Quiz | As easy as Sunday morning: what have the Germans given us?
Friedrich Fröbel designed educational play materials for children known as Fröbel gifts, or Fröbelgaben, which consisted of geometric building blocks and patterned activity blocks.
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1/10 | On January 29, 1886, this gentleman obtained a patent for his ‘Motorwagen’ in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was the world’s first automobile with a burning motor. As a child he helped his single mother by developing photographs for tourists. His life’s goal was to be a ‘carriage without a horse’, and to this day his name is synonymous with the world’s most respected automobile brand. Who was this inventor?
2/10 | Dr. Gerhard Stalling was a German doctor who worked with soldiers returning from the front lines during World War I, especially those who had been blinded by poison gas. One day he saw his German Shepherd helping one of his patients find a chair to sit on. This prompted him to start the world’s first school in 1916 for what specific purpose?
3/10 | Richard Assmann was a German physician whose interest in aeronautics eventually led him to co-found the field of aeronautics. They made anthropological ascents with balloons. And in 1902 he discovered a layer of stratified temperature. What did they discover that is also used informally to denote the highest level of something?
4/10 | Friedrich Ludwig Hunefeld was a physician who discovered something in the body for the first time in 1840. Finding it in humans, earthworms and pigs, he called the crystal ‘Blut Roth’. What did they discover that is responsible for the transport of oxygen in all vertebrates?
5/10 | Franz Karl Achard was a chemist who was rewarded by the king for discovering the habituation of tobacco in Germany. Using that money he researched to devise a process that allowed him to produce a valuable commodity from the root of Beta vulgaris that revolutionized the world. What did he make from beetroot?
6/10 | In 1901, Johannes Pfleger and Karl Heumann came up with a process for industrial-scale synthesis of a particular dye in 1901. This distinctive blue dye was until then extracted from a plant, but this was a long and labor-intensive process, making the dye expensive. What color did these two Germans give the world, which is now the main color of denim?
7/10 | Karl Lohmann discovered this organic compound in 1929 at the time of Yellapragada Subba Rao. He was searching for a probe for phosphorus when he discovered the molecule that provides the energy to drive almost all processes in a living cell. Which molecule is known by the three letter abbreviation?
8/10 | Karlheinz Brandenburg is an electrical engineer who received his Ph.D. were working with. Advisor on a system where people could connect to a central server and listen to music on demand over phone lines. The problem was that the bandwidth was too low. Brandenburg figured out a way to reduce the file by 12 times. What format did he and his team invent that revolutionized the music industry?
9/10 | It is a preschool educational approach that is based on hands-on activities such as play, singing, drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. First introduced in Germany in the 18th century, it soon spread globally. Friedrich Froebel came up with the name because he believed that children should be nurtured and nurtured “like plants”. Which system is this?
10 / 10 | Easily the most popular cake at any bakery, this delicacy gets its name from the traditional dress worn by women in heavily forested areas in Germany. The combination of black dress, white blouse and red cap is native to the region. What is the name of this cake?
