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Frankfurt Book Fair Quiz

Every year publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, translators and literature lovers from all over the world meet in Frankfurt at the biggest international book fair. How much do you know about this great book event? Test your knowledge of the Frankfurt Book Fair with our quiz - and maybe find out some facts you didn't already know! Let's get started...

1. For how long has the Frankfurt Book Fair been running?
© Reto Fetz (zeigt Messeturm)
Since the 15th Century
Since the 17th Century
Since the 19th Century
2. In which year did the Frankfurt Book Fair re-start after having been suspended during the Second World War?
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1947
1949
1950
3. There is another major book fair in Germany every year. In which city is it held?
© Leipziger Buchmesse (zeigt Messegelände)
Dresden
Leipzig
Weimar
4. Every year a special literary award is presented on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair. What’s the name of this award? (In 2011 the prize goes to Boualem Sansal.)
© C. Hélie Gallimard/Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (zeigt Boualem Sansal)
Nobel Prize for Literature
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Award
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
5. In which building is the prize awarded?
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St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt
Frankfurt Opera House
Frankfurt Book Fair halls
6. The first prizewinner in 1950 was a German-Jewish writer and publisher. He made writers like Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig famous in Skandinavia and died in 1976. What was his name?
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Paul Reif
Max Tau
Hans Nebel
7. Every year the Book Fair features a special guest country to highlight its writers and literature. Which country is the guest nation this year?
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The Netherlands
Belgium
Iceland
8. What’s the name of the network of publishing companies and book traders who organised the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time after World War Two?
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Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
Deutscher Buchmarkt
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9. What’s the name of the man who invented the printing press? There is also a well-known online literary database named after him.
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Johannes Gutenberg
Sebastian Schlechtenfeld
Maximilian Besserbach
10. When does the Frankfurt Book Fair take place each year?
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The last week in March
The first week in August
The second week in October
11. What is the piece of furniture called on which many writers sit down for public talks and interviews?
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heißer Stuhl (hot chair)
blaues Sofa (blue sofa)
grüner Sessel (green armchair)
12. How many people visited the Book Fair in 2010?
© Bernd Baltz (zeigt Frankfurter Buchmesse)
Approx. 280,000
Approx. 170,000
Approx. 520,000
13. Which prize has been awarded since 2004 in the Comics Centre at the Book Fair? The prize is named after a character invented by Bernd Pfarr, a cartoonist from Frankfurt.
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Sondermann
Lebemann
Blaumann


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