11. Football Fanatics
It’s probably no big surprise that the most popular sport in Germany is football (that’s soccer for North American readers). In fact, there are more football fan clubs in Germany than anywhere else on the planet. This furor will no doubt increase now that team Germany won the 2014 FIFA world cup, a title they’ve taken four times now. The German Bundesliga football league has one of the highest average audience attendances of any professional sports league worldwide.
12. Berlin
Here are a few final interesting facts about Germany to help you ace that trivia contest. Today, the capital city of the Federal Republic of Germany is Berlin, but Frankfurt and Bonn have also served as governing cities throughout the region’s history. Did you know Berlin is nine times the size of Paris? It also has more bridges than Venice (around 1700!) and of 180 km of waterways. Berlin has the largest Turkish community outside of Turkey. And yes, when JFK visited and famously said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” he declared to the people of Berlin “I am a jelly donut.”
