Q 01/05

Which American TV star sang Looking for Freedom at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989?

A) Richard Dean Anderson

B) David Hasselhoff

C) Tom Selleck

D) Don Johnson

Answer · why

B) David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff had spent eight weeks at number one in Germany with the song. He sang it two months after the Wall had come down.

Q 02/05

Which crop did Prussia's Frederick the Great promote so keenly that Germans nicknamed him its king?

A) Potatoes

B) Cabbages

C) Sugar beet

D) Tobacco

Answer · why

A) Potatoes

Potatoes earned Frederick the nickname Der Kartoffelkönig, the Potato King. He also brought in the turnip and dug canals to carry crops to market.

Q 03/05

Germany's last emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was the eldest grandchild of which British monarch?

A) Queen Anne

B) King George III

C) Queen Victoria

D) King William IV

Answer · why

C) Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria had 42 grandchildren and Wilhelm was the first of them. His mother Vicky was her eldest child.

Q 04/05

Napoleon took the Quadriga chariot statue to Paris from atop which Berlin landmark in 1806?

A) Charlottenburg Palace

B) Berlin City Palace

C) Victory Column

D) Brandenburg Gate

Answer · why

D) Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate got its quadriga back in 1814, after Napoleon's defeat and the Prussian occupation of Paris. He had been the first to march throu...

Q 05/05

Which German landmark, begun in 1248, was finally completed 632 years later as the world's tallest building?

A) Regensburg Cathedral

B) Cologne Cathedral

C) Ulm Minster

D) Speyer Cathedral

Answer · why

B) Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral sat unfinished for centuries after work halted around 1560. Once complete it held the height record for only four years, until the W...