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Throughout history, trivia has always been more than a game.

In ancient Greece, scholars tested each other’s wit in symposiums. In 12th-century Baghdad, thinkers debated questions in bustling libraries. Even in medieval Europe, monarchs used riddles and logic games to assess the sharpness of their advisors.

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One Wall, 1000 Stories

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On November 9, 1989, after nearly three decades of division, the Berlin Wall was effectively opened. Amid rising protests, economic pressure, and political shifts in Eastern Europe, East Germany’s government announced that citizens could freely cross into West Berlin.

Crowds gathered at the wall that night, some confused, some jubilant. Border guards, unsure of what to do, eventually stepped aside. Berliners climbed the wall, danced atop it, and began chipping away at it with hammers and pickaxes. It was a spontaneous and emotional collapse of one of the world’s most infamous symbols of oppression.

📌 Why This Matters

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It symbolized the collapse of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe and led to the reunification of Germany less than a year later, on October 3, 1990.

For nearly 28 years, the Wall had stood as a concrete and ideological divide: separating families, limiting freedom, and representing the clash between communism and democracy.

Its fall was not the result of a single decision, but the culmination of years of resistance, reform, and shifting global alliances, including Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).

🎯 How Much do you Know about the Berlin Wall?

The Berlin Wall wasn’t just a wall: it was a fortified border system with guard towers, trenches, floodlights, trip-wire machine guns, and a deadly no-man’s-land known as the “death strip.” More than 100 people died trying to cross.

When it fell, souvenir hunters began chipping away at it. Pieces of the Wall were shipped around the world and can still be seen today in museums, embassies, and even private collections.

In the ultimate twist of irony, what once divided the world became one of the most powerful symbols of unity.

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