The Berlin Wall

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10 questions
English
1

What is the day called when the GDR authorities first sealed off West Berlin?

Barbed Wire Sunday

Black Sunday

Bloody Sunday

Cold Sunday

Hard  13% got this right

The "Stacheldrahtsonntag" happened on August 13, 1961.
2
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What American president held the famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963?

John F. Kennedy

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Easy  81% got this right

There is a widespread misconception that Kennedy accidentally said a malapropism that he was a Berliner, German doughnut
3

What's the location of this famous border crossing in Berlin?

37% got this right

After the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction.
4

What Soviet leader is kissing Honecker on this mural?

Brezhnev

Andropov

Chernenko

Gorbachev

45% got this right

The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist leaders.
5

Who performed "I've been looking for freedom" at the wall in 1989?

David Hasselhoff

Bruce Springsteen

David Bowie

Roger Waters

40% got this right

The album went to triple platinum in Europe, and its lead single went to number one in Germany and Switzerland.
6

What was the colloquial term in the GDR for illegal emigration to West Germany?

Republikflucht

Ausflucht

Grenzübertritt

Zuflucht

Hard  17% got this right

"Republikflucht" translates to "Desertion from the republic".
7

Who was encouraged by Ronald Reagan to "tear down this wall"?

Gorbachev

Brezhnev

Honecker

Ulbricht

50% got this right

Helmut Kohl said he would never forget standing near Reagan when he challenged Gorbachev.
8

What was the official name of the wall in GDR?

Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart

Berlin Wall

Peace Wall

People's Safety Barrier

Hard  10% got this right

The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame".
9

What was the name of the mined corridor of land between the wall's two barriers?

Death Strip

Demilitarized Zone

Iron Curtain

Surveillance Area

37% got this right

Beds of nails in the death strip where also known as "Stalin's Carpet".
10

In what year did the Berlin wall fall?

1989

1990

1991

1992

Easy  81% got this right

The wall fell on November 9, 1989.