Question: How many municipalities are in the Berne agglomeration?
Answer: 36 municipalities

Question: What is the population of Berne?
Answer: 140,634

Question: Where is Bern located? 
Answer: Switzerland

Question: How many municiplaities are in Bern?
Answer: 36

Question: Bern is the capitol of which canton?
Answer: Canton of Bern

Question: Where does Bern rank in population in Switzerland?
Answer: second

Question: What is the official language of Bern?
Answer: German

Question: What is the main language spoken in Bern?
Answer: Bernese German

Question: What dialect is Bernese German?
Answer: Alemannic Swiss

Question: In what year did the historic old town in the center of Bern become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: 1983

Question: What is Bern's ranking for the best quality of life?
Answer: the world’s top ten

Question: Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site located?
Answer: the centre of Bern

Question: In what year was Bern ranked as one of the 10 best cities for their quality of life?
Answer: 2010

Question: Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: centre of Bern

Question: Where does Bern rank for top cities for the best quality of life?
Answer: top ten

Question: When did the centre of Bern become the UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: 1983

Question: Who was the founder of the city of Bern?
Answer: Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen

Question: What animal does legend say Bern is named after?
Answer: a bear

Question: What is the earliest reference to keeping live bears in the Bärengraben?
Answer: the 1440s

Question: What is the common assumption of what Bern was named after?
Answer: a pre-existing toponym of Celtic origin, possibly *berna "cleft"

Question: Finding what in the 1980s changed the assumption as to what the city was named after?
Answer: the Bern zinc tablet

Question: What animal is on the seal and coat of arms of Bern?
Answer: bear

Question: What live animals did they keep in the Bärengraben?
Answer: bears

Question: What is the earliest that they kept live bears in the Bärengraben?
Answer: 1440s.

Question: When was the earliest evidnce of settlement in the city centre?
Answer: 12th century

Question: What era was there a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site?
Answer: Roman era

Question: What is the name of the Bern zinc tablet?
Answer: Brenodor

Question: When was the settlement in Bumpliz close to the medieval city?
Answer: Early Middle Ages

Question: The medieval city is a foundation of what family?
Answer: Zähringer

Question: When did the Zahringer ruling family rise to power?
Answer: 12th century

Question: Where did the Zahringer ruling family rise to power?
Answer: Upper Burgundy

Question: What year was Bern founded?
Answer: 1191

Question: Who founded Bern?
Answer: Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen

Question: what year did Bern join the Swiss Confederacy?
Answer: 1353

Question: How many cantons were there between 1353 to 1481?
Answer: 8

Question: What year did Bern invade Aargau?
Answer: 1415

Question: What is the largest city-state north of the Alps?
Answer: Bern

Question: What river was the city near?
Answer: River Aare

Question: What was the name of the tower that was the western boundary?
Answer: Zytglogge

Question: What tower took over after Zytglogge?
Answer: Käfigturm

Question: What did the big and small Schanze protect?
Answer: the whole area of the peninsula

Question: What year was there a huge fire?
Answer: 1405

Question: What was destroyed in the fire?
Answer: the city's original wooden buildings

Question: What year was Bern occupied by French troops?
Answer: 1798

Question: Why were French troops in Bern?
Answer: French Revolutionary Wars

Question: When did Bern regain control of Bernese Oberland?
Answer: 1802

Question: What new territory was aquired in 1814?
Answer: Bernese Jura.

Question: When did the canton of Jura seceed?
Answer: 1979

Question: What congresses were held in Bern?
Answer: First and Second Internationals

Question: In World War I, what side was Switzerland on?
Answer: Switzerland was neutral

Question: What percent of the populatin of Bern resident foreigners?
Answer: 30%

Question: Where is Bern located?
Answer: the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern

Question: What helped form the Bern countryside?
Answer: glaciers

Question: What is the tallest mountain closests to Bern?
Answer: Bantiger

Question: What peninsula is Bern located on?
Answer: Aare

Question: What was built to help Bern grow bigger than the peninula?
Answer: bridges

Question: What century did Bern outgrow the peninsula?
Answer: 19th century

Question: What type of ground was Bern built on?
Answer: uneven ground.

Question: What is the elevation difference between the inner cities and the other cities?
Answer: several metres

Question: Which city is higher, Matte or Langgasse?
Answer: Länggasse

Question: What is 33.6% of the land in Bern?
Answer: forested

Question: When was the last time the area of Bern was measured?
Answer: 2009

Question: How does the government of Bern operate?
Answer: as a collegiate authority.

Question: How many councilors are there?
Answer: five

Question: Who is Bern's mayor, or Stadtprasident?
Answer: Alexander Tschäppät

Question: How after are the elections?
Answer: every four years.

Question: Where is the executive body held?
Answer: in the Erlacherhof

Question: Who has the majority of the seats in Bern's City Council?
Answer: left parties

Question: What party also had the mayor as of 2015?
Answer: Social Democratic Party

Question: What is the Christian Democratic Party also known as?
Answer: CVP

Question: Who holds the legislative power?
Answer: The City Parliament

Question: How many members are part of the City Parliament?
Answer: 80

Question: How often are elections held for the City Parliament?
Answer: every four years.

Question: Are the sessions of City Parliament private or public?
Answer: public

Question: Which party has the absolute majority of the seats?
Answer: left parties

Question: How many seats are there?
Answer: 46

Question: Which specific party has the most members in the City Parliament?
Answer: Social Democratic Party

Question: What is the population of Bern?
Answer: 140,634

Question: What percent of the population are resident foreign nationals?
Answer: 34%

Question: What was the population change from 2000 and 2010?
Answer: .6%

Question: What counted for more of the population change?
Answer: births and deaths

Question: What is the main lanuage of Bern?
Answer: German

Question: What is the second most common language?
Answer: Italian

Question: What percent of the population speaks German?
Answer: 81.2%

Question: What did the city decide again?
Answer: having twinned cities

Question: When did they have a temporary twinned city?
Answer: during the UEFA Euro 2008

Question: What was the twinning city with Bern in 2008?
Answer: Salzburg

Question: What country is Salzburg in?
Answer: Austrian

Question: How many Swiss men live in Bern?
Answer: 35.4%

Question: What percent of the population is born somewhere else in Switzerland?
Answer: 20.1%

Question: What percent were born outside of Switzerland?
Answer: 21.6%

Question: What percent of the population are 19 years old and under?
Answer: 15.1%

Question: What percent of the population are between 20-64?
Answer: 65%

Question: What percent of the population are over 64 years old?
Answer: 19.9%

Question: What age group has most of the population included?
Answer: adults

Question: How many people were single in Bern in 2000?
Answer: 59,948

Question: How many people were married in Bern in 2000?
Answer: 49,873

Question: How many people were widows or widowers in Bern in 2000?
Answer: 9,468

Question: Where there more married or single people in Bern in 2000?
Answer: single

Question: What is the average of people per household in Bern?
Answer: 1.8 persons

Question: How many households have 5 or more people living in them?
Answer: 1,592