Germany

A bit about national parks here, which may well be something I consider starting to tick off if I manage to finish visiting the list of Bundesländer in the next couple of years.

Questions

Models made by them usually containing numbers with S650 and 57 being two examples, the German luxury car maker Maybach is a subsidiary of which other German car brand?

MERCEDES-BENZ

His works with Gottlieb Daimler including the ‘Standuhr’ or ‘grandfather clock’ engine, Wilhelm Maybach has been called the ‘King of’ what?

DESIGNERS

Containing beech forests that make up part of an extensive World Heritage Site listing with other green areas across Europe, which national park on a namesake peninsula north-east of Rügen is known for the largest chalk cliffs in Germany, the highest of these being Königsstuhl?

JASMUND

Shallow lagoons called ‘bodden’ can be found in Germany’s third largest national park, which you may well be visiting if you find yourself on the Darß or Zingst peninsulas. In which region of Germany can this coastal landscape be found?

VORPOMMERN / WESTERN POMERANIA

Like Jasmund National Park containing some of UNESCO’s protected beech forests, which Mecklenburg-Vorpommern national park that lies between Berlin and Rostock is also known for its many lakes, these including the second largest one in Germany for which it is named?

MÜRITZ

A key conversation area for beech forest, which German national park is the only one that can be found in Thuringia? The towns of Mühlhausen and Eisenach lie on its outskirts.

HAINICH

Carrying a nicely alliterative name that reminds one of a different country, which national park near Dresden is in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains? Some of its rock formations like Lilienstein are stunning.

SAXON SWITZERLAND

Named for a Balzac short story, which statue created by Peter Lenk and clandestinely erected at the entrance to Konstanz’ harbour commemorates the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418?

IMPERIA

The German president is elected by which political body whose name translates as ‘federal convention’? It consists of members of the Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates.

BUNDESVERSAMMLUNG

Operating at a lower level than a state but a higher level than a ‘Gemeinde’, Germany’s administrative divisions include hundreds that are known by what ‘circular’ term, this sometimes being preceded by ‘Land’ or ‘Stadt’ in a compound word?

KREIS

Germany

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

Germany

Ich habe viele Fragen um Deutschland, aber sie sind nicht fertig. Ich muss sie eine andere Zeit schreiben.

Questions

Which German province that existed from 83 to 475 had its capital at Mogontiacum, better known today as Mainz?

GERMANIA SUPERIOR

Not singing on their massive hit “Rhythm is a Dancer” where the main female vocals were provided by Thea Austin, who sung alongside Turbo B on Snap!’s “The Power”? She also did work with Soul II Soul, featuring on the UK number 12 hit “Love Enuff”.

PENNY FORD

Though he was in charge for less than two months, this was the period during which the Berlin Wall fell. Who succeeded Erich Honecker as East Germany’s General Secretary in 1989, later spending time in jail for his political activities?

EGON KRENZ

Manufacturer of the ‘Flying Pencil’ bomber, the Dornier Flugzeugwerke were headquartered in which Baden-Württemberg city that is home to the only German volleyball club to have won the CEV Champions League since unification?

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN

Elected at the instigation of his cousin Otto III, who is considered to have been the first German pope in 996, his birthplace being in modern day Austria? He later returned thanks by elevating Otto to the title of Holy Roman Emperor.

GREGORY V

Part of the first all-German team to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era, what is the alliterative name of the tennis player who along with Andreas Mies tasted victory in back-to-back French Opens in 2019 and 2020?

KEVIN KRAWIETZ

Also when Constitution Day is celebrated in Ukraine, on what date in 1914 was Franz Ferdinand assassinated? Just over a month later Germany declared war on Russia.

28 JUNE

Murdered during the Night of the Long Knives, who was the last Chancellor of Germany prior to Adolf Hitler, his short reign lasting from December 1932 to January 1933?

KURT VON SCHLEICHER

Becoming Chancellor in the aftermath of the Great Depression, who was in charge from 1930 to 1932, his policies credited with causing an unemployment rate around 30% that led to him becoming very unpopular?

HEINRICH BRÜNING

The Bauhaus World Heritage listing covers sites in Weimar, Dessau and which other place, this being located about 10km north-east of Berlin and represented by the ADGB Trade Union School?

BERNAU

Noted for his use of primary colours and being called ‘colour blind’ by Le Corbusier, which German architect was known for designing Berlin’s Hufeisensiedlung, which translates to English as horseshoe estate?

BRUNO TAUT