Question: Where do most landscape problems come from?
Answer: increasingly prolonged dry periods during the summer months

Question: What has been the aim for the Thuringian forests since 1990?
Answer: more natural and tough vegetation

Question: Since when has environmental damage in Thuringia been reduced?
Answer: 1990

Question: What is one thing that helped to improve condition of forests, rivers and air?
Answer: modernizing factories

Question: What has been done to former Uranium surface mines around Ronneburg?
Answer: Uranium surface mines around Ronneburg have been remediated

Question: What are today's big environmental problems?
Answer: the salination of the Werra river

Question: What is causing the salination of the Werra river?
Answer: discharges of K+S salt mines around Unterbreizbach

Question: Where was Thuringia in the Middle Ages?
Answer: the border between Germanic and Slavic territories

Question: What was the result of the Ostsiedlung movement?
Answer: the assimilation of Slavic people between the 11th and the 13th century under German rule

Question: When did population growth in Thuringia peak?
Answer: World War I

Question: In what year did many cities in Thuringia lose half of their population?
Answer: 1950

Question: How many non-Germans lived in Thuringia in 2013?
Answer: 41,000

Question: What was the increase in non-German population between 2011 and 2013?
Answer: 24%

Question: How much of the Thuringian population are migrants?
Answer: 4%

Question: What is the largest group of foreigners?
Answer: Russians

Question: Which towns have the highest immigrant population?
Answer: Erfurt, Jena, Weimar and Ilmenau

Question: What is the sex ratio gap in Thuringia?
Answer: 115 to 120 men per 100 women

Question: What caused the wide sex ratio gap in Thuringia?
Answer: emigration of young women

Question: How many citizens of Thuringia are over the age of 65?
Answer: more than 30%

Question: What is the problem facing the job market in Thuringia?
Answer: there are twice as many people leaving as entering the job market annually.

Question: How many people migrated to Thuringia between 2008 and 2012?
Answer: +6,700 persons

Question: How many migrants went to Eisenach? 
Answer: +1,400

Question: Is the migration to Thuringia steady or fluctuating? 
Answer: The international migration is fluctuating heavily

Question: How many municipalities are in Thuringia? 
Answer: 850

Question: How many municipalities in Thuringia are classified as towns?
Answer: 126

Question: How many towns have populations greater than 30,000?
Answer: ten

Question: What was the latest a town was established in Thuringia?
Answer: the 20th century

Question: Which regions of Thuringia have the most political power?
Answer: Independent cities (i.e. urban districts) have greater powers (the same as any district) than towns within a district.

Question: What is something more important to Thuringia than most areas of Germany?
Answer: Agriculture and forestry

Question: How much of Thuringia's territory is in agricultural use?
Answer: 54%

Question: What is the largest fertile area of Thuringia?
Answer: the large Thuringian Basin

Question: Where do they grow tomatoes in Thuringia?
Answer: greenhouses

Question: Which regions value agriculture most?
Answer: rural regions

Question: How far back does Thuringia's industrial sector go back?
Answer: the mid-19th-century industrialisation

Question: What was the result of the economic transition after the German reunification in 1990?
Answer: the closure of most large-scale factories and companies

Question: Where in Thuringia are there fewer industrial companies?
Answer: the northern and eastern parts of the Land.

Question: When did traditional industries like glass and toy making collapse?
Answer: between 1930 and 1990

Question: Where in Thuringia did BMW get it's start in the 1920's?
Answer: Eisenach

Question: Which towns in Thuringia are known as mining towns?
Answer: Schmalkalden, Suhl and Ilmenau

Question: Why did the iron, copper and silver mines fail?
Answer: because the competition from imported metal was too strong

Question: What is one of the two mining districts were established around 1900?
Answer: the Südharzrevier

Question: What did the Thuringian miners do to help the Soviet Union?
Answer: uranium mining was also important to cover the Soviet Union's need for this metal

Question: When did the Südharzrevier close?
Answer: After the reunification

Question: Where is the GDP of Thuringia?
Answer: below the national average

Question: For how long was Thuringia one of the weakest regions in the EU?
Answer: Until 2004

Question: What has helped to improve Thuringia? 
Answer: The accession of several new countries, the crisis in southern Europe and the sustained economic growth

Question: When will government subsidies to Thuringia end?
Answer: around 2020

Question: When did the unemployment rate of Thuringia peak?
Answer: 20% in 2005

Question: What is the current state of unemployment in Thuringia? 
Answer: it has decreased to 7%

Question: How do wages in Thuringia compare to their neighbors?
Answer: The wages in Thuringia are low compared to rich bordering Lands like Hesse and Bavaria.

Question: What do many Thuringian workers do to earn better wages?
Answer: working in other German Lands and even in Austria and Switzerland as weekly commuters

Question: What has lead to a lack of workers in some sectors?
Answer: demographic transition

Question: When were the first motorways built in Thuringia?
Answer: During the 1930s

Question: When were the two motorways expanded?
Answer: Both highways were widened from four to six lanes (three each way) after 1990

Question: When were three additional roads built?
Answer: during the 1990s and 2000s

Question: Which motorway is Thuringia's most expensive?
Answer: The crossing of the Thuringian Forest by the A71

Question:   What is the top priority of the federal trunk road programme 2015?
Answer: The upgrading of federal highways

Question: What is Thuringia's traditional energy supply?
Answer: lignite

Question: Where does Thuringia get it's lignite?
Answer: mined in the bordering Leipzig region

Question: How is most of Thuringia's clean gas consumption carried out?
Answer: carried out as Cogeneration in the municipal power stations

Question: What are Thuringia's most important renewable energy sources?
Answer: Wind power and Biomass

Question: What is Hohenwarte Dam?
Answer: big pumped storage stations

Question: Which hospitals are being expanded?
Answer: bigger ones in centres like Jena and Erfurt

Question: Why are there too many hospital beds?
Answer: rationalisation processes in the German health care system

Question: Where is it the most difficult to find a family doctor?
Answer: rural regions with increased need of health care provision because of overageing.

Question: How long is Thuringian primary school?
Answer: four years

Question: For how long have Thuringian children been using the current education system?
Answer: Since the 1950s

Question: When do children graduate from primary school in Thuringia?
Answer: At the age of ten

Question: Who invented the early years education in Thuringia? 
Answer: Friedrich Fröbel

Question: How many years of school do students attend after primary?
Answer: eight years

Question: What is the biggest school in Thuringia?
Answer: The University of Jena

Question: How many universities are there in Thuringia?
Answer: four

Question: How many students attend The University of Erfurt?
Answer: 5,000

Question: What is Germany's leading art school in Thuringia?
Answer: The Bauhaus University Weimar

Question: When was The Bauhaus University Weimar founded?
Answer: 1860

Question: Where is the civil service college of Thuringia?
Answer: Gotha

Question: How many students attend the college of music in Thuringia?
Answer: 800