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Beer me!
100
The year Berlin wall came down.
What is 1989?
100
A drink that is clear, colorless, with light fruit flavor. Distilled from fermented fruit. Germany and America are the main producers.
What is Schnapps?
100
The biggest Beer Festival in the world.
What is Oktoberfest?
100
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic whose 1969 review of the Night of the Living Dead was published in Reader's Digest.
Who is Roger Ebert
100
Beer is put in brown or green bottle to lessen the intensity of this archenemy of beer.
What is light?
200
This city has the biggest train station in the world.
What is Berlin?
200
Traditionally, this is the main meal of the day in Germany.
What is Lunch?
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
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.
Who is Marlene Dietrich
200
There are two main types of beer distinguished by the type of yeast used and the brewing temperature.
What is lager and ale?
300
This is the oldest and densest motorway network in the world where you can drive at 300 km per hour.
What is Autobahn?
300
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?
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 a Christmas Tree?
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?
300
This essential ingredient of beer wasn't actually discovered until the late 1800s.
What is yeast?
400
She is the first woman chancellor of Germany.
Who is Angela Merkel?
400
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?
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 Easter Bunny?
400
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?
400
With the average of 48,692.8 gallons of beer consumed per hour, this country drinks more beer, per capita, than any other.
What is Czech Republic?
500
This caused German's submarine known as U-120 to sink during WWII.
What is a malfunctioning toilet?
500
The bratwurst are famously grilled or simmered in this liquid.
What is beer?
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
He was a was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
Espresso and microbrews evolved under this man's auspices. He also is one of the founder of Starbuck's Coffee.
Who is Gordon Bowker?