Q 01/05
A) 2015
B) 2017
C) 2019
D) 2021
Answer · why
Sixteen years, four coalitions and four elections; she chose not to run again.
Q 02/05
A) The Social Democratic Party
B) The Free Democratic Party
C) The Christian Democratic Union
D) The Green Party of Germany
Answer · why
She was the first woman to lead a German party when she took over in April 2000.
Q 03/05
A) Molecular biology
B) Quantum chemistry
C) Nuclear physics
D) Mathematics
Answer · why
She worked as a research scientist at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin until 1989.
Q 04/05
A) Berlin
B) Munich
C) Frankfurt
D) Hamburg
Answer · why
When she was three months old her pastor father took a parish in East Germany and the family moved east.
Q 05/05
A) Sauer
B) Jentzsch
C) Krause
D) Kasner
Answer · why
Her paternal grandfather Germanised the name Kaźmierczak in 1930; her childhood nickname was "Kasi."
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