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3141592653 → 31 41 59 26 53 → moth, rat, lip, nacho, lamb. The story: under a giant π, a giant moth carries a rat licking its lip — then a cheesy nacho is nibbled by a woolly lamb. Chunk the ten digits into pairs and pull each peg: Pair Sounds Peg 31 m·th moth 41 r·t r...

Quiz: MAJOR / Longer Numbers | updated: Aug 01, 2026

1315 → tomb · tail. When Duke Leopold I of Austria marched to crush the upstart Confederates, they ambushed his mounted knights on the narrow strip between a steep slope and Lake Ägeri near Morgarten in 1315, rolling down rocks and logs before finishing the trapped column with h...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

1848 → dove · roof. The 1848 Federal Constitution followed the brief Sonderbund War of 1847, in which the liberal Protestant majority defeated a separatist league of conservative Catholic cantons. Borrowing partly from the U.S. model, it turned a loose alliance of sovereign stat...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

4478 m → rower · cave. The Matterhorn (Monte Cervino) rises to 4478 metres on the Swiss–Italian border above Zermatt, its near-perfect pyramid one of the most recognisable mountains on Earth — and the shape said to have inspired the Toblerone bar. Its first ascent, by Edward Why...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

1386 → tomb · fish. At Sempach in 1386 the Confederates again beat the Habsburgs, and this time Duke Leopold III himself was killed on the field. Legend credits the sacrifice of Arnold Winkelried, said to have gathered an armful of enemy pikes into his own body to open a gap for...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

1863 → dove · gem. Horrified by the tens of thousands of wounded left to die after the Battle of Solferino (1859), the Geneva businessman Henry Dunant wrote A Memory of Solferino and, with four other Genevans (among them General Dufour), founded the International Committee of th...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

Dufourspitze, 4634 m → roach · mower. The Dufourspitze, the highest summit of the Monte Rosa massif on the Italian border, is the highest point in Switzerland at 4634 metres. It is named after General Guillaume-Henri Dufour — the engineer-general who led federal forces in the 18...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

1499 → tire · pipe. The Swabian War of 1499 pitted the Confederacy against Emperor Maximilian I and the Swabian League over Imperial reforms — new taxes and courts the Swiss refused to accept. After a run of Swiss victories, the Peace of Basel exempted the Confederacy from Imper...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

1864 → dove · jar. At Switzerland's invitation, twelve states signed the First Geneva Convention in 1864, the founding treaty of modern international humanitarian law. It guaranteed care for wounded soldiers regardless of which side they fought on, and the neutrality of medical s...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026

4 → arrow. Switzerland has four national languages: German (spoken by about two-thirds of the population), French (roughly a quarter), Italian (under a tenth) and Romansh (a Romance language of a few valleys in Graubünden, under 1%). To privilege none of them, the country stamps...

Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | updated: Jul 30, 2026