Q 01/05

Bavarian culture is heavily shaped by which religious heritage?

A) Lutheran

B) Catholic

C) Calvinist

D) Orthodox

Answer · why

B) Catholic

The Counter-Reformation was centred here, and resentment of Protestant Prussia fed a strong separate identity after 1871.

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

At 70,550 square kilometres it is comfortably ahead of Lower Saxony.

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

Saxony and Thuringia use the same designation; it dates from the fall of the monarchy in 1918.

Q 04/05

In the first century AD the territory of Bavaria was incorporated into which Roman provinces?

A) Gaul and Belgica

B) Pannonia and Dacia

C) Germania Superior and Inferior

D) Raetia and Noricum

Answer · why

D) Raetia and Noricum

Augsburg began as a Roman camp built between 8 and 5 BC and became the capital of Raetia.

Q 05/05

The Duchy of Bavaria was created within Francia in which year?

A) 800

B) 962

C) 555

D) 1180

Answer · why

C) 555

The Agilolfing house ruled it until Charlemagne deposed Duke Tassilo III in 788.