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

Welchen Preis hat Marie Curie bekommen?

A) Oscar 

B) Nobelpreis

C) Grammy 

B) Nobelpreis

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

Wir hatten Probleme im Projekt. __________________: Es war am Ende gut.

A) Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn

B) Auf Regen folgt Sonnenschein

C) Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund.

A) Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn

200

Was ist die Hauptstadt von Österreich?

A) Berlin

B) Bern

C) Wien

C) Wien

200

Wer ist kein deutscher Erfinder?

A) Johannes Gutenberg
B) Thomas Edison
C) Carl Benz

B) Thomas Edison

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

Ich _____________ für die Prüfung.

A) habe die Oberhand 

B) Eine Hand wäscht die andere!

C) drücke dir die Daumen

C) drücke dir die Daumen

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

Welches Land ist kein Nachbar von Deutschland?

A) Polen
B) Frankreich
C) Spanien

C) Spanien

400

Warum ist die Druckmaschine wichtig?
A) Bücher sind schneller gemacht
B) Menschen laufen schneller
C) Es macht Musik
D) Es macht Licht

A) Bücher sind schneller gemacht

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

Welches Instrument hat Albert Einstein gespielt?

A) Gitarre

B) Geige

C) Schlagzeug

B) Geige

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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