Records upon Records

Engelberg is the place with the most Winter Olympic medals in the world. Take a guess at questions about the legendary winter sports resort and test your knowledge of former and current Swiss ski stars.

If you want to cheat a little or read up on the details, you will find useful links to the questions.

You can find the solutions at the bottom.

1: How many Winter Olympic medals have already been won by athletes from Engelberg?

a.) 7

b.) 11

c.) 15

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2: Did the first carving ski come from Engelberg? Which inventor from Engelberg was way ahead of his time?

a.) Luis Beerli

b.) Alois Karottli

c.) Louise Pomodori

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3: Which is the world's most successful ski family in the history of skiing to date?

a.) The Girardelli family

b.) The Gisin family

c.) The Shiffrin family

4: Which current ski star calls the Titlis his home mountain and is now also an ambassador for Switzerland Tourism and Swiss winter sports?

a.) Beat Feuz

b.) Gino Caviezel

c.) Marco Odermatt

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5: Which freeskier and ambassador of Engelberg-Titlis skied the steepest World Cup hill (Gross Titlis ski jump in Engelberg) backwards and jumped a double backflip?

a.) Andri Ragettli

b.) Fabian Bösch

c.) Chuck Norris

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6: Which railway records apply to Engelberg-Titlis?

a.) First chairlift in Switzerland, first licensed aerial cableway in Switzerland, first CO2-neutral mountain railway in Switzerland, steepest ski lift in Switzerland and first revolving gondola in the world.

b.) Switzerland's highest railway station, Europe's longest reversible aerial tramway and the world's fastest chairlift and gondola lift.

c.) First fully autonomous 24/7 aerial cableway in the world, steepest cog railway in the world and first mountain railway powered by biomass

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7: Which ski influencer from Engelberg never ceases to amaze and enchant spectators?

a.) Kilian Weibel

b.) Mattias Hargin

c.) Chuck Norris again, of course :D

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Solution

1c
2a
3b
4c
5b
6a
7a (Mattias Hargin spends a lot of time in Engelberg, but does not primarily live here)