A Germany Question Tour

Guten tag! Or guten abend? I cannot realistically account for when you take this quiz. Here's a set of 32 questions about the nation of Germany. Good luck, and with German precision may your victory be won!

Vocab will be in standard German.

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Hint	Answer
Cities 1: Capital of Bavaria	Munich
Cities 2: City where the automobile is said to have been invented.	Stuttgart
Cities 3: The second largest city in Germany; in medieval times to the 19th century, it was a member of the Hanseatic League	Hamburg
Cities 4: City home to the oldest university in Germany	Heidelberg
Artificial Landmarks 1: Castle built under Ludwig II, the last king of Bavaria, to honor the composer Richard Wagner	Neuschwanstein
Artificial Landmarks 2: Center of the German parliament	Reichstag
Artificial Landmarks 3: The quadriga atop this Berlin monument was briefly stolen by the French army under Napoleon	Brandenburg Gate
Artificial Landmarks 4: Tallest church in the world	Ulm Minster
Natural Landmarks 1: The tallest mountain in Germany, overlooking Lake Eibsee	Zugspitze
Natural Landmarks 2: In ancient times, this famous forest was home to the Suebi Gallic people	Black Forest
Natural Landmarks 3: Chalky landmark on the Pomeranian coast	Rugen Cliffs
Natural Landmarks 4: This national park crosses into Czechia and is named for its similarity to an Alpine country	Saxon Switzerland
People 1: Famous Prussian monarch who, despite his reputation for military strength, originally sought a career in music	Frederick the Great
People 2: E=MC^2	Albert Einstein
People 3: Famous king of the Franks	Charlemagne
People 4: Inventor of the printing press.	Johannes Gutenberg

Hint	Answer
History 1: Religious movement started by Martin Luther and his 95 theses against the Catholic Church	Protestant Reformation
History 2: Period following the Thirty Years War that brought stability to the Holy Roman Empire	Peace of Westphalia
History 3: Period of the slaughter of minorities in Nazi Germany; most notably Jewish people, but Romani, disabled, and LGBTQ+ people as well.	Holocaust
History 4: The fall of this structure marked a key point in the end of the Cold War.	Berlin Wall
Culture 1: A scholar is approached by and makes a contract with the Devil in this play by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe	Faust
Culture 2: Bavarian festival known for beer consumption	Oktoberfest
Culture 3: Two brothers compiled this collection of fables, much of which remain iconic to this day.	Grimm's Fairy Tales
Culture 4: Released in 1927, this movie, directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbeau, is considered the first major science fiction film.	Metropolis
Composers 1: "Brandenburg Concertos," "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"	Johann Sebastian Bach
Composers 2: "Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy)," "Moonlight Sonata"	Ludwig Van Beethoven
Composers 3: "Songs without Words," "Wedding March."	Felix Mendelssohn
Composers 4: Soundtracks for "Gladiator (2000)," "The Lion King (1994)," and "Dune (2021)"	Hans Zimmer
Vocab 1: (Noun) Leben	Life
Vocab 2: (Verb) Sehen	To See
Vocab 3: (Adjective) Bose	Evil
Vocab 4: (Conjunction) Und	And