What I Came For!
I'm here to see the festively decorated wagons, impressive horses, historic costume groups, hunting clubs, bands, and flag wavers parade through Munich's city center
Ruth's Quiz 1, Question 4 of 6 – What are the official colors of the Octoberfest?
a. black/yellow
b. black/yellow/red
c. blue/white
Die aufwendig geschmückten Kutschen der Wiesn-Brauereien mit ihren stattlichen Braurössern sind ein beliebtes Fotomotiv sowohl bei Touristen als auch bei Einheimischen
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Ruth's Quiz 1 Introduction:
I put 1.7% of my 1388 captures into 4 mini-theme quiz albums. I hope you respond to them and to my Octoberfest Quizzes!
Award to each Quiz Question first right answer!
The Octoberfest is the largest party in the world, a mixture of folklore, festivities, and frivolity. Munich, one of the 10 best towns to party in, attracts more than 70 million visitors a year. [If you plan to go to the Octoberfest next year, bring plenty of cash: public transportation, pretzel, dinner + 2 beers cost ± $60, and accommodations around Munich are at a premium, too.]
Octoberfest! What does that mean to you? German food and beer? Singing? Dancing? Festivities? Yes! All this and more...
At what kind of celebrations do you find such fun as this? How about weddings! By participating on this page you help continue the celebration of a wedding that took place about 200 years ago in Munich, new capital of the kingdom of Bavaria. At that time there was not yet a country of Germany but there was already a German language, Deutsch.
German is a sister language to English and our words and grammar are related. By the way – ask a German – Americans don’t speak English, we speak American. Anyone in England can confirm that quickly. Who can trace a language to a single person? It is impossible for most languages but not German.
Dr. Martin Luther, Father of the German language, translated the Bible, the Old Testament from the original Hebrew and also the Greek New Testament, into his native vernacular. Luther’s was not the first German Bible, but he wrote it down how the people of his day talked, putting beautifully the way people said and understood things; it was readable as well, worded it so superbly, people pretty much talk the same way 500 years later, the standard German adhered to today.
Before Luther, there were just dialects. A person from one village or city could understand someone from the next one, but with increasingly difficulty understand people from places further away. At time of Luther (1483-1546), when Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, you didn’t just get in your car and drive to your next destination, or hop a flight over across the country. You walked, or rode by horse and wagon or something like that. Maybe you just never even left at all.
Luther came on the scene the same time as Gutenberg and his double invention of printing and movable type dynamically changed the world. As far north and south and east and west as people could read Luther’s Bible, people of that area speak German today. In a nutshell, that’s how German came to be spoken some 300 years later, when Bavarian church steeple and clock (Glocke) tower bells rang out calling one and all then to attend a royal marriage ceremony celebration in a Munich meadow.
The citizenry was invited to the sovereign celebration finishing with a horse race on the village green just outside the city, a meadow (Wiese) named in honor of Princess Therese, married October 12th, 1810 to the crown prince of Bavaria, who later became Louis I. The grandiose entertainment was so much fun and such a winner that the decision to expand this enormously popular attraction the next year gave rise to the Octoberfest tradition we see continued in the biggest way today, without people even having the slightest idea what the celebration was all about. Hey, some folks treat Christmas the same way...
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Munich, Germany – 2019SEP22 Octoberfest Costume Parade:
A million people and I went to the Munich Octoberfest today! If that number isn't exact, it's close! My friends Andrea and Paul with their dog Paulo, & I, all decked out in traditional attire, parked ourselves amongst the crowd enthusiastically waving at 9,000 participants of the world's largest costume parade, arriving well before it started (instead of taking an arrival nap, instead I went straight out). Indeed, most of the crew went to the Octoberfest – world's most crowded piece of real estate – and all had a good time. Yes, this surely was a marvelous trip! Hope you enjoy my quizzes! I invite you to check out what you know about the Oktoberfest, Munich, Bavaria, & Germany!
What I Came For!
I'm here to see the festively decorated wagons, impressive horses, historic costume groups, hunting clubs, bands, and flag wavers parade through Munich's city center
Ruth's Quiz 1, Question 4 of 6 – What are the official colors of the Octoberfest?
a. black/yellow
b. black/yellow/red
c. blue/white
Die aufwendig geschmückten Kutschen der Wiesn-Brauereien mit ihren stattlichen Braurössern sind ein beliebtes Fotomotiv sowohl bei Touristen als auch bei Einheimischen
____________________
Ruth's Quiz 1 Introduction:
I put 1.7% of my 1388 captures into 4 mini-theme quiz albums. I hope you respond to them and to my Octoberfest Quizzes!
Award to each Quiz Question first right answer!
The Octoberfest is the largest party in the world, a mixture of folklore, festivities, and frivolity. Munich, one of the 10 best towns to party in, attracts more than 70 million visitors a year. [If you plan to go to the Octoberfest next year, bring plenty of cash: public transportation, pretzel, dinner + 2 beers cost ± $60, and accommodations around Munich are at a premium, too.]
Octoberfest! What does that mean to you? German food and beer? Singing? Dancing? Festivities? Yes! All this and more...
At what kind of celebrations do you find such fun as this? How about weddings! By participating on this page you help continue the celebration of a wedding that took place about 200 years ago in Munich, new capital of the kingdom of Bavaria. At that time there was not yet a country of Germany but there was already a German language, Deutsch.
German is a sister language to English and our words and grammar are related. By the way – ask a German – Americans don’t speak English, we speak American. Anyone in England can confirm that quickly. Who can trace a language to a single person? It is impossible for most languages but not German.
Dr. Martin Luther, Father of the German language, translated the Bible, the Old Testament from the original Hebrew and also the Greek New Testament, into his native vernacular. Luther’s was not the first German Bible, but he wrote it down how the people of his day talked, putting beautifully the way people said and understood things; it was readable as well, worded it so superbly, people pretty much talk the same way 500 years later, the standard German adhered to today.
Before Luther, there were just dialects. A person from one village or city could understand someone from the next one, but with increasingly difficulty understand people from places further away. At time of Luther (1483-1546), when Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, you didn’t just get in your car and drive to your next destination, or hop a flight over across the country. You walked, or rode by horse and wagon or something like that. Maybe you just never even left at all.
Luther came on the scene the same time as Gutenberg and his double invention of printing and movable type dynamically changed the world. As far north and south and east and west as people could read Luther’s Bible, people of that area speak German today. In a nutshell, that’s how German came to be spoken some 300 years later, when Bavarian church steeple and clock (Glocke) tower bells rang out calling one and all then to attend a royal marriage ceremony celebration in a Munich meadow.
The citizenry was invited to the sovereign celebration finishing with a horse race on the village green just outside the city, a meadow (Wiese) named in honor of Princess Therese, married October 12th, 1810 to the crown prince of Bavaria, who later became Louis I. The grandiose entertainment was so much fun and such a winner that the decision to expand this enormously popular attraction the next year gave rise to the Octoberfest tradition we see continued in the biggest way today, without people even having the slightest idea what the celebration was all about. Hey, some folks treat Christmas the same way...
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Munich, Germany – 2019SEP22 Octoberfest Costume Parade:
A million people and I went to the Munich Octoberfest today! If that number isn't exact, it's close! My friends Andrea and Paul with their dog Paulo, & I, all decked out in traditional attire, parked ourselves amongst the crowd enthusiastically waving at 9,000 participants of the world's largest costume parade, arriving well before it started (instead of taking an arrival nap, instead I went straight out). Indeed, most of the crew went to the Octoberfest – world's most crowded piece of real estate – and all had a good time. Yes, this surely was a marvelous trip! Hope you enjoy my quizzes! I invite you to check out what you know about the Oktoberfest, Munich, Bavaria, & Germany!