Q 01/05

Which airship left Frankfurt in May 1937 bound for New Jersey, where it burst into flames while landing?

A) Hindenburg

B) Graf Zeppelin

C) Shenandoah

D) Bodensee

Answer · why

A) Hindenburg

Hindenburg began nearly all its Atlantic crossings at Frankfurt's airport, and in 1936 flew a record round trip to Lakehurst in under 99 hours in the ...

Q 02/05

Which smaller city on the Rhine narrowly beat Frankfurt in the 1949 vote to choose West Germany's capital?

A) Worms

B) Koblenz

C) Mainz

D) Bonn

Answer · why

D) Bonn

Bonn won partly because Konrad Adenauer, the first postwar chancellor, wanted the capital close to his hometown.

Q 03/05

Which storybook heroine is sent to Frankfurt as a companion for the invalid Klara Sesemann?

A) Gretel

B) Heidi

C) Alice

D) Madeline

Answer · why

B) Heidi

Heidi grows so homesick in the grand Frankfurt household that she starts sleepwalking, and the family doctor has her sent back to the mountains.

Q 04/05

Which girl, born in Frankfurt in June 1929, moved with her family to Amsterdam after the Nazis took power?

A) Sophie Scholl

B) Audrey Hepburn

C) Anne Frank

D) Hannah Arendt

Answer · why

C) Anne Frank

Anne Frank was four and a half when she joined her family in Amsterdam in 1934. Her father Otto was the only one of them to survive the Holocaust.

Q 05/05

Which writer was born in 1749 in a Frankfurt house that was bombed flat and later rebuilt as a museum?

A) Schiller

B) Goethe

C) Heine

D) Lessing

Answer · why

B) Goethe

Goethe's family home was destroyed in a 1944 air raid, then rebuilt exactly as it had stood, with work starting in 1947.