Question

Austrian-Serbian hostilities initiated World War I.
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

This is true. What happened at the time was that a Bosnian anarchist who was present in Serbia at the time assassinated the at-the-time ruling Archduke Ferdinand. This lead, through a short cascade of events, to an all out war in the Balkans and later the whole world.

Answer 2

True.

After the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered, the Austrian Empire declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914.