Q 01/05

Bavarian culture is heavily shaped by which religious heritage?

A) Lutheran

B) Catholic

C) Calvinist

D) Orthodox

Answer · why

B) Catholic

Catholic: when the Reformation swept through northern Germany, Bavaria's dukes kept their lands strictly loyal to Rome and made the duchy a centre of ...

Q 02/05

By area, where does Bavaria rank among Germany's 16 states?

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fifth

Answer · why

A) First

First: it reached roughly its present borders in Napoleon's day, when siding with France let it expand at its neighbours' expense.

Q 03/05

Bavaria's official name uses which title?

A) Grand Duchy

B) Free State

C) Kingdom

D) Republic

Answer · why

B) Free State

Free State: the word was coined as plain German for 'republic', and the revolutionaries who toppled Bavaria's king in November 1918 declared the count...

Q 04/05

The Romans divided what is now southern Bavaria between which two provinces?

A) Gaul and Belgica

B) Pannonia and Dacia

C) Germania Superior and Inferior

D) Raetia and Noricum

Answer · why

D) Raetia and Noricum

Raetia and Noricum: Rome fortified the northern frontier to keep the Germanic tribes out, and an army camp behind it grew into Augsburg, the capital o...

Q 05/05

Which Frankish ruler deposed Bavaria's Duke Tassilo III in 788?

A) Clovis I

B) Charles Martel

C) Charlemagne

D) Pepin the Short

Answer · why

C) Charlemagne

Charlemagne: by removing Tassilo he ended more than two centuries of rule by the Agilolfings, Bavaria's earliest ducal house, and for a time made the ...