Solution – What do you know about Germany? Posted by jan on Apr 26, 2013 in Culture, Sports, Traditions
Here´s the solution to the quiz I published some days ago. Compare it to yours…
1. How many residents are there approximately in Germany?
About 82,45 Million.
2. Name three rivers in Germany!
Rhein, Donau, Elbe, Neckar, Spree…
3. How many “Bundesländer” are there in Germany? Name three of them, including their capitals.
There are 16 Bundesländer. For example Bayern (München), Niedersachsen (Hannover), Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Thüringen (Erfurt), Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart), Sachsen (Dresden), Schleswig-Holstein (Kiel)…
4. What is the name of the highest mountain in Germany?
Zugspitze
5. Who is currently Bundeskanzler/in of Germany?
Angela Merkel
6. Name three neighboring countries of Germany!
France, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands…
7. The first republic with a democratic constitution was proclaimed in 1918. What was its name?
Weimarer Republik.
8. What was the name of the party that ruled between 1933 and 1945?
NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
9. What happened on the 8th of May, 1945?
It was the end of World War 2 in Europe.
10. What does DDR mean?
Deutsche Demokratische Republik.
11. When was the German reunification?
In 1990. The fall of the Berlin wall took place in 1989.
12. Which right is protected by Artikel 1 of the German constitution?
The dignity of humans.
13. Which political parties are currently represented in the German Bundestag? Name at least three of them.
CDU, CSU, SPD, Grüne, FDP, Linkspartei.PDS
14. Germany has some important universities. Name three of them!
Heidelberg, Münster, Göttingen…
15. Name one nationwide newspaper and one public TV channel!
Newspapers: “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Die Welt”
TV Channels: ARD, ZDF.
16. Name three German actors or actresses!
Muriel Baumeister, Meret Becker, Heike Makatsch, Til Schweiger, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl…well, there are hundreds of others as well 🙂
17. Name three German sportspersons!
Michael Schumacher, Oliver Kahn, Dirk Nowitzki, Heike Drechsler…
18. What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?
Printing.
19. There were two pioneers in automotive engineering in Germany. Do you know their names?
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler.
20. Do you know the colours of the German flag? And how are they arranged?
Black, red, gold. In this order from top to bottom.
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About the Author: jan
My name is Jan and I live in the south west of Germany. My profession is being a project manager at a company that creates digital media (first of all internet related things). This is my job since over a decade so I´m quite familiar with the web and its tools. Whereat today almost every school kid does. But that´s one of the main reasons why nowadays there are quasi no more limits in the internet and so it can be used for all imaginable types of things. For example learning languages! And that´s where we are at the moment. I first got in touch with Transparent Language when my family and I used to live in France a couple of years ago. I just had a break from work and by coincidence I produced some cultural videos in French. A few months later the whole blogging thing came up and I was lucky to be a part of it. So now my (second) job is to feed you with information, exercises, vocabulary, grammar and stories about Germany and German language. For being a passionate videographer I´m trying to do this more and more by videos. If you have any wishes or needs of topics that should be treated here, please don´t hesitate to contact me via a comment field. I´m open to your suggestions (as long as they are not too individual) and will try to satisfy your needs.
Comments:
EP:
Good questions, interesting. And although I’ve been living in Germany for many years, some of those were tough!
Cherie:
I just wanted to tell you that I love your blog! It’s fun and interesting and it’s helping me to learn the German language (and culture). Hope to see more posts soon.