Question: What accounts for 34% of Switzerland's exported goods?
Answer: chemicals

Question: What accounts for 20.9% of Switzerland's exported goods?
Answer: machines/electronics

Question: What accounts for 16.9% of Switzerland's exported goods?
Answer: precision instruments/watches

Question: What percentage of exports are exported services?
Answer: a third

Question: What percentage of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004?
Answer: about 25%

Question: How many people work in Switzerland?
Answer: Around 3.8 million

Question: What was the unemployment rate in Switzerland in 2014?
Answer: 3.2%

Question: What was the foreign citizen population percentage in Switzerland in 2014?
Answer: 21.8%

Question: What was the peak unemployment rate reached in December, 2009?
Answer: 4.4%

Question: How is Switzerland ranked of 189 countries in the Ease of Doing Business Index?
Answer: 20th

Question: According to Credit Suisse, what percentage of residents own their homes?
Answer: about 37%

Question: How do Switzerland's tax rates compare by Western World standards?
Answer: low

Question: What size was the Swiss Federal budget in 2010?
Answer: 62.8 billion Swiss francs

Question: What are the two main sources of income for the federal government?
Answer: value-added tax (33%) and the direct federal tax (29%)

Question: Which sectors are the main source of expenditures for the federal government?
Answer: social welfare and finance & tax

Question: Which sectors have experienced a reduction in federal government expenditures?
Answer: agriculture and national defense

Question: How much were expenditures estimated to be cut in agriculture and national defense in 2015?
Answer: from 26.5% in to 12.4%

Question: What has contributed to high food prices in Switzerland?
Answer: Agricultural protectionism

Question: What type of trade agreements does Switzerland have worldwide?
Answer: free

Question: What is the EFTA?
Answer: European Free Trade Association

Question: What is Switzerland's world ranking in domestic purchasing power?
Answer: one of the best

Question: According to the OECD, what is Switzerland lagging behind many EU countries in?
Answer: Product market liberalisation

Question: Who has authority of school systems in Switzerland?
Answer: the cantons

Question: What is the minimum age for primary school in all cantons?
Answer: six

Question: What do most cantons provide for free when children are 4 or 5 years old?
Answer: children's school

Question: When was English introduced as a first foreign language in many cantons?
Answer: 2000

Question: How long does primary school continue?
Answer: until grade four, five or six

Question: How many universities are in Switzerland?
Answer: 12

Question: How many of the 12 Swiss universities are maintained at the cantonal level?
Answer: ten

Question: When was the first university in Switzerland founded?
Answer: 1460

Question: What is the biggest university in Switzerland?
Answer: University of Zurich

Question: How many students attend the University of Zurich?
Answer: nearly 25,000

Question: What Swiss world famous physicist developed his Special relativity while working in Bern?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: How many total Nobel prizes were awarded to Swiss scientists?
Answer: 113

Question: How many times has the Nobel Peace Prize been awarded to organisations residing in Switzerland?
Answer: nine

Question: What is the world's largest laboratory?
Answer: CERN

Question: Who co-hosts CERN along with the French department of Ain?
Answer: Geneva

Question: What research is CERN dedicated to?
Answer: particle physics

Question: What notable Swiss invention won the nobel prize?
Answer: scanning tunneling microscope

Question: Who invented the pressurized balloon?
Answer: Auguste Piccard

Question: How has Switzerland maintained its relationships with the EU?
Answer: through bilateral agreements

Question: In recent years, what have the Swiss brought their economic practices into conformity with?
Answer: the EU

Question: What have the Swiss tried to enhance by conforming to EU economic practices?
Answer: international competitiveness

Question: How much did the Swiss economy grow in 2010?
Answer: 3%

Question: Which conservative party is popularly against joining the EU?
Answer: SVP party

Question: How many bilateral agreements did Bern and Brussels sign to further liberalise trade ties?
Answer: seven

Question: What was included in the first series of bilateral agreements pertaining to people?
Answer: free movement of persons

Question: When was a second series of 9 bilateral agreements signed?
Answer: 2004

Question: What has since happened to the second series of bilateral agreements?
Answer: has since been ratified

Question: What were the original bilateral agreements meant to minimize the negative consequences of?
Answer: Switzerland's isolation from the rest of Europe

Question: In 2006, what did Switzerland approve 1 billion francs of supportive investment for?
Answer: poorer Southern and Central European countries

Question: What have the Swiss been under EU and national pressure to reduce in terms of banking?
Answer: secrecy

Question: What have the Swiss been under pressure from the EU to do in terms of tax rates?
Answer: raise tax rates to parity with the EU

Question: In February of 2014, what did Swiss voters narrowly approve to restrict?
Answer: immigration

Question: What was reintroduced on the influx of foreigners in February of 2014?
Answer: a quota system

Question: Which centres of Switzerland mostly rejected the quota system for foreigners?
Answer: metropolitan

Question: What was the rejection rate of the quota system by the French speaking part of Switzerland?
Answer: 58.5%

Question: What do some news commentators claim is violated by the restricted immigration proposal?
Answer: bilateral agreements on the free movement of persons

Question: What was the former 10-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants the result of?
Answer: a citizens' initiative

Question: What accident caused the delay in plans for the new nuclear power plant in Bern?
Answer: Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011

Question: What does SFOE stand for?
Answer: Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Question: What does DETEC stand for?
Answer: Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

Question: What is the 2000-watt society initiative designed to cut by more than half by 2050?
Answer: the nation's energy use

Question: In 2011, what time frame did the Swiss government give for ending its use of nuclear energy?
Answer: 2 or 3 decades

Question: What reason did the Swiss government give for ending its use of nuclear energy?
Answer: to ensure a secure and autonomous supply of energy

Question: When is Switzerland's first nuclear reactor scheduled to be taken offline?
Answer: 2019

Question: When is Switzerland's last nuclear reactor scheduled to be taken offline?
Answer: 2034

Question: Who is the Doris Leuthard?
Answer: Energy Minister

Question: How many passengers does the most dense rail network in Europe carry annualy?
Answer: over 350 million

Question: In 2007, what was the average amount of km's travelled by eacg Swiss citizens on the rails?
Answer: 2,258

Question: Who mainly administers the Swiss railway system?
Answer: Federal Railways

Question: What is the Alp-Transit project designed to reduce the time of travel between?
Answer: north and south

Question: Under which mountains are the railway tunnels being built for the Alp-Transit project?
Answer: the Alps

Question: What is the Swiss private-public managed road network funded by?
Answer: road tolls and vehicle taxes

Question: How much does the Swiss autoroute network charge for a toll sticker to use Swiss roadways for a year?
Answer: 40 Swiss francs

Question: Which airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway?
Answer: Zürich