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Bayern Munich goalkeeper turns egghead in bid to be TV millionaire

Manuel Neuer was caught out by a globe but proved a safe pair of hands for charity by banking €500,000
Manuel Neuer, clever than your average goalkeeper
Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer was good on sneeze guards and Batman during his appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Photograph: Torsten Silz/AP

The questions for the Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's appearance on the German version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Translated by Helen Pidd


What did Reinhold Messner do with Mount Everest?

a) flirt with it

b) talk it around

c) bed it

d) mount it


It is not unusual for a driving instructor to constantly

a) belch

b) burp

c) fart

d) allow someone to drive (the German slang for "let one off" is "einen fahren lässt", which translates literally as "allow someone to drive")


FILL IN THE GAP... If Lattek is wearing Klinsi's trousers, ____ [is wearing] _____.

a) Herbert Grönemeyer

b) Peter Maffay

c) Udo Jürgens (the "joke" is that it spells out a sentence "If Lattek wears Klinsi's shorts, Jürgen wears Udo's" (it's Udo Lattek and Jürgen Klinsmann)

d) Patrick Lindner


Flower of the year in 2012 is

a) Katholikenuschi (Catholic Uschi)

b) Baddhistenbaerbel (Buddhist Baerbel)

c) Protestantenwaltraud (Protestant Waltraud)

d) Heidenelke (Heathen Elke)


If the idiot (Depp… so means Johnny Depp in this context) doesn't have his debit card on him, how does he pay?

a) Neil Diamond

b) Johnny Cash

c) Billy Idol

d) Pete Doherty


What often causes painful feet?

a) satte Gewinne (fat profits)

b) gute Renditen (good yields)

c) ueppige Erloese (ample revenues)

d) hohe Absätze (high heels)


What do you find on many shop counters for reasons of hygiene?

a) synovial bursa (schleimbeutel)

b) sneeze guard (Spukschutz)

c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon (rotzloeffel)

d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit (kotzbrocken)


Jet-setters complain of

a) Jetleg

b) Jetleck

c) Jetlag

d) Jetlack


Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?

a) Superman

b) He-Man

c) Spiderman

d) Batman (he has help from a voluptuous blonde in the audience on this one – she pretends to be a bat)


How much alcohol does a cyclist have to have drunk to declare him/her so unfit to drive that s(he) could lose his/her driving licence?

a) 0.3

b) 0.7

c) 1.6

d) 4.0


Which of the following grape varieties is used to make a famous red wine?

a) Riesling

b) Cabernet Sauvignon

c) Chardonnay

d) Pinot Grigio


On which national flag is the motto "Order and progress" written in the native language?

a) Australia

b) Brazil

c) South Africa

d) Indonesia


The prefix "eco" comes from the Greek word for

a) state

b) house

c) sun

d) life


Only 1.5% of trees in German woods are

a) fir (he asked the audience)

b) oak

c) spruce

d) beech


We have the Nuremberger Martin Behaim to thank for the oldest preserved

a) pair of compasses

b) slide-rule

c) globe (Neuer got this one wrong but he had already banked at 500,000 so was only guessing for fun)

d) marine compass

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