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  1. Complete the sentence about German cuisine with the correct year: As of November ______, Germany had the fourth-highest number of Michelin three-star restaurants in the world, after Japan, France, and…
  2. Complete the sentence about German cuisine with the correct year: In the market ordinance of Landshut in ______, it was set down that only top-quality meat could be made into sausages.
  3. Complete the sentence about Bratwurst with the correct year: Bratwurst originating in the city of Coburg in Franconia was first documented there in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Bratwurst with the correct year: In ______, bratwurst started to become popular in eastern Switzerland, especially in St.
  5. Complete the sentence about Schnitzel with the correct year: Pork tonkatsu was invented in Japan in ______ at the Rengatei restaurant in Tokyo.
  6. Complete the sentence about Black Forest gateau with the correct year: The earliest known publication of the term Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte was in February ______ in Brandenburg an der Havel.
  7. Complete the sentence about Black Forest gateau with the correct year: Udo Rauch, the city archivist of Tübingen, cited the pastry chef Erwin Hildenbrand as having invented the cake in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Black Forest gateau with the correct year: The first written recipe of Black Forest gateau appeared in ______, where it is kept at an archive in Radolfzell.
  9. Complete the sentence about Black Forest gateau with the correct year: Oetker featured a Black Forest gateau recipe for the first time in their ______ cookbook.
  10. Complete the sentence about Stollen with the correct year: As a Christmas bread, stollen was baked for the first time at the Saxon Royal Court in ______, and was made with flour, yeast, oil and water.
  11. Complete the sentence about Lebkuchen with the correct year: Since ______, a variety of Nürnberg Lebkuchen made without flour has been called Elisenlebkuchen.
  12. Complete the sentence about Lebkuchen with the correct year: Since ______, Nürnberger Lebkuchen is a protected designation of origin, meaning that it must be produced within the boundaries of the city…
  13. Complete the sentence about Spätzle with the correct year: In ______, Rosino Lentilio, a councillor and personal physician from Württemberg, concluded that Knöpflein and Spazen were "all the things th…
  14. Complete the sentence about Spätzle with the correct year: In a description of a Swabian farmers' village written in ______, Spätzle are described as a festive food.
  15. Complete the sentence about Spätzle with the correct year: In ______ the Württembergian council and private physician Lentilius defined "Knöpflein" and "Spatzen" as "everything that is made from flour…
  16. Complete the sentence about German beer with the correct year: In ______, Oettinger replaced Krombacher as the best selling brand in Germany.
  17. Complete the sentence about Reinheitsgebot with the correct year: The most influential predecessor of the modern Reinheitsgebot was a law first adopted in the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Reinheitsgebot with the correct year: After Bavaria was reunited, the Munich law was adopted across the entirety of Bavaria on 23 April ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Reinheitsgebot with the correct year: According to the ______ Bavarian law, the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops.
  20. Complete the sentence about Reinheitsgebot with the correct year: The Bavarian order of ______ was introduced in part to prevent price competition with bakers for wheat and rye.
  21. Complete the sentence about Reinheitsgebot with the correct year: In ______, Georg Schneider was commissioned to open a weissbier brewery, and his family still operates it today.
  22. Complete the sentence about Oktoberfest with the correct year: The first Oktoberfest was held on 12 October ______ to celebrate the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildbu…
  23. Complete the sentence about Oktoberfest with the correct year: On October 12, ______, Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
  24. Complete the sentence about Oktoberfest with the correct year: The race was repeated in ______, forming the core of the Oktoberfest tradition.
  25. Complete the sentence about Riesling with the correct year: The modern spelling Riesling was first documented in ______ when it was mentioned in Hieronymus Bock's Latin herbal.
  26. Complete the sentence about Riesling with the correct year: A map of Kintzheim in Alsace from ______ contains the text zu dem Russelinge, but it is not certain that this reference is to the grape vari…
  27. Complete the sentence about Christmas market with the correct year: Dresden's Striezelmarkt was first held in ______ and one of the first true Christmas markets; earlier markets of the season were "De…
  28. Complete the sentence about Christmas market with the correct year: In ______, Duke Albert I of Austria granted the Viennese traders the privilege of holding a "December market" to supply the local po…
  29. Complete the sentence about Christmas market with the correct year: A Saint Nicholas market in Munich was first mentioned in a document in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Christmas market with the correct year: In ______, King Wenceslas granted the town of Bautzen the right to hold a free meat market on Saturdays from St.
  31. Complete the sentence about Advent with the correct year: When Pope Urban V ascended the papal seat in ______, he imposed abstinence on the papal court but there was no mention of fasting.
  32. Complete the sentence about Carnival in Germany with the correct year: In ______, in festivities sponsored by Pope Paul II, Jews were forced to race naked through the streets of the city of Rome.
  33. Complete the sentence about Cologne Carnival with the correct year: From ______ to '43, the maiden was ordered by Nazi authorities to be played by a real woman.
  34. Complete the sentence about Johann Sebastian Bach with the correct year: In ______ he returned to Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen.
  35. Complete the sentence about Johann Sebastian Bach with the correct year: By ______ he was hired as Thomaskantor, church music director of the city of Leipzig and thus responsible for music in four Lut…
  36. Complete the sentence about George Frideric Handel with the correct year: In ______ he had a physical breakdown, changed direction creatively, addressed the middle class and made a transition to Engli…
  37. Complete the sentence about George Frideric Handel with the correct year: One of his four coronation anthems, Zadok the Priest, has been performed at every British coronation since ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Richard Wagner with the correct year: Richard Wagner was born on 22 May ______ into the Wagner family, an ethnic German family of musicians in Leipzig, then part of the Con…
  39. Complete the sentence about Richard Wagner with the correct year: In August ______ Johanna and Geyer probably married, although no documentation of this has been found in the Leipzig church registers.
  40. Complete the sentence about Richard Wagner with the correct year: In late ______, Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel's school at Possendorf, near Dresden, where he received some piano instruction fr…
  41. Complete the sentence about Richard Wagner with the correct year: Following Geyer's death in ______, Richard was sent to the Kreuzschule, the boarding school of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, at the expense…
  42. Complete the sentence about Johannes Brahms with the correct year: In ______, Johann Jakob was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia.
  43. Complete the sentence about Johannes Brahms with the correct year: From ______ he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel.
  44. Complete the sentence about Robert Schumann with the correct year: Despite the bitter opposition of Wieck, who did not regard his pupil as a suitable husband for her, Schumann married Wieck's daughter…
  45. Complete the sentence about Robert Schumann with the correct year: In ______ the Schumanns met the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms, whom Schumann praised in an article in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musi…
  46. Complete the sentence about Felix Mendelssohn with the correct year: Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, and revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, notably with his performa…
  47. Complete the sentence about Richard Strauss with the correct year: A conducting disciple of Hans von Bülow, Strauss began his conducting career as Bülow's assistant with the Meiningen Court Orchestra…
  48. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he made his conducting debut at the Bayreuth Festival.
  49. Complete the sentence about Richard Strauss with the correct year: In ______ Strauss was appointed to two important musical positions in Nazi Germany: head of the Reichsmusikkammer and principal condu…
  50. Complete the sentence about Richard Strauss with the correct year: In ______, a year before his death, he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a denazification tribunal in Munich.
  51. Complete the sentence about Karlheinz Stockhausen with the correct year: The village, located near Kerpen in the Cologne region, was displaced in ______ to make way for lignite strip mining, but the c…
  52. Complete the sentence about Karlheinz Stockhausen with the correct year: Built in ______ by a local businessman named Arend, it was called by locals Burg Mödrath.
  53. Complete the sentence about Kraftwerk with the correct year: Kraftwerk released Tour de France Soundtracks, its most recent studio and concept album, in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Rammstein with the correct year: Working with producer Jacob Hellner, they released their debut album Herzeleid in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Rammstein with the correct year: Following the tour, Rammstein signed with major label Universal Music and released Mutter in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Scorpions with the correct year: The Scorpions are a German hard rock/heavy metal band formed in Hanover in ______ by guitarist Rudolf Schenker.
  57. Complete the sentence about Scorpions with the correct year: In September ______, they performed at the legendary Star-Club in Hamburg.
  58. Complete the sentence about Scorpions with the correct year: In ______, they recruited 15-year-old Werner Hoyer as vocalist.
  59. Complete the sentence about Scorpions with the correct year: In ______, Achim Kirchoff left and was replaced by Lothar Heimberg.
  60. Complete the sentence about Nena with the correct year: In ______, as the lead vocalist of the band Nena, she recorded the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons".
  61. Complete the sentence about Nena with the correct year: Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born on 24 March ______ in Hagen, West Germany while her family was living in the nearby town of Breckerfeld.
  62. Complete the sentence about Tokio Hotel with the correct year: Tokio Hotel is a German rock band formed in ______ by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing, and drummer Gust…
  63. Complete the sentence about Bayreuth Festival with the correct year: Nonetheless, the burgermeisters proved open to assisting Wagner with the construction of an entirely new theatre, and the Festival…
  64. Complete the sentence about Bayreuth Festival with the correct year: Wagner made another appeal to Bismarck in August ______, and was again denied.
  65. Complete the sentence about Berlin Philharmonic with the correct year: The orchestra was renamed and reorganized under the financial management of Hermann Wolff in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Berlin Philharmonic with the correct year: In ______, the pianist and composer Mary Wurm became the first woman to conduct the orchestra.
  67. Complete the sentence about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with the correct year: Goethe's first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a ______ tour of I…
  68. Complete the sentence about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with the correct year: Johann Caspar married Goethe's mother, Catharina Elisabeth Textor, in Frankfurt on 20 August ______, when he was 38 and sh…
  69. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Schiller with the correct year: Initially intended for the priesthood, in ______ he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine.
  70. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Schiller with the correct year: In ______, he became professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Jena, where he wrote historical works.
  71. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Schiller with the correct year: When the war ended in ______, Schiller's father became a recruiting officer and was stationed in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
  72. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Schiller with the correct year: In ______, the family left Lorch for the Duke of Württemberg's principal residence, Ludwigsburg.
  73. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Schiller with the correct year: In ______, he obtained a post as regimental doctor in Stuttgart, a job he disliked.
  74. Complete the sentence about Heinrich Heine with the correct year: Heine was born on 13 December ______, in Düsseldorf, in what was then the Duchy of Berg, into a Jewish family.
  75. Complete the sentence about Thomas Mann with the correct year: When Adolf Hitler came to power in ______, Mann fled to Switzerland.
  76. Complete the sentence about Thomas Mann with the correct year: In ______, Mann married Katia Pringsheim, who came from a wealthy, secular Jewish industrialist family.
  77. Complete the sentence about Hermann Hesse with the correct year: Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July ______ in the Black Forest town of Calw, in Württemberg, German Empire.
  78. Complete the sentence about Hermann Hesse with the correct year: Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born at such a mission in South India in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Hermann Hesse with the correct year: In ______, the Hesse family moved to Calw, where Johannes worked for Calwer Verlagsverein, a publishing house specializing in theologic…
  80. Complete the sentence with the correct year: At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late ______ in the Waffen-SS.
  81. Complete the sentence about Günter Grass with the correct year: The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the ______ Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Languag…
  82. Complete the sentence about Günter Grass with the correct year: In ______, the Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables port…
  83. Complete the sentence about Günter Grass with the correct year: After the Navy refused him, he was called up for the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg in late ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Günter Grass with the correct year: Grass did not reveal until ______ that he was drafted into the Waffen-SS at that time.
  85. Complete the sentence about Bertolt Brecht with the correct year: When the Nazis came to power in Germany in ______, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia.
  86. Complete the sentence about Bertolt Brecht with the correct year: In ______, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for…
  87. Complete the sentence about Franz Kafka with the correct year: Valli was deported to the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland in ______, but that is the last documentation of her; it is assumed she did not…
  88. Complete the sentence about Franz Kafka with the correct year: In November ______, the family moved into a bigger apartment, even though Ellie and Valli had married and moved out of the first apartmen…
  89. Complete the sentence about Erich Maria Remarque with the correct year: On 12 June ______, he was transferred to the Western Front, 2nd Company, Reserves, Field Depot of the 2nd Guards Reserve Divisio…
  90. Complete the sentence about Erich Maria Remarque with the correct year: On 26 June ______ he was posted to the 15th Reserve Infantry Regiment, 2nd Company, Engineer Platoon Bethe, and fought in the tr…
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In mid-November ______, he received the Iron Cross First Class.
  92. Complete the sentence about Heinrich Böll with the correct year: In ______ he was awarded the Culture Prize of German Industry, the Southern German Radio Prize and the German Critics' Prize.
  93. Complete the sentence about Heinrich Böll with the correct year: In ______ he was given the French prize for the best foreign novel.
  94. Complete the sentence about Heinrich Böll with the correct year: In ______ he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and gained the Charles Veillon Prize.
  95. Complete the sentence about Rainer Maria Rilke with the correct year: Rilke met and fell in love with the widely travelled and intellectual woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salomé in ______ in Munich.
  96. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Nietzsche with the correct year: In ______, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel.
  97. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Nietzsche with the correct year: Nietzsche's father died of a brain disease in ______, after a year of excruciating agony, when the boy was only four years old; L…
  98. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Nietzsche with the correct year: After the death of Nietzsche's grandmother in ______, the family moved into their own house, now Nietzsche-Haus, a museum, and Ni…
  99. Complete the sentence about Immanuel Kant with the correct year: In ______, aged 16, he enrolled at the University of Königsberg, where he would later remain for the rest of his professional life.
  100. Complete the sentence about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel with the correct year: In ______, he entered Stuttgart's Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and during his adolescence read voraciously, copying lengt…

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