Did you know ...
- architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
- the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich?
- the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse, and two other composers?
- the pinax, an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "art museum", as exemplified by Munich's Alte Pinakothek?
- according to legend, the Teufelstritt (Devil's Footstep), in the Munich Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany, marks the spot where the devil stood when he thought that the builder had constructed a cathedral with no windows?
- Reinhard von Werneck gave Munich's Englischer Garten much of its current form by almost doubling its area and by creating a new lake, the Kleinhesseloher See?
- Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
- Augustiner Bräu is Munich's only German-owned brewery?
- Franz Anton Bustelli, who worked at Nymphenburg near Munich, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style (example pictured)?
- Jacopo de' Barberi painted the first trompe l'oeil still-life (pictured) since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?
- "My Best Friend's Girl," a 1978 hit single for The Cars, was performed by Nirvana during their final concert in Munich?
More interesting facts on Munich
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Question 1: What role did Ciarán Hinds play in the movie Munich?
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Question 2: What role did Hanns Zischler play in the movie Munich?
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Question 3: Before ________, the Blaue Reiter group of artists worked in Munich.
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Question 5: ________, who also lived there, wrote ironically in his novella Gladius Dei about this period, "Munich shone".
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Question 6: ________, Singer/Songwriter, born in 1975
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Question 7: What role did Mathieu Kassovitz play in the movie Munich?
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Question 8: The city's ________ is the Tierpark Hellabrunn near the Flaucher Island in the Isar in the south of the city.
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Question 9: ________, Nobel Prize winning physicist, grew up in Munich
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Question 10:
What does the following picture show?
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