GEOGRAPHY & PLACES
Germany shares borders with more countries than any other EU state. How many?
9
The year Germany was officially reunified
1990
The German word for “thank you."
“Danke”
Germany’s most famous beer festival.
Oktoberfest
This composer was born in Bonn and became deaf later in life.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
This river flows through Cologne and Düsseldorf
the Rhine
The capital of West Germany before reunification
Bonn
“Gesundheit” is said after someone does what?
Sneezing
Traditional German bread shaped like a knot.
Pretzel (Brezel)
German car brand whose name means “people’s car.”
Volkswagen
This fairy-tale castle in Bavaria inspired Disney’s Cinderella Castle
Neuschwanstein Castle
The document that ended World War I and heavily impacted Germany
Treaty of Versailles
This extremely long German word refers to fear of long words
“Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft”
This holiday celebrates the beginning of the Christmas season in Germany.
Advent
Former German chancellor often called the “most powerful woman in Europe.”
Angela Merkel
Germany’s highest mountain, located in the Alps
Zugspitze
The peaceful protests in 1989 that helped bring down the Berlin Wall
Peaceful Revolution (Montagsdemonstrationen)
In German, all nouns are always written this way
Capitalized
The Christmas markets popular in winter are called…
Weihnachtsmärkte
This Berlin-based electronic music scene is famous worldwide for techno.
Berlin techno scene
This German city was divided by a wall from 1961 to 1989
Berlin
The political system of modern Germany
Federal parliamentary republic
This German word has no direct English translation and means joy at someone else’s misfortune.
“Schadenfreude”
This German tradition involves dressing children in costumes and giving them cones filled with sweets on their first day of school.
Schultüte tradition
German sports club with the most Bundesliga titles.
Bayern Munich