C., which won its league in the most recent season?
International vehicle registration code letters once graced white ovals on the backs of European cars (today, they're mostly found on license plates). For instance, Germany's code is D (for Deutschland) and Italy's is I (for Italia). Give the code for either Austria or Switzerland.
Found by two German tourists in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps near the Austrian-Italian border, the glacier-mummified man shown in the image below is theorized to have died from an arrow wound suffered 5,000+ years earlier. By what four-letter name is he perhaps best known?