| Hint | Born | In | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellor of Germany 2005–21 | 1954 | Hamburg | Angela Merkel | 96%
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| Romantic composer, one of the Three Bs | 1833 | Hamburg | Johannes Brahms | 74%
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| Chancellor of West Germany 1974–82 | 1918 | Hamburg | Helmut Schmidt | 65%
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| Chancellor of West Germany 1969–74, NP 1971 | 1913 | Lübeck | Willy Brandt | 65%
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| exiled antifascist novelist, brother of #4 | 1871 | Lübeck | Heinrich Mann | 61%
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| founder of quantum physics, NP 1918 | 1858 | Kiel | Max Planck | 61%
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| exiled writer (Buddenbrooks), NP 1929 | 1875 | Lübeck | Thomas Mann | 61%
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| eccentric fashion designer (Chanel, Fendi) | 1933 | Hamburg | Karl Lagerfeld | 43%
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| defender, scored winning goal of 1990 World Cup | 1960 | Hamburg | Andreas Brehme | 39%
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| early Romantic composer (e.g. Wedding March) | 1809 | Hamburg | Felix Mendelssohn | 35%
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| Emperor of Russia, husband of Catherine II | 1728 | Kiel | Peter III | 35%
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| long-time striker for Hamburg & West Germany | 1936 | Hamburg | Uwe Seeler | 35%
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| physicist, confirmed the Bohr model, NP 1925 | 1887 | Hamburg | Gustav Hertz | 30%
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| physicist who discovered electromagnetic waves | 1857 | Hamburg | Heinrich Hertz | 30%
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| German-Cameroonian forward (Schalke, Munich) | 1989 | Hamburg | Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting | 26%
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| Croatian striker (St. Pauli, Bremen, Bolton) | 1980 | Hamburg | Ivan Klasnić | 26%
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| realist writer (Immensee, Der Schimmelreiter) | 1817 | Husum | Theodor Storm | 26%
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| Romantic composer known for operas | 1786 | Eutin | Carl Maria von Weber | 17%
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| King of Denmark and Norway 1534/37–1559 | 1503 | Schleswig | Christian III | 17%
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| King of Denmark 1863–1906 | 1818 | Schleswig | Christian IX | 17%
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| King of Sweden 1751–71 | 1710 | Schleswig | Adolf Frederick | 13%
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| communist leader during the Weimar Republic | 1886 | Hamburg | Ernst Thälmann | 13%
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| imperialist chancellor of Germany 1900–09 | 1849 | Hamburg | Bernhard von Bülow | 4%
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| pacifist journalist, exposed rearmament, NP 1935 | 1889 | Hamburg | Carl von Ossietzky | 4%
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| showed quantum nature of atoms, NP 1925 | 1882 | Hamburg | James Franck | 4%
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| historian and jurist (A History of Rome), NP 1902 | 1817 | Garding | Theodor Mommsen | 4%
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| leader of the German Kriegsmarine until 1943 | 1876 | Hamburg | Erich Raeder | 0%
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| one of the founders of German sociology | 1855 | Oldenswort | Ferdinand Tönnies | 0%
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| astronomer and geodesist known for triangulation | 1793 | Hamburg | Friedrich Georg Wilhelmvon Struve | 0%
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| physicist/chemist who did spectroscopy, NP 1971 | 1904 | Hamburg | Gerhard Herzberg | 0%
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| universal mathematician and theoretical physicist | 1885 | Elmshorn | Hermann Weyl | 0%
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| physicist, proposed nuclear shell model, NP 1963 | 1907 | Hamburg | J. Hans D. Jensen | 0%
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| psychoanalyst who founded feminist psychology | 1885 | Hamburg | Karen Horney | 0%
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| botanist who co-founded cell theory | 1804 | Hamburg | Matthias Jacob Schleiden | 0%
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| chemist, developed diene synthesis, NP 1950 | 1876 | Hamburg | Otto Diels | 0%
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| architect and pioneer of modern industrial design | 1868 | Hamburg | Peter Behrens | 0%
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