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40 free Kaiserreich trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kaiserreich asks one of alternate history's great what-ifs: what would the twentieth century look like if Germany had come out of the Great War on top? The answer is a world of exiled governments, revolutionary republics, restored thrones and familiar historical figures living very different lives. This quiz covers the mod's setting as it stands when a new game begins: the great powers and their rival blocs, the people in charge, the ideologies that replace the ones in the history books, and the crises that set the world on fire. A few questions look at the mod itself and its long development. It is written for players who know the lore, and for strategy fans who are curious why this mod has such a devoted following.
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Q 01Kaiserreich's alternate history begins with which alliance, led by Germany, winning the First World War in 1919?
The Central Powers
The Central Powers win in Kaiserreich after a failed Allied counter-offensive in July 1919 and mutinies along the Western Front. Germany emerges as the dominant power in Europe.
Q 02Kaiserreich had its public alpha release in December 2016 as a mod for which Paradox grand strategy game?
Hearts of Iron IV
Hearts of Iron IV has hosted Kaiserreich since 1 December 2016, yet the mod is older than the game. Its first version appeared in 2005 for an earlier entry in the same series.
Q 03Which monarch, forced to abdicate in 1918 in real history, still rules Germany as Kaiserreich begins?
Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II still reigns in 1936, nearly half a century after taking the throne in 1888. In real history he died in exile in the Netherlands in 1941.
Q 04In Kaiserreich, which German-led military alliance includes client states such as Poland, Lithuania and White Ruthenia?
The Reichspakt
The Reichspakt, or Imperial Pact, is the network of military alliances binding Germany to its allies. Every member also belongs to the customs union that Berlin leads.
Q 05In Kaiserreich, which ideology replaces communism as the leading revolutionary creed, ruling France and Britain?
Syndicalism
Syndicalism grew from trade-union direct action into a system of government. With the Bolsheviks beaten in Russia, revolution takes hold in Western Europe instead of the East.
Q 06What name does Kaiserreich give the Berlin stock market crash of February 1936 that shakes the world economy?
Black Monday
Black Monday strikes on 3 February 1936, the day after the government suspends the mark's convertibility to gold. The crash keeps deepening for about two months.
Q 07After Kaiserreich's 1925 British Revolution, which dominion hosts the exiled royal family and British government?
Canada
Canada received the royal family during the revolution, when they were evacuated under the guise of a state visit. The dominion now leads what remains of the British Empire.
Q 08In Kaiserreich's timeline, which great power never enters the First World War, staying neutral to the end?
The United States
The United States broke off relations with Germany over submarine warfare in 1918 but never declared war. Its banks were left holding unpaid loans to the defeated Allies.
Q 09Which Louisiana senator leads the southern American People's Government in Kaiserreich's second American civil war?
Huey Long
Huey Long, nicknamed the Kingfish, founded the Share Our Wealth movement as a machine for his own presidential ambitions. In real history he was assassinated in 1935.
Q 10Who is prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Italy when Kaiserreich's scenario opens in 1936?
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of real history, has been the socialist republic's prime minister since 1934. His government is both internationalist and nationalist in character.
Q 11In Kaiserreich, the exiled French Republic governs its remaining empire from which North African city?
Algiers
Algiers became the seat of France's old government in April 1920, as revolution swept the mainland. Marshal Philippe Pétain later made himself president in a military coup.
Q 12Which politician leads the hardline Maximist faction as Deputy Chairman of Kaiserreich's socialist Union of Britain?
Oswald Mosley
Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists in real history, is a radical socialist here. His Maximists demand maximum effort for the revolution.
Q 13Which emperor is restored to the Qing throne in Kaiserreich's lore, only to be a puppet of warlord Wu Peifu?
Puyi
Q 21Which alliance unites the exiled British and French governments in Kaiserreich, named after a 1904 agreement?
The Entente
The Entente is what remains of the wartime Allies, kept alive by governments ruling from far-flung colonies. Portugal counts as a nominal member.
Q 22In Kaiserreich, which socialist alliance is led by the Commune of France and includes the Union of Britain?
The Third International
The Third International is led from Paris here, with socialist Britain and Italy as fellow members. In real history the name belonged to the Moscow-run Comintern.
Q 23Which German-led customs union in Kaiserreich has grown to include Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands?
Puyi was reinstated in Beijing in 1927, in what the lore calls the Xuantong Restoration. Germany demanded the restoration as a price for backing Wu, the so-called Jade Marshal.
Q 14Which Irish revolutionary, killed in an ambush in 1922 in real history, is president of Ireland as Kaiserreich begins?
Michael Collins
Michael Collins leads a democratic Irish Republic that has tied itself to Germany's economic bloc. Relations with socialist Britain across the sea remain cold and undefined.
Q 15Which revolutionary, assassinated in 1919 in real history, is president of Mexico when Kaiserreich's scenario begins?
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata heads a left-leaning coalition in a country devastated by a civil war that coincided with the Weltkrieg.
Q 16Which Gallipoli war hero is reforming the surviving Ottoman Empire as its Grand Vizier in Kaiserreich?
Mustafa Kemal
Mustafa Kemal, who founded the Turkish Republic in real history, never needs to here. The empire survives the war, and he drives its political reforms from within.
Q 17Which Democrat, beaten by Herbert Hoover in the real 1928 election, is American president when Kaiserreich begins?
Al Smith
Al Smith wins in 1928 in this timeline and keeps office when the 1932 election is thrown to the House. His policies fail to lift the country out of depression.
Q 18Which American general can overthrow the elected government in Kaiserreich, sparking a four-way civil war?
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur marches on Washington and removes the president, creating a military administration. He begins the game as Chief of Staff of the Army.
Q 19Which revanchist veteran becomes president of Russia in 1934 in Kaiserreich's lore, alarming Germany?
Boris Savinkov
Boris Savinkov leads the ultranationalist SZRS, and his 1934 victory revived German fears of encirclement. In real history he died in a Soviet prison in 1925.
Q 20Which authoritarian branch of socialism in Kaiserreich is named after a charter signed by socialist nationalist parties?
Totalism
Totalism covers the totalitarian and vanguardist strands of socialism, and takes its name from the Totalist Charter. It attracts figures who became fascists in real history.
Mitteleuropa
Mitteleuropa, whose name means Middle Europe, was set up after the Weltkrieg to coordinate Germany's economic dominance. It holds a monopoly on Baltic Sea trade.
Q 24In Kaiserreich's lore, the November 1919 treaty that ended the war in Europe is named after which place?
Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles exists in Kaiserreich too, but with France as the loser, forced into wide-reaching concessions. Britain made its own peace the following spring.
Q 25In Kaiserreich's lore, which Bolshevik leader dies in 1918, two days after being shot by Fanny Kaplan in Moscow?
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin survived the same shooting in real history. Here his death sets off a crippling power struggle, and the Whites go on to win the Russian Civil War.
Q 26Which socialist leads the Workers' Commonwealth of America from its capital in Chicago in Kaiserreich?
Jack Reed
Jack Reed, who chronicled the Russian Revolution in real history, ran as the Socialist Party's presidential candidate in 1924. His faction rises up in the northern states.
Q 27Which Habsburg emperor, who died in exile in 1922 in real history, still reigns over Austria-Hungary in Kaiserreich?
Karl I
Karl I has ruled since 1916 and now presides over a decentralised monarchy. Bohemia, Galicia and Lodomeria, and Illyria sit beside Austria and Hungary as constituents.
Q 28In Kaiserreich, which British dominion begins the game under martial law after a 1924 merger of two Pacific nations?
Australasia
Australasia joined Australia and New Zealand in one commonwealth, a bid to pool resources as the British Empire slid into chaos. Elections were suspended at its creation.
Q 29In Kaiserreich, which country is split between a British dominion, a socialist republic and a federation of princes?
India
India is divided three ways, and each government claims the whole country. The dominion holds the northwest, the socialists the centre and east, and the princes the south.
Q 30Which German puppet kingdom in Kaiserreich is headed by the Kaiser's third son, Adalbert von Hohenzollern?
Flanders-Wallonia
Flanders-Wallonia is deeply divided between its Flemish and Walloon populations. Another of the emperor's sons, the despised King August, sits on the throne of Poland.