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Exploring Leipzig: A Quiz on History and Culture

Test your knowledge about Leipzig's history, culture, and notable figures with this engaging quiz.

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1 In front of this church stands a monument to ________.

2 Like most German cities, Leipzig has a traffic layout designed to be ________.

3 What is the license plate code of Leipzig?

4 How many inhabitants are there in Leipzig?

5 The city's mayor from 1930 to 1937, ________ was a noted opponent of the Nazi regime in Germany.

6 Robert Schumann was also active in Leipzig music, having been invited by ________ when the latter established Germany's first musical conservatoire in the city in 1843.

7 Tom Kaulitz and ________ - the founding members of modern rock band Tokio Hotel - also originate from Leipzig, although no longer live there.

8 Germany's chancellor since 2006, ________, studied physics at Leipzig University.

9 DHL is in the process of transferring the bulk of its European air operations from ________ to Leipzig/Halle Airport.

10 It was after East Berlin the largest city in ________ before German reunification.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions.
  • the Brühl, a single street in Leipzig, accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s.
  • Lactarius helvus, a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek, was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig, Germany.
  • Karl Graul, former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar, believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system.
  • Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position.
  • Ivan Bogorov, who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig, was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms.
  • Bach composed in Leipzig his cantata Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186, for the seventh Sunday after Trinity expanding his cantata written in Weimar for Advent.
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