The German bandwurm word "rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz" became famous in early June 2013 for what reason?
It was officially removed from the German language The word meant "the law concerning the delegation of duties for the supervision of beef labelling", referring to inspection requirements after the BSE crisis in the 1990s, and disappeared as a current word when the law was repealed by the state MPs in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania. It had been nominated in 1999 as one of the words of the year by the Society for German Language.
A famous 44-pound gold plated cookie was stolen in 2013 from over the entrance to a German factory and returned tied round the neck of a horse statue outside Hanover University. Which factory was it?
Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
