A) Spain B) Germany C) Italy D) France
A) Hexentanzplatz B) Wurmberg C) Brocken D) Rosstrappe
A) Harz National Park B) Amazon Rainforest C) Black Forest D) Bialowieza Forest
A) Skiing B) Rock climbing C) Surfing D) Hiking
A) Hansel and Gretel B) Rapunzel C) Little Red Riding Hood D) Snow White
A) Karl Marx B) Friedrich Nietzsche C) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe D) Heinrich Heine
A) Basalt B) Sandstone C) Granite D) Limestone
A) Brocken spectre B) Rainbows C) Northern Lights D) Double rainbows
A) Erfurt B) Goslar C) Quedlinburg D) Halberstadt
A) An Old English term for mountain B) The Middle High German word Hardt or Hart (hill forest) C) A Celtic name D) A Latin word meaning 'highland'
A) Thuringia, with Acker-Bruchberg ridge as the highest peak B) Nordhausen, with Achtermannshöhe as the highest peak C) Lower Saxony, with Wurmberg as the highest peak at 971 metres D) Saxony-Anhalt, with Brocken as the highest peak
A) 50 kilometres (31 mi) B) 200 kilometres (124 mi) C) 110 kilometres (68 mi) D) 75 kilometres (47 mi)
A) 35 kilometres (22 mi) B) 50 kilometres (31 mi) C) 45 kilometres (28 mi) D) 20 kilometres (12 mi)
A) It has deciduous forests interspersed with meadows B) It supports arable farming on its plateaus C) It gradually descends into the surrounding area D) It is higher and features fir forests
A) Less than 100,000 people B) Approximately 300,000 people C) Approximately 600,000 people D) Over 1 million people
A) Harz and Mansfeld-Südharz B) Salzgitter C) Goslar and Göttingen D) Nordhausen
A) Wurmberg (971 m) B) Königsberg (1,023 m) C) Heinrichshöhe (1,044 m) D) Acker-Bruchberg ridge (927 m)
A) Rainforests B) Fir forests C) Coniferous forests D) Deciduous forests interspersed with meadows
A) 2,226 square kilometres (859 sq mi) B) 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi) C) 3,000 square kilometres (1,160 sq mi) D) 4,500 square kilometres (1,740 sq mi)
A) Fifteen rivers B) Ten rivers C) Twelve rivers D) Eight rivers
A) For recreational fishing B) To create artificial lakes C) To form mountain ponds like the Oderteich D) As tourist attractions
A) The Innerste B) The Wipper C) The Bode D) The Oker
A) The Wipper B) The Leine C) The Bode D) The Oker
A) The Innerste B) The Oker C) The Bode D) The Wipper
A) The Oder B) The Bode C) The Wipper D) The Leine
A) The southern side B) The leeward side C) The windward side D) The eastern side
A) Dry and arid B) Regular precipitation C) Hot and humid D) Cold with heavy snowfall
A) Precambrian era B) Palaeozoic era C) Cenozoic era D) Mesozoic era
A) Marble B) Limestone C) Base-poor rocks D) Sandstone
A) Bode Gorge B) Selke Valley C) Oker Valley D) Weser Valley
A) Cretaceous period B) Tertiary period C) Jurassic period D) Quaternary period
A) Limestone B) Granite C) Marble D) Argillaceous shales
A) The most important uplift movements during the sub-Hercynian phase B) The appearance of the first dinosaurs C) The formation of the first mountain range D) The extinction of marine life
A) Marble deposits B) Granite deposits C) Limestone deposits D) Sandstone deposits
A) Gießen-Harz surface layer of the Rhenohercynian zone B) Alpine Fault Zone C) Baltic Shield D) Scandinavian Plateau
A) Wide U-shaped valleys B) Flat-bottomed valleys C) Circular basins D) Long, narrow V-shaped valleys
A) Sycamore trees (Acer pseudoplatanus) B) Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) C) English oak (Quercus robur) D) Scots elm (Ulmus glabra)
A) Spruce woods B) Mixed woods C) Melic grass beech woods D) Wood-rush beech woods
A) Mixed woods B) Oak woods C) Beech woods D) Spruce woods
A) Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) B) Carpathian birch (Betula pubescens subsp. carpatica) C) Scots elm (Ulmus glabra) D) English oak (Quercus robur)
A) Colin zone woods B) Riparian woods C) Bog-spruce woods D) River source woods
A) Common beech B) Sycamore C) Scots elm D) Spruce
A) Tricholomopsis decora B) Melic grass C) Phellinus viticola D) Sphagnum spec.
A) Mixed woods B) Colin zone C) Beech woods D) Spruce woods
A) Deciduous trees B) Coniferous shrubs C) Peat mosses (Sphagnum spec.) D) Tall grasses
A) Sphagnum papillosum B) Sphagnum fallax C) Sphagnum cuspidatum D) Sphagnum magellanicum
A) Bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) B) Common heather C) Cowberry D) Blueberry
A) Purple B) Bright yellow C) Rust-red D) Green
A) Cowberry B) Black crowberry C) Cross-leaved heath D) Cranberries (Vaccinium oxicoccus)
A) In the flarks B) On the bog margins C) In the waterlogged areas D) On the drier hummocks
A) Cross-leaved heath B) Blueberry C) Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) D) Cowberry
A) Sphagnum papillosum B) Sphagnum magellanicum C) Sphagnum fallax D) Sphagnum cuspidatum
A) A flowering herb B) An ice age plant C) A tall tree D) A common shrub
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) C) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) D) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris)
A) Open moorland B) Black woodpecker holes in old beeches C) Bog spruce forests D) Spruce woods with dense cover
A) The golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltoni) B) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) C) The pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) D) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
A) The red deer B) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) C) The lynx D) The roe deer
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) C) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) D) The dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
A) The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) B) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) C) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) D) The red deer
A) Gnophos sordarius B) Calopteryx virgo C) Enthephria caesiata D) Cordulegaster boltoni
A) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) B) The dipper (Cinclus cinclus) C) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) D) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
A) The red deer B) The mouflon C) The roe deer D) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris)
A) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) B) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) C) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) D) The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
A) The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) B) The golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltoni) C) The Subarctic darner (Aeshna subarctica) D) The Alpine emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora alpestris)
A) The Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus) B) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) C) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) D) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
A) The black stork (Ciconia nigra) B) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) C) The Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funereus) D) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
A) The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) B) The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) C) The capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) D) The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
A) 1224 B) 852 C) 814 D) 968
A) Homo erectus B) Celts C) Neanderthals D) Homo sapiens
A) The Code of Hammurabi B) The Magna Carta C) The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel) D) The Roman Twelve Tables
A) Eike von Repkow B) Louis the Pious C) Frederick Barbarossa D) Charlemagne
A) Tourism. B) Woodland clearances. C) Silver mining industry. D) Cattle driving.
A) Rudolph Augustus, Brocken's Flora B) Johannes Thal, Silva hercynia C) Albert Peter, Alpine Flowers D) Hermann Löns, Harz Nature
A) 1705 B) 1588 C) 1718 D) 1668
A) Albert Peter B) A resident mine worker C) Rudolph Augustus D) Count Christian Ernest
A) 421 B) 750 C) 1000 D) 200
A) 1705 B) 1818 C) 23 March 1798 D) 1920
A) Around 1920 B) In 1668 C) In 1852 D) In 1798
A) Ellrich concentration camp. B) Mittelbau-Dora near Blankenburg. C) Buchenwald near Ilfeld. D) KZ Dora near Nordhausen.
A) 15 June 1945. B) 7 May 1945. C) 8 May 1945. D) 1 April 1945.
A) 1989 B) 1975 C) 2007 D) 1990
A) The border was officially opened for tourism. B) Mining operations were resumed. C) Demonstrating walkers first entered a large military out-of-bounds area. D) A new hiking trail was inaugurated.
A) Stone coal. B) Argentiferous lead ore. C) Potash. D) Copper schist.
A) Lead B) Barite C) Copper schist D) Silver
A) Goslar B) Mansfeld C) Elbingerode D) Bad Grund
A) 2007 B) 1988 C) 2010 D) 1992
A) Elbingerode B) Mansfeld C) Bad Lauterberg D) Goslar
A) Bergwacht Harz B) National Park Service C) Harzer Verkehrsverband (HVV) D) Förderverein Loipenverbund Harz
A) Walking B) Cycling C) Swimming D) Skiing
A) Goslar B) Wernigerode C) Braunlage D) Thale
A) Alpine skiing B) Cross-country skiing C) Freestyle skiing D) Nordic skiing
A) International winter sport competitions B) Rock climbing contests C) Mountain biking races D) National hiking events
A) Hiking B) Skiing C) Nordic walking D) Cycling
A) Mountain biking B) Water sports C) Winter sports D) Rock climbing
A) 75 B) 62 C) 50 D) 40
A) Hahnenklee B) Torfhaus C) Goslar D) Wernigerode
A) Nordhausen B) Wernigerode C) Thale D) Altenau
A) Roßtrappe B) Wurmberg C) Hexentanzplatz D) Brocken
A) Clausthal-Zellerfeld Cave B) Baumann's Cave C) Netzkater Dripstone Cave D) St. Andreasberg Cave
A) Büchenberg Mine B) Rammelsberg Mine C) Samson Pit D) Lange Wand Mine |