Question: Where was Horace-Benedict de Saussure born?
Answer: Geneva

Question: Who was a member of the third ascent of Mont Blanc?
Answer: Saussure

Question: Who was the first of many to present the Alps as a place of allure and beauty?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question: Who wrote the poem Die Alpen?
Answer: Albrecht von Haller

Question: When did the Alpine countries see an influx of poets, artists, and musicians?
Answer: After the end of the Napoleonic Wars

Question: What did the visitors come to experience in the Alpine countries?
Answer: the sublime effects of monumental nature

Question: Percy and Mary Shelley were inspired by what region's scenery?
Answer: Geneva

Question: What poem did Shelley write during the visits to Geneva?
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: When did scientists began to arrive en masse to study the geology and ecology of the Alpine region?
Answer: the mid-19th century

Question: Where was Adolf Hitler born?
Answer: Austrian

Question: What did Adolf Hitler have a lifelong romantic fascination with? 
Answer: the Alps

Question: Where did Adolf Hitler establish a home in the 1930s?
Answer: the Obersalzberg region

Question: When was Adolf Hitlers first visit to the Alps?
Answer: 1923

Question: By 1940 who occupied many of the Alpine countries?
Answer: the Third Reich

Question: What country underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich?
Answer: Austria

Question: What was the only country that avoided invasion from the Third Reich?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Who wired the infrastructure leading into Switzerland?
Answer: The Swiss commanders

Question: Who were trained for the war?
Answer: Ski troops

Question: Where was the battle at Riva Ridge?
Answer: Italy

Question: Where was a substantial amount of Nazi plunder found at the end of the war?
Answer: Austria

Question: Where did American troops find 75 kilos of gold coins?
Answer: The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area

Question: What is the population of the Alpine region?
Answer: 14 million

Question: What does the economy consist of on the rim of the mountains?
Answer: manufacturing and service jobs

Question: Farming and Forestry continue to be a mainstay of what?
Answer: Alpine culture

Question: Much of what has not changed since the medieval period?
Answer: Alpine culture

Question: When were skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys most important?
Answer: the medieval period

Question: What is one of the strongest traditions in Alpine culture?
Answer: carpentry

Question: What has been a traditional occupation for centuries?
Answer: Farming

Question: What made farming less dominant in the 20th century? 
Answer: tourism

Question: Why is pasture land limited? 
Answer: because of the steep and rocky topography of the Alps

Question: When are cows moved to the highest pastures close to the snowline?
Answer: mid-June

Question: What is an ancient tradition in most Alpine countries?
Answer: Cheesemaking

Question: How much can a wheel of cheese from the Emmental weigh?
Answer: up to 45 kg (100 lb)

Question: What is an important farming activity in mountain villages?
Answer: Haymaking

Question: How many times is Hay normally brought each year?
Answer: twice

Question: When is Carnival celebrated? 
Answer: before Lent

Question: What do people in high villages build their homes according to?
Answer: medieval designs that withstand cold winters

Question: What is the area of the home heated by a stove called? 
Answer: the stube

Question: The typic Swiss chalet originated from where?
Answer: the Bernese Oberland

Question: Which direction do Chalets often face? 
Answer: south or downhill

Question: What are Chalets built of? 
Answer: solid wood

Question: The food is passed from the kitchen to where? 
Answer: the stube

Question: Where is the dining room table placed? 
Answer: the stube

Question: Traditionally, what are meals served on? 
Answer: carved wooden plates

Question: How is furniture traditionally carved? 
Answer: elaborately

Question: What are roofs traditionally constructed from? 
Answer: Alpine rocks

Question: Where are chalets typically used for roof construction found?? 
Answer: the higher parts of the valleys

Question: The inclination of the roof cannot exceed how much? 
Answer: 40%

Question: How many dialects have been identified in the Slavic Alps?
Answer: 19

Question: What language is spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland? 
Answer: Romansh

Question: What's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world? 
Answer: the Alps

Question: Where is Saalbach located? 
Answer: Austria

Question: How many people visit the Alps every year? 
Answer: over 120 million

Question: What is an integral part of the Alpine economy?
Answer: tourism

Question: When did the tourism industry begin? 
Answer: the early 19th century

Question: When were large hotels built in the Alps? 
Answer: during the Belle Époque

Question: When were cog-railways built in the Alps?
Answer: early in the 20th century

Question: When was the first figure skating championship held? 
Answer: 1882

Question: Where was the first figure skating championship held? 
Answer: St. Moritz

Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1924?
Answer: Chamonix, France

Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1928?
Answer: St. Moritz, Switzerland

Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1936?
Answer: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Question: When was the Lauberhorn Rennen ran for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen?
Answer: 1930

Question: When were the Winter Olympics held in Albertville, France? 
Answer: (1992)

Question: When were ski-lifts built in Swiss and Austrian towns?
Answer: post-World War I

Question: When were several new villages built in France almost exclusively for skiing?
Answer: the 1970s

Question: Where is Les Menuires located? 
Answer: France

Question: How much area is devoted to roads in the Alpine region?
Answer: 4,200 km (2,600 mi)

Question: How many vehicles use the roads? 
Answer: 6 million

Question: Where are most of Europe's highest railways located? 
Answer: Switzerland

Question: How long is the tunnel connecting Lotschberg and Gotthard planned to be? 
Answer: 57 km

Question: Where is the village of Avoriaz located? 
Answer: France

Question: Where are the villages of Wengen and Zermatt located? 
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Why are villages considering becoming car free zones?
Answer: reasons of sustainability

Question: When are many passes in the Alps closed? 
Answer: winter

Question: The lower regions and larger towns of the Alps are well-served by what?
Answer: motorways

Question: What can be treacherous even in summer due to steep slopes?
Answer: mountain passes

Question: What is a gene?
Answer: a locus (or region) of DNA that encodes a functional RNA or protein product

Question: What is the basis of inheritance of phenotypic traits?
Answer: The transmission of genes to an organism's offspring

Question: What influence are most biological traits under?
Answer: polygenes (many different genes)

Question: What is one instantly visible genetic trait?
Answer: eye colour or number of limbs

Question: What is one invisible genetic trait?
Answer: blood type, risk for specific diseases, or the thousands of basic biochemical processes that comprise life

Question: What do mutations in a gene sequence lead to?
Answer: different variants, known as alleles

Question: What do alleles do?
Answer: encode slightly different versions of a protein

Question: What do alleles cause?
Answer: different phenotype traits

Question: What does "having a gene" or a "good gene" typically refer to?
Answer: having a different allele of the gene

Question: What causes genes to evolve?
Answer: natural selection or survival of the fittest of the alleles

Question: What can regulatory regions of a gene be far removed from?
Answer: its coding regions