Q 01/05

Roughly when did Neanderthals become extinct?

A) About 10,000 years ago

B) About 200,000 years ago

C) About 4,000 years ago

D) About 40,000 years ago

Answer · why

D) About 40,000 years ago

About 40,000 years ago Neanderthals died out, within a few millennia of modern humans' arrival in Europe; a few Iberian refuges may have held on somew...

Q 02/05

In which country was the first recognised Neanderthal fossil, Neanderthal 1, discovered in 1856?

A) Croatia

B) France

C) Belgium

D) Germany

Answer · why

D) Germany

Neanderthal 1 came from the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley, a limestone gorge east of the Rhine in Germany, where quarrymen dug it out ...

Q 03/05

After whom was the Neander Valley named?

A) A geologist

B) A local duke

C) A hymn writer

D) A coal miner

Answer · why

C) A hymn writer

A hymn writer, the 17th-century pastor Joachim Neander who composed 'Praise to the Lord, the Almighty', loved walking in the gorge, which took his nam...

Q 04/05

The Neander Valley that named the species lies near which German city?

A) Düsseldorf

B) Munich

C) Hamburg

D) Dresden

Answer · why

A) Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf lies just west of the Neander Valley, a limestone gorge of the little Düssel river near Mettmann where the 1856 fossil turned up during qua...

Q 05/05

Which year's German spelling reform changed 'Thal' to 'Tal', renaming the Neander Valley?

A) 1901

B) 1871

C) 1848

D) 1996

Answer · why

A) 1901

The 1901 orthographic conference dropped the silent h from native German words, so Neanderthal became Neandertal; the scientific name Homo neanderthal...