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100

The Stieff Silver Company Factory lies quiet today by Wyman Park but used to serve as the HQ of America's oldest silverware company. Its founder, Charles Stieff, started as a manufacturer of this key instrument.

What is piano?

100

This word, while being quite pleasant in English, means poison in German.

What is Gift?

100

This German TV show is set in the Weimar Republic.

What is Babylon Berlin?

100

This poet and playwright wrote Faust, one of the most famous works in German literature and his work Werther is thought to have inspired a string of imitation suicides.

Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

100

This German city was the capital of the BRD or West Germany.

What is Bonn?

200

Herbert Baxter Adams, a German-American professor at JHU’s founding, is credited as one of the primary influences that brought this model of teaching in small, discussion focused groups from Heidelberg.

What is Seminar

200

This word, meaning in English a cheap imitation of something else, borrowed and adapted from German.

What is Ersatz?

200

This German soccer team is also known as die Roten or FC Hollywood, and is the most successful in the history of the sport.

What is Bayern Munich/Bayern München?

200

This German composer of the 19th century wrote the Ring Cycle, a monumental opera series that inspired Lord of the Rings.

Who is Richard Wagner?

200

There are this many counties accepting German as an official language.

What is 6?

Get double the points: name all 6 (winning team only)

300

Although not artists themselves, the Cone Sisters (Claribel and Etta Cone) fraternized and collected art from some of the most significant figures in modernism, such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Gertrude Stein. A significant portion of their collection is now hosted at this art institution.

What is Baltimore Museum of Art?

300

The standard dialect of german is called high german and comes from the south, while niederdeutsch comes from this geographic region.

What is North/Northern Germany?

300

This German candy, which is sold around the world, is produced in Bonn, and its name is a portmanteau of the name of the founder and the place of production.

What is Haribo?

300

Friedrich Nietzsche first made his famous 3-word declaration: “God is dead” in this title.

What is The Gay Science?

300

This state has the highest number of German descendants.

What is Pennsylvania?

400

The Deutsches Emigrantenhaus (German Immigrant House) allowed Germans entering Baltimore a "transitional living" space, and has been recently renovated as the Baltimore Immigration Museum. It's located in this south-Baltimorean neighborhood, the "Ellis Island" of the city.

What is Locus Point?

400

This german learning institute is the equivalent of the american high school. The exit exam is called the Abitur.

What is Gymnasium?

400

This Berlin-based electronic music genre commonly heard at Berghain was born in the 1990s and helped shape Europe’s club culture.

What is Techno?

400

Karl Marx defines this key concept in the first chapter of Das Kapital.

What is commodity?

400

This is the highest mountain peak in Germany.

What is Zugspitze?

500

The Hansa Haus in Downtown Baltimore was built for the Savings Bank of Baltimore and intentionally resembled a courthouse in Halberstadt, Germany. Fittingly, German spies used the upper floor to plan this 1916 New York terrorist act, which damaged the Statue of Liberty.

What is Black Tom Explosion?

500

This organization regulates the german language with Rechtschreibung, or the idea of correct spelling.

What is Duden?

500

This director’s Metropolis (1927) set a new standard for science fiction in film.

Who is Fritz Lang?

500

The group of thinkers, critical theorists, and sociologists around Theodor Adorno, including Walter Benjamin, Horkheimer, and Habermas is commonly referred to as this.

What is Frankfurt School?

500

This region of Italy has a large population of native German speakers.

What is South Tyrol/Südtirol?

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