IPK
Actual Managing Director of the IPK?
Dr. Andreas Graner
What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in ?
Stockholm, Sweden
Capital of Germany?
Berlin
What is the ingredient in bread that makes it rise?
Yeast
When does the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Crop Plant Research in Tuttendorf (near Vienna), with Hans Stubbe as its first director was founded?
1943
What country does the Rhine River run through?
Germany
Who is the Nobel Prize of Medicine 2022?
Svante Pääbo
How many federal states Germany has?
16
Which variety of chili pepper is considered the hottest in the world?
The Carolina Reaper
Name of the current 4 research deparments of the Institute?
Gene Bank, Breeding Research, Molecular Genetics, Phisiology and Cell Biology.
What is the name of the smallest country in the world?
The Vatican City
She holds two nobel prizes, one in Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1911?
Marie Curie
Who is the actual chancellor of Germany
Olaf Scholz
In what country was the Caesar salad invented?
Mexico
Name of the 4 Independent Research Groups?
Applied Chromosome Biology, Meiosis, Metabolic System Interaction, Grain Legume Genomics
What are the names of the five oceans of the world?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and the Antarctic
The youngest nobel prize laurate?
Malala Yousafzai
What lake, which is actually three connected bodies of water, is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet, and is fed by the Rhine River?
Konstanz Lake
What is the common name for the food that is technically steamed balls of crushed durum wheat semolina?
Couscous
Mention one of the germplasm locations of the IPK in Germany, besides Gatersleben?
Groß Lüsewitz (Rostock), Malchow
What is the capital of Jamaica?
Kingston
They won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, for the discovery of CRISPR Cas9 ?
Emmanuele Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
The Brandenburg Concertos and Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor are two of the most famous works composed by what famous man born in Germany in the 17th century?
JS Bach
Considered a loan word from Greek, what is the difficult-to-spell name of the dip or sauce made of strained yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, and other seasonings?
Tzatziki