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German Trivia - Multiple Choice
This quiz collects some Trivia questions related to the country of Germany. Can you choose the right option?
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1. In his famous 1963 speech, J.F. Kennedy declared: "Ich bin ein Berliner!" What do some people believe he actually said?
Those people are wrong.
"What an ugly city!"
"I don't want to buy that carpet!"
"I have been to that brothel!"
"I am a jelly doughnut!"
2. At a press conference of the East German Socialist Unity Party, spokesman Günter Schabowski was given a notice that the party plans on developing a new travel policy. What did he accidently do?
He abdicated chairman Walter Ulbricht
He dissolved the party
He opened the borders to West Germany
He declared the building of the Berlin Wall
3. Chancellor Willy Brandt was born as Herbert Frahm. Where did he get his adopted name from?
It is the name of a marxist philosopher
It is the name of a childrens book character
It was his code name in the anti-nazi resistance
It is the name of the street he was born in
4. Germans are good at building stuff? Oh well. In 2013, the airport-in-construction BER wasted thousands of Euros due to this.
It is still not finished.
Due to a typo, they build 1000 bathrooms
They had to hire hunters, to chase out wolves who wandered in the area
They forgot to build the runways
They couldn't turn off the lights, because no one knew where the switch was
5. In 2018, the governing CDU party elected a succesor of chancellor Angela Merkel. But how is her name correctly written?
You can call her AKK.
Annekret Gramp-Kartenbauer
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Annekramp Gretkampenbauer
Anne-Gret Kramkarrenbauer
6. Originally, the Nazis used Gothic Script for their writing, but they abruptly abandoned it in 1941. Why?
They then denounced it as the "Jew letters of Schwabach".
People in annexed countries couldn't read it
It was discovered that it was developed by jews
Due to lead shortage, they had to use letters they confiscated abroad
Hitler found them to be more aesthetically pleasing
7. Konrad Zuse is not exactly a household name. What groundbreaking invention did he made?
American engineers invented a similar machine two years later without knowing Zuses work.
The pocket watch
wearable glasses
The programmable computer
edible underwear
8. Nazis aren't very smart. What did Hitler thought the moon was made off?
Sand
Ice
Light
Jews
9. Bernd is a childrens TV character, aimed at teaching children that it is ok to be sad or grumpy sometimes. He is also the following:
And he has very short arms.
A cloud
A bread
A giraffe
A shrubbery
10. What is the best selling book by a german author?
"Perfume" by Patrick Süskind
"Momo" by Michael Ende
"The Tin Drum" by Günter Grass
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
11. In 1968, Beate Klarsfeld had a short interaction with then chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. What did that interaction involve?
...for being member of the Nazi party, prior to 1945.
She kissed him
She stole his wallet
She slapped him
She cut off his thumbs
12. Controversial philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said that he only could believe in a God who is able to do that:
He then huged a horse and went insane.
Die
Kill
Dance
Speak
13. In 1953, an uprising in East Germany was violently surpressed by the government. How did poet Bertolt Brecht comment on the event?
Wouldn't it be easier if the government dissolves the people and elects another?
People of the World, gaze upon this city!
Democracy is funny.
We will build a wall and make the capitalists pay for it.
14. Frederick August III was the last king of Saxony. When abdicating in 1918, what where his supposedly last words?
"Well then take care of this crap yourselves!"
"I always wanted to spend more time with the kids."
"I give your democracy 15 years."
"Long live the german republic, or whatever it's called now."
15. Germany is somewhat famous for its meat products. But what percentage of germans identify as Vegetarians?
According to a Forsa survey in 2016.
0,01%
1%
10%
20%
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9: "...aimed at teaching children that it is ok..." (no comma);
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