Q 01/05

Reformation Day, marking Luther's Ninety-five Theses of 1517, shares its date with which popular holiday?

A) Thanksgiving

B) Halloween

C) Valentine's Day

D) Groundhog Day

Answer · why

B) Halloween

Halloween and Reformation Day both fall on 31 October. Some historians argue Luther picked All Hallows' Eve on purpose to catch the attention of ordin...

Q 02/05

By his own account, what frightening event on a ride in 1505 made Martin Luther vow to become a monk?

A) A wolf attack

B) A flooded river

C) A thunderstorm

D) A highway robbery

Answer · why

C) A thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, with a lightning bolt striking close by, left Luther so terrified of death that he cried out his vow. He sold his books and entered an...

Q 03/05

Under which first name was Martin Luther King Jr. born, before his father renamed them both in 1934?

A) Marcus

B) Michael

C) Malcolm

D) Matthew

Answer · why

B) Michael

Born Michael King, he was five when his father, an Atlanta pastor, came home from a church congress in Berlin and renamed them both after the German r...

Q 04/05

Which carol, long printed as "Luther's Cradle Song", was wrongly credited to Martin Luther?

A) Away in a Manger

B) What Child Is This

C) The First Noel

D) O Holy Night

Answer · why

A) Away in a Manger

Away in a Manger surfaced in American periodicals in the 1880s, billed as a lullaby Luther composed for his own children and still sung by German moth...

Q 05/05

Which German toy brand made a Martin Luther figure whose first edition of 34,000 sold out in just three days?

A) Schleich

B) Steiff

C) Playmobil

D) Ravensburger

Answer · why

C) Playmobil

Playmobil's little Martin Luther went on to become the company's fastest-selling figurine.