Q 01/05

Louis Dobermann, who created the Doberman, is best known for which day job?

A) Butcher

B) Army officer

C) Tax collector

D) Gamekeeper

Answer · why

C) Tax collector

Tax collector. As the story goes, the cash he carried on his rounds made him a target, so he bred a fearless dog to walk beside him.

Q 02/05

In which present-day German state was the Doberman first bred?

A) Brandenburg

B) Thuringia

C) Saxony

D) Bavaria

Answer · why

B) Thuringia

Thuringia. Dobermann caught stray dogs for his home town there, which let him pick the sharpest ones to breed from.

Q 03/05

Which 1980s detective series features Zeus and Apollo, two Dobermans who guard the estate where the hero lives?

A) Remington Steele

B) Magnum, P.I.

C) Simon & Simon

D) Moonlighting

Answer · why

B) Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. The estate's stern caretaker, Higgins, patrols the grounds with the pair and fondly calls them 'the lads'.

Q 04/05

Early Doberman breeders are documented crossing their dogs with the Manchester Terrier and which sighthound?

A) Whippet

B) Saluki

C) Greyhound

D) Borzoi

Answer · why

C) Greyhound

Greyhound. The cross was made to give the rough-hewn guard dog a slimmer, more elegant outline.

Q 05/05

The 'butcher's dogs' that went into the first Dobermans were an early type of which breed?

A) Rottweiler

B) Beauceron

C) Great Dane

D) Gordon Setter

Answer · why

A) Rottweiler

Rottweiler. Butchers used such dogs to drive their cattle, and the Doberman's breed standard credits them with a most important part in its making.