| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Führer of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 | Adolf Hitler | 97%
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| Physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein | 94%
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| Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 | Angela Merkel | 93%
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| Composer who continued to write after becoming deaf at the age of 29 | Ludwig van Beethoven | 91%
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| Philosopher who wrote Das Kapital | Karl Marx | 84%
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| Professor of theology and a seminal figure in the Reformation | Martin Luther | 80%
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| Seven time Formula One world champion | Michael Schumacher | 77%
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| Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 | Joseph Goebbels | 76%
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| Composer who wrote musical works for the church | Johann Sebastian Bach | 71%
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| Industrialist who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust | Oskar Schindler | 71%
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| 'Iron Chancellor ' who pursued the idea of German unification | Otto von Bismarck | 70%
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| Last German Emperor (Kaiser) reigning from 1888 until 1918 | Wilhelm II | 68%
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| Model, TV host, fashion designer, and occasional actress | Heidi Klum | 67%
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| Inventor of moveable-type for the printing press | Johannes Gutenberg | 67%
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| Inventor who along with Gottlieb Daimler invented the first car | Karl Benz | 65%
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| Footballer and manager who was nicknamed 'Der Kaiser' | Franz Beckenbauer | 63%
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| One of the greatest football goalkeepers in the history | Manuel Neuer | 63%
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| Female tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles | Steffi Graf | 63%
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| Top goal scorer of 1970 FIFA World Cup with 10 goals | Gerd Müller | 61%
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| Reichsführer and a leading member of the Nazi Party | Heinrich Himmler | 61%
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| Nazi field marshal known as The Desert Fox | Erwin Rommel | 60%
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| Linguist who collected fairy tales and published them into books | Jakob Grimm | 60%
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| Pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 until his resignation in 2013 | Benedict XVI | 59%
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| Male tennis player who won 6 Grand Slam singles | Boris Becker | 59%
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| Composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner | 57%
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| Footballer who scored most goals in FIFA World Cup history | Miroslav Klose | 55%
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| Scientist and poet who is also considered as the greatest German writer | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 53%
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| Physicist who discovered X-rays | Wilhelm Konrad von Röntgen | 53%
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| Played his entire 21-year NBA career in Dallas Mavericks | Dirk Nowitzki | 50%
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| Four time Formula One world champion | Sebastian Vettel | 50%
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| Convicted war criminal and a member of the Nazi Party | Hermann Göring | 49%
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| Philosopher of "pessimism" | Friedrich Nietzsche | 47%
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| Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005 | Gerhard Schröder | 47%
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| Philosopher who wrote Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | 47%
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| Second president of the German Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1934 | Paul von Hindenburg | 43%
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| Actress and singer, who was popular during WWII | Marlene Dietrich | 40%
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| One of the world's most successful supermodels in 1990s | Claudia Schiffer | 39%
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| Most capped German player of all time with a total of 150 appearances | Lothar Matthäus | 38%
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| Composer whose most famous work is Hallelujah Choir | George Frideric Händel | 34%
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| Astronomer who established the laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler | 34%
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| Physicist and creator of the quantum theory | Max Planck | 30%
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| Philosopher and the author of Ode to Joy | Friedrich von Schiller | 28%
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| Inventor of the famous engine | Rudolf Diesel | 27%
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| Musician and composer of a famous lullaby | Johannes Brahms | 25%
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| Novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature | Thomas Mann | 24%
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| Writer who wrote mainly books set in the American West | Karl May | 23%
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| Composer best known for his cantata Carmina Burana | Carl Orff | 21%
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| One of the most successful female figure skaters of all time. | Katarina Witt | 20%
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| Mathematician who has a magnetic unit of measure named after him | Carl Friedrich Gauss | 17%
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| Actress and fashion model who played Helen in the epic war film Troy | Diane Kruger | 11%
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