Total Quiz X, part 4

The lyrics of the anthem was outlawed since it didn't fit the Communist ideals of the DDR, but the tune was still kept and played.

Wasn't it because of "Deutschland, einig Vaterland" and the other references to Deutschland? http://www.ddr-wissen.de/wiki/ddr.pl?Nationalhymne writes the text was banned after a discussion between Willy Brandt (West German chancellor) and Willi Stoph (East German PM), where Stoph had said there are two German states and Brandt replied that even the GDR hymn contained the words Germany, united fatherland.

rtsp://real.dhm.de/lemo/sound/Nachkriegsjahre_audioHymneDDR. rm has the hymn (with text).

 I think best question was #14.

Well, look at me, if it can console you

I think it's the first time I ended at bottom list .

Point his it happened I changed my PC these days, so having to reinstall much of my software, reprogram internet connections, etc. I really had no time to research, and just answered the only question I knew out of the top of my head.

Oh well, at least I have a way faster PC now

I agree questions in general were both difficult and interesting. However, since I need to restrict my vote to one . . . I chose two because I am not able to restrict it so much :

• question 14 by Styrbiorn, since I like historical events when battles and war were replaced with some non-lethal alternative competition (a wise thing people should learn to do more often),
• and question 12 by Mixcoatl . . .  also out of shame for not  having thought about this compatriot of mine
  On this regard, I'd like to add that Italo Balbo, who had been a first hour fascist, eventually opposed Mussolini because he did not agree about entering WW2, being (rightly) afraid that Italy would have ended to be "Germany's boots -polisher".
  For this reason, many doubt that his accidental death by friendly fire was a real accident.

Finally, a remark about my question #8. It's certainly true that many think that Bononia was derived from a previous Gaulish name "Bona", and Styrbiorn certainly did right to accept it. In fact, it's also likely that this Celtic form existed,  since both  major cities called Bononia by Romans, i.e. present day Bologna in Italy we are talking about, and what now is Boulogne-sur-Mer in France, are located in areas previously controlled by Gauls, Cisalpine and Transalpine respectively, later conquered by Romans.

However, whatever was the name real origin, Roman commoners surely related the name Bononia with latin word bonum = well, good etc. hence the meaning of abundance, wealth etc. that was associated to the name "Bononia", whether it was a real or a false etymology, by people who certainly were not all linguists.

It's also interesting to notice that there was an important town called Bona hat became not Bononia but Bonna in Roman times: Bonn in Germany

[edited because my new MS word program did a mess of everything everything when I used it for spell check]