NewsTracker Answers for week of Dec. 12, 2022

Q: Police last Wednesday arrested 25 people suspected of plotting to use armed force to storm parliament, violently overthrow the government and make Germany a monarchy again. Where is Germany?

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Q: The alleged plotters are a collection of right-wing conspiracy theorists including QAnon followers and the “Reich citizen” movement, which believes Germany is run by a “deep state” government to be replaced with descendants of former German royal families. Germany threw out its monarchy after which war?

A. Franco-Prussian

B. World War I

C. World War II

D. Cold War


B. After Germany’s 1918 defeat in World War I, Emperor Wilhelm II and the ruling princes were force to abdicate. The country became a federal republic and outlawed royalty and nobility. The leader of the alleged coup plot was identified as the Prince Heinrich XIII, 71, a descendant of a 700-year-old German noble family.


Q: Another hereditary monarchy lost power after it was defeated in World War I. Its capital was in Vienna, which also is the capital of what federal republic on Germany’s southeastern border?

A. Austria

B. Belguim

C. Luxembourg

D. Switzerland


A. The Austro-Hungarian Empire based in Vienna and the Ottoman Empire based in what is now Turkey were allies of the German Empire in World War I. The emperors were all deposed and replaced by republics after their defeat. Germany borders Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland.


Q: Besides recruiting current and former soldiers, police and politicians in his plot, authorities say Heinrich XIII raised money from other European aristocrats and also contacted diplomats from which of these countries that fought Germany in World War I?

A. Britain

B. France

C. Russia

D. United States


C. Authorities said Heinrich XIII contacted Russian diplomats with the aid of a younger Russian girlfriend, Several times, she facilitated meetings, though prosecutors say they had no evidence of a Russian response. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has been accused of stirring dissent in NATO nations like Germany and the United States.


Q: On the same day Germany arrested the alleged plotters, an attempted coup d’etat was reported in what South American country?

A. Burkina-Faso

B. Guinea-Bissau

C. Peru

D. Sao Tome and Príncipe


C. Peruvian President Pedro Castillo tried to dissolve his nation’s congress in the face of imminent impeachment proceedings, The military refused to back Castillo, and he was impeached and removed from office. There have been seven reported coups, attempts or plots this year, mostly in Africa, And, there also was an attempt by Russian agents to overthrow Ukraine’s government.