A few legacy questions that I still can’t get right and I can imagine I’ll never get the MSV Duisburg one. Thankfully no one else will ever see fit to ask such a question about a team that haven’t been in the top flight since the ’90s.
Questions
Theologian Thomas Müntzer was a controversial figure who was captured in 1525 during the German Peasants’ War after suffering defeat at the Battle of Frankenhausen. His execution took place outside the walls of which Thuringian city, the birthplace of Brooklyn Bridge designer John A. Roebling and where Johann Sebastian Bach was organist from 1707 to 1708?
MÜHLHAUSEN
Which German female won the inaugural biathlon events of the 15km individual and 7.5km sprint at the Winter Olympics in 1992? She was formerly a cross-country skier who married American biathlete Ian Harvey and won the Heidi Kreiger medal for her refusal to take part in the systematic doping of East Germany.
ANTJE MISERSKY
One of the most famous painters of his time, which German painter of historical and political scenes was the most significant artist of the Wilhelmine period? His works include the 1877 painting “Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms”.
ANTON VON WERNER
An important settlement for Danish Vikings and Swedish Varangians in Schleswig-Holstein, which early medieval city in Northern Europe was an important trading place? The fortification Danevirke is included with it in a World Heritage listing.
HEDEBY
Who won the 15km individual biathlon for Germany in 2002, as well as a team gold? Her younger sister is a cross-country skier and she was the first biathlete to become world champion in each individual event.
ANDREA HENKEL
Characterised by white buildings with straight lines, which site in Stuttgart is the sole German entry included in the mass World Heritage listing of Le Corbusier works?
MAISONS DE LA WEISSENHOF-SIEDLUNG
Also known as ‘the Elder’ and ‘the Salic’, which Holy Roman Emperor founded the romanesque Speyer Cathedral in 1030?
CONRAD II
Having a westwork that dates back to the Carolingian era, which abbey in North Rhine-Westphalia has made in on to UNESCO’s World Heritage list? It became a prince-bishopric in 1792, only to have that status taken away by Napoleon.
CORVEY
Calling Dore Hoyer ‘Europe’s last great modern dancer’, which German pioneer of expressionist dance encouraged movement training without pointe shoes and was an iconic figure of Weimar German culture?
MARY WIGMAN
Including among its collection works by artists from the Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter movements, which modern and contemporary art museum has been in Dortmund’s U-Tower since 2010?
MUSEUM OSTWALL
The first initial representing a district within the city, what does the MSV in the full name of the major football club from Duisburg stand for?
MEIDERICHER SPIELVEREIN
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