German History Quiz

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #440 on:** September 27, 2008, 02:17:10 AM

Keeping on the topic of sandwiches...

In 1241 Luebeck entered into an alliance with another German port, laying the foundations for the development of the Hanseatic League. Which was the other port? (and what does this answer have to do with sandwiches?)

Malte279 · **Reply #441 on:** September 27, 2008, 02:14:34 PM

That other town was Hamburg (no, the hamburger was not invented here)

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Funnily enough I am in Hamburg as I type this. I'm visiting my sister who lives here.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #442 on:** September 27, 2008, 07:06:22 PM

Cool! What are the odds?

The name Hamburger came from Hamburg, New York, from some dude selling them at a fair, I think. Still, anti-German feelings in the 1920s caused the hamburger to recieve the alterante name "Salisbury Steak."

You're up, Malte!

Amaranthine · **Reply #443 on:** September 28, 2008, 12:21:32 AM

Quote from: Malte279,Sep 27 2008 on 10:14 AM

That other town was Hamburg (no, the hamburger was not invented here) :
Funnily enough I am in Hamburg as I type this. I'm visiting my sister who lives here.

xD nice! (sorry I don't mean to spam...but I just thought that was pretty funny)

Malte279 · **Reply #444 on:** November 07, 2008, 05:53:55 AM

What is "Canossa" and what is the importance of it in German history?

Malte279 · **Reply #445 on:** December 12, 2008, 06:16:42 AM

Shall I come up with a new one?

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #446 on:** December 12, 2008, 07:55:36 PM

Nah.

Canossa is a rocky point where King Henry IV stood for three days in the snow, to reverse his excommunication from the Catholic Church.

Malte279 · **Reply #447 on:** December 12, 2008, 08:59:05 PM

Aye, one of the most important points in the century lasting so called "Investiturstreit" between the Kaiser and the Pope.
Your turn

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #448 on:** December 13, 2008, 06:13:22 PM

During the age of the Weimar Republic, who led a four-day revolt of dissolved Freikorps against Berlin, declaring himself Reich Chancellor?

Malte279 · **Reply #449 on:** December 13, 2008, 06:22:10 PM

Wolfgang Kapp?

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #450 on:** December 13, 2008, 06:25:27 PM

That was certainly fast. Yep.

Malte279 · **Reply #451 on:** December 13, 2008, 06:32:35 PM

Everyone knows what the stars and stripes or the Union Jack stands for (stars for the states, stripes for the colonies, crosses for England, Scotland and Ireland), but who can tell what the German Flag black, red, gold (often depicted as yellow) is based on?

Malte279 · **Reply #452 on:** January 25, 2009, 06:06:43 PM

Anyone? It got to do with the days of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Nick22 · **Reply #453 on:** January 25, 2009, 06:09:29 PM

They had to do with the Holy Roman Republic, whicgh collaspsed to 1806, after Napolean Invaded and conquered it. This was the First Reich..

Malte279 · **Reply #454 on:** January 25, 2009, 06:10:53 PM

Sorry, not right. The meaning of the colors of the German republic doesn't really have anything to do with the so called Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.

Malte279 · **Reply #455 on:** June 02, 2009, 04:19:52 PM

One might say it got something to do with a kind of clothing.

Nick22 · **Reply #456 on:** June 04, 2009, 12:32:50 PM

does it have to do with the coloring of thier unifoirms?

Malte279 · **Reply #457 on:** June 04, 2009, 01:13:36 PM

You are on the right track. Whose uniforms are we talking about?

Nick22 · **Reply #458 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:06:51 PM

Would that be the Prussian forces lead by Von Blucher?

Malte279 · **Reply #459 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:35:47 AM

The standard Prussian uniforms were dominated by "Prussian blue" (even the name for the color was derived from the uniforms) which is absent in the German flag. There was one particular outfit with black uniforms, red embroidery and golden (actually brass) buttons which are the colors taken into the flag that became popular among other during the revolutionary movements of the 1830s and 1848 (hence the democratic reference of the flag). But which was that particular outfit with those uniforms?