How much do you know about Germany? What do you know about its people? We give you 10 questions, each divided into 3 parts. And we give you 6 answers. Make your choice and write down your answers. For every correct answer you get 1 point. If you answer correctly on all 3 parts of the same question you get 1 extrapoint, that is 4 points on that question.

All set? Good luck!

Question  1: In which federal state can you find the following cities?

A: Frankfurt/Main		1: Brandenburg
B: Leipzig		2: Hesse
C: Husum		3: Lower Saxony
		4: Rhineland-Palatinate
		5: Saxony
		6: Schleswig-Holstein

Question  2: Who wrote what?

A: All Quiet on the Western Front		1: Heinrich Böll
B: The Broken Jug		2: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
C: The Clown		3: Heinrich von Kleist
		4: Erich Maria Remarque
		5: Hans Fallada
		6: Kurt Tucholsky

Question  3: When did this happen?

A: The GDR was founded		1: 23.5.1949
B: The EEC was founded		2: 7.10.1949
C: Schengen: Abolition of border control within the EU		3: 25.3.1957
		4: 13.8.1961
		5: 14.6.1985
		6: 1.1.1992

Question 4: In which cities do you find the following sights?

A: The Holstein-Tor		1: Lübeck
B: The Bundeskunsthalle		2: Berlin
C: The Alte Pinakothek		3: Hamburg
		4: Munich
		5: Stuttgart
		6: Bonn

Question 5: Which three of these federal presidents came from the CDU?

	1: Gustav Heinemann
	2: Karl Carstens
	3: Johannes Rau
	4: Theodor Heuss
	5: Heinrich Lübke
	6: Roman Herzog

Question 6: Which emperor is remembered for the following?

A: Creation of the Golden Bull		1: Otto I
B: Abdication as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire		2: Francis II
C: Walk to Canossa		3: Henry IV
		4: Charles IV
		5: Wilhelm IV
		6: Charles V

Question 7: Germany has been host to big sporting events quite a few times. In which year happened the following?

A: Olympic Summergames in Munich		1: 1936
B: Olympic Wintergames in Garmisch-Partenkirchen		2: 1954
C: Soccer World Championship (besides 2006)		3: 1966
		4: 1972
		5: 1974
		6: 1982

Question 8: Where are the following festivals to be seen?

A: the euro-szene		1: Berlin
B: the Ruhrfestspiele		2: Hamburg
C: the Calderon-Festspiele		3: Bamberg
		4: Recklinghausen
		5: Leipzig
		6: Fürth

Question 9: Most people know that Frankfurt is situated on the Main or the Oder. But on which rivers do you find the following cities?

A: Hannover		1: Neckar
B: Berlin		2: Elbe
C: Heidelberg		3: Leine
		4: Lahn
		5: Spree
		6: Rhine

Question 10: With which pilosopher do we connect the following ideas?

A: God is dead (Gott ist tot)		1: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
B: the Thing in Itself (Das Ding an sich)		2: Immanuel Kant
C: the Theory of Monads		3: Friedrich Nietzsche
		4: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
		5: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
		6: Martin Heidegger

© Bernhard Kauntz, 2005

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