NewsTracker Answers for week of Sep. 04, 2017

Q: About 65,000 people including hospital patients were evacuated over the weekend in Frankfurt, Germany, to allow experts to dispose of a huge unexploded bomb left over from Word War II. Where is Germany?

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Q: The 1.4 ton British bomb was found on a building site last week. Britain declared war on Germany in 1939 after German troops invaded what nation on their eastern border?

A. Denmark

B. France

C. Poland

D. Switzerland


C. Germany is bordered on the east by Poland and Czech Republic; the southeast by Austria, the south by Switzerland; the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands; and the north by the North Sea, Denmark and Baltic Sea. Under secret terms of 1939 nonaggression agreement, Germany invaded and occupied Poland from the west and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied it from the east.


Q: More than 2.7 million tons of bombs were dropped on Germany during World War II, and an average about 2,000 tons of unexploded ordnance is still found every year. One of the worse sites for old bombs is near the German capital of . . .

A. Berlin

B. Bonn

C. Bremen

D. Brussels


A. Oranienburg, just outside Berlin, has the dubious distinction of being the "most dangerous town in Germany". Under Adolf Hitler, it contained an armaments hub, aircraft plant, railway junction and a nuclear research facility – so it was key bombing target. Berlin is the capital and largest city in Germany. Bonn served as the capital of West Germany while the nation and Berlin were divided after WWII.


Q: The Frankfurt bomb was located near Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, where $70 billion in gold reserves are stored. Germany’s economy is . . .

A. Fifth largest in world

B. Largest in Europe

C. Third biggest exporter

D. All of the above


D. After being devastated in WWII, Germany was rebuilt and its economy has surpassed all the European nations that defeated it. It is the world’s fifth largest economy behind China, United States, India and its WWII ally Japan. It is the third largest exporter behind China and the United States. Japan, also defeated in WWII, ranks fourth in exports.


Q: In both World War I and World War II, the United States sided with Britain against Germany. What is the largest ancestry group in the United States?

A. African

B. English

C. German

D. Irish


C. According to a U.S. Census Bureau survey, 14.7 percent of Americans have German ancestry. That is the largest group and is followed by African, Mexican, Irish and English.