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Brothers Grimm
100
The German word for "broken."
What does "Kaput" mean?
100
Finely cut fermented cabbage.
What is Sauerkraut?
100
This German car brand is known for vehicles such as the Beetle, the Jetta, or the Minibus as seen below.
What is Volkswagen?
100
A large festival that ends the first week of October.
What is "Oktoberfest?"
100
This tale follows a young girl with an evil stepmother and stepsisters who fit the bill when it came to shoe size.
What is 'Cinderella'?
200
The German word for "above/about."
What does "über" mean?
200
A popular German sausage usually made from pork.
What is Bratwurst?
200
A candy brand known for creating the first gummy bears, celebrating their 100th anniversary
What is Haribo?
200
A goat demon that kidnaps bad children the day before Santa comes.
What is "Krampus?"
200
A tale of a young woman who escapes the evil queen and is later poisoned with an apple.
What is 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'?
300
The the German word for "health."
What does "Gesundheit" mean?
300
A thin cut of pork or veal that is breaded and then fried.
What is Schnitzel?
300
A large German grocery store chain whose karts need a quarter to work.
What is Aldi?
300
The most popular sport in Germany.
What is "Füßball?"
300
A tale of two children who wander through a forest and find themselves in the clutches of a which who intends on eating them.
What is 'Hansel and Gretel'?
400
Stemming from the words "double" and "goer", this German word describes an apparition or double of a living person.
What does "Doppelgänger" mean?
400
A Austrian layered pastry with an apple filling.
What is Apfelstrudel?
400
A German airliner whose logo is a bird.
What is 'Lufthansa'?
400
A barrier that separated the German capital into East and West.
What is the "Berlin Wall?"
400
A story of an imp takes a queen's first born after a golden favor and to win the child back, she must guess his name.
What is 'Rumpelstiltskin'?
500
Stemming from the words for "noise/racket" and "spirit", this German word describes a ghost that makes loud nosies or throws objects.
What is does "Poltergeist" mean?
500
A chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling.
What is a Black Forest cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)?
500
Brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler created two sports brands, the latter formerly known as Ruda.
What are Adidas and Puma?
500
A river that runs the length of Germany's west border.
What is the "Rhine River?"
500
This tale has many variations, but in the Brothers Grimm version a man rids a town of their rat plague, but after they refuse to pay him, he gets revenge.
What is 'The Pied Piper'?