Tübingen quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which Tübingen building was built to store and trade grain?

   Answer: Kornhaus

   Why: Built in 1453, the Kornhaus now houses the Tübingen City Museum and cultural history exhibits.

2. 2 Medium

   Why did Joseph Ratzinger quit teaching at the University of Tübingen?

   Answer: Student protests and unrest

   Why: Hans Küng had brought Ratzinger to Tübingen in 1966, and in 1969 he took a chair at the quieter University of Regensburg.

3. 3 Hard

   Which famous German writer said Tübingen has no university, but is a university?

   Answer: Walter Jens

   Why: Tübingen's rhetoric professor said it in full: Cologne has a university, Hamburg keeps a university, Tübingen is a university.

4. 4 Easy

   Which city serves as the state capital 30 kilometers from Tübingen?

   Answer: Stuttgart

   Why: The city grew from a tenth century stud farm called Stuotgarten, a mare garden, which is why a rearing black horse still fills its crest.

5. 5 Medium

   Why is the god Neptune featured on Tübingen's marketplace fountain?

   Answer: Symbol of waterpower

   Why: Today's Neptune column was cast after the war from melted-down weapons, replacing the original sandstone one of 1617.

6. 6 Hard

   Why did the carpenter Zimmer take in the poet Hölderlin?

   Answer: Admiration for Hyperion

   Why: Zimmer knew the poet only from reading Hyperion when he took him in, and what doctors thought would be a short final stay lasted 36 years.