German

Question 1

From the German, it’s a vending machine or a restaurant full of them in New York City of yore.

Answer 1

Automat

Question 2

Currents in the Danube form whirlpools called this, also the name of a German pastry.

Answer 2

Strudel

Question 3

Meaning “scissor cuts” in German, this is the art of paper cutting design. Common forms include paper silhouettes, valentines and love letters.

Answer 3

Scherenschnitte

Question 4

Kierkegaard said a leap of faith into a relationship with God is the way to deal with this German for “dread”.

Answer 4

Angst

Question 5

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered examples of works in what literary genre, the name of which is a German term that translates to English as “novel of education”)?

Answer 5

Bildungsroman

Question 6

Commonly used as a response to a sneeze, what does the German word “gesundheit” actually mean?

Answer 6

Health

Question 7

What is the specific term, borrowed from German, for the type of frozen precipitation—sometimes referred to as “snow pellets” and distinct from snow, sleet, freezing rain, or hail—which consists of soft, small ice pellets created when super-cooled water droplets coat a snowflake?

Answer 7

Graupel

Question 8

Ballroom dance, German word, “to revolve”, fittingly.

Answer 8

Waltz