Year | Hints | Answer | % Correct |
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? | Roughly how long ago did modern humans first settle what is now Germany? Take a guess! | 40,000 BCE | 88%
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October 1944 | This 15-year old Jewish girl who has been hiding from the Nazis for several years is caught and transported to a concentration camp. She dies just 2 months before the end of the war and is known for her touching diary. | Anne Frank | 75%
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Sep. 1, 1939 | World War II begins. At 5 a.m., German troops enter this country. | Poland | 61%
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March 12, 1938 | Anschluss: German troops enter this country to "bring it home into the Reich". | Austria | 58%
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Nov. 15, 1884 | An infamous conference in this city is convened to formalize the territorial claims of the various European imperialist powers in Africa. | Berlin | 58%
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1534 | Martin Luther is the first person ever to translate this book into German. | The Bible | 58%
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Sep. 18, 1973 | Both East and West Germany are admitted to what international organization? | The United Nations | 58%
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1870 | Prussia gets attacked by this country but gives its opponent a decisive blow thanks to well-equipped Prussian troops and superior training. | France | 57%
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1439 | Johannes Gutenberg introduces this revolutionary technology originally invented in Korea and further developed in China to Europe. | The Printing Press | 57%
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Nov. 8, 1923 | In the Beer-Hall-Putsch, Adolf Hitler and 600 members of his SA try to overthrow the democratic government. In what city did the attempted coup take place? | Munich | 55%
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1740-1786 | During the long reign of this king, Prussia wins its competition against Austria, wins the Seven-Year-War and becomes a European superpower. It also becomes a center for the arts, philosophy and natural sciences. | Frederick the Great | 52%
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~190 BCE | Migrating Germanic tribes first get into conflict with this empire. | Roman Republic | 52%
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800 | This talented warrior and statesman is crowned by Pope Leo III. "King of the Romans" and nowadays considered the forefather of Germany. | Charlemagne | 49%
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1917 | The German Empire introduces unrestricted submarine warfare. This policy leads to which country joining the war? | The United States of America | 49%
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1096-1270 | Frederick II. and other German emperors are among the leading figures in these campaigns that last almost 300 years and seek to conquer and christianize the Middle East (especially Jerusalem). | Crusades | 48%
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1844-1900 | This philosopher entered the annals of German History as one of the harshest critics of theism. His words "God is dead" became world-famous. He lost his mind in the last years of his life due to a syphillis infection. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 48%
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Aug. 30, 1914 | In the battle of Tannenberg, one of the first major battles of World War I, the German Empire defeats troops from this country decisively. | Russia | 48%
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Jan. 30, 1933 | After the NSDAP's election victory, Adolf Hitler is appointed what? | Chancellor | 46%
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April 18, 1951 | West Germany and five other European nations found the "European Coal and Steel Community", which works with a single market and supernational institutions. Today we know it as the...? | European Union | 46%
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1926 | This man becomes Gauleiter for the NSDAP and four years later is promoted by Hitler to become national propaganda minister ("Reichspropagandaminister"). | Joseph Goebbels | 46%
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~380 BCE | In a sandstone valley at the banks of the Moselle river, the Celts found a place called Treuorum. It is nowadays considered the oldest German city and it's also the hometown of Karl Marx. What is its modern name? | Trier | 46%
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1885 | This sub-saharan African country becomes a German colony. | Namibia | 45%
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1905 | Albert Einstein publishes his theory of...? | Special Relativity | 45%
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1942-1945 | This German industrial and member of the Nazi-Party is credited with saving over 1,200 Jewish lives in his factories in Poland. | Oskar Schindler | 43%
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1618-1637 | Albrecht von Wallenstein becomes one of the most important and influential figues of German History during this conflict. | Thirty-Year War | 43%
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1756-1791 | Musical pieces such as "Für Elise", "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or "Rondo alla turca" are composed by this prodigy. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 43%
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1812 | The world-famous Brothers Grimm publish their first collection of what? | Fairy Tales | 42%
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Sep. 15, 1949 | This CDU-politician becomes the first Chancellor of West Germany. | Konrad Adenauer | 42%
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1848 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish this work. It is considered one of the most influential treatises in the world. | The Communist Manifesto | 42%
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Jan. 1, 2002 | The Euro is introduced in Germany. What was the German currency before that called? | Deutsche Mark | 40%
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June 5, 1947 | This famous plan introduced by the USA intends to support Germany economically and rebuild its industry and infrastructure. | Marshall Plan | 40%
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1856 | For the very first time, remains of this extinct human species are found in a valley near Düsseldorf, giving archeologists a completely new understanding of prehistory. | Neanderthal | 40%
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1529 | After the siege of this city has failed, the Ottoman Empire is forced to retreat. | Vienna | 40%
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Aug. 13, 1961 | Construction begins at the...? | Berlin Wall | 39%
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1790 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes this possibly most famous work of all German literature. | Faust | 39%
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1949 | To honor and commemorate the courageous revolutionaries of 1848, what colors does the German national flag have since 1949? | Black, Red, and Gold | 37%
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1869 | In his quest to bring the different parts of the German Empire together under one Kaiser, Chancellor Bismarck struggles to convince Ludwig II., duke of Bavaria. He eventually succeeds by giving Ludwig in return for his loyalty a large sum of money to build what famous "fairy-tale" castle located in Füssen? | Neuschwanstein | 37%
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June 30, 2017 | The German parliament (Bundestag) legalizes...? | Same-sex marriage | 37%
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2010 | European Dept Crisis: The relationship between Germany and what other country significantly sours? | Greece | 36%
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1348/1349 | This horrific disease sweaps across Europe and kills over a third of the total German population. | The Plague | 36%
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October 1915 | In this unspeakably barbaric and traumatizing battle, over 1 million French and German lives are lost. The battlefield landscape was described by veterans to have looked so eerie and surreal that it inspired J.R.R. Tolkien who participated in this battle to write "Lord of the Rings". | Battle at Verdun | 34%
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1871 | Otto von Bismarck manages to do what? | Unify Germany | 34%
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June 1948 - May 1949 | The Soviet Union blocks all cargo shipments to Berlin by road or rail, forcing the US to establish an...? | Airlift | 33%
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July 1915 | In a famous battle at this French river, over 60,000 British soldiers lose their lives in an effort to drive out the Germans. In the end, there is more stalemate and no success for either side. What was the battle/river called? | Battle at the Somme | 33%
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April 23, 1516 | Thanks to William IV. of Bavaria and his "Reinheitsgebot" ("Purity Commandment"), Germany becomes the very first place in Europe where who/what must be "pure" going forward? | Beer | 33%
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~510 | Germanic chieftain Clovis I. has conquered all of Gaul and is declared King of the...? | Franks | 33%
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1921 | Due to the astronomical reparation payments demanded by the Versailles treaty, the Weimar Republic begins to print as much money as they can, leading to what economic phenomenon? | Hyperinflation | 33%
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March 7, 1936 | As a first, open provocation to the allied powers, Hitler orders the Wehrmacht to march into this (formerly demilitarized) German region. | The Rhineland | 33%
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1858-1947 | This theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize loreate is the father of quantum theory. A famous research institute is named after him, as well as a "length", which is believed to be the smallest possible unit in the universe. | Max Planck | 31%
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1871-1919 | This influential female marxist and pacifist fights for democracy, peace, women's suffrage and a communist revolution. She criticizes authoritarian leaders, including Lenin. | Rosa Luxemburg | 31%
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January 1943 | A brave, 21-year old girl named Sophie Scholl is caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother. Together with two friends, they are both executed. What was the group called that Sophie was the head of? | The White Rose | 31%
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Nov. 9, 1938 | In this infamous and nationwide pogrom, thousands of Jews are beaten, mugged and murdered. Their shops and homes are plundered. | Kristallnacht | 30%
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Oct. 31, 1517 | Martin Luther sets off the reformation in Europe by posting this document, in which he criticizes the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church, at the door of the All Saint's church in Wittenberg. | Ninety-Five Theses | 30%
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April 22, 1915 | In the battle at Ypres (Belgium), the Germans shock the allied troops by attacking them with something completely new and unexpected. What was it? | Chlorine Gas | 28%
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1888 | This year is known in the German Empire as the year of the Three...? | Emperors | 27%
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1759-1805 | This writer, poet and close friend to Johann Wolfang von Goethe became famous with literary works such as "Wilhelm Tell", "The Robbers", "Mary Stuart" or "Intrigue and Love". | Friedrich Schiller | 27%
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Feb. 27, 1933 | This tragic event happens and Hitler uses it for political capital. | Reichstag Fire | 27%
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1806 | After his victory over Prussia, Napoléon steals a part of this famous landmark and takes it back to France. | The Brandenburg Gate | 27%
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1970 | This man becomes the head of state of East Germany and remains in this position for 20 years, until East Germany's dissolution in 1990. | Erich Honecker | 25%
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1571-1630 | This astronomer and mathematician discovers that planetary orbits are in fact elliptical rather than round as people previously thought. NASA named a telescope after him. | Johannes Kepler | 25%
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1770-1827 | Ludwig van Beethoven composes this world-famous piece of music which later becomes the official anthem of the European Union. | Ode to Joy | 25%
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1875 | This political party is founded in Germany. | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 25%
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1875-1955 | This German author becomes well-known thanks to novels such as "The Magic Mountain" and "Buddenbrooks". | Thomas Mann | 25%
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1837 | Educator Friedrich Fröbel believes that little children are very curious about the world and that we should nourish them "like plants in a garden". Based on this belief, he invents and founds the first what? | Kindergarten ("Children garden") | 24%
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1990 | On what date did German unification take place? | October 3 | 24%
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Jan. 11, 1923 | France invades and occupies this economically important region of Germany. | The Ruhr | 24%
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1895 | Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen makes this break-through discovery. | X-Rays | 22%
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Dec. 19, 2016 | An islamist terrorist attack is committed in Berlin at a...? | Christmas market | 21%
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1927-2015 | This novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize laureate serves as a member of the Waffen-SS in World War II in his youth but becomes a staunch progressive in his later life. He is best known for his novel "The Tin Drum". | Günter Grass | 21%
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962 | This man is crowned the very first Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire. | Otto I. | 21%
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Aug. 1, 1945 | After the end of the war, Germany is split by the allies into four "zones" at this conference. | Potsdam-Conference | 21%
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Nov. 3, 1918 | After being ordered to uselessly sacrifice their lives in a desperate attempt to save Germany's honor, these members of the military revolt in Kiel, triggering the German Revolution of 1918/1919 six days later. | Sailors (Navy) | 21%
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1905 | A German Field Marshall develops a military plan to invade France over Belgium and the Netherlands in the case of a two-front war. What was this plan called? | Schlieffen-Plan | 21%
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1950 | The rapid post-war economic growth of Germany is known as the...? (German term) | Wirtschaftswunder | 21%
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9 | In this famous battle, the Roman military suffers a devastating defeat by the Cherusci-Germanic chieftain Arminius who fooled them by pretending to be their ally. | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | 19%
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1777-1855 | This mathematician made important contributions to many fields of mathematics, including statistics, algebra and calculus. He is most famous for a type of statistical "distribution" named after him. | Carl Friedrich Gauss | 19%
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1770-1831 | This philosopher and historian is credited with laying the foundations for Karl Marx' works. Among other things, he came up with the idea that progress is never linear but moves like a pendulum from one extreme to another. | Georg Friedrich Hegel | 19%
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1877-1962 | This novelist, poet and Nobel Prize laureate is chiefly interested in topics such as self-knowledge, authenticity and spirituality. His best-known works are "Steppenwolf", "Siddhartha" and "The Glass Bead". | Hermann Hesse | 19%
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98 | In his book titled "Germania", this famous historian writes extensively about the culture, politics and society of the Germanic tribes outside of Roman-controlled territory. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 19%
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1291 | The ancestors of this modern-day country form an alliance against the Habsburgs and make the first step towards eventual independence. | Switzerland | 19%
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1788 | Prussia establishes an university admission exam that still exists in Germany today. What is it called? | Abitur | 18%
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1471-1528 | This renaissance painter, printmaker and theorist accomplishes great fame thanks to his beautiful and intricate woodcuts. | Albrecht Dürer | 18%
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1684 | This German intellectual publishes his work on calculus. | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 18%
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June 30, 1934 | During this night, SS paramilitaries kill over 85 threats to Hitler's power, including Ernst Röhm and Georg Strasser. | Night of the Long Knives | 18%
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1892 | A special type of engine, named after its inventor, is created by this man. | Rudolf Diesel | 18%
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Oct. 29, 1929 | What foreign event tanks the German economy just when it had begun to recover? | Wall Street Crash | 18%
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1901-1976 | This theoretical physicist becomes a pioneer of quantum mechanics and is best known for his "uncertainty principle". A TV character has been named after him. | Werner von Heisenberg | 18%
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March 24, 1999 | German troops as part of NATO begin to bomb what country? | Yugoslavia | 18%
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55 BCE | This general, statesman and author leads the first organized, military effort to cross the Rhine and invade Germania. | Gaius Julius Ceasar | 16%
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1929-1995 | This author of children's stories becomes world-famous with classics such as "The Neverending Story", "Momo" and "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver". | Michael Ende | 16%
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772 | In the war against this pagan Germanic tribe, the tribe is subjugated, christianized and their sacred pillar "Irminsul" near the city of Paderborn is destroyed. | The Saxons | 16%
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1898-1956 | This famous marxist playwright and poet is best known for works such as "The Threepenny Opera", "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" or "The Good Person of Szechwan". | Bertold Brecht | 15%
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December 1918 | This man becomes the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. | Friedrich Ebert | 15%
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1886 | These two men invent and build independently from one another the first automobiles that run on gasoline-powered combustion engines. | Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler | 15%
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2022 | By this date, Germany will completely get rid of...? | Nuclear Energy | 15%
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1843-1910 | This physician, microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate is responsible for the discovery of the tuberculosis and the cholera bacteria, as well as many other important breakthroughs in medicine. | Robert Koch | 15%
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1968 | The leader of the progressive student movement narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist but dies 11 years later at age 39 of a seizure caused by remaining brain damage. What was his name? | Rudi Dutschke | 15%
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June 5, 1970 | The left-extremist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) is founded. Who are its two most prominent and leading figures? | Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof | 13%
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1842-1912 | This German novelist writes realistically about the American Wild West, the Middle East and South America - although he never actually manages to visit any of these place. He is best-known for his characters Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. | Karl May | 13%
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1930s | Sociologists such as Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and Erich Fromm develop their "Critical Theory". Under what name is this group generally known as today? | The Frankfurt School | 13%
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Oct. 24, 1648 | The conflict mentioned above was concluded with this pan-European peace agreement. | Treaty of Westphalia | 13%
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Jan. 20, 1942 | The "final solution", the purposeful extinction of all European Jews, is discussed at this secret conference. | Wannsee Conference | 13%
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1769-1859 | This brilliant naturalist, explorer, polymath and philosopher travels around the globe to study our planet's flora and fauna. He is the first person ever to describe anthropogenic climate change and he is also credited with discovering plate tectonics. | Alexander von Humboldt | 12%
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1179 | This abbess, polymath, writer, philosopher and healer considered the most influential woman of Germany's Middle Ages dies at age 81. | Hildegard of Bingen | 12%
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March 13, 1920 | In this putsch, the Freikorps occupies Berlin and unsuccessfully tries to overthrow the Weimar Republic. | Kapp-Putsch | 12%
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1832-1908 | Wilhelm Busch makes a lasting impact on German culture as a humorist, satirist and writer. He loves to make fun of bigotry, philistinism and religious morality. His best-known work tells the adventures of two naughty boys and is called...? | Max and Moritz | 12%
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March 24, 1933 | This Act de facto abolishes the separation of powers. It moves all power to Hitler and his cabinet. | Enabling Act | 10%
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Nov. 9, 1918 | This socialist and publisher proclaims the "Free Socialist Republic". | Karl Liebknecht | 10%
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1631 | In this city, the Catholic alliance commits a giant massacre and murders some 20,000 civilians, many of whom are women and children. | Magdeburg | 10%
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Sep. 4, 1989 | A series of peaceful protests occur across East Germany, demanding democracy and the right for citizens to travel abroad. What were these demonstrations called? | Monday Demonstrations | 10%
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1190 | This epic poem, which is considered one of the most important pieces of all German literature and whose oral roots reach back to the 5th century is written down for the first time in Middle High German. | Nibelungenlied | 10%
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Nov. 9, 1918 | Under immense pressure from the various protests on the streets, this SPD-politician proclaims the (non-socialist) Republic. | Philipp Scheidemann | 10%
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June 1919 | Germany signs the treaty of Versailles. Believing this humiliation had not been necessary and the war could have still been won if it had not been for the "treasonous" pacifists, Adolf Hitler will later invent a myth called the...? | Stab-in-the-back-myth | 10%
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1230 | This man considered the most important poet and Minnesänger of Germany's Middle Ages dies at age 60. | Walther von der Vogelweide | 10%
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June 2, 1967 | During the massive student protests against the state visit of the Shah of Iran in West Germany, this unarmed student gets shot and killed by a Berlin police detective. | Benno Ohnesorg | 9%
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1729-1781 | This German becomes famous not only as a prolific writer but also as a fighter for tolerance and religious moderation over zeal. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 9%
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1941 | This German civil engineer invents and builds the world's first programmable computer and is nowadays considered the inventor of the modern computer. | Konrad Zuse | 9%
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1555 | After losing his battle against the rise of Protestantism, Kaiser Charles V. is forced to sign this treaty, giving German dukes the authority to decide for themselves whether they want their territories to be Catholic or Protestant. | Peace of Augsburg | 9%
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Nov. 22, 2005 | Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor of Germany. What was her job before that? | Physicist | 9%
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March 1918 | This is the last, large-scale German military attempt to turn the war around. | Spring Offensive | 9%
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March 2014 | Angela Merkel heavily criticizes what international act of hostility? | The annexation of the Crimea | 9%
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1817 | Baron Karl von Drais invents the first verifiable prototype of something almost everyone today uses. What is it? | The bicycle | 9%
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~250 | Along with the Lombards, Franks, Saxons, Burgundians and Ostrogoths, these two famous tribes migrate south beyond the limes and eventually lead to the destruction of the West Roman Empire. | Visigoths and Vandals | 9%
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Oct. 18, 1817 | Several hundred liberal university students organize this festival at the former refuge of Martin Luther to protest reactionary politics and authoritarianism. | Wartburg Festival | 9%
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1626-1631 | During the 17th century and especially during these 5 years, this Bavarian city becomes a sad example for the atrocity of the witch trials sweeping across Germany. | Bamberg | 7%
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Oct. 14, 1806 | On one single day, Napoléon Bonaparte defeats the Prussian kingdom in two decisive battles in these two cities. | Jena and Auerstedt | 7%
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Nov. 8, 1939 | Years before General Stauffenberg, a German craftsman called Georg Elser comes insanely close to successfully assassinate Adolf Hitler. He does this by building a time bomb and hiding it in what iconic building central to Nazi lore? | The Bürgerbräukeller | 7%
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1724-1804 | Enlightenment-philosopher Immanuel Kant argues that the true "objective" nature of reality is unknowable because we are all imprisoned in our sensory, subjective realities. Kant's most famous concept however is...? | The Categorical Imperative | 7%
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Sep. 23, 1122 | This famous agreement between Pope Callixtus II. and Kaiser Henry V. terminated the Investiture Controversy and regulated in what way German bishops and abbots will be elected. | Concordat of Worms | 6%
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Oct. 28, 1969 | In his famous address to the Bundestag in Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) says: "Let us dare to have more..."? | Democracy | 6%
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1848 | Publisher, poet and politician Robert Blum supports democracy and opposes antisemitism and ethnocentrism. He is a leading figure in this event. | March Revolution | 6%
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Jan. 15, 1919 | In this marxist uprising, its leaders as well as over 150 protesters are brutally killed by the Freikorps. | Spartacus-Uprising | 6%
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1525 | This radical theologian of the reformation and vehement opponent to feudalism dies in battle as the leader of Germany's peasant war. | Thomas Müntzer | 6%
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85 | Parts of modern-day Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands are officially made into two Roman provinces with these names. | Germania Inferior, Germania Superior | 4%
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1487 | In Speyer, a Catholic clergyman named Heinrich Kramer publishes an infamous treatise that claims the existence of witches. It endorses their extermination and gives instructions on how to spot and kill them. What was this treatise called? | Malleus Maleficarum | 4%
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1881 | Thanks to Werner von Siemens, Berlin becomes the first city in the world where people can enjoy an electrical...? | Streetcar | 4%
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1889 | In an effort to loosen political and social tensions, Bismarck founds the first kind of what? | Welfare Insurance | 4%
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Sep. 5, 1972 | Eight members of this Palestinian terrorist organization sneak into the Olympic Village during the Summer Olympics in Munich, take 11 Israeli athletes hostage and kill them together with a West German police officer. | Black September Organization | 3%
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Sep. 20, 1819 | In these decrees, the states of the German confederation pledge to one another to dissolve liberal student protests, censor liberalist publications and make it illegal for universities to hire liberal-minded professors. | Carlsbad Decrees | 3%
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1878-1890 | Bismarck enacts these antidemocratic laws and tries to enforce them over the next 12 years but with no success. | Anti-Socialist Laws | 1%
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Dec. 1937 - Jan. 1938 | This German businessman and Nazi-Party member saves roughly 200,000 Chinese civilians' lives by establishing a safety zone and protecting them from the horrific massacre and mass-rape by the Japanese army in Nanking. | John Rabe | 1%
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1942 - present | This musician is perhaps the most influential post-war German singer-songwriter. | Reinhard Mey (Frédéric Mey) | 1%
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787 | Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York are called to the Frankish court where they initiate the "Carolingian renaissance". What was this medieval movement of monastic learning and studying called? | Scholasticism | 1%
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~750 | These famous "magic" texts are among the very first written in Old High German. | Merseburg Incantations | 0%
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