Exploring German Culture and History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

according to legend, the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force.

a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl, Rosemarie Nitribitt, who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957.

the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra, a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish.

the World War I German U-boat UB-2 was the only one of the Type UB I submarines in the Flanders Flotilla not to be shipped by rail to Antwerp.

the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22, 1941, by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division.

Studio Wall, an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel, is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity".

Son Goku, a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z.

American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill.

German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis.

Adolph Diesterweg, a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing".

Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively.

Richard Rogler became the only German professor for Kabarett in 1999.

Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping.

Exploring German Culture and History

1 What role did German play in the movie Hum Bhi Insaan Hain?

2 ________, people of German descent without German citizenship

3 Obsoletely, in a historical context, the ________

4 as a noun, ________, people from Germany or of German ancestry

5 German citizens, see ________

6 Something of, from, or related to ________, a country in west-central Europe

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