Famous people (green cards)
Question
1. Who designed the Quadriga statue on the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin?
2. August Wilhelm Schlegel translated what famous
playrights work into German?
3. Who’s nickname is “Father of Modern History”?
4. For what creation did Werner Heisenberg win the
Nobel Prize?
5. What was Johannes Gutenberg’s Famous
invention?
6. Adolf Hitler was the German leader during which
war?
7. What was Karl Marx’s most famous work?
8. What group of people were named for Jakob
Amman
9. Who was called the “Father of Gymnastics?”
10. What was the most famous theory of Albert
Einstein
11. Who composed the music to Shakespeare’s “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream”?
12. Who received the Nobel Prize for splitting the
atom?
13. Who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944?
14. What great German physicist once worked in a
patent office?
15. Who wrote the story of “Max and Moritz”?
16. Who was the German Kaiser during WWI?
17. Name one German author who won the Nobel
Prize for Literature?
18. Who became the father of “Economic Miracle”
after WWII?
19. Who was the greatest Austrian queen of the 18th
century?
20. Who was the first German to win the
Wimbledon Tennis Championship?
21. Who is considered the father of psychoanalysis?
22. Who built the first rigid airship in 1900?
23. What do these people have in common:
Answer
1. Johann Gottfried Schadow
2. William Shakespeare
3. Leopold von Ranke
4. The study of quantum mechanics
5. The printing press
6. World War II
7. The Communist Manifesto
8. The American Amish
9. Friedrich Jahn
10. The Theory of Relativity
11. Felix Mendelsohn
12. Otto Hahn
13. Claus von Stauffenberg
14. Albert Einstein
15. Wilhelm Busch
16. Kaiser Wilhelm II
17. Thomas Mann, Heinrich boll or Hermann Hesse
18. Ludwig Erhard
19. Maria Theresia
20. Boris Becker
21. Sigmund Freud
22. Graf von Zeppelin
23. All are famous painters.
Kokoschka, Heckle and Klee?
24. Who manufactured the Volkswagen upon
Hitler’s request?
25. Who developed the “Uncertainty Principle?”
26. Who spoke the famous words, “Ich bin ein
Berliner”?
27. Who invented the diesel engine?
28. Which famous German wrote “Mein Kampf”?
29. Who was the famous composer known for his
Brandenburg Concertos?
30. Where was Albert Einstein born?
31. Who discovered X-Rays?
32. Who were the famous German brothers who
collected fairy tales?
33. Who built the first high speed internal
combustion engine?
34. Who wrote the drama “Wilhelm Tell”?
35. Who is the founder of bacteriology?
36. Who was the German physicist who built Saturn
V rockets for the U.S.?
24. Ferdinand Porsche
25. Werner Heisenburg
26. John F. Kennedy
27. Rudolf Diesel
28. Adolf Hitler
29. Johann Sebastian Bach
30. In Ulm
31. Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen
32. The Grimm Brothers
33. Gottleib Daimler
34. Friedrich Schiller
35. Robert Koch
36. Wernher von Braun
37. Who discovered a well- Known ailment which
affects memory loss?
38. Who composed “Ode to Joy”?
39. Who invented the first practical, internalcombustion powered automobile?
40. Who said, “Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity and I am not sure
about the former!”?
41. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit invented what?
42. Who designed the Pan Am building in New
York City?
43. Where was the author Franz Kafka born?
44. What German bacteriologist won the Nobel
Prize in 1905?
45. Who invented the first practical glider and later
crashed and died with it?
46. Who was known as the “Swan King”?
47. Who started the protestant reformation?
48. Who was known as the “Father of
Communism”?
49. MarxWhat is the name for Charlemagne in
German?
50. Who was known as the “Desert Fox”?
51. Who said, “Happiness? That’s nothing more
than health and a poor memory!”
52. Who succeeded Helmut Kohl as chancellor?
53. Who is the first woman to become governor of a
German state?
54. What German satirist committed suicide after he
was exiled and his books were burned by the Nazis?
55. Who said, “No one has any intention of building
a wall.”?
56. Who composed the music for the Disney movie
“The Lion King”?
57. What famous German-American became
princess of Monaco?
58. Who became mayor of West Berlin in 1957?
59. What famous artist was known for his realistic
drawings of animals?
60. What sport does Steffi Graf play professionally?
61. Who founded the famous German Bauhaus
school of architecture and design?
62. Who was one of the first fiction writers to write
about Mesmer and mesmerism?
63. Who said, “In heaven all the interesting people
are missing.”?
64. Who wrote about the American “Wild-West”
while in prison?
65. Who was the founder of the “Holy Roman
Empire”?
66. Who taught that the earth is round and the sun is
the center of our solar system?
67. Who was the father of Chemistry and invented,
among other, chemical fertilizer?
68. Which famous physicist said, “Fantasy is more
important than knowledge.”?
69. Who is said to be the father of etiquette and
wrote a book titled: “Style and Etiquette”?
70. What was the name of the resistance group
Sophie and Hans Scholl belonged to during the time
of the Nazi regime?
37. Alois Alzheimer
38. Ludwig van Beethoven
39. Karl Benz and Gottfried Daimler
40. Albert Einstein
41. A temperature scale
42. Walter Gropious
43. Prague
44. Robert Koch
45. Otto Lilienthal
46. “Mad” Ludwig II
47. Martin Luther
48. Karl Marx
49. Karl der Groβe
50. Erwin Rommel
51. Albert Schweitzer
52. Gerhard Schröder
53. Heidi Simonis
54. Kurt Tucholski
55. Walter Ulbricht
56. Hans Zimmer
57. Grace Kelly
58. Willy Brandt
59. Albrecht Dürer
60. Tennis
61. Walter Gropius
62. E.T.A. Hoffmann
63. Friedrich Nitzsche
64. Karl May
65. Charlemagne (Karl der Groβe)
66. Kopernikus
Justus von Liebig
Albert Einstein
Adolph Freiherr von Knigge
White Rose
71. Who built the first electric locomotive and
streetcar in 1879?
72. Which Austrian actor became famous with
action movies and the line “Hasta la vista, Baby!”?
73. Who founded the German sport shoe company
Adidas in 1924?
74. Who was Heinrich Rudolf Hertz?
75. Where was the former U.S. Secretary of State
under Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, born?
76. Who wrote “The Magic Mountain” and won a
Nobel Prize in 1929?
77. Who was Johann Mesmer (1734-1815)?
78. Who wrote “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
79. Who developed the first educational concepts
and was the father of the “Curriculum”?
80. Who established the Pulitzer prizes for literature
and journalism?
81. What is the name of the top German model,
discovered by Karl Lagerfeld?
82. The Bayreuth music hall is named after what
famous composer?
83. Who composed the music the film “The Lion
King”?
84. Where was the film director Billy Wilder born?
85. Who composed the music for the movie “Gone
with the Wind”?
86. What is Leonardo DiCaprio’s middle name and
what is his heritage?
87. Who was the director of the movies “Das Boot,”
“Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm”?
88. What is the name of the German newcomer
actress who played a red haired punk in the movie
“Run Lola, Run!”?
89. What female film director turned 100 in 2002
and was Hitler’s favorite director?
90. Who was the original actor of “Tarzan”?
91. Wim Wenders is the director of what movies?
92. Who was the star in the 1969 movie “The Love
Bug”?
93. Where did Alfred Hitchcock direct his very first
movie “The Pleasure Garden”?
94. What is the connection between Sandra Bullock
and Germany?
95. Who produced the German movie “The Tin
Drum”?
96. Who wrote the text for “The Threepenny
Opera”?
97. Name the movie that made Marlene Dietrich
famous.
98. Who played a main part in the movie “Das
Boot”?
99. Who sang a song about 99 balloons?
100. Depending on the region there are two famous
people who deliver the gifts to the children on
Christmas Eve. Who are they?
Werner von Siemens
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolf
German physicist who’s name became the term
used for radio and electrical frequencies (HZ),
(KHZ), (MHZ)
In Fürth, Germany 1923
Thomas Mann
An Austrian physician who gave us the word
“mesmerize”. Mesmerism was an early form of
hypnotism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Swiss Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
The Austrian Joseph Pulitzer
Claudia Schiffer
Richard Wagner
Hans Zimmer
In Austria
The Austrian Max Steiner
Willhelm. His mother is a German from OerErkenschwick
The German Wolfgang Petersen
Franka Potente
Leni Riefenstahl
Jonny Weissmüller
“Wings of Desire”, “Paris-Texas”
“Herbie” the Volkswagen
In Munich, Germany
Her mother is a German Opera singer
Volker Schlöndorff
Bertolt Brecht
The Blue Angel
Jürgen Prochnow
The German singer Nena
Das Christkind (Christchild) and der
Weihnachtsmann (Santa Claus)
Life (Pink Cards)
1. What measuring system is used in Germany?
2. What is the Friday before Easter called?
3. What are Rentner?
4. When is Germany’s Labor Day celebrated?
5. In what city is the manufacturing plant for
Porsche?
6. What are inexpensive hotels for young people
called?
7. New Year’s Eve is known as what in Germany?
8. What is ein Bahnhof?
9. Which German word for early childhood
education is also used in the U.S.?
10. What animal is considered good luck for New
Years?
11. What sport is most often practiced at school?
12. How many feet are in 1 meter?
13. What does Hitzefrei mean to German students?
14. At what age can Germans obtain a driver’s
license?
15. Where do you write the zip code for a German
mailing address?
16. What do children receive on their first day of
school?
17. What are the major religious denominations in
Germany?
18. What is celebrated on January 6th?
19. What German car manufacturer is located in
Wolfsburg?
20. How many vacation days does the average
German employee receive?
21. Where is the highest church tower in the world?
22. What did Joesph Haydn compose?
23. How many types of schools are in Germany?
24. What are the names of the five types of German
schools?
25. What color is a public German mailbox?
26. Which German river is most visited by tourists?
27. How do Germans greet each other?
28. How old are children when they begin
grundschule?
29. When do Germans celebrate St. Nicholas day?
30. What is eine Trimm-dich-Strecke?
31. What is the full name for Germany?
32. What is the current currency being used in
Germany?
33. What was the former currency used in
Germany?
34. What is Europe’s busiest airport?
35. At what age does der Kindergarten start in
Germany?
36. When is English offered as a foreign language
class in public schools?
37. What is ein Landschuleheim?
38. What is ein Schülerlotse?
39. When is Thanksgiving celebrated in Germany?
40. How may liters equal one gallon?
41. What is the main theme of a passion play?
42. In what German city does the most famous
passion play take place?
The metric system.
Karfreitag
Retired people.
On May 1st
Stuttgart
Youth Hostels
Silvester
A railroad station
Kindergarten
A pig.
Gymnastics
3.28 feet
No school due to heat wave
At age 18
In front of the city
A cone filled with candy and gifts
Catholic and Lutheran
The feast of the three kings
Volkswagen
30 days.
Ulm
the German national anthem.
five
Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule,
Gymansium, and Gesamtschule.
Yellow
The Rhine river
With a handshake
Six years old
December 6th
An exerxise path.
Federal Republic of Germany
Der EURO
Deustsche Mark
Frankfurt am Main
Generally at the age of 3.
Usually 5th grade (average age of 10)
A hostel for students on a field trip.
A crossing guard.
Late September or early October
3.78 liters.
Christianity
Oberammergau in Bayern (Bavaria)
43. Who adopted December 25th vas Christmas day?
44. Who published the first German newspaper in
North America?
45. What is the East Side Gallery?
46. How many school days are there for German
children?
47. What type of grading system does Germany
use?
48. What common form of transportation was
privatized in 1994?
49. How do you say “How do you do, pleased to
meet you” in German?
50. What is Germany’s average temperature during
the month of July?
51. What is Germany’s average temperature during
the month of January?
52. What is Mardi Gras called in Germany?
53. Where is one of the main areas where Karneval
is celebrated?
54. Where is one of the main areas where Fasching
is celebrated?
55. What type of holiday is Karneval?
56. What is ein Verein?
57. What subject is taught in German public schools
that would not be taught in US public schools?
58. What does Sprechen Sie Englisch mean?
59. What is eine Wechselstube?
60. What segment of the American population is of
German ancestry?
61. When did the first Germans come to the US?
62. What is the German equivalent to the US
Secretary of State?
63. What does the German license plate show with
the first 1 to 3 letters?
64. For what group of items do German 14-yearolds generally spend most of their alloance?
65. What do Germans like the most during the
summer time?
66. If a man asked a woman out to a restaurant
would he pay the bill?
67. Are you allowed in Germany to use your cell
phone while you are driving?
68. What is a very important day for a German
child?
69. Are the Germans today older or younger when
they move from home than 20 years ago?
70. What is a main reason for young Germans in the
70s and 80s to move from home?
71. What is a popular living style while Germans
are studying?
72. What is a common kind of income many
German university students live off?
73. What would a German student generally have to
pay for attending a university?
74. When did the Internationalen Filmfestspiele
Berlin first take place?
75. How many weeks do German children have
summer vacation?
76. What is the name of the biggest German airline?
The roman catholic church
Benjamin Franklin
A section of the Wall painted by international artists
to express their reactions its demise.
220 days.
A grading scale of 1 to 6.
The train.
Guten tag, freut mich!
Approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 Grad
Celsius)
Approximately 31 degrees Fahrenheit (0 Grad
Celsius)
Karneval, Fasching, or Fastnacht (depending on the
region)
The Rhine area
Bavaria
A Catholic holiday
A special interest group
Religion
Do you speak English?
An exchange office for foreign currency
About one quarter
Over 300 years ago
Einwohnermeldeamt und Straβenverkehrsamt
Where the owner lives
Sweets
To sit on the patio or in the backyard
Not necessarily, it is also common that women pay
for themselves
No, it is strictly forbidden
His or her birthday
Much older, because nowadays it is more
comfortable to live with the parents
To gain more freedom
To live with roommates, called Wohngemeinschaft
A governmental financial support called BAFöG
Nothing, most universities are public and free
In 1951
6 weeks
Lufthansa
77. Approximately how many hours would it take
you to fly from Detroit to Frankfurt (Main)?
78. What kind of tests do Germans have to pass in
order to obtain a driver’s license?
79. What is the German name for driver’s license?
80. How many federal states is part of Germany?
81. What day is celebrated on October 3rd in
Germany?
82. Who is considered the inventor of the printing
press in Germany?
83. Which German man discovered the
Tuberculosis pathogen?
84. What is the German equivalent of AAA in the
US?
85. What year were German women allowed to vote
for the first time?
86. What was the German social movement called
that took place in the late 1960s?
87. What was one result of the German
studentenbewegung?
88. Who was one of the most important leaders of
the German Studentenbewegung?
89. Who was one of the most important leaders of
the German Frauenbewegung?
90. What is the German word for allowance?
91. Approximately how long does an apprenticeship
take in Germany?
92. What is the German word for teacher?
93. To what group of people does the German word
Student refer?
94. How many people live in Germany?
95. How many couples in Germany live together
without being married?
96. In what age group is it most common for
couples to live together without a marriage
certificate?
97. What was it called in the past if an unmarried
couple lived together?
98. What is the German term for divorce?
99. What is the German word for mother-in-law?
100. what is the German word for step mother?
Sports and Arts (orange cards)
1. What is Germany’s soccer league called?
2. What author created the characters Max and
Moritz?
3. Heinrich Böll on which Nobel Prize in 1972?
4. What century is most famous for the Baroque
style of design?
5. Gropius, Van der Rohe, and Klee were students
of which art school?
6. Who did Germany play against in the 2002 World
Cup finals?
7. How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win
during the 1972 Olympic games held in Munich?
8. For what sport is German Michael Groβ most
famous?
9. Who wrote the poem Die Lorelei?
10. Which church is considered the finest example
of Baroque architecture in Southern Germany?
11. Which Beethoven symphony concludes with
8 hours
A theoretical (multiple choice test) and a practical
one
Führerschein
16
The day of the reunification of Western and Eastern
Germany
Johannes Gutenberg
Robert Koch
ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club)
1919
Studentenbewegung
Frauenbewegung (women’s movement)
Rudi Dutschke (his wife, Gretchen, was an
American)
Alice Schwarzer
Taschengeld
3 years
Lehrer
To students of universities
Over 80 million
2.5 million
18 to 35 years
Wild marriage (Wilde Ehe)
(Ehe)scheidung
Schwiegermutter
Stiefmutter
Bundesliga
Willhelm Busch
For literature
The seventeenth
Bauhaus
Brazil
Seven
Swimming
Heinrich Heine
Die Wieskirche
The Ninth Symphony
Schillers poem An die Freude?
12. What do Tristan und Isolde, Parzival, Erec,
Iwein, and Lanzelet have in common?
13. What was the Bauhaus?
14. Which famous composer is best known for
writing a baby’s lullaby?
15. What syle of architecture was popular in the
Middle-Ages?
16. In which opera is Mack the Knife an important
character?
17. What is the difference between Hallenbad and
Freibad?
18. Who wrote one of the oldest versions of the epic
Tristan and Isolde?
19. What kind of group was Der Blaue Reiter?
20. Who composed the opera Fidelio?
21. For which sport is Boris Becker famous?
22. Who wrote the Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny
Opera)?
23. Which literary brother and sister left a bread
crumb trail in the forest in order to find a way back
home?
24. Who painted the Isenheimer Altar?
25. During which literary period did the Grimm
Brothers collect fairy tales?
26. Who wrote “Gruppenbild mit Dame” (Group
Portrait with Lady)?
27. Who was the famous German actress in the
movie “Der Blaue Engel” (The Blue Angel)?
28. Why were the 1972 Olympic games known as
the saddest in history?
29. What literary character tells the parable of the
king who must give a ring to one of his three
beloved sons?
30. Who developed Twelve Tone music?
31. Which Schiller drama describes Swiss
nationalism?
32. How many symphonies did Beethoven
compose?
33. What is Germany’s most popular sport?
34. Who are Liedermacher?
35. Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) was
written by which German author?
36. What is the German equivalent for soccer?
37. Why was it important to Adolf Hitler to host the
Olympic games in 1936?
38. In what year were all German sports
organizations for Jewish people disbanded?
39. What German-American returned to her country
to participate in the fencing competition despite her
Jewish faith?
40. Who composed the anthem for the 1936
Olympic games?
41. In what Olympic event did Langen and
Zimmermann win gold for Germany in 2002?
42. What team did the Germans defeat to win gold
in the team ski jumping event of the 2002 Winter
Olympics?
43. Which German composer stopped performing
publicly due to deafness?
Epics written in Germany during the Middle Ages
School for the arts in the 1920s
Johannes Brahms
Gothic
Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera)
Hallenbad is an indoor pool, Freibad is an outdoor
pool
Gottfried von Straβburg
Expressionist artists
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tennis
Bertolt Brecht
Hänsel und Gretel
Matthias Grünwald
Romanticism
Heinrich Böll
Marlene Dietrich
Terrorists murdered eleven Israelis
Nathan the Wise
Arnold Schönberg
Willhelm Tell
Nine
Soccer
Poets who write and perform songs that are
politically or socially oriented
Thomas Mann
Fuβball
Hitler could showcase a new and powerful Germany
1933
Helene Mayer
Richard Strauss
Two men bobsled
Finland
Ludwig van Beethoven
44. Where is the famous composer Georg Friedrich
Händel buried?
45. What is Mozart’s full name?
46. What is the American version of the story
Aschenputtel?
47. Who wrote Deutsches Requiem (German
Requiem)?
48. What kind of group was Junges Deutschland?
(Young Germany)
49. Who wrote Die Bäder von Lucca?
50. Richard Wagner is known for composing what
type of music in the 19th century?
51. The poets Trakl, Heym, and Benn are part of
what kind of literature?
52. Albrecht Dürer is best known for what form of
art?
53. What is “die Zugspitze”
54. What is the Bayrueth Festival?
55. Which of Richard Wagner’s works is usually
performed at the Bayruth festival?
56. The word Biedermeier is used to describe what?
57. What was Hans Holbeins specialty?
58. For what was Bertolt Brecht a genius?
59. Which political singer and song writer of the
former German Democratic REpubic was expelled
in 1976?
60. Which female pop singer sang a song about 99
red balloons in the 80’s?
61.Who wrote Faust?
62. What is one of the most famous novels of
Günther Grass?
63. Who wrote professor Unrat in the early 20th
century?
64. What is the name of the movie that is inspired
by the novel Professor Unrat
65. Which Austrian author wrote
Publikumbeschimpfung in 1966 that was inspired
by the rythem of beat music?
66. Which German author and film producer wrote
Berlin Alexanderplatz in 1980?
67. Which German director shot many movies
together with his wife, Margarete von Trotta, for
example Deutschland im Herbst (1979)?
68. Which German director who was famous for his
monumental style of movies shot fitzcarraldo?
69. Which german actor who was famous for his
roles as a bad guy played the leading character in
Fitzcarraldo?
70. Which is the first name of Klaus Kinski’s
daughter who is also famous for a few Hollywood
movies?
71. Which German conductor who lives in Europe
and the U.S. was the leading conductor of the
Dresdener Philharmonie in 1967?
72. Where is the PErgamon Museum located?
73. Who was the leading musician of the jazz band
Passport in the 70’s and 80’s?
74. What is the name of the German soccer player
and coach who is also the organizer of the World
Championship of the year 2006?
Westminster Abbey
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cinderella
Johannes Brahms
Young, early 19th century authors who advocated
political action to achieve republican ideals in
Germany
Heinrich Heine
Opera
Expressionistic literature
Engraving
A ski mountain
A festival celebrating the works of Richard Wagner
Parsifal
A 19th century style of furniture
Painting Portraits.
His use of languages.
Wolf Biermann
Nena
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Blechtrommel
Heinrich Mann
Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
Peter Handke
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Voker Schlöndorff
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski
Nastassja
Kurt Masur
In Berlin
Klaus Doldinger
Franz Beckenbauer
75. What is the name of the German model the
illusionist David Copperfield had a short
relationship with?
76. Which German author, who got the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1946, wrote Das Glasperlenspiel?
77. Which director who is famous for his extended
length in movies shot Paris – Texas?
78. Who played the female leading character in the
movie Paris – Texas?
79. Who played the male leading character in the
new version of Mephisto?
80. Which Austrian painter and graphic artist is
famous for his ornamental paintings that often show
houses and ships?
81. Which musical with Liza Minelli in the leading
character role took place in Berlin?
82. Which famous silent movie did Fritz Lang
direct?
Claudia Schiffer
83. What is the name of the movie Wolfgang
Petersen shot in 1997?
84. Which Austrian actor played the leading
character in Terminator?
85. Which German sculptor had an exhibition in the
Die Center New York in 1999?
86. Which female young German violinist tourist
North America in 2002 including one performance
in New York with the conductor Karl Masur?
87. What is the name of the most important German
conductors who came to his first US tour in 1955?
88. Which German rock band performed which
song about the political cnage in Russia in the 80’s?
89. Which german rock band performed the song
Autobahn in the 80’s?
90. Who was defeated by the American cycling
chamption Lance Armstrong during the Tour de
France in 2001?
91. Which German player is part of the team of the
Dallas Mavericks?
92. Which German figure skater won her first gold
medal during the Olympic games in 1984?
93. Who won the heavy-weight boxing world
championship the third time in a row in 2002?
94. Who wrote Emilia Galotti?
95. Who wrote Die Jungfrau von Orleans?
96. What is the devil’s name in Goethes Faust
97. Who wrote the opera Lulu?
98. Who was the founder of the expressionistic
group Der Blaue Reither?
99. Which work of Thomas Mann describes a
family story of several generations?
100. What was the first name of MendelssohnBartholdy?
Das Boot
History (yellow cards)
1. Who was the first to translate the bible into a
Germanic language?
2. Which country returned the German state of
Saarland in 1957?
3. Why did Prussia, Austria and Germany unite in
the year 1813?
Hermann Hesse
Wim Wenders
Nastassja Kinski
Karl Maria Brandauer
Friedrich Hundertwasser
Cabaret
Nosferatu
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Joseph Beuys
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Herbert von Karajan
Wind of Change (Scorpions)
Kraftwerk
Jan Ulrich
Dirk Novitzki
Katharina Witt
Wladimir Klitschko
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Friedrich Schiller
Mephisto
Alban Berg
Franz Marc
Die Buddenbrocks
Felix
Bishop Wulfia
France
To fight against Napoleon
4. What was called the Economic Miracle?
5. Who was the president of Germany when Hitler
came to power?
6. What is the oldest German city?
7. What was Hitler’s title in 1933?
8. What were the women called who helped to
rebuild Germany after WWII?
9. When was Charlemagne crowned Emperor?
10. What was Bismarck’s nickname?
11. What were the initials for the Nazi Party?
12. In what century was the “Age of Reason”?
13. What Germanic tribe plundered Rome?
14. In what city were the Nazi war trials held?
15. What was Germany called after WWI?
16. What city was founded by the Romans as
Augusta Vindelicorum?
17. Who were the two ruling families in Germany
and Austria in the 18th century?
18. The second World War began with the invasion
of what country?
19. What German city was once a Roman city
named Colonia Agrippina?
20. What was the largest German-speaking city at
the beginning of the 18th century?
21. When did the Soviets blockade Berlin?
22. What were the two largest German states in the
18th and 19th centuries?
23. What Dutch teenager wrote her story in hiding
during WWII?
24. When did WWII begin?
25. What German Kaiser is named for his red
beard?
26. Which political figure was responsible for
building the Berlin wall?
27. Whose murder started the first World War?
28. What French emperor brought an end to the
Holy Roman Empire?
29. What was the GDR?
30. Who invented the printing press?
31. What architectural style was used mainly during
the Middle Ages?
32. Who was the first president of the FRG?
33. Name two Volkswagon models named after
animals.
34. What church practice did Luther consider a
scandal?
35. How many theses did Luther post on the church
door in Wittenberg?
36. Where did Luther hide to escape his enemies?
37. What title did Hitler give himself?
38. Who was the leader of the moderate Social
Democrats after WWI?
39. What two houses of parliament were formed in
1919?
40. What did the Versailles Treaty do?
41. What worldwide crisis helped support the Nazi
Party after WWI?
42. Who made up the westernmost German tribes?
43. What Germanic tribe was the easternmost tribe?
44. What was a Hansa?
The time of economic recovery after WWII
Von Hindenburg
Trier
Chancellor
Trümmerfrauen
Christmas 800 A.D.
The Iron Chancellor
NSDAP
The 18th century
The Goths
Nuremberg
Weimer Republic
Augsburg
Habsburg and Hohenzollern
Poland
Cologne
Vienna
1948
Prussia and Austria
Anne Frank
September 1, 1939
Friedrich Barbarossa
Walther Ulbricht
Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Napoleon Bonaparte
German Democratic Republic
Gutenberg
Gothic
Theodore Heuss
The bug and the rabbit
The sale of indulgences
95 theses
In the Wartburg
Führer
Friedrich Ebert
The Reichstag and the Reichsrat
Ended WWI
The depression
Franks, Angls, and Saxons
Ostrogoths
A company of merchants trading with foreign lands
45. In what town did Martin Luther live with his
parents?
46. What year was the Christian Social Union Party
founded?
47. What did the German Confederation replace?
48. How many states were included in the German
Confederation between 1915 and 1866?
49. What was the German Confederation’s main
pledge?
50. What war ended as communism fell in the
Soviet Union and East Germany?
51. Name three reasons for the Thirty Years War.
52. What was Otto von Bismarck’s greatest
accomplishment?
53. Whose assassination was said to have started
WWII?
54. Who was the leader of the “Sturmabteilung”?
55. Who did Hitler assign as vice chancellor of
Prussia?
56. What legal decree allowed Hitler’s SA and SS
troops to take over government offices?
57. What were the Nazi slave labor camps called?
58. What was the slogan, stated over most of the
Nazi Concentration Camps?
59. What was the systematic annihilation of six
million Jews by the Nazi regime during WWII
called?
60. Where did Anne Frank move with her parents to
avoid the anti-Jewish sentiment of the Nazi Party?
61. To which Concentration Camp was Anne Frank
sent?
62. What famous pain killer was invented by the
German company Bayer AG?
63. What year did Bayer AG come out with the pain
killer, Aspirin, for the first time?
64. What year did the architect Alfred Messel built
the first German department store in Berlin?
65. What year were the German pathfinders or boy
scouts first founded?
66. When were German women allowed to vote for
the first time?
67. What year was the year of the so called
“November Revolution?”
68. What ended with the “November Revolution” in
1918?
69. Who was the last German Emperor?
70. Which event was called the “Kapp-Putsch” and
took place in 1920?
71. Who was the foreign minister during the
Weimarer Republic?
72. When was the official opening of the German
race track Nürburgring?
73. What year was the official opening of the first
German Autobahn?
74. What was the speed limit on the first German
Autobahn?
75. Which two cities were connected by the first
part of the German Autobahn?
76. Which event marked the beginning of Nazi
control over German art in 1933?
Eisleben
In 1946
The Holy Roman Empire
39 states
To aid each other in defense
The Cold War
Religion, constitutional differences, political
differences
The unification of Germany in 1871
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Hermann Göring
Vice Chancellor Papen
The State of Emergency Decree
Concentration Camps
“Arbeit Macht Frei” (works makes you free)
The Holocaust
Amsterdam
Bergen-Belsen
Aspirin
1903
1904
1908
1919
1918
The German monarchy
Kaiser Wilhelm II
The attempt of the German military to overturn the
first German Democratic republic?
Gustav Stresemann
June, 1927
1932
120 km/h
Cologne and Bonn
The public burning of books of unwanted authors
77. What year did Hitler declare war on the USA?
78. How many people lost their lives as a result of
WWII?
79. Who was the member of the anti-Nazi resistance
who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944?
80. Which catholic bishop became famous for his
resistance against the Nazis and the Holocaust?
81. When did Germany win the world championship
in soccer for the first time?
82. When did the Soviet Union finally release the
German WWII prisoners?
83. What year was the German soccer league
Bundesliga founded?
84. Who was the first social-democratic chancellor
in Germany after WWII?
85. What year was the chancellor Willy Brandt first
elected?
86. Which date marked the beginning of the so
called ’68 student revolution and later became the
name of a terrorist group in Germany?
87. What event started the ’68 student revolution in
West Berlin in 1967?
88. Who was a leading figure during the student
revolution in the late 60’s and early 70’s and later
was shot, and seriously injured by an assassin?
89. Who was the first social-democratic
Bundespräsident of the FRG?
90. When did chancellor Willy Brandt first
officially acknowledge, that Germany was divided
into two separate states – FRG and DDR
91. Why did Chancellor Willy Brandt resign from
office in 1974?
92. What was the name of the terror group which
terrorized Germany from 1970 until 1990 with
kidnappings and bombings? Their leaders with
Baader and Meinhof.
93. What is the name of the chancellor who set the
record for being a chancellor for 16 years?
94. Which political party was founded in 1980 and
it’s logo is a sunflower?
95. When were the first free elections in former
East- Germany after WWII?
96. What is the official date of the German
reunification and declared at holiday in Germany?
97. Which city became German capital in 1991?
98. Which reform took place in 1996 and managed
to confuse students and teachers and everybody who
thought he could write in the German language?
99. When did the 16 years of the government by
chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Christian
Democratic Union end?
100. Who was elected chancellor in 1998 and which
party does he belong to?
Geography (blue cards)
Question
1. The city of Augsburg is named after which
Roman Emperor?
2. In which city are Volkswagens manufactured?
3. Where do the Rhine and the Mosel rivers meet?
4. What is the highest mountain in Austria?
December, 1941
An estimated 55 million people
Stauffenberg
Clemens August Graft von Galen
1954
1955
1963
Willy Brandt
1969
June 2, 1967
The shooting of the student Benno Ohnesorg during
a student demonstration
Rudi Dutschke
Gustav Heinemann
1972
Because of the discovery that his personal secretary,
Günter Guillaume, was a spy from East Germany
RAF- Red Army Fraction
Helmut Kohl
The Green party
1990
October 3rd, 1990
Berlin
The German spelling reform
1998
Gerhard Schröder
Answer
Emperor Augustus
Wolfsburg
Koblenz
Grossglockner
5. What is the capital of Austria?
6. Who are Berliners?
7. What is the capital of Bavaria?
8. Who are Frankfurters?
9. Where was Beethoven born?
10. What is a famous candy produced in Lübeck?
11. What are Hamburgers?
12. From what two valleys does Germany produce
its most famous wines?
13. Where is Germany’s largest seaport?
14. What is Germany’s largest lake?
15. What is the name of the artists’ district in
Munich?
16. On which river is the city of Frankfurt?
17. Which city was divided in two by a wall?
18. What sea boarders on the western coast of
Germany?
19. In which state is the Black Forest located?
20. What German-speaking country has four official
languages?
21. What was the official name of East Germany
before the reunification?
22. What is Germany’s longest and most important
river?
23. Where is the famous Christkindl market?
24. What was the official name for West Germany
before the reunification?
25. What famous road runs through the cities
Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl?
26. On which river is Munich situated?
27. Which German city hosts the famous
Oktoberfest?
28. Which castle in Germany did Walt Disney
imitate for his theme park?
29. Where is Germany’s largest airport?
30. In which region of Germany do people eat the
famous Weisswurst?
31. What is the German name for the city of
Gdansk?
32. What is the northernmost state in Germany?
33. In which state is the main wine region of
Germany located?
34. What protects the land bordering on the North
Sea from flooding?
35. In which direction does the Rhine river flow?
36. What is the main shopping street in Berlin?
37. Which German states border on the North Sea?
38. On which river is the Köln Cathedral situated?
39. Which state did not become part of the former
West Germany until 1957?
40. What do the Germans call the Baltic?
41. The entire country of Germany measures
slightly smaller than what U.S state?
42. How many countries border on Germany?
43. Before reaching the North Sea and the Rhine
river broadens and forms what famous lake?
44. What three countries border Lake Constance?
45. What are the Alps?
46. What country is directly north of Germany?
47. Where is the largest port in Germany?
Vienna
People who live in Berlin
Munich
People who live in Frankfurt
Bonn
Marzipan
People who live in Hamburg
The Rhine and Mosel valleys
Hamburg
Lake Constance
Schwabing
The Main
Berlin
The North Sea
Baden-Würtemberg
Switzerland
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
The Rhine
Nuremberg
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
The Romantic Road
The Isar
Munich
Neuschwanstein
Frankfurt am Main
Bavaria
Danzig
Schleswig-Holstein
Rheinland-Pfalz
Dikes
From South to North
Der Kurfürstendamm
Schleswig-Holstein and Niedersachen
The Rhine
Das Saarland
Ostsee
Montana
9
Lake Constance/Bodensee
Austria, Germany, Switzerland
A mountain range
Denmark
In Hamburg
48. At what point does the Rhine river fall 70 feet?
49. The Rhine river provides a port for Switzerland
at what city?
50. On what date was the Berlin wall completed?
51. What four allied countries occupied Germany
after the second world war?
52. What is the capital of Baden-Württemberg?
53. Who built the castle Neuschwanstein?
54. How long is the Mittelland Canal?
55. Between what years was Germany divided into
East and West?
56. What is the German name for the Black Forest?
57. What river borders the Black Forest on the east?
58. What type of trees are dominant in the Black
Forest?
59. People of the Black Forest region are known for
making what type of clock?
60. What Mark Twain book describes the Black
Forest?
61. Where are the Bavarian Alps located?
62.What is Germany’s highest elevation?
63. Name three of Germany’s natural resources.
64. What is Germany’s most natural hazard?
65. What is the capital of Germany?
66. How many states are in Germany?
67.When did East and West Germany reunify?
68. What major German city is closest to the
Austrian border?
69. What is the second longest river in Europe?
70. Where does the Danube river end?
71. Name all German-speaking countries.
72. On which river is the city of Bremen situated?
73. What is the name of the famous street that runs
through the Brandenburg Gate?
74. In which country does the Rhine have it’s
source?
75. What was the capital of West Germany before
the reunification?
76. Name the three city states of Germany.
77. Name the five states of former East Germany.
78. Which city is the birthplace of the Grimm
brothers?
79. In which region can you find Germany’s most
famous spas and healing water springs?
80. What are the colors of the German flag?
81. Name the 3 largest cities in Germany.
82. What are the acknowledged centers of the
German Karneval?
83. Which German-speaking country contains the
highest elevations in Europe?
84. What city is the capital of Switzerland?
85. What are states called in Switzerland?
86. Where is Switzerland’s only port and harbor?
87. Which large German seaport lies on the Elbe
river?
88. In which Swiss canton can you find the
Matterhorn?
In Schaffhausen
Basel
August 13, 1961
United States, Soviet Union, France, Great Britain
Stuttgart
King Ludwig II
320 km
1945 and 1991
Der Schwarzwald
The Neckar river
Conifers
Cuckoo clocks
A Tramp Abroad
Along Germany’s southern border
Die Zugspitze, at 2,963 meters above sea level
Iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium,
copper, natural gas, salt, & nickel
Flooding
Berlin
Sixteen
October 3rd, 1990
Munich
Danube
The Black Sea
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and
Luxemburg
The Weser
Unter den Linden
Switzerland
Bonn
Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg
Thürigen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Mecklenberg, and
Brandenburg
Hanau
Black Forest region
Black, Red, and Gold
Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich
Cologne and Mainz
Switzerland
Bern
Cantons
Basel
Hamburg
Zermatt
89. Name the three European rivers that have their
source in Switzerland.
90. What is the name of the other, big, Swiss
mountain range besides the Alps?
91.Where can you find the highest golf course in
Europe?
92. What is the name of the longest European
glacier?
93. Where can you find the famous ski paradise in
Davos?
94. What is the name of the white horses Austria is
for?
95. Which city is the “Global Winter Sports
Capital” in Austria?
96. What does the word “Alps” mean?
97. Where can you find the famous department store
KA DE WE?
98. In what German state is the city of Cologne
located?
99. In what city is “Der Marienplatz”?
100. What city is the cultural center of Germany?
Rhine, Rhone, and Inn.
The Jura
Switzerland: Arosa, Canton Grisons
The Aletsch, Switzerland
In the Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Lipizzaner
Innsbruck
A high place, Latin origin
Berlin
Northrhine-Westfalia
Munich
Berlin
Food & Drink (Manila cards)
Question
Answer
1. What is the German word for strawberry?
Erdbeere
2. What country is the third largest exporter of
Germany
cheese?
3. What is the German word for napkin?
Serviette
4. What is another word for Knödel?
Klöβe
5. What common fruit is used to make specialty
Apples
wine in Frankfurt?
6. What favorite type of doughnut originated in
Berliner
Germany?
7. What kind of store is a Bäckerei?
A bakery
8. When is the main meal of the day for Germans?
At noon
9. Sauerkraut is made from what vegetable?
Cabbage
10. What kind of egg is ein Spiegelei?
A fried egg
11. What is processed at a Molkerei?
Milk
12. For what holiday is Stollen baked?
Christmas
13. What poultry is commonly eaten at Christmas
Goose
time?
14. What flavor is eine Sachertorte?
Chocolate
15. Where would you put the spoons if you were
Crosswise above the plate
setting a German table?
16. During what season are grapes harvested for
Fall
wine?
17. What are Königsberger Klopse?
Meatballs
18. What are Spätzle?
Noodle-like dumplings
19. What kind of edible house is popular at
Gingerbread house
Christmas time?
20. What is a Wiener Schnitzel?
A breaded veal cut
21. How long do you cook steak tartare?
You do not cook it at all
22. What ingredients are in Himmel und Erde?
Potatoes and apples
23. What is ein Stammtisch?
A reserved table
24. What would you buy in a Konditorei?
Cakes and tortes
25. What is the German word for potato?
Kartoffel
26. What are Gurken?
Cucumbers and pickles
27. What would you buy in a Fleischerei?
Meats
28. What city is famous for Lebkuchen?
Nuremberg
29. What is the biggest meal of the day?
Lunch
30. What is Hackbraten?
Meatloaf
31. What drink is made from barley?
Beer
32. What kind of grapes grow well in the cool
White
climate of Germany?
33. What is known as the “Queen of German
Riesling
Wines”?
34. During what festival does the town’s fountain
Moselle Wine Festival
spew wine?
35. What month does the famous Oktoberfest
In the last week of September
begin?
36. Where was Marzipan invented?
Lübeck
37. What type of grain may be used in bottomOnly barley
fermented beers?
38. What is Weihenstephan?
The oldest beer academy in the world
39. How old are the oldest proven records of
6000 years
brewing beers?
40. Who discovered the fermentation process?
The Sumarians
41. How many types of beer did the Babylonians
20
know how to brew?
42. What does Abendbrot mean?
Dinner
43. What is the general term for Messer, Gabel, and Besteck
Löffel?
44. What does bestellen mean?
45. How many kinds of German bread are there?
46. What is Eis?
47. The first Oktoberfest was not a festival of food.
What type of celebration was it?
48. What type of beer is the Oktoberfest Bier?
49. What cannot be included in bread recipes in
Germany?
50. What month of the year is asparagus considered
a delicacy?
51. To what does the German word Marmelade
refer?
52. What are Pommes Frites?
53. What is one of the German national foods?
54. What is ein Zahnstocher?
55. What city is famous for its Fischmarkt?
56. Which is not a dairy product but often sold in
the dairy counter?
57. Which fish does live in both salt and fresh
water?
58. What is the German word for yummy?
59. Name is German ice cream brand, known in the
USA.
60. What is das Haltbarkeitsdatum?
61. Which tool referring to Schnee is used in the
kitchen?
62. What does “verrühren” mean?
63. Which kind of ingredients is not used in Stollen?
64. What kind of dish would you eat a sandwich
from?
65. What is “Glühwein”?
66. What is the German word for honey?
67. What kind of preserved food has the highest
amount of vitamins?
68. What drink does not contain alcohol?
69. What kind of vegetable is not green?
70. What would you eat during a wine tasting
between the single samples in order to neutralize the
taste?
71. Is ein Apfel part of Citrusfruits?
72. What does Guten Appetit mean?
73. To what do the terms Jahrgang, Rebsorte,
Anbaugebiet, and Blume refer?
74. What is the German word for tip?
75. At what time of day would you have Kaffee und
Kuchen in Germany?
76. What custom in Germany is more common than
in the US if you go out dining?
77. At what age are Germans allowed to order
alcoholic drinks in public?
78. What is eine Kneipe?
79. In which city would you typically find
Weiβwurst?
80. What is ein Bioladen?
81. Which fluid is often a main part of food?
82. What is Leipziger Allerlei made from?
83. What is Kirsche part of?
84. To what kind of food does the term knackig
refer?
85. What does the idiom ”Liebe geht durch den
To order
Over 200
Ice cream
A wedding
Amber-gold lager
Artificial additives
June
Any jam, jelly, or preserves
French fries
Wurst
A toothpick
Hamburg
Eier
Lachs
Lecker
Langnese (Good Humor)
The expiration date
Schneebesen
Stirring
Scharfe Gewürze
Teller
Hot, sweet, spicy wine
Honig
Tiefgefroren (frozen)
Saft
Pilze (mushrooms)
White bread or cheese
No
Enjoy your meal
To wine
Trinkgeld
In the afternoon
To get seated
18 years
A pub or bar
Munich
A whole food market
Wasser
Vegetables
Obst
Salad
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
Magen” mean?
86. What kind of nut does not grow in Germany?
87. To what drink does the term Lese refer?
88. Which German word including Hefe is referring
to a drink?
89. On the top of what drink do the Germans love a
layer of foam?
90. Name on famous wine region.
91. What are Kräuter?
92. What kind of vegetable does not have different
colors?
93. What would you buy at a supermarket’s deli
counter?
94. What is the German word for waiter?
95. For what would you not ask for at the end of
your dinner?
96. What is the German expression for set the table?
97. What kind of salad is a dessert?
98. What kind of fruit does not grow in Germany?
99. What is another name for Möhre?
100. The nectarine is a cross-breeding of which two
fruits?
Paranuss
Wein
Hefeweizen
Bier
Moselle
Herbs
Erbsen
Brathähnchen
Kellner
Die Vorspeise
Den Tisch decken
Obstsalat
Oranges
Karotte
Plum and peach