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This German monument was built in Berlin on the orders of Prussian King Frederick William II in the 18th Century and served as the backdrop of two US presidential speeches.
Brandenburg Gate
This German theologian was famously held captive at a castle in Eisenach, where he translated the New Testament into German.
Martin Luther
This treaty, signed in France, effectively ended war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers in 1919.
Treaty of Versailles
What breed of cattle, which originally bred in the Netherlands and Northern Germany, accounts for over 90% of cows on US dairy farms?
Holstein Frisian
This German city can boast that it has the largest harbor in the country.
Hamburg
Throughout German history, there have been three different empires. This first empire had a bit of a misnomer.
The Holy Roman Empire
This former chancellor of Germany is lovingly known in Germany by their nickname: Mutti
Angela Merkel
West Germany joined this international group in May 1955.
NATO
This originally-American shipping and logistics company is headquartered in the capital of former West Germany, Bonn.
DHL
This Germany city is the car-capital of the country and is home to Porsche and Mercedes-Benz.
Stuttgart
The German cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Rostock were among the members of what "League" that controlled much of the trading around the Baltic Sea from roughly the 12th century to the 15th century?
Hansa / Hanseatic League
This American celebrity is arguably more famous in Germany than he is in his native country and had a music career in Germany.
David Hasselhoff
This country is the only non-EU country to border Germany.
Switzerland
This German car company created the first automobile in 1886.
Mercedes-Benz / Daimler
What German city, the capital of the Free State of Saxony, was also the site of the World War II firebombing documented in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five”?
Dresden
A German attack on this Liverpool-based cruise liner in 1915 helped to significantly push US domestic public support to enter World War I.
RMS Lusitania
This German model is best-known in the United States for their appearances in America's Got Talent and Project Runway.
Heidi Klum
Workers’ compensation laws were first introduced and implemented in the 1880s by what "Iron Chancellor" of Germany?
Otto von Bismarck
Neuschwanstein Castle, a 19th-century palace built in Schwangau, Germany, commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, was heavily inspired by the operas of what 19th-century German composer who is especially known for his four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
Richard Wagner
In February of 1945, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt met for a conference in what Crimean city to discuss the post-war organization of Germany and Europe?
Yalta
This military clash in the year 9 C.E. was between the Roman legions and Germanic tribes. Its Latin name, Clades Variana, means the Varian Disaster.
Battle of Teutoburg Forest
This American actor is well-known for their role in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as for playing the host of Reading Rainbow.
LeVar Burton
This politician is the current chancellor of Germany and has been in office since 2021.
Olaf Scholz
Travel Wisconsin is the advertisement campaign that encourages people to visit the state of Wisconsin. This German word is their slogan to describe the feeling of friendship, warmth, and cheer.
Gemütlichkeit
This mountain in the Alps is the highest peak in Germany.
Zugspitze