Berlin

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10 questions
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7 months ago
1

Where is Berlin located?

36% got this right

2

What is the name of the state that surrounds Berlin?

Brandenburg

Braunschweig

Mecklenburg

Saxony

56% got this right

Berlin itself is a city-state.
3

Which of the following is NOT a district of Berlin?

Eppendorf

Pankow

Spandau

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

  22% got this right

Berlin has a total of twelve districts.
4

What two leaders are kissing in this Berlin wall graffiti?

Honecker & Brezhnev

Queen Elizabeth & Prince Charles

Kohl & Yong-nam

Gorbachev & Hitler

69% got this right

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

What's the name of this cold war border checkpoint in Berlin?

Charlie

Cheddar

Chance

Chestnut

61% got this right

Today, it is a tourist attraction.
6

What was the name of this prison, demolished in 1987?

Spandau

Lichtenberg

Reinickendorf

Köpenick

  31% got this right

After WW2, it held seven top Nazi leaders convicted in the Nuremberg trials.
7

What's the name of this ancient gate which is on display at Berlin's Pergamon museum?

Ishtar gate

Nebuchadnezzar gate

Marduk gate

Hammurabi gate

  21% got this right

The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.
8

Arguably one of the world's most famous night clubs, what is its name?

Berghain

Concrete

Ministry of Sound

Faust

36% got this right

It is named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.
9

What's the name of this street?

Unter den Linden

Oranienburger Strasse

Reeperbahn

Weißgerbergasse

45% got this right

This avenue links numerous Berlin sights, landmarks and rivers for sightseeing.
10

What river runs through Berlin?

Spree

Main

Elbe

Weser

  33% got this right

The Spree is, with a length of approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi), the main tributary of the River Hen and Spremberg.