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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
J	This country declared war on Germany in 1914 and promptly seized most of its Pacific possessions	Japan	90%
L	He started the Protestant Reformation in 1517	Martin Luther	90%
O	First name of "Iron Chancellor" von Bismarck	Otto	90%
N	This city was the site of Nazi rallies, and later, war crimes tribunals	Nuremberg	88%
A	What Karl Benz invented in 1885	Automobile	87%
G	Brothers who collected and popularized fairy tales such as "Cinderella"	Brothers Grimm	86%
R	River that separated the Roman Empire from the Germanic tribes	Rhine	85%
B	Capital of West Germany	Bonn	84%
M	Bearded 19th century philosopher who inspired many 20th century revolutions	Karl Marx	79%
C	Great Frankish emperor who ruled much of France and Germany from his capital at Aachen	Charlemagne	75%
W	Common name for the German republic between 1918 and 1933	{Weimar} Republic	73%
Z	Hydrogen filled airship that fell into disuse after the Hindenburg disaster	Zeppelin	73%
X	Discovered in 1895, they are also known as Röntgen radiation	X-Rays	70%
F	Great King of Prussia who ruled from 1740 to 1786	Frederick	68%
H	According to a 1516 Bavarian law, beer can include only water, barley, and these	Hops	68%
S	Germanic tribe that invaded England in the 400s	Saxons	68%
D	Former name of the city now known as Gdańsk	Danzig	65%
I	German military decoration introduced in 1813 and retired in 1945	Iron Cross	64%
E	Germany had this kind of "miracle" following WWII	Economic	63%
Y	Pagan holiday whose traditions were incorporated into Christmas celebrations	Yule	56%
U	Germany's first one of these was established at Heidelberg in 1386	University	54%
T	Group of Crusaders that conquered the Baltic countries and converted them to Christianity	{Teutonic} Knights	48%
P	This stereotypically German food was commonly used as the emblem of baker's guilds	Pretzel	44%
V	This type of rocket, used to attack Allied cities, became the first man-made object to travel into space in 1944	V-2	44%
K	Russia annexed this city after WWII and renamed it Kaliningrad	Königsberg	38%
Q	Chinese city occupied by Germany from 1898 to 1914. Today it is the home of China's second largest beer brewery.	Qingdao	28%