This river divides Prague and flows beneath the Charles Bridge.
What is the Vltava?
100
This reconstructed Baroque church, destroyed in World War II, dominates Dresden’s Neumarkt.
What is the Frauenkirche?
100
Weimar is closely associated with these two literary giants whose monument stands in front of the German National Theatre.
Who are Goethe and Schiller?
100
This neoclassical monument became a symbol of German division and later reunification.
What is the Brandenburg Gate?
100
Of Prague, Dresden, Weimar, and Berlin, this is the only city outside Germany.
What is Prague?
200
This 15th-century clock on Prague Old Town Hall displays apostles as well as astronomical information.
What is the Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj)?
200
This Dresden museum complex takes its name from a German word meaning roughly “kennel” and houses major art collections.
What is the Zwinger?
200
This influential school of art, architecture, and design was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919.
What is the Bauhaus?
200
This glass-domed building is the meeting place of Germany’s federal parliament.
What is the Reichstag?
200
Prague and Dresden are both situated on the same river system: the Vltava flows into this river north of Prague.
What is the Elbe?
300
This Holy Roman Emperor made Prague an imperial capital and gave his name to its most famous bridge.
Who is Charles IV?
300
This opera house on Theaterplatz was designed by Gottfried Semper and rebuilt after wartime destruction.
What is the Semperoper?
300
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library is especially famous for this ornate oval hall, a masterpiece of 18th-century interior design.
What is the Rococo Hall?
300
This checkpoint between East and West Berlin became one of the Cold War’s best-known crossing points.
What is Checkpoint Charlie?
300
Two of these four cities are especially associated with UNESCO-listed movements or ensembles: Weimar with Classical Weimar and Bauhaus, and this capital with Museum Island and Modernist Housing Estates.
What is Berlin?
400
This Prague playwright and dissident became the first president of the Czech Republic in 1993.
Who is Václav Havel?
400
Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, including its famously reproduced pair of cherubs, is displayed in this Dresden collection.
What is the Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister)?
400
This writer and statesman served for decades as a librarian and administrator of the collection now known as the Duchess Anna Amalia Library.
Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
400
This UNESCO-listed ensemble in the Spree River includes the Neues Museum, Bode Museum, and Alte Nationalgalerie.
What is Museum Island?
400
Mozart premiered Don Giovanni in Prague, while this composer’s Ninth Symphony received its premiere in Dresden in 1846.
Who is Robert Schumann?
500
This historic Prague complex contains St. Vitus Cathedral and has served as the seat of Bohemian kings and Czech presidents.
What is Prague Castle?
500
Dresden is the capital of this German federal state, whose name it shares with a historic kingdom.
What is Saxony (Sachsen)?
500
A catastrophic event on September 2, 2004 destroyed about 50,000 books at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library before its 2007 reopening.
What was a fire?
500
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill premiered this 1928 work in Berlin, featuring the song “Mack the Knife.”
What is The Threepenny Opera?
500
Arrange these four cities from west to east: Prague, Dresden, Weimar, Berlin.