Q 01/05

Stuttgart takes its name from which kind of establishment, founded around 950 by Duke Liudolf of Swabia?

A) A salt works

B) A stud farm

C) A hunting lodge

D) A customs post

Answer · why

B) A stud farm

A stud farm for warhorses gave Stuttgart its name: the Old High German 'Stuotgarten' was set up during the Hungarian invasions to supply the duke's ca...

Q 02/05

Which carmaker, based in Stuttgart's Zuffenhausen district, places the city's coat of arms at the centre of its logo?

A) Volkswagen

B) Mercedes-Benz

C) Porsche

D) Maybach

Answer · why

C) Porsche

Porsche built its crest around Stuttgart's arms and framed them with the arms of the former Free People's State of Württemberg, whose capital the city...

Q 03/05

A museum in Stuttgart's former slaughterhouse shows more than 50,000 exhibits devoted to which animal?

A) Horses

B) Cattle

C) Geese

D) Pigs

Answer · why

D) Pigs

Pigs are the whole theme of the Schweinemuseum, which began as a private collection of lucky-pig charms and now fills 27 themed rooms.

Q 04/05

Stuttgart's television tower, opened in 1956 and copied worldwide, was the first such tower built from which material?

A) Reinforced concrete

B) Welded steel lattice

C) Wrought iron

D) Laminated timber

Answer · why

A) Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete let the tower rise as a slim needle with a 'basket' on top, the shape that broadcasting towers around the world went on to follow.

Q 05/05

Which meat-filled Swabian dumplings, a Stuttgart staple, were by one legend invented by monks hiding meat during Lent?

A) Schupfnudeln

B) Spätzle

C) Knödel

D) Maultaschen

Answer · why

D) Maultaschen

Maultaschen carry EU protected status, so the genuine article is made only in Swabia; the legend credits the Cistercian monks of Maulbronn Abbey.