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What do you know?
Dear Readers, If you’ve read this issue of ATLAS carefully, you probably know more than you did before. At least we hope so, because the point of our customer magazine is not just to interest and entertain you. We also want to tell you more about the big wide world of logistics, mobility and global exploration. This double-page spread lets you gauge how much you know and perhaps still want to find out. You will find the answers to the quiz questions and their context on the pages of this issue.
3. How long has heaven been helping us? Who were the first people to navigate using the stars? W The Romans N The Phoenicians T The Vikings 4. The freight container has revolutionized logistics. Who is considered its inventor? L Don McLean K Malcolm McLaren D Malcom McLean 5. Where will tomorrow’s archaeologists need to dig if they want to find artist Martin Kunze’s tiles printed with all kinds of interesting information? E In Hallstatt, Upper Austria F In Gorleben, Lower Saxony U In Pompeii, Campania
1. The Port of London was once the largest in the world, but it slipped down the rankings in the final third of the 20th century. Why? A The latest container ships had become too large for the locks. W Sand deposits had made the River Thames too shallow. C The Royal Family objected to the disruption caused by the ships.
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10. If you want to read more of ATLAS , then you can R wait for the next issue in the fall T check out gw-atlas.com on the Internet
7. Most things we claim to know do not come from personal experience. We learn them from books, the Internet, or the press. Or from somebody else telling us about them. What proportion of our knowledge comes from these secondary sources? S 66.4 % L 99.8 % O 88.8 %
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Send the solution to redaktion@gw-atlas.com and win one of three crates of Gebrüder Weiss orange soda. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2021.
The winners will be notified by e-mail, and will receive their prizes by the end of September 2021. For legal reasons, we sincerely regret that Gebrüder Weiss employees are not permitted to enter. The judges’ decision is final. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash.
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9. According to the geologist João Duerte, another massive earthquake could devastate Lisbon at any time. Which groundbreaking discovery did he make? L The Atlantic could suddenly expand S The Atlantic could shrink
6. The baker David Arnórsson has been enticed from his Icelandic homeland by a certain commodity. Which one? G Alkaline water from Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) H Czech butter spread (pomazankove maslo) R Bohemian flour
2. Those who know the roads of Poland have a clear advantage here: What is the name of a typical, very popular snack there? A Bigos Z Bulgogi Y Unagi
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8. At the end of the 18th century, Johann Kasimir Weiss made a key acquisition that transformed his messenger service into a freight forwarding company. What did he buy? U A trading post E A Russian sled pulled by three horses D A customs house on the Swiss border
