Teacher’s Discovery Trivia Questions
Name _______________________ Date started ________________ Per. ___
Teacher’s Discovery Trivia Questions
History – Part 1
|Who was the first to translate the Bible into a Germanic language? | |
|Which country returned the German state of Saarland to Germany in 1957? | |
|Why did Prussia, Austria and Germany unite in 1813? | |
|What was called the Economic Miracle? | |
|Who was the president of Germany when Hitler came to power? | |
|What is the oldest German city? | |
|What was Hitler’s title in 1933? | |
|What were the women called who helped to rebuild Germany after WWII? | |
|When was Charlemagne crowned Emperor? | |
|What was Bismarck’s nickname? | |
|What were the initials for the Nazi Party? | |
|In what century was the “Age of Reason”? | |
|What Germanic tribe plundered Rome? | |
|In what city were the Nazi war trials held? | |
|What was Germany called after WWI? | |
|What city was founded by the Romans as Agusta Vindelicorum? | |
|Who were the two ruling families in Germany and Austria in the 18th century? | |
|The second World War began with the invasion of what country? | |
|What German city was once a Roman city called Colonia Agrippina? | |
|What was the largest German-speaking city at the beginning of the 18th century? | |
|In what year did the soviets blockade Berlin? | |
|What were the two largest German states in the 18th and 19th centuries? | |
|What Dutch teenager wrote her story in hiding during WWII? | |
|When did WWII begin? | |
|What German Kaiser is named for his red beard? | |
|Which polotical figure was responsible for building the Berlin Wall? | |
|Whose murder started the first World War? | |
|What French emperor brought an end to the Holy Roman Empire? | |
|What was the GDR? | |
|Who invented the printing press? | |
|What architectural style was used mainly during the Middle Ages? | |
|Who was the first president of the FRG? | |
|Name two Wolkswagen models named after animals. | |
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Teacher’s Discovery Trivia Questions
History – Part 2
|What church practice did Luther consider a scandal? | |
|How many theses did Luther post on the church door in Wittenberg? | |
|Where did Luther hide to escape his enemies? | |
|What title did Hitler give himself? | |
|Who was the leader of the moderate Social Democrats after WWI? | |
|What two houses of parliament were formed in 1919? (german names) | |
|What did the Versailles Treaty do? | |
|What world wide crisis helped support the Nazi Party after WWI? | |
|What 3 groups made up the westernmost Germanic tribes? | |
|What Germanic tribe was the easternmost? | |
|What was a Hansa? | |
|In what town did Martin Luther live with his parents? | |
|What year was the Christian Social Union Party founded? | |
|What did the German Confederation replace? | |
|How many states were included in the German Confederation between 1815 and 1866? | |
|What was the German Confederation’s main pledge? | |
|What war ended as communism fell in the Soviet Union and East Germany? | |
|Name three reasons for the Thirty Years War. | |
|What was Otto von Bismarck’s greatest accomplishment? | |
|Whose assassination was said to have started WWI? | |
|Who was the leader of the “Sturmabteilung”? | |
|Who did Hitler assign as vice-chancellor of Prussia? | |
|What legal decree allowed Hitler’s SA and SS troops to take over government offices? | |
|What were the Nazi slave labor camps called? (English) | |
|What was the slogan, stated over most of the Nazi camps? (German and English) | |
|What was the systematic annihilation of six million jews by the Nazi regime during WWII called? | |
|Where did Anne Frank move with her parents to avoid the anit-Jewish sentiment of the Nazi Party? | |
|To which concentration camp was Anne Frank sent? | |
|What famous pain killer was invented by the German company Bayer AG? | |
|In what year did the pain killer mentioned above come out? | |
|What year did the architect Alfred Messel build the first German department store in Berlin? | |
|What year were the German pathfinders or boy scouts founded? | |
|In which year were German women allowed to vote for the first time? | |
Name _______________________ Date started ________________ Per. ___
Teacher’s Discovery Trivia Questions
History – Part 3
|In which year was the so called “November Revolution?” | |
|What ended with the “November Revolution”? | |
|Who was the last German Emporer? | |
|Which evernt was called the “Kapp-Putsch” and took place in 1920? | |
|Who was the foreign minister during the “Weimarer Republik”? | |
|When was the official opening of the German racetrack Nürburgring? | |
|What year was the official opening of the German Autobahn? | |
|What was the speed limit on the first German Autobahn? | |
|Which two cities were connected by the first part of the German Autobahn? | |
|Which event marked the beginning of the control over German art by the Nazi regime in 1933? | |
|What year did Hitler declare war on the USA? | |
|How many people lost their lives as a result of WWII? | |
|Who was the member of the anit-Nazi resistance who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944? | |
|Which catholic bishop became famous for his resistance against the Nazis and the Holocaust? | |
|When did Germany win the world championship in soccer for the first time? | |
|When (in what year) did the Soviet Union finally release the German WWII prinsoners? | |
|What year was the German soccer league Bundesliga founded? | |
|Who was the first social-democratic chancellor in Germany after WWII? | |
|What year was the Willy Brandt first elected? | |
|Which date marked the beginning of the ’68 student revolution and later became the name of a terrorist | |
|group in Germany? | |
|What event started the ’68 student revolution in West Berlin? | |
|Who was the leader during the student revolution in the late 60s and early 70s and was later shot and | |
|injured by an assassin? | |
|Who was the first social-democratic Bundespräsident of the FRG? | |
|When did Willy Brandt first officially acknowledge, that Germany was divided into two separate states – | |
|BRD and DDR? | |
|Why did chancellor Willy Brandt resign from office in 1974? | |
|What was the name of the terror group which terrorized Germany from 1970 until 1990? Their leaders were | |
|Baader and Meinhof. | |
|What is the name of the chancellor who set the record for being a chancellor for 16 years? | |
|Which political party was founded in 1980? It’s logo is a sunflower? | |
|When were the first free elections in former East Germany after WWII? | |
|What is the official date of the German reunification and declared a holiday in Germany? | |
|Which city became the German capital in 1991? | |
|Which reform took place in 1996 and caused confusion for students and teachers and everyone who thought he| |
|could write in German? | |
|When did the 16 years of government by chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Christian-Democratic Union end? | |
|Who was elected chancellor in 1998 and to which party does he belong? | |
Trivia Answers/Hints – Part 2
Some are used more than once and some are not used.
1.
|28 |
|39 |
|54 |
|1871 |
|1903 |
|1904 |
|1908 |
|1915 |
|1919 |
|1946 |
|1957 |
|Amsterdam |
|Angls |
|aspirin |
|Auschwitz |
|Bergen-Belsen |
|constitutional differences |
|Copenhagen |
|Dachau |
|Denmark |
|Ebert |
|Eisleben |
|Ferdinand |
|Franks |
|Göring |
|Goths |
|Hanseatic |
|Holocaust |
|Holy Roman Empire |
|Napoleon |
|Papen |
|political differences |
|Reichs-- |
|religion |
|Saxons |
|Tylenol |
|vitamin C |
|Wartburg |
|Wertheim |
|Wittenberg |
Trivia Answers/Hints – Part 3
Some are used more than once and some are not used.
2.
|120 km/h |
|150 km/h |
|1918 |
|1927 June |
|1930 |
|1932 |
|1936 January |
|1941 December |
|1941 September |
|1948 |
|1954 |
|1955 |
|1962 |
|1963 |
|1967 June 2 |
|1969 |
|1972 |
|1990 |
|1990 October 3 |
|1998 |
|Berlin |
|Bonn |
|Brandt |
|Cologne |
|Dutschke |
|Galen |
|Green |
|Guillaume |
|Hamburg |
|Heinemann |
|Kohl |
|monarchie |
|Munich |
|none |
|Ohnesorg |
|RAF |
|Schröder |
|Stauffenberg |
|Stresemann |
|Wilhelm ?? |
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