Question: How many species of the early-spring blooming flower grow in the Alps?
Answer: 40 species

Question: What do the plants tend to form at higher altitudes? 
Answer: isolated cushions

Question: Ranunculus glacialis have been recorded to have been found how far in the alps?
Answer: above 4,000 m

Question: What is Eritrichium nanum commonly known as?
Answer: the King of the Alps

Question: What is the best known of the alpine plants?
Answer: Edelweiss

Question: What gives way to the growth of plant species with secondary metabolites important for medicinal purposes?
Answer: extreme and stressful climatic conditions

Question: Origanum Vulgare has what useful properties?
Answer: medicinal

Question: Where are Urtica dioica found?
Answer: the Alps

Question: What has nearly exterminated the trees in many areas?
Answer: Human interference

Question: What are rarely found after the extreme deforestation between the 17th and 19th centuries?
Answer: forests of deciduous trees

Question: What has changed since the second half of the 20th century?
Answer: The vegetation

Question: The practice of building ski runs by mechanical means has destroyed what?
Answer: the underlying tundra

Question: How many species of wildlife habitat the Alps?
Answer: 30,000 species

Question: What have the wildlife done to survive the harsh conditions of the Alps?
Answer: made adaptations

Question: Some species of wildlife can only survive in what specific environment?
Answer: directly above or below the snow line

Question: What is the largest mammal to live in the highest altitudes?
Answer: alpine ibex

Question: How high have the Alpine Ibex been sighted?
Answer: as high as 3,000 m (9,843 ft)

Question: Where do the ibex live?
Answer: in caves

Question: What animal that live in the Alps are classified as antelopes?
Answer: chamois

Question: What year was the last brown bear recorded to have been killed?
Answer: 1792

Question: Where do many rodents live?
Answer: underground

Question: Where do Marmots live?
Answer: almost exclusively above the tree line as high as 2,700 m (8,858 ft)

Question: Where do marmots build their colonies?
Answer: beneath the alpine pastures

Question: What is the most common bird found in the Alps?
Answer: the alpine chough

Question: Why do reptiles only live up to the snow line?
Answer: they cannot bear the cold temperatures

Question: What do reptiles due since they cannot bear the cold temperatures?
Answer: they hibernate underground

Question: How have the Alpine salamanders adapted to living above the snow line?
Answer: by giving birth to fully developed young rather than laying eggs

Question: What can be found in the streams up to the snow line?
Answer: Brown trout

Question: How long have some species of moths believed to have evolved from the same habitat?
Answer: 120 million years

Question: What can be commonly seen drinking from the snow melt?
Answer: Blue moths

Question: The swallowtail Parnassius family of butterfly habitat ranges up to how much?
Answer: 1,800 m (5,906 ft)

Question: What species of beetles are were collected for their colors before being protected?
Answer: Rosalia alpina

Question: Some species of moths and insects show evidence of what?
Answer: having been indigenous to the area

Question: How long ago does the evidence show moths and insects to have been indigenous?
Answer: the Alpine orogeny

Question: Where is Emosson located?
Answer: Valais, Switzerland

Question: When were dinosaur tracks found in Emosson?
Answer: the 1970s

Question: When were late Paleolithic communities established along the lake shores?
Answer: About 10,000 years ago

Question: What has been found in caves near Vercors?
Answer: Evidence of human habitation

Question: Why were houses built on piles?
Answer: to keep them dry

Question: What have been found in Alpine areas of France and Italy?
Answer: Standing stones

Question: How old are rock drawings in Valcamonica?
Answer: more than 5000 years old

Question: Who was Otzi the Iceman?
Answer: a mummy of a neolithic body

Question: When was Otzi the Iceman found?
Answer: In 1991

Question: Where was Otzi the Iceman discovered?
Answer: the Similaun glacier

Question: When did Celtic tribes settle in Switzerland? 
Answer: between 1000 to 1500 BC

Question: The Raetians lived in what region?
Answer: the eastern regions

Question: The Helvetii occupied which region?
Answer: the west

Question: What did the Celtic tribes mine?
Answer: salt

Question: Which were the most widespread of the mountain tribes?
Answer: The Celts

Question: When was the Second Punic War?
Answer: 218 BC

Question: Who was the Carthaginian general?
Answer: Hannibal

Question: What did the Romans build along the mountain passes?
Answer: roads

Question: What can still be found on the mountain passes?
Answer: Roman road markers

Question: What brought the defeat of the Allobrogi?
Answer: The Roman expansion

Question: When were the Allobrogi defeated?
Answer: in 121 BC

Question: When did Julius Caesar overcome the Helvetii?
Answer: 58 BC

Question: What tribes settled much of the Alpine region?
Answer: Germanic tribes

Question: Who established Christianity in the region?
Answer: Romans

Question: What did the Frankish expansion and the Bavarian expansion introduce?
Answer: feudalism

Question: What area still has intricate frescoes?
Answer: Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy

Question: What is preserved as an example of medieval architecture?
Answer: Château de Chillon

Question: Much of the medieval period was a time of what?
Answer: power struggles

Question: Where were the Visconti from?
Answer: northern Italy

Question: What dynastie was from Austria and Slovenia?
Answer: the House of Habsburg

Question: What Country was a well-established separate state by the 16th century?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What wars took place during the late 18th century and early 19th century?
Answer: the Napoleonic Wars

Question: Who annexed territory formerly controlled by the Habsburgs and Savoys?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: When was the Helvetic Republic established?
Answer: 1798

Question: Where was the Helvetic Republic established?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: When did many alpine countries develop heavy protection to prevent new invasion?
Answer: After the fall of Napoléon

Question: Who built a series of fortifications in the Maurienne valley?
Answer: Savoy

Question: Why were a series of fortifications in the Maurienne valley built?
Answer: to protect the major alpine passes

Question: Who ordered the construction of a paved road?
Answer: Napoléon Bonaparte

Question: What became tourist destinations during the 19th century?
Answer: the monasteries built in the high Alps

Question: Who built monasteries in Lucerne, Switzerland and Oberammergau?
Answer: The Benedictines

Question: Who had abbeys in the Savor and one in the center of Interlaken?
Answer: the Augustinians

Question: When was the Great St. Bernard Hospice built?
Answer: the 9th or 10th centuries

Question: How old was the charcoal placed in the Drachloch cave?
Answer: 50,000 years

Question: What does the finding of charcoal in Dragon's Hole prove?
Answer: the high peaks were visited by prehistoric people

Question: What may have been buried by the same prehistoric people?
Answer: Seven bear skulls

Question: People blindfolded themselves to cross what?
Answer: Alpine passes

Question: Where was Charles VII from?
Answer: France

Question: What was Charles VII chamberlain ordered to do?
Answer: climb Mont Aiguille

Question: What did the knight leave at the summit of Rocciamelone?
Answer: a bronze triptych of three crosses

Question: When did Antioine de Ville climb Mont Aiguille?
Answer: 1492

Question: When did four Chamonix men almost reach the summit of Mont Blanc?
Answer: 18th century

Question: Who was the first naturalist to ascend the mountains?
Answer: Conrad Gessner