Here is a little cheat sheet for you….All week YONNI will be asking trivia questions for your chance to win tickets to OKTOBERFEST so we wanted to give you the answers…See below! Good Luck!
- Q: What year was the first Oktoberfest held?
1810
- Q: What was the reason for the first Oktoberfest celebration?
It was a wedding feast honouring the union of Bavarian King Ludwig I and Maria Theresia of Saxonia.
- Q: What city does the official Oktoberfest take place in each year?
Munich, Germany
- Q: Last year, how many gallons of beer were consumed at the official Oktoberfest?
1.98 million gallons (1.98 million gallons is enough to fill three Olympic swimming pools)
- Q: How many people visit Germany’s Oktoberfest each year?
6 -7 million
- Q: Around how many mug stealing attempts are there each year at Oktoberfest?
226,000 (Last year, 226,000 glasses were recovered by security staff before patrons could sneak off with them.)
- Q: Out of the 200 years Oktoberfest has been held, how many times has it been cancelled?
24 times. (The causes were mostly due to the war and cholera epidemics.)
- Q: What is the German word for “cheers?”
Prost!
- Q: Who is in charge of tapping the festival’s first beer keg each year?
The city mayor
- Q: Which American celebrity is permanently banned from Oktoberfest?
Paris Hilton (She went to the event dressed in a golden and shiny Bavarian Dirndl (DERN-dul) to promote a brand of canned wine. Locals got the organisers to ban her because they were offended by how she was dressed.)
- Q: On average, how many items end up in the lost and found each year?
4,000 (One of the strangest discoveries from 2013 was a set of dentures.)
- Q: What is the name of the pants men traditionally wear to Oktoberfest?
Lederhosen (Lay-der-HO-zen)
- Q: What is the name of the mug that holds one liter of beer?
Stein
