Are you ignorant about German history since 1945? Test your knowledge in our quiz.

When did the German Democratic Republic (DDR) come into being?

A: 7 October 1949 B: 3 October 1990 C: 30 January 1933

Where in Germany were the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held?

A: Berlin B: Munich C: Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Which of the following was the feared East German secret police?

A: Geheime Staatspolizei B: Bundesnachrichtendienst C: Staatsicherheit

Which of the following was NOT a city of the former East Germany?

A: Danzig B: Leipzig C: Weimar

Who is the current German president?

A: Gerhard Schroeder B: Erich Honecker C: Johannes Rau

Which of the following Germans did NOT win a Nobel Prize?

A: Author Gunter Grass B: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl C: Physicist Albert Einstein

The old East German flag was..?

A: Black, red and gold horizontal stripes B: Black, yellow and red vertical stripes C: Black, red and gold horizontal stripes with a wreath, hammer and compass emblem

Who once likened 6ft 3ins (1.89m) Helmut Kohl to a "sumo wrestler"?

A: Gerhard Schroeder, during a televised election debate in 1998 B: British PM Margaret Thatcher, �handbagging� Kohl for a rebate at an EU budget meeting in Fontainebleau C: US President Bill Clinton, in front of the TV cameras at a 1994 Nato meeting

Which of these German cities was known as Karl-marx-stadt between 1953-90?

A: Chemnitz B: East Berlin C: Weimar

Who designed the new glass domed Reichstag building?

A: Bulgarian Christo Javacheff B: Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe C: Briton Lord Foster