How well do you know Germany?
10 rounds, 100 points
Germany
COUNTRY QUIZ
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Germany Quiz: How Well Do You Know Germany?
What Is in the Germany Quiz?
Ten rounds, alternating between four-option questions and puzzles. The five questions ask about Germany's land borders, the beer law of 1516, the title of its head of government, its rivers, and a Berlin street food. The puzzles are different in kind: a run of five where you decide whether a city is German, a run of five where you decide whether a well known person is German, two ordering rounds where seven countries are already in the right order by population and then by area and you place Germany among them, and one round where a color on the German flag has been replaced and you drag a slider until it looks right.
There is no timer and no daily reset. Nothing is revealed between rounds, so the result screen is the first time you find out how any round went. It shows your score out of a hundred, a verdict, and what each of the ten rounds was worth.
What Does Your Score Mean?
The quiz ends with one of five verdicts. 90 to 100 points: You could give the tour. 75 to 89 points: You've earned a second Bier. 60 to 74 points: Good enough for small talk. 45 to 59 points: You've only seen it on a map. 0 to 44 points: Germany remains a mystery.
The bottom band ends where it does on purpose. A player tapping at random averages about 43 points of 100, nearly all of it partial credit from the two ordering rounds and the color slider, so guessing never earns a verdict that reads as praise. A score of 60 or more means you answered rather than guessed.
Facts About Germany
Germany has about 84 million people, more than any other member of the European Union, on roughly 357,000 square kilometers. Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 1972, so the population grows only through immigration, and about one resident in four has a migration background. It shares land borders with nine countries, more borders within Europe than any country except Russia.
It is a federal republic of sixteen states, three of them city-states, and each state runs its own schools, police and public broadcaster, so school holidays and exam systems change at the state line. Berlin is the capital and the largest city, but the stock exchange and the European Central Bank are in Frankfurt, the Ruhr was the industrial heartland, and the car industry is concentrated in the south.
Germany as a single state dates only from 1871, a decade after Italy. Before that it was dozens of kingdoms, duchies and free cities, which is why dialects, bread and public holidays still vary by region, and why a brewing law passed in Bavaria in 1516 did not apply to the whole country until 1906. From 1949 to 1990 there were two German states, and in 1991 parliament voted to move the capital back from Bonn to Berlin by 338 votes to 320.
Where Do the Questions Come From?
Every question's correct answer was checked against a published source before it shipped, and the decoys were checked too, for the opposite reason: a decoy that turns out to be true would give the question two defensible answers.
The population and area figures behind the two ordering rounds come from the same dataset the rest of the geography games use, so a country's rank here matches its rank in Order the Country and Match the Country. Scoring and sources work the same way on every country quiz, and are set out in full on the country quizzes page.
Are There Quizzes for Other Countries?
Yes, one more, and each one is built the same way with its own questions, its own cities and people, and its own ordering rounds. There is the India quiz.
The 10 Rounds
Every round in this quiz, with what it asks and what it offers. No correct answer is marked, and the ordering rounds list their other countries alphabetically rather than in the real order, so nothing here is given away.
- Which of the following European countries does NOT share a direct land border with Germany?Poland · Hungary · Denmark · France
- Is this a German city?Aachen · Stralsund · Bozen · Zürich · Stuttgart
- Under the 1516 Reinheitsgebot, which three ingredients could beer contain?Water, Oats, Hops · Water, Barley, Sugar · Water, Wheat, Yeast · Water, Barley, Hops
- Order by population: insert Germany at the correct positionDR Congo · Egypt · Iran · Philippines · Thailand · Turkey · Vietnam
- What is the official title of the head of government in Germany?Federal Chancellor · Minister-President · Federal President · Prime Minister
- Fix the color that has been changed on the flag
- Which river flows through western Germany as a major shipping route?Rhine · Danube · Elbe · Seine
- Is this person German?Dirk Nowitzki · Arnold Schwarzenegger · Angela Merkel · Sigmund Freud · David Hasselhoff
- Which Berlin street food from 1949 is sliced pork sausage in spiced ketchup?Bockwurst · Weißwurst · Currywurst · Nürnberger Rostbratwurst
- Order by area: insert Germany at the correct positionFinland · Japan · Malaysia · Norway · Republic of the Congo · Vietnam · Zimbabwe
What Else Is on Quizebra?
Quizebra has six daily geography games, including Name the Flag, Guess the Country and Find the Color, whose slider this quiz borrows. There are six football games built the same way.
Everything is free, nothing needs an account, and the daily games reset at midnight London time.