D.A.C.H. Geography
What is Germany's smallest non-city-state?
Saarland
When did Salzburg become the capital of Austria? (+/-5)
Salzburg has never been the capital of Austria
English, Dutch, and German are all West Germanic languages. Name a North Germanic language
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese
Which letter never comes at the beginning of words in German?
ẞß - Eszett
Which American state contains the most Amish-German speakers
How many states does Austria have? (+/- 2)
9
Holy Roman Empire
Name a European country other than Switzerland or Russia that is NOT in the European Union
UK, Iceland, Norway, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Vatican City, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo,
Which Norse god was the day of the week "Donnerstag" named after?
Thor
Name the most recent US president with German ancestry
Donald Trump
Friedrich and Elizabeth Drumpft, immigrated to the US in 1885 from Kallstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz in order to avoid mandatory military service in the German Empire. Donald Trump is their Grandson. Donald Trump's mother was a Scottish Gaelic speaking immigrant from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
In what state is Germany's Black Forest located?
Baden-Württemberg
In what year was Switzerland invaded by a joint attack from Nazi Germany from the north, Nazi occupied Austria from the east, Fascist Italy from the south, and Vichy France from the west?
Switzerland was never invaded during WWII. Switzerland has not been directly involved in an armed conflict since 1847.
In which European country on the Mediterranean coast would you find a very small peninsula, on which you can find Europe's only native wild population of monkeys, the Barbary Macaque, who swam the short distance from their ancestral native range in the Atlas mountains of Morocco to a small, yet geographically significant European peninsula, located in which country?
Gibraltar, Spain
In German, if a sentence includes an infinitive verb, the infinitive verb will always be where in the sentence?
At the end
Which founding father fought to establish German as the national language of the United States?
None of them
It is a common myth that German "almost" became the national language of the US. At the time of the signing of the D.o.I., German speakers made up approx. 0.7% of the US population.
What city is the (unofficial) capital of Switzerland?
Bern
Name one of the four officially recognized and protected native minority languages in Germany?
Danish, Frisian, Sorbian, Sinte-Romani
Name the Soviet-led counterpart to the US-led military alliance NATO
The Warsaw Pact
The modern standard 'Hochdeutsch' is based on the dialect of which medium-large German town
Hannover
Which American state has the largest percentage of German speakers per capita?
North Dakota (4.2%)
1/23 North Dakotans speak German
Japanese Emperor Hirohito
"CH" is the abbreviation for Switzerland. What does CH stand for?
What language, closely related to German, is the most common language other than English spoken by Jewish Americans
Yiddish
Name one American President that can/could speak German
John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt