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History: History

  1. On which Italian island was Napoleon banished?
  2. In which castles was Richard the Lionheart held captive on his return from the 3rd crusade?
  3. Where does the word "ostracize" come from?
  4. King and Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa came from which house?
  5. From which city did Columbus come from?
  6. Abraham Lincoln was the ? (how many) president of the USA?
  7. By what was the tithe replaced?
  8. By what was Pompeii destroyed?
  9. Who overthrew the last sultan of Turkey?
  10. For what country did Columbus travel?
  11. In what year the was Federal Republic of Germany founded?
  12. In what year was Pompeii destroyed?
  13. In what country was Tansu Ciller elected as the first woman premier?
  14. Which Schwaebian city is the family seat of Götz von Berlichingen?
  15. In what time period did people learn the extraction of iron and how to process it?
  16. At what age did PuYi become emperor of China?
  17. The word for senseless damage of property comes from which Teutonic tribe?
  18. Which country did Norway separate from in 1905?
  19. From which country was "King John, a king without a counrty" the King?
  20. When did the night of broken glass happen?
  21. When did the battle of Waterloo happen?
  22. When did the Berlin wall come down?
  23. When and where did the November Revolution take place?
  24. When and where did the October Revolution take place?
  25. What followed after the New Stone Age?
  26. What did Pope Gregor XIII implement in 1582?
  27. What was the biggest Germanic nation?
  28. What was the precursor to the Neolithic period?
  29. What was the result of the Defenestration of Prague?
  30. What was the hallmark of the New Stone Age?
  31. What were the Tudors?
  32. What was the typical imperial regalia worn at an imperial coronation in the old German empire?
  33. Who were the Welfens?
  34. What event provoked the "Night of Broken Glass"?
  35. What was prohibited in the USA during the Prohibition years?
  36. Because of what did US President Richard Nixon resign?
  37. In which form was the Rubel minted before it was a coin (ca. 15 century)?
  38. What disease caused the mass mortality in Europe in the Middle Ages?
  39. What countries belonged to ancient Brittany?
  40. What length has the inner border of Germany?
  41. What old mongolian title is roughly equivilent to Emporer?
  42. What was the first name of Napoleon's first wife?
  43. Which accident in 1986 caused Europe to panic?
  44. Which American Persident received the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation between Japan and Russia?
  45. Which civil-rights activist motivated the people with the words "I have a dream…"?
  46. Which German King is considered to be the founder of the Hapsburg family?
  47. Which explorer believed until his death that he had been to India?
  48. Which Teutonic tribe that settled on the lower Elbe about 1 A.D. conquered a large part of middle Italy about 570 years later ?
  49. Which ruler in 1206 united the Mongolians into one of the largest empires in history?
  50. Which Ostrogoth king was also named "Dietrich von Bern"?
  51. What French King had the popular name of "The Sun King"?
  52. What statesman was finally beaten in Waterloo?
  53. The German kings Henry the III to the V came from which Franconian royal family?
  54. What ruling family had to relinquish Switzerland?
  55. Which country became independent from the Netherlands in 1830?
  56. What country was ruled by Casimir the Great?
  57. What writing material made from smooth, hairless animal skin was used instead of paper?
  58. Who discoverd the sea way from Europe to India?
  59. Who inherited from his father various American colonies as well as the Netherlands, Milan and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily?
  60. Who allowed Joesph Sellers to build the Burgtheater?
  61. Who led the failed attempt on Hilter's life on 20 July 1944?
  62. Who led the expedition which circumnavigated the world for the first time?
  63. Who led the so-called "Reign of Terror"?
  64. Who founded the original scout movement?
  65. Who was Attila?
  66. Who founded the Mongolian world empire?
  67. Who was the first chancellor of the re-unified Germany?
  68. Who was the first president of the USA?
  69. Who was the leader of the Jacobins and was later executed for his violent leadership?
  70. Who was the prime minister of the French King Louis XIII?
  71. Who was involved in the so-called War of the Roses ?
  72. Who was president of the USA before Clinton?
  73. Who´s army was beaten in the battle of nations in Leipzig?
  74. What was the name of the last empress of Austria?
  75. What was the name of the first prime minister of Israel?
  76. What was the name of the God of War of the Aztecs?
  77. What is the name of the highest God of the old Germanics?
  78. What was the name of the wife of Heinrich VIII?
  79. What was the name of the philosophy school founded by Platon?
  80. What is the name of the oldest epoch of human history that began about 2 million years ago and lasted until the ice age?
  81. Which age followed after the new stone age?
  82. Which age followed after the ice age?
  83. What was an infantry mercenary in the 15-17th centuries called?
  84. A figure with a human head and a lion's body is called?
  85. What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico?
  86. In Teutonic legend the race of the Gods is called?
  87. The celtic tribes in northern France and Belgium were called?
  88. The celtic tribes in France were called?
  89. The celtic tribes in Scottland were called?
  90. Where was Napoleon born?
  91. Where is the family seat of the Hohenstaufen royal family?
  92. Where is the family seat of the Hohenzollern royal family?
  93. From where did the Cheruscans (a Teutonic tribe) originate?

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History: Greek

  1. What is a phalanx?
  2. Who are the Amazons of Greek legend?
  3. Which daughter of King Priamos prophesied the fall of Troy?
  4. Which ancient Greek mathematician is called the "father of Geometry"?
  5. Which athenian statesman lead Athens in a war agianst Sparta and later died of the plague?
  6. Which philosopher's death sentence was to drink a cup of helock?
  7. Which Trojan priest warned the citizens about the Trojan Horse?
  8. Who was Agamemnon?
  9. Who was the wisest Greek advisor in the Trojan war and whose name today is used to mean counselor?
  10. What the name the Greeks used for those who could not speak Greek?
  11. What was the name of the Persian King who was defeated by Alenander the Great at Issos?
  12. What is the name of the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet?
  13. The hilltop fortification in Greek cities is called?

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History: Egyptian

  1. In which valley was the grave of Pharao Tutankhamen found in 1922?
  2. To which Pharao the temple "Abu simbel" dedicated?
  3. What title did the kings of old Egypt have?
  4. What Egypt writing material has given paper its name?
  5. Who was Tut-ench-Amun?
  6. What age did Tut-ench-Amun reach?
  7. What is the name of the characters for writing that the old Egyptians used?
  8. What is the name of Pharao Amenohis IV's wife?

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History: Romans

  1. What portion of a legion is a cohort?
  2. What is a tunic?
  3. Which provinces did the Limes protect?
  4. Which roman emperor was known for his extravagance and delusions of grandeur?
  5. Who described the living conditions of the Germanic tribes?
  6. In ancient Rome,who participated in bloody battles for the amusement of the spectators?
  7. According to saga, who were the founders of Rome?
  8. How big was a legion?
  9. The Roman province of Lusitania is called?
  10. Name the first Roman emporer who allowed Christianity?
  11. Who was the last Latin emperor from the family of Emperor Augustus?
  12. What was the name of the murderer of Caesar?
  13. The Roman priests who interpreted the will of the Gods were called?
  14. What was the name of the main council in ancient Rome?
  15. What name the Romans gave to the land of the Celts?
  16. The Roman border defenses near Bad Homburg are called?
  17. A centurion consists of how many men?
  18. The place where the Roman senate assembled was called?

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History: Wars

  1. In what year did the French Revolution start?
  2. In which island country in Central America were US troops sent in 1983?
  3. Leonid Breschnew ordered tanks into what city in 1968?
  4. In which German port city did the november Revolution begin?
  5. In which city after WW2 did trials for war criminals take place?
  6. In which treaty was it decided that Gibraltar would go to Grear Britain?
  7. With which former war opponent did the USA under Bill Clinton re-establish diplomatic relations?
  8. After whom was the Hussite war named?
  9. What was the Hugenot was about?
  10. What was the War of the Roses about?
  11. Under whose orders was Sir Francis Drake?
  12. When did Sir Francis Drake and the English fleet conquer the Spanish Armada and won English naval superiority?
  13. When did the Second World War end for Germany?
  14. When did the War of Secession take place?
  15. When was the official re-unification of Germany?
  16. When did Finland declare war on the former Soviet Union?
  17. What event prompted the Defenestration of Prague?
  18. What was the Kingdom of the Franks?
  19. Against what did Napolean and Hilter in russia fail?
  20. Which infectious disease depopulated half of Europe in the Middle Ages?
  21. Which Arabian countries attacked Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973?
  22. Which large city was totally destroyed in the Punic Wars?
  23. Which city was made a Roman province in the first Punic War?
  24. What countries were involved in the 100 years war?
  25. Which Russian Czarina organized an officer's coup which lead to the fall and death of her husband?
  26. Which weapons, according to Albert Einstein, will be used in the 4th world war?
  27. Which civilization in South America was destroyed by the Spanards?
  28. Which ancient commander died after he conquered most of the known world?
  29. What General beat Napoleon near Waterloo?
  30. Which commander led the 2nd Punic War?
  31. Which King led the Jews in the Babylonian captivity?
  32. Tchaikovsky wrote the "1812 Overture" to commemorate what battle?
  33. Which US Pesident gave the order to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
  34. Which 16 year old girl freed France from England?
  35. Which country lost 9/10 of its size in the First World War?
  36. Who used elephants and drove them over the Alps in a war?
  37. What is the name of the Tirolian freedom fighter who led a rebellion in Tirol in 1809 against Bavaria?
  38. How long did the French Revolution last?
  39. What was the longest war ever in Europe called?
  40. How is the troop called which drafts a battle with horses?
  41. What do you call a victory where many lives were lost?
  42. What do you call traitors who work with the enemy?
  43. How many states belonged to the confederate southern states?
  44. What were the American southern states called during the Civil War?
  45. Where was Wallenstein murdered?
  46. Where did the first atomic bombing occur in the Second World War?
  47. Where did the second atomic bombing occur in the Second World War?
  48. To which student resistance group did the Scholl siblings belong?

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Music, Art & Literature: Music-Art-Literature

  1. The Bulgarian artist Christo is known for what?
  2. Who founded the artist association "Blauer Reiter"?
  3. Who created "David", the landmark of the city of Florence?
  4. What do you call a work when the figure is formed or poured?
  5. What do you call a work when the figure is cut or hewn?
  6. What is the depiction of the naked human body in art called?
  7. What do you call the style of art where the pieces are ornamental with sweepinig forms and use plant motifs?
  8. Emil Nolde and Ernst Barlach worked in which style?

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Music, Art & Literature: Fairy-Tales

  1. Hänsel and Gretel pushed the witch into what?
  2. This quote is from what fairy tale: "Take the child to the forest, I don't want to see her ever again. You should kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as evidence."?
  3. This quote is from what fairy tale: "Once upon a time a King ordered a party that lasted three days. All the maidens were invited so that the Prince could select a bride."?
  4. In what fairy tale is the term "Grandma" mentioned?
  5. In what fairy tale does a male cat play a role?
  6. In what fairy tale are there rats?
  7. In what fairy tale is the mirror important?
  8. In what fairy tale is there a spindle?
  9. In which fairy tale are flies beaten?
  10. What characteristics does the fox have in fairy tales?
  11. Which colour is Little Red Riding Hood´s cap?
  12. Which fairy tale character is only as big as a thumb?
  13. What profession does Sindbad have?
  14. What young woman lay in a glass coffin although she was not dead?
  15. Who raced against the hare?
  16. Who told the queen that Snow White was living on the other side of the 7 mountains with the 7 dwarfs?
  17. What was the name of the girl with the hair that reached from the tower to the ground?
  18. What is the name of the friend of scallywag Max?
  19. What is the name of Rose Red's sister?
  20. What is the name of the sister of Snow White?
  21. How many Bremen City Musicians are there?
  22. How many years did Sleeping Beauty have to sleep?
  23. In what fairy tail does the speaking bread play a role?

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Music, Art & Literature: Literature

  1. Out of which novel is the quotation "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."?
  2. In which epic has the saga of the war of Troja been passed down?
  3. In which novel/movie does it say: "Big brother is watching you"?
  4. Under which name did John Griffith publish his novels?
  5. Who wrote the "Rosenkavalier"?
  6. From whom was the heroic epic "Aeneis" written?
  7. Who wrote "Homo Faber"?
  8. When and by whom was "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" written?
  9. From whom and when was "War and Peace" written?
  10. When and by whom was "Around the world in eighty days" written?
  11. By whom and when was "Utopia" written?
  12. When and by whom was "The tin drum" written?
  13. What did Johann Wolfgang Goethe study?
  14. What is a hexameter?
  15. What is a humoresque?
  16. What was Captain Nemo originally?
  17. What are the three main types of poetry?
  18. What popular brothers wrote fairy tales?
  19. Which woman did Quasimodo love?
  20. Which children's storybook figure did author Carlo Collodi create?
  21. Of what nationality is the master detective Hercule Poirot?
  22. Which horror character did the Anglo-Irish author Bram Stoker create?
  23. Which Shakespearean character said the following: "My kingdom for a horse"?
  24. Which Tolstoi heroine throws herself in front of a train?
  25. What are the important forms of an narrative literature?
  26. What was the occupation of the author of "The Little Prince", Antione de Saint-Exuperie?
  27. What pen-name did Eric Blair use for his books?
  28. Which American received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962?
  29. Which German and Schwäbisch poet was in 1848 delegate to the Frankfurt National Assembly?
  30. Which English author was made famous through his book "Alice in Wonderland"?
  31. Which English author was made famous through his book "Lady Chatterly?
  32. Which French author and philosopher lived for some years in exile in Potsdam and elsewhere and was an exponent of the Enlightenment?
  33. Which Greek dramatist wrote "Elektra" and "Medea"?
  34. Which classic poet also shwed his knowledge of phyics with his "Theory of Colors"?
  35. Which Austrian author explored humanity's insecurities and anxieties?
  36. Who invented the undersea prince "Captain Nemo"?
  37. Who sreated the character "George Smiley" for his espionage novels?
  38. Who was the author of Pippi Longstocking?
  39. Who told the "Never-ending Story"?
  40. Who had to shoot an apple that was placed on his son's head?
  41. In the book by Jules Verne, who travelled around the world in 80 days?
  42. Who is the author of "The idiot"?
  43. Who wrote "The Merry Widow"?
  44. Who wrote "Don Quijote"?
  45. Who wrote "Emilia Galotti"?
  46. Who wrote "Animal Farm"?
  47. Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?
  48. Who wrote "Woyzeck"?
  49. Who wrote "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"?
  50. Who wrote the script for the film "The Birds"?
  51. Who wrote "David Copperfield"?
  52. Who wrote "The Stranger"?
  53. Who wrote the novel "The Count of Monte Christo"?
  54. Who wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls"?
  55. Who wrote the novel which was the base of the movie "Jurassic Park"?
  56. Who wrote "Shock Headed Peter"?
  57. Who wrote "The adventures of Maya the Bee"?
  58. Who wrote "The Three Penny Opera"?
  59. Who wrote the children's book "The Flying Classroom" and "Emil and the Detective"?
  60. Who wrote "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield"?
  61. Who wrote "West Side Story"?
  62. Who wrote "Oliver Twist"?
  63. Who was the longtime companion of the author Jean Paul Sartres?
  64. Who was Johann Peter Hebel?
  65. Who was well-known for his "Leather Stocking" novels?
  66. What is the name of Captain Nemo's submarine ?
  67. What is the name of Thomas Mann's brother who was also an author?
  68. In the Nibelungen, the name of Siegfried's wife is?
  69. Fiction in which animals or plants sometimes speak or act as humans is called?
  70. Iambic poetry that does not rhyme is called?
  71. How many theives were with Ali Baba?
  72. To which branch of fiction does "Parsifial" belong?

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Music, Art & Literature: Artists

  1. From which country is the artist Vincent van Gogh from?
  2. In which chapel did Michelangelo create his famous mural "The Last Judgement"?
  3. Where was the studio of Peter Paul Rubens?
  4. In what style of art did Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte work?
  5. Name some popular French impressionists
  6. Name two important Flemish painters of the 17th century
  7. By what name is the painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos better known?
  8. "The Night Watch" was painted by which famous Dutchman?
  9. Who painted the frescos in the Vatican?
  10. Who painted the frescos in the Sistine Chapel?
  11. The picture "Mona Lisa" is made by whom?
  12. Who painted "The Arch of Odysseus"?
  13. When did Picasso die?
  14. What is a tapestry?
  15. Who is known as a genius of the fine arts whose last name is Buanarotti?
  16. Which painter created the picture "The Kiss"?
  17. Which style is attributed to Picasso?
  18. Which style is attributed to Salvador Dali?
  19. Who made the peace symbol "Peace Dove"?
  20. Who is the most important representative of Flemish Barock paintings?
  21. Who painted of "La Giaconda"?
  22. Who painted "The Sistine Madonna"?
  23. Who painted of "The birth of Venus"?
  24. Who was Albrecht Dürer?
  25. What is a picture called which is painted with water colours on paper?
  26. Which style did Degas posess ?
  27. To which artistic style does the work of David Caspar Friedrich belong?

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Music, Art & Literature: Instruments

  1. On which musical instrument was the title music for the movie "The Third Man" played?
  2. Another name for a fiddle?
  3. For which instrument does the musician need a "brush"?
  4. For which solo instrument was the "Four Seasons" composed?
  5. After whom is the Saxophone named?
  6. What is the biggest and the lowest sounding string instrument?
  7. What is a spinet?
  8. What is a viola?
  9. What was the predecessor of the cembalo?
  10. What musical instruments are made under the label Steinway?
  11. Which flute plays one octave higher htan a normal flute?
  12. Which Greek God is considered to be the inventor of the herdman's flute?
  13. Which wood is used for the black keys on a piano?
  14. Who was the most famous violin maker of all times?
  15. In Flamenco, the wooden shells that are played as accompaniment are called?
  16. What is the name of the Russian gitarre-like plucked instrument that has a triangular sounding body?
  17. What is the name of a popular Scottish instrument?
  18. What is the name of the Russian plucked instrument with a triangular sounding body and 3 strings?
  19. What is the name of the instrument where two wooden shells are attached with a string called?
  20. What is the favourite musical instrument of the Scottish?
  21. How many strings does a harp have?
  22. How many strings does a violin have?
  23. How many strings does a mandolin have?
  24. What is the name of the percussion instrument that is made of two small different sized drums?
  25. What is another name for a Bratsche?

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Music, Art & Literature: Opera

  1. At the beginning of which opera is a gunshot to be heard?
  2. In what country is the opera "Aida" set?
  3. In which opera are there characters named Ping, Pang and Pong?
  4. In which opera does this line appear? "and the shark has teeth "
  5. When was the debut performance of "La Boheme"?
  6. Who composed the opera "Carmen"?
  7. Who composed the opera "Wozzek"?
  8. Who was conductor of the debut performance of the opera "TheMagic Flute"?
  9. What is the second part of "The Ring of the Nibelungen"?
  10. What is the name of the only opera written by Ludwig van Beethoven?

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Music, Art & Literature: POP

  1. From which region in Germany does the group PUR come?
  2. From which region in Germany does the group "Schweißfuss" come?
  3. The group BAP is from which city?
  4. In what city did Elvis Presley have his last gig in 1976?
  5. With what song did Bill Haley become popular?
  6. With what song did Nena had great international success?
  7. With what pop band did Bob Geldorf become popular?
  8. With whom was the American singer Madonna married to from 1985 to 1989?
  9. Name the members of the Beatles
  10. Under which name is Robert Zimmermann better known?
  11. What is bebop?
  12. Which band won the Grand Prix d'Eurovision with "Waterloo"?
  13. Which pseudonym did Reginald Dwight choose?
  14. What stage name did Harry Webb choose for his career?
  15. Which German folksong became popular by Elvis Presley?
  16. What is the name of the Jamaican founder of Reggae?
  17. What is the name of the first movie of the Beatles?
  18. What is the name of the guitarist of the "Rolling Stones"?
  19. What is the name of the singer of the "Rolling Stones"?
  20. What is the name of the pop band that brought Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders together?

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Music, Art & Literature: Music

  1. To whom does the opera "The Meistersinger from Nürnberg" refer to?
  2. From what country came the former child hit singer Heintje?
  3. Of which material is an oboe made?
  4. For what occasion was the opera "Aida" composed?
  5. Into which lodge was Mozart accepted?
  6. In which city was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
  7. Under which name is the singer Maria Kalogeropoulos known?
  8. Who wrote the Brandenburg concertos?
  9. Who wrote the opera "The Freischütz"?
  10. What is a barcarole?
  11. What is the Marseillaise?
  12. What is a grand piano?
  13. What is a trio?
  14. What is a fugue?
  15. What is a seventh?
  16. What is choreography?
  17. Which American dancer was famous for her "banana skirt"?
  18. Which French Chanson singer was well known for the song "La vie en rose"?
  19. Which great composers were in Vienna?
  20. What musical style was played by the Big Bands between the wars?
  21. In 1917, which dancer was hung as a suspected spy?
  22. What two orchestras come from Vienna?
  23. What is the last name of the pop musicians Barry, Robin and Maurice?
  24. Goethe was impressed by which 12 year old piano player?
  25. Which avantgarde composer has a son who is an Austrian government official?
  26. What famous singer from Holland sang "Mama"?
  27. Which Italian composer is suspected of poisoning Mozart?
  28. The hymn "Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates" is based on what psalm?
  29. Which star tenor made a comeback after his cancer was treated?
  30. Which orchestra is closely associated with Herbertr von Karajan?
  31. Elton John played which role in the Rockopera "Tommy"?
  32. Tina Turner played which role in the Rockopera "Tommy"?
  33. Who composed "La Traviata"?
  34. Who composed "Othello"?
  35. Who composed the famous Christmas Oratorio?
  36. Who composed "Staying Alive" for the film "Saturday Night Fever"?
  37. Who composed "Westside Story"?
  38. Who wrote "Music for a Royal Firework" and "Water Music"?
  39. Who was Duke Ellington?
  40. Who became court composer in 1843 after the premier of the opera "Rienzi"?
  41. What is the name of the Andalusian dance using castanets?
  42. What is the name of the famous composition of Maurice Ravel?
  43. What is the name of the Russian instrument that resembles a guitar?
  44. What is the lowest sounding brass instrument?
  45. What is the symbol called that is used to raise a note a half tone?
  46. What American jazz trompet player was made famous with the song "What a Wonderful World"?
  47. What dance which uses a fast 2/4 time was created in Bohemia in 1830?
  48. What is the first name of John Lennons son?
  49. What is the name of a medieval poet and singer?
  50. What is the name of the document where many music voices are written and arranged one above the other/
  51. What do you call a spontaneous and improvised rehearsal of Jazz musicians?
  52. What do you call a musical tone with 440 hertz that is used to tune instruments?
  53. What do you call the composition and arrangement of a dance?
  54. What is the name of the text used in a dramatic musical work?
  55. What is the name of the male voice part that is between tenor and bass?
  56. What is the name of a key with a minor third?
  57. What is the name of a composition for 5 voices?
  58. What is the name of the highest male voice part?
  59. What do you call a LP sleeve, a CD case, a title page of a newspaper or book?
  60. What do you call somebody who creates pieces of music?
  61. What is Bob Dylan's given name?
  62. How did the career of Heintje suddenly end?
  63. Where is the Flamenco from?
  64. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles is supposedly about what?

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Answers for History: History

  1. Elba
  2. Castle Dürnstein (Austria) and Castle Trifels (Pfalz)
  3. From the Athenian statesman Kleisthenes, who in 487 B.C., appealed to the citizens of Athens to select a politician to be banned who had become too powerful. The name was written on clay shards.
  4. Staufer
  5. Genoa
  6. The 16th
  7. Taxes
  8. By a volcanic eruption of the Vesuvius
  9. Kemal Atatürk
  10. Spain
  11. 1949
  12. 79 anno Domini
  13. Turkey
  14. Jagsthausen
  15. In the Iron Age ( 800 B.C. to 0)
  16. At the age of 3
  17. The Vandals
  18. Sweden
  19. England 1199-1216
  20. On 9th November 1938
  21. 1815
  22. 9th November 1989
  23. In November 1918 in the German Empire
  24. In October 1917 in Russia
  25. Bronze Age
  26. A calender
  27. The Goths
  28. Palaeolithic period
  29. The 30 year war
  30. The colonization of the people and the practise of agriculture
  31. An English nobleness
  32. Crown, sceptre, globus cruciger
  33. A German royal family
  34. The murder of an Embassy secretary by a Polish Jew
  35. Alcohol
  36. Watergate
  37. A silver bar
  38. The plague
  39. England, Wales, Scotland
  40. 1378 km
  41. Khan (ex. Genghis Khan)
  42. Josephine
  43. The reactor explosion at Chernobyl
  44. Theodore Roosevelt
  45. Martin Luther King
  46. Rudolf I, Count of Habsburg, German King 1273 to 1291
  47. Christopher Columbus
  48. The Longobardins
  49. Genghis Khan
  50. Theoderich the Great
  51. Louis XIV
  52. Napoleon
  53. The Saliers
  54. The Habsburgs
  55. Belgium
  56. Poland
  57. Parchment
  58. `Vasco da Gama
  59. Phillip II, King of Spain (his father was Emperor Charles V
  60. Maria Theresia
  61. Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
  62. Magellan
  63. Robbespiere 1793-1794
  64. Robert Baden-Powell
  65. A king of the Huns around 434-453 before Christ
  66. Dschingis Khan
  67. Helmut Kohl
  68. George Washington
  69. Robbespiere 1793-1794
  70. Richelieu
  71. The noble families of the Lancesters and the York in the 15th century
  72. George Bush
  73. Napoleons Army
  74. Zita
  75. Ben Gurion
  76. Vitzliputzli
  77. Wodan
  78. Katharina von Aragon
  79. Academy
  80. Palaeolithic period
  81. Bronze Age
  82. Bronze Age
  83. Lansquenet
  84. Sphinx
  85. Hernando Cortez
  86. Aesir
  87. Belgen
  88. Gauls
  89. Gaels
  90. Corsica
  91. Hohenstaufen (Burg Hohenstaufen) between Göppingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd
  92. Zollerberg (Burg Hohenzollern) near Hechingen
  93. In the Weser area between the Teutoburger Forest and the Harz mountains

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Answers for History: Greek

  1. Columns of 8-16 closely spaced Greek infantrymen with shields and lances
  2. A people whose women went to war
  3. Cassandra
  4. Euclid
  5. Pericles
  6. Socrates
  7. Laokon
  8. According to Greek legend, he was King of Mycenae and a Greek army general in the Trojan war
  9. Nestor
  10. Barbarians
  11. Dareios
  12. Delta
  13. An acropolis

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Answers for History: Egyptian

  1. Valley of the Kings
  2. Ramses II
  3. Pharaoh
  4. Papyrus
  5. An Egyptian king about 1340 b.c.
  6. 18
  7. Hieroglyphics
  8. Nefertiti

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Answers for History: Romans

  1. A tenth
  2. A piece of clothing worn by the Romans
  3. The Roman provinces of Upper Germania and Raetia
  4. Wh
  5. Tacitus
  6. Gladiators
  7. Romulus & Remus
  8. 6000 soldiers on foot and 300 troopers
  9. Portugal, although a part of Spain also belonged to Lusitania
  10. Constantine the Great
  11. Nero
  12. Brutus
  13. Oracle
  14. Senate
  15. Gaul
  16. Limes
  17. A unit of 100 men
  18. Curia

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Answers for History: Wars

  1. July 14, 1789
  2. Grenada
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Kiel
  5. Nuremberg
  6. Peace of Ultrecht 1713
  7. Vietnam
  8. Jan Hus, a Czech reformer
  9. Religious freedom
  10. Two noble families fought over the crown of England in the 15th century
  11. Queen Elisabeth I
  12. 1588
  13. 16565
  14. 1861-1865
  15. 33176
  16. 1939/1940 und 1941-1944
  17. The beginning of the 30 year war (May 30, 1618)
  18. A powerful empire in the early middle ages in western europe
  19. The Russian winter
  20. Pest
  21. Syria and Egypt
  22. Carthage
  23. Sicily
  24. England and France
  25. Katherine the Great
  26. Bow and Arrow
  27. Inkas
  28. Alexander the Great
  29. Wellington
  30. Hannibal
  31. Nebuchadrezzar II
  32. The defeat of the Russian army against Napoleon
  33. Harry S. Truman
  34. Jeanne d'Arc
  35. Austria
  36. Hannibal
  37. Andreas Hofer
  38. 10 years (around 1789-1799)
  39. The Thirty Years War
  40. Cavalry
  41. Pyrrhic victory
  42. Collaborators
  43. 11
  44. Confederates
  45. Eger in Bohemia
  46. Hiroshima
  47. Nagasaki
  48. White Rose

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Music-Art-Literature

  1. He wraps large objects such as the Berlin Reichtag
  2. Franz Marc und Wassily Kandinsky
  3. Michelangelo
  4. Sculpture
  5. Sculpture
  6. A Nude
  7. Art Nouveau
  8. Expressionism

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Fairy-Tales

  1. In the oven
  2. Snow White
  3. Cinderella
  4. Little Red Riding Hood
  5. Puss in Boots
  6. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  7. Snow White
  8. Sleeping Beauty
  9. The Brave Little Tailor
  10. He is considered cunning or sly
  11. Red
  12. Thumblelina
  13. Seaman
  14. Snow White
  15. The tortoise
  16. The mirror
  17. Rapunzel
  18. Moritz
  19. Snow White
  20. Rose Red
  21. 4
  22. 100
  23. Mother Holle

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Literature

  1. Animal Farm of George Orwell
  2. "Ilias" from Homer
  3. 1984 George Orwell
  4. Jack London
  5. Richard Strauss
  6. Vergil (Latin poet at the time of imperator Augustus)
  7. Max Fritsch
  8. 1876, Mark Twain
  9. 1868/1869 Lew Tolstoi
  10. 1873, Jules Verne
  11. 1516, Thomas More
  12. 1959 Günter Grass
  13. Law
  14. A verse with six metrical feet
  15. A typically whimsical musical composition
  16. An Indian Prince
  17. Epic, lyric and dramatic
  18. Grimm brothers
  19. Esmeralda
  20. Pinocchio
  21. Belgian
  22. Dracula
  23. Richard III
  24. Anna Karenina
  25. Epic, novel, novella, short story, legend, saga, fairly tale, fable and anecdote
  26. Pilot
  27. George Orwell
  28. John Steinbeck
  29. Ludwig Uhland
  30. Lewis Carroll
  31. D.H. Lawrence
  32. Voltaire
  33. Euripides
  34. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  35. Franz Kafka
  36. Jules Verne
  37. John Le Carre
  38. Astrid Lindgren
  39. Michael Ende
  40. William Tell
  41. Phileas Fogg
  42. Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski (1868)
  43. Franz Lehar
  44. Miguel Cervantes
  45. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  46. George Orwell
  47. Daniel Defoe
  48. Georg Büchner
  49. Jules Verne
  50. Daphne Du Maurier
  51. Charles Dickens
  52. Albert Camus
  53. Alexandre Dumas
  54. Ernest Hemingway
  55. Michael Crichton
  56. Heinrich Hoffman
  57. Waldemar Bonseis
  58. Bertold Brecht
  59. Erich Kästner
  60. Charles Dickens
  61. Leonard Bernstein
  62. Charles Dickens
  63. Simone de Beauvoir
  64. A German poet (alemannic dialect)
  65. James Fenimore Cooper
  66. Nautilus
  67. Heinrich Mann
  68. Kriemhild
  69. Fables
  70. Blank Verse
  71. 40
  72. Epic

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Artists

  1. The Netherlands
  2. In the Sistine Chapel
  3. Antwerp
  4. Surrealism
  5. Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir
  6. Sir Anthonis van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens
  7. El Greco
  8. Rembrandt
  9. Raffael
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Leonardo da Vinci
  12. Rudolf Hausner
  13. 1973
  14. A hanging carpet
  15. Michelangelo
  16. Gustav Klimt
  17. Surrealism
  18. Surrealism
  19. Pablo Picasso
  20. Peter Paul Rubens
  21. Leonardo da Vinci ("Mona Lisa")
  22. Raffael
  23. Sandro Botticelli 1478
  24. A German painter and illustrator
  25. Aquarell
  26. Impressionism
  27. Romantic

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Instruments

  1. Zither
  2. Violin
  3. Drums
  4. Violine
  5. Adolphe Sax
  6. Contrabass
  7. A musical instrument similar to the cembalo
  8. A string instrument held between the knees while playing
  9. Spinett
  10. Pianos
  11. Piccolo flute
  12. Pan (Greek forest God, protector of the hunter and herdsmen)
  13. Ebony
  14. Straivari
  15. Castanets
  16. Balalaika
  17. Bagpipes
  18. Balalaika
  19. Castanets
  20. Bagpipes
  21. 47
  22. 4
  23. 4 double-strings (g,d,a,e)
  24. Bongo
  25. Viola

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Opera

  1. Der Freischütz
  2. Egypt
  3. Turandot
  4. Three Penney Opera
  5. February 1, 1896
  6. Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
  7. Alban Berg
  8. W.A.Mozart
  9. Valkyrie
  10. Fidelio

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: POP

  1. Schwabia
  2. Schwabia
  3. Cologne
  4. Las Vegas
  5. Rock around the clock
  6. 99 Luftballons
  7. Boomtown Rats
  8. Sean Penn
  9. George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney und Ringo Starr
  10. Bob Dylan
  11. A style of jazz whose origins date about 1940
  12. Abba
  13. Elton John
  14. Cliff Richard
  15. Muss i denn
  16. Bob Marley
  17. A hard day's night
  18. Keith Richards
  19. Mick Jagger
  20. Modern Talking

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Answers for Music, Art & Literature: Music

  1. Hans Sachs, a famous German Meistersinger
  2. Holland
  3. Wood
  4. The opening of the Suez Canal
  5. Lodge of Charity, 1785
  6. Salzburg
  7. Maria Callas
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach
  9. Carl Maria von Weber
  10. A Gondola Song
  11. The French National Anthem
  12. A piano in the shape of a fin
  13. Musical composition with three voices/instruments
  14. A musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated
  15. The 7th tone in the musical scale, interval distance of 7 tones
  16. The composition and arranging of dancing
  17. Josephine Baker
  18. Edith Piaf
  19. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
  20. Swing
  21. Mata Hari
  22. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
  23. Gibb
  24. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who started composing at 11 years old
  25. Gottfried von Einem
  26. Heintje
  27. Antonio Salieri
  28. Psalm 24, verse 7 - 10
  29. Jose Carreras
  30. The Berlin Philharmonic
  31. Pinball Wizard
  32. Acid Queen
  33. Guiseppe Verdi
  34. Guiseppe Verdi
  35. Johann Sebastian Bach
  36. Bee Gees
  37. Leonard Bernstein
  38. George Friedrich Händel
  39. An American Jazz musician
  40. Richard Wagner
  41. Flamenco
  42. Bolero
  43. Balalaika
  44. Tuba
  45. Sharp
  46. Louis Armstrong
  47. Polka
  48. Julian
  49. Bard
  50. Score
  51. Jam Session
  52. Standard Pitch
  53. Choreography
  54. Libretto
  55. Baritone
  56. Minor
  57. Quintet
  58. Tenor / Falsetto
  59. Cover
  60. Composer
  61. Robert Allan Zimmermann
  62. Breaking of the voice
  63. Andalusia
  64. LSD

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