Can we instantiate an abstract class?

Question

During one of my interview, I was asked \"If we can instantiate an abstract class?\"

My reply was \"No. we can\'t\". But, interviewer told me \"Wrong, we can.\"

Answer 1

You can say:
we can't instantiate an abstract class, but we can use new keyword to create an anonymous class instance by just adding {} as implement body at the the end of the abstract class.