How much do you know about German politics [and history]?

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33 questions. 100 points to get. Answers for each one per PM.

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EASY (34 points)

1. Name the current chancellor and his/her party. (2 points)

Angela Merkel, CDU.

2. As a federal republic, Germany comprises subdivisions called Länder. How many of them exist? Also name the largest and the smallest by population, if you can (3)

Fifteen, NRW and Saarland.

3. What is the German federal parliament called? (1)

Bundestag.

4. Name all eight German chancellors since 1949 and their party affiliation. (8 )

CDU: Adenauer, Kohl, Merkel
SDP: Brandt, Schroeder

5. Currently, six parties hold seats in the German federal parliament. Name them. (3)

SDP, CDU, CSU, Greens, FDP, Left.

6. Which parties have formed the German federal government from 1998-2005, which from 2005-2009, and which do since 2009? (3)

Greens/SDP; SDP/CDU(/CSU?)

7. Name four parties that gained more than 5% of the vote in at least two elections during the Weimar republic era. (4)

Communist, Nazi, SDP, ...Liberals?

8. Who were Konrad Adenauer, Rosa Luxemburg, Paul von Hindenburg and Hermann Göring? (4)

West German Chancellor, Marxist philosopher, Guy who gave Hitler power,  Hitler'sright-hand-man and Luftwaffe commandant.

9. What happened on July the 20th, 1944? (1)

Dresden bombing?

10. Which party gained the most votes in all federal elections in Germany from 1919 to July 1932? (1)

Communists

11. In German political discourse, parties are often connected with colors. What color/colors refer to which party/parties? (4)

SDP: Red. CDU/CSU: Black. Left: Blue. Greens: Green. FDP: Yellow.

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INTERMEDIATE (33)

1. In the 2009 federal elections, two parties got more than 1%, but less than 5% of the vote. Which? (2)
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2. Which German party was – except for one short interregnum of about two weeks - part of every national government between 1969 and 1998? (1)

FDP

3. How is the German federal parliament elected? Explain the voting system, roughly. (3)

Constituencies, with parties that get over 5% also getting list seats.

4. Name the ten German Federal Presidents since 1949 (10)

...Wolf? Wulf?

5. In the 2009 federal elections, the SPD remained the strongest party in only one state. In which one? (1)

North Rhine-Westfalia?

6. Which German chancellor was nicknamed Birne (Pear)? (1)

Kohl?

7. Name four parties that gained more than 5% of the vote in at least two elections during the German Empire 1871-1918. (4)

SDP, Communists, Liberals, CDU?

8. Who were Friedrich Ebert, Gustav Stresemann, August Bebel and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger? (4)

Ebert was something to do with the Weimar republic, not sure of the rest.

9. What happened on August the 13th, 1961? (1)

Berlin wall went up.

10. Since 1945, the best result a party ever gained in any state election in Germany was 64,5%. Which party won so many votes, in what state, and in what year? (3)

CSU, Bavaria, 199...4?

11.Who said “We want to dare more democracy”? (3)

Adenauer?
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Hard (33 points)

1. Only three times since 1949, the SPD gained more votes than the CDU/CSU in a federal election. Name the three election years. (3)

1998, ...

2. What electoral system was used for the Reichstag elections in the German Empire 1871-1918? Who had the right to vote? (2)

Men with land, list votes?

3. In the federal elections of 2002, 2005 and 2009, the Greens won one out the 299 singe member constituencies. In which federal state, which constituency, and who won it? (3)

Berlin? ...

4. How is the German head of state, the Bundespräsident, elected? Explain the process, roughly. (2)

Nominated by Chancellor, approved by both houses of the Bundestag.

5. In 1990, two important German politicians were badly injured in assassination attempts, both survived though. Who were they? (2)

Honecker?

6. Of all German Länder, three of them carry the purely ceremonial title Freistaat (Free State). Name them. (3)

Berlin, Bavaria, Saarland?

7. There are three recognized language minorities in Germany. Name them. (3)

Sorbian, French, Polish?

8. Who were Gustav Noske, Alfred Hugenberg, Gregor Strasser and Heinrich Brüning? (4)

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9. Four historical events with great impact on German history took place on a November the 9th. Name them. (4)

Fall of the wall, Beer Hall Putsch?, Reichstag fire?, And something to do with the end of WWI?


10. Who are the current heads of government in the states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westfalia, Hamburg and Hesse? (4)

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11. Who said “Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - [...]- but by iron and blood"? (3)

Honecker? This is waaaay too West German, btw.