Jasperak
Chieftain
Why do I keep thinking Napoleon.
Germany quiz for us dumb Americans
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Jasperak
Chieftain
Voltaire, cannot believe I got the two confused. Knew the country and time frame though.
Jasperak, you got it right! Next question's on you so you so choose.
BTW, you don't need to post thrice, you can edit your existing post by using the edit option on the top right of your post. Helps to shorten the thread.
BTW, you don't need to post thrice, you can edit your existing post by using the edit option on the top right of your post. Helps to shorten the thread.
Jasperak
Chieftain
Keeping in line with the holy roman empire questions:
how many holy roman emperors were crowned by the sanction of the papacy or by papal authority after the Great Interregnum ended with the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg? (bonus if you can name all five of them)
next question,
How many landkreis in the lander of Hessen? (bonus if you can name all of them)
Danke, und habt eine gute nacht.
how many holy roman emperors were crowned by the sanction of the papacy or by papal authority after the Great Interregnum ended with the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg? (bonus if you can name all five of them)
next question,
How many landkreis in the lander of Hessen? (bonus if you can name all of them)
Danke, und habt eine gute nacht.
"how many holy roman emperors were crowned by the sanction of the papacy or by papal authority after the Great Interregnum ended with the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg? (bonus if you can name all FIVE of them)"
Eh....five.
Eh....five.
Jasperak
Chieftain
i figured that question might be too hard and was too lazy to erase it for the next question. ;santa: Was easier to put the answer there and have you'all think I was stupid. 
joespaniel
Unescorted Settler
How many landkreis in the laender of Hessen? (bonus if you can name all of them)
This is what I could find so far:
Kassel
Waldeck-Frankenburg
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Marburg-Biedenkopf
Fulda
GieBen
Limburg-Weilburg
GroB-Gerau
Darmstadt-Dieburg
BergstraBe
This is what I could find so far:
Kassel
Waldeck-Frankenburg
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Marburg-Biedenkopf
Fulda
GieBen
Limburg-Weilburg
GroB-Gerau
Darmstadt-Dieburg
BergstraBe
joespaniel
Unescorted Settler
I almost forgot about this little quiz, apparently so did Jasperak 
New question!
What is Germany's #1 exported beer?
New question!
What is Germany's #1 exported beer?
Yes, what a memorable thread.
BTW, what kinda historical question is that??? Beer???
My guess - Heineken?
BTW, what kinda historical question is that??? Beer???
My guess - Heineken?
joespaniel
Unescorted Settler
Im a bartender! 
No, Heinies are from the Netherlands....
No, Heinies are from the Netherlands....
willemvanoranje
Curitibano
Beck's?
Jasperak
Chieftain
Sorry that I have been away. It seems that I can only log in to the forum from my compuetr from work. Anyway, the answer would St Pauli's Girl.
Hamlet
Manic Depressive
Gehard Schroeder.
The Reichstag.
No idea. I'd guess in both houses around 650.
About 80M, I think.
I'd guess 1964. Errmmm, Berlin?
1989.
1990?
Baltic sea and The North sea.
France, Austria, Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic too, I think.
Well, it's The Euro now, although it was previously the Deutschmark.
Originally posted by joespaniel
Not too difficult, eh? Try to answer some without using any reference first (ie. internet search).
Coming next: France!:frog:
Didn't use anything for that, just answered off the top of my head. I'm not American, though.
willemvanoranje
Curitibano
Hey, it ain't February 1st yet (from February the DM is no longer a legal currency. From January 1st the Euro counts as currency)
Sayhueque
Chieftain
Schroder
Reichstag
Who cares.
40 million in 1900... 80-90 million?
1954? Between East and West Germany.
1989
1991
North Sea, Baltic Sea.
Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, Chechz Republic, Slovakia (is that a country still?), Poland.
DM, Deustche Mark.
Sayhueque
Chieftain
I missed France... talk about a germanophile in denial.
Hadrian
Chieftain
To make it clear for everyone:
#1- Who is the Chancellor of Germany?
Gerhard Schröder
#2- What is the German Parliment called?
Bundestag (lower house)
Bundesrat (upper house, representatives of the 16 states)
["Bundes" means federal.]
#3- How many members make up the German Parliment?
currently exactly 666 (which has nothing to do with satanism ;-)
#4- What is the current population of Germany?
about 82 million
#5- What year did the Berlin Wall go up?(Bonus points:Where is the Berlin Wall?)
August, 13 1961
#6- What year did the Berlin Wall come down?
November, 9 1989
#7- What year did East and West Germany unite?
October, 3 1990
#8- How many seas border Germany?(Bonus points again:Name them)
2, Nordsee (German Sea) and Ostsee (Baltic Sea)
#9- How many countries border Germany?(Yep:Name them too)
From the north counter-clockwise:
Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland
So we have 9.
#10-Name the German currency.
1 Deutsche Mark = 100 Pfennige
Any other questions welcome.
Germany has been existing since 843 (Treaty of Verdun) when the Frankish Empire was divided up into the East Frankish Empire (now Germany) and West Frankish Kingdom (now France).
The Franks were (no, ARE) a Germanic tribe that conquered Gaulle when the Roman rule ceased. They live around Nuremberg today, northern Bavaria.
#1- Who is the Chancellor of Germany?
Gerhard Schröder
#2- What is the German Parliment called?
Bundestag (lower house)
Bundesrat (upper house, representatives of the 16 states)
["Bundes" means federal.]
#3- How many members make up the German Parliment?
currently exactly 666 (which has nothing to do with satanism ;-)
#4- What is the current population of Germany?
about 82 million
#5- What year did the Berlin Wall go up?(Bonus points:Where is the Berlin Wall?)
August, 13 1961
#6- What year did the Berlin Wall come down?
November, 9 1989
#7- What year did East and West Germany unite?
October, 3 1990
#8- How many seas border Germany?(Bonus points again:Name them)
2, Nordsee (German Sea) and Ostsee (Baltic Sea)
#9- How many countries border Germany?(Yep:Name them too)
From the north counter-clockwise:
Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland
So we have 9.
#10-Name the German currency.
1 Deutsche Mark = 100 Pfennige
Any other questions welcome.
Germany has been existing since 843 (Treaty of Verdun) when the Frankish Empire was divided up into the East Frankish Empire (now Germany) and West Frankish Kingdom (now France).
The Franks were (no, ARE) a Germanic tribe that conquered Gaulle when the Roman rule ceased. They live around Nuremberg today, northern Bavaria.
Hadrian
Chieftain
1) What was Charlemagne's capital ? In which country is it now ?
Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
2)Which Holy Roman Emperor has been excommunicated in its rivalry with the Pope.
Heinrich IV. (you'd call him Henry IV) of the Salian House (Saxons).
3) Who was Hitler's Foreign Secretary/Minister ?
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938-1945)
4)Who was the longest ruling German chancelor ?
It was Helmut Kohl (1982-1998) even surpassing Otto von Bismarck.
5) How many laender is there in present day Germany (bonus for naming them all)
We have 16 "Länder" (states), 3 of them are city states.
Schleswig-Holstein
Hamburg (city state)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Bremen (city state)
Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)
Brandenburg
Berlin (city state)
Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Hessen (Hesse)
Thüringen (Thuringia)
Sachsen (Saxony)
Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Saarland
Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Bayern (Bavaria)
Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
2)Which Holy Roman Emperor has been excommunicated in its rivalry with the Pope.
Heinrich IV. (you'd call him Henry IV) of the Salian House (Saxons).
3) Who was Hitler's Foreign Secretary/Minister ?
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1938-1945)
4)Who was the longest ruling German chancelor ?
It was Helmut Kohl (1982-1998) even surpassing Otto von Bismarck.
5) How many laender is there in present day Germany (bonus for naming them all)
We have 16 "Länder" (states), 3 of them are city states.
Schleswig-Holstein
Hamburg (city state)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Bremen (city state)
Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)
Brandenburg
Berlin (city state)
Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Hessen (Hesse)
Thüringen (Thuringia)
Sachsen (Saxony)
Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Saarland
Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Bayern (Bavaria)
Hadrian
Chieftain
1) How many "free states" are among the German Länder? (name them)
2) Name the biggest German state (land area) and the state with the largest population.
3) When was the Deutsche Mark introduced in Eastern Germany (GDR aka DDR) as official currency?
4) What started the horrible 30-Years-War and when?
5) Which German emporer imprisoned the English king Richard Lionheart and forced him to swear the fief oath? (Bonus: who actually caught the king and handed him over to the emporer?)
6) When did the First "Reich" arise and who was its first emperor? What was his capital?
7) Who was the last emperor of the First Reich and what made him to abandon the imperial crown?
8) Who proclaimed the Prussian king William I as German Emperor in Versailles? (Hint: it was a German prince)
9) Name the 3 wars that preceded the erection of the Second Reich. When, who against whom and what were the deciding battles of each of the three wars?
10) Name all countries where German is official language.
I know it's kinda hard, but for experts (or people able to use Google ;-) surely not a big problem.
Have fun!
Viel Spaß!
2) Name the biggest German state (land area) and the state with the largest population.
3) When was the Deutsche Mark introduced in Eastern Germany (GDR aka DDR) as official currency?
4) What started the horrible 30-Years-War and when?
5) Which German emporer imprisoned the English king Richard Lionheart and forced him to swear the fief oath? (Bonus: who actually caught the king and handed him over to the emporer?)
6) When did the First "Reich" arise and who was its first emperor? What was his capital?
7) Who was the last emperor of the First Reich and what made him to abandon the imperial crown?
8) Who proclaimed the Prussian king William I as German Emperor in Versailles? (Hint: it was a German prince)
9) Name the 3 wars that preceded the erection of the Second Reich. When, who against whom and what were the deciding battles of each of the three wars?
10) Name all countries where German is official language.
I know it's kinda hard, but for experts (or people able to use Google ;-) surely not a big problem.
Have fun!
Viel Spaß!
West German
Warlord
Originally posted by joespaniel
Answer all or as many as you know. (Americans answer all even if you don't know the right response!)
#1- Who is the Chancellor of Germany?
#2- What is the German Parliment called?
#3- How many members make up the German Parliment?
#4- What is the current population of Germany?
#5- What year did the Berlin Wall go up?(Bonus points:Where is the Berlin Wall?)
#6- What year did the Berlin Wall come down?
#7- What year did East and West Germany unite?
#8- How many seas border Germany?(Bonus points again:Name them)
#9- How many countries border Germany?(Yep:Name them too)
#10-Name the German currency.
Not too difficult, eh? Try to answer some without using any reference first (ie. internet search).
Coming next: France!:frog:
1. Schroder
2. Diet
3. 46
4. 82,800,000
5. Rose in 1961, in Berlin
6. 1989
7. October 1990
8. 1 (Baltic Sea)
9. France, Holland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic. 8 countries.
10. Mark
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