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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: What have the Germans ever given us?
Friedrich Fröbel designed educational play materials known as Froebel gifts, or Fröbelgaben, for children, which included geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks.
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On January 29, 1886, this gentleman obtained a patent for his ‘Motorwagen’ in Karlsruhe, Germany. This was the world’s first automobile with a burning motor. As a kid he had helped out his single mother by developing photos for tourists. His goal in life was to have a ‘horseless carriage’, and till this day his name is synonymous with the most respected automobile brand in the world. Who was this inventor?
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Dr. Gerhard Stalling was a German doctor who during the First World War I worked with soldiers who returned from the frontline, especially those blinded by poison gas. One day he noticed his German shepherd helping one of his patients to find a chair to sit down. This inspired him to start the world’s first school for what specific purpose in 1916?
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Richard Assmann was a German doctor whose interest in aeronautics eventually led him to co-founding the field of aerology. He conducted human scientific ascents with balloons. and in In 1902, he discovered a layer of stratified temperatures. What did he discover that is also used to informally denote the highest level of something?
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Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld was a physician who discovered something in the body for the first time in 1840. Finding it in humans, earthworms and pigs he called the crystals ‘Blut roth’. What did he discover that is responsible for transporting oxygen in all vertebrates?
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Franz Karl Achard was a chemist who for discovering how to acclimatize acclimatise tobacco to Germany was handsomely rewarded by the king. Using that money he did research to devise a process which allowed him to produce a valuable commodity from the root of Beta vulgaris, which revolutionized revolutionised the world. What did he produce from beets?
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In 1901, Johannes Pfleger and Karl Heumann, in 1901 came up with a process to do industrial-scale synthesis of a particular dye. This distinctively blue dye had till then been extracted from a plant, but was a long and labour-intensive process, thus making this colour expensive. What colour dye did these two Germans give the world which that is now the staple colour of denim?
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Karl Lohmann discovered this organic compound in 1929 at the same time as Yellapragada Subba Rao. They had been looking to find an assay for phosphorus when they discovered this molecule that provides energy to drive almost all processes in a living cell. Known by a three-letter acronym, what molecule is this?
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Karlheinz Brandenburg is an electrical engineer who was working with his Ph.D. advisor on a system where people could connect to a central server and hear music on demand over the phone lines. The problem was that the bandwidth was very low. Brandenburg figured out a way to compress the file by a factor of 12. What format did he and his team invent which revolutionized revolutionised the music industry?
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This a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. First introduced in 18th century Germany, it soon spread globally. Friedrich Fröbel came up with the name because he believed children should be nurtured and nourished “like plants”. What system is this?
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Easily the most popular cake in any bakery, this delicacy gets its name from the traditional costume worn by women in a heavily wooded area in Germany. The black dress, white blouse, and red hat combo is native to this region. What is the name of this cake?
