Q 01/05

Munich's name comes from an old German word for which people, one of whom appears on its coat of arms?

A) Monks

B) Millers

C) Knights

D) Merchants

Answer · why

A) Monks

Monks. A hooded monk has been on the city seal since 1239, but artists drew him younger and younger until he became the 'Münchner Kindl', the Munich c...

Q 02/05

Munich sits on which river?

A) The Danube

B) The Rhine

C) The Main

D) The Isar

Answer · why

D) The Isar

The Isar. It rises in the Austrian Alps and joins the Danube downstream of Munich, so the meltwater rushing through the city ends up in the Black Sea.

Q 03/05

Which duke founded Munich around 1158 to draw the salt trade away from a bishop's toll bridge to his own?

A) Albert the Bear

B) Henry the Lion

C) Frederick Barbarossa

D) Ludwig the Bavarian

Answer · why

B) Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion. Legend has him burning the Bishop of Freising's bridge by night; what is certain is that in 1158 the emperor let his new market stand ...

Q 04/05

Which dynasty ruled Bavaria from Munich until the revolution of 1918?

A) The Habsburgs

B) The Wittelsbachs

C) The Hohenzollerns

D) The Welfs

Answer · why

B) The Wittelsbachs

The Wittelsbachs ruled Bavaria for 738 years. The end came overnight: on 7 November 1918 King Ludwig III slipped out of Munich with his family as Kurt...

Q 05/05

Whose 1806 reward to Bavaria made Munich a royal capital?

A) Napoleon

B) Alexander I

C) Frederick the Great

D) Francis II

Answer · why

A) Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte. The alliance also brought Bavaria lands in Franconia and Swabia, which gave the state roughly the shape it still has today.