The biggest Beer Festival in the world is of course the .... in Munich, Bavaria, where the size of the beer glass is not 500ml but a whole liter, the Mass!
What is Oktoberfest?
100
About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the....
What is the "Honey moon"
100
A drink that is clear, colorless, and has a light fruit flavor. It is distilled from fermented fruit. Germany and America are the main producers.
What is Schnapps
100
Berlin's train station
Which country has the biggest train station in the world?
100
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
What is Roger Ebert
200
This 16-day festival in Munich attracts over six million visitors per year. And they make about 1,320,860 gallons of beer, 400,000 pork sausages and 480,000 spit-roasted chickens disappear.
What is Oktoberfest?!
200
After Irish, Germans are the second biggest consumers of beer in the world. The average beer consumption of the country is 119 liters per person per year.
Where do Germans rank in the biggest beer consumers in the world?
200
$12 US dollars equals 9.21......
What is Euro?
200
The year the Berlin wall came down.
What is 1989
200
In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures in the USA. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalized on her glamor and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era.
What is Marlene Dietrich
300
This originated in Germany and is decorated with apples, candy, nuts, cookies, cars, trains, angels, tinsel, family treasures, candles or lights and presents are placed under it.
What is the Christmas tree.
300
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How many varieties of beer does Germany produce?
300
Dogs are kings in Germany: they can go just about everywhere: first class restaurants, trains and buses, even clothing shops and bookstores. But NOT in a Metzgerei (butchers). They even have their own pools.
What animal is highly honored in Germany?
300
Autobahn
What is one of the oldest and densest motorways in the world?
300
U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave the speech "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner") on June 26, 1963 in this German city.
What is West Berlin
400
This symbol for Easter is first mentioned in writings in 16th century Germany. The first edible version of this symbol, of pastry and sugar, was also produced in Germany in the early 1800s. Around that time, children made nests of grass and settled them in their parents' spring gardens for this "animal" to fill during the night with brightly decorated eggs.
What is the Easter Bunnie?
400
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Contrary to popular belief, this cake did not originate in Germany. Instead, the name derives from Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, which was created in 1852 by an Englishman named Samuel German for the Baker's Chocolate brand.
What is German Chocolate Cake
400
A malfunctioning toilet
How did the German submarine U-120 sink during World War II?
400
They traveled in groups. They came alone. From the earliest Protestant emigrants to the ancestors of Elvis and the Rockefellers, the Palatinate area in central western Germany was their point of origin. The town of Krefeld in the vicinity of Cologne was the home of the 13 pioneer families who founded Germantown.
What is the first permanent German settlement in the US.
500
It happens about six weeks before Easter, or the week or 10 days leading up to the beginning of Lent. It starts with Cologne's two-and-half hour Rose Monday parade and is called Mardi Gras' German Cousin
What is Karneval and/or Fasching?
500
Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase...
What is "The Rule of the Thumb"
500
This sausage was invented in 1889 by restaurant owner R. Scholtz of Berlin and was originally eaten with bock beer and it is usually served with mustard.
What is Bockwurst
500
Iron ore, coal, timber, copper, natural gas, salt.
What are German's most important natural resources?
500
He was a was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity.