General Revision
(English & German)
German Inventors & Inventions
General
Knowledge
Inventors & Inventions from Around the World
Idioms
(English & German)
100

Welcher Sport ist in Deutschland die Nummer 1?

A) Fussball

B) Handball

C) Karate

A) Fussball

100

What does 'invention' mean in Deutsch?

A) Erfindung

B) Erkundung

C) Eltern

A) Erfindung

100

Which one is a city in France?

A) Nice

B) Venice

C) Barcelona

A) Nice (Venice is in Italy and Barcelona is in Spain.)

100

Who is the inventor of the light bulb? 

A) Thomas Edison

B) Michael Faraday 

C) Benjamin Franklin

A) Thomas Edison

100

Ich habe ____________. Ich möchte Hamburger essen.

A) Furcht

B) Durst

C) Hunger

C) Hunger

200

Was ist die Hauptstadt von Österreich?

A) Berlin

B) Bern

C) Wien

C) Wien

200

Wer ist kein deutscher Erfinder?

A) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

B) Samuel Morse

C) Wilhelm Röntgen

B) Samuel Morse

200

Which one is NOT a city in Germany?

A) Bonn

B) Strasbourg

C) Hanover

B) Strasbourg (It is in France.)

200

The inventor of the first practical electric refrigerator, Jacob Perkins, was of which nationality? 

A) American

B) British 

C) French

A) American

200

Du gehst mir auf den ____________. Warum hörst du mir nicht zu? 

A) Keks

B) Kopf

C) Hand

A) Keks

300

Who started one of the peaceful protests in the 1950s that was one of the first events in the American Civil Rights Movement?

A) Hari Merdeka

B) Rosa Parks

C) J.K. Rowling

B) Rosa Parks

300

Was hat Albert Einstein erfunden?

A) die Elektrizität

B) die Relativitätstheorie

C) die Druckerpresse

B) die Relativitätstheorie

300

What did Steve Jobs invent?

A) The steam engine

B) The microwave

C) The first personal computer

C) The first personal computer

300

What did Marie Curie discover?

A) radium

B) thorium

C) copper

A) radium

300

He wants to be a teacher just like his dad. You know what they say, _________________________.

A) it was music to my ears

B) keep me posted

C) the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

C) the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

400

Was ist gesund?

A) Fleisch mit Gemüse

B) Süßigkeiten

C) Pommes und Hamburger

A) Fleisch mit Gemüse

400

Wer hat das weltweit erste praktische Automobil erfunden?

A) Heinrich Hertz

B) Johannes Gutenberg

C) Karl Benz

C) Karl Benz

400

Which inventor below is NOT British?

A) Tim Berners-Lee (world wide web)

B) John Logie Baird (television)

C) Alfred Nobel (dynamite)

C) Alfred Nobel (He was Swedish.)

400

Which scientist is credited with the discovery of penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic? 

A) Louis Pasteur

B) Alexander Fleming 

C) Joseph Lister

A) Louis Pasteur

400

They were ___________________, both with the same high cheekbones and hairline.

A) on the same wavelength

B) two peas in a pod

C) stuck in the past

B) two peas in a pod

500

A/An ________ niche is the position a particular organism occupies within an ecosystem.

A) animal

B) ecological

C) species

B) ecological

500

Wann erfand Johannes Gutenberg die Druckerpresse?

A) im 1454

B) im 1561

C) im 1733

A) im 1454

500

Which language family does 'English' belong to?

A) The Romance Language Family

B) The Indo-European Language Family

C) The Austronesian Language Family

B) The Indo-European Language Family

500

Which one of the inventions below is NOT invented by a German inventor?

A) Aspirin 

B) Diesel engine 

C) Telecommunication satellites

C) Telecommunication satellites (Engineers and scientists from various countries developed satellites collaboratively.)

Aspirin was invented by Felix Hoffmann in 1897.

The diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel in 1892.

500

In der ____________ stecken geblieben. Ich denke an meine Kindheit.

A) Geschichte

B) Vergangenheit

C) Präsens

B) Vergangenheit

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