| A | B |
|---|
| USA | America |
| HIV | disease - AIDS |
| VHS | Videotape |
| SOS | help signal |
| IBM | Computer company |
| WWW | internet |
| MfG | with friendly greetings |
| ARD | TV station |
| ZDF | TV station |
| C&A | department store |
| BRD | Germany |
| DDR | Old East Germany |
| GmbH | marker for company |
| USW | etc. |
| PLZ | zip code |
| BMX | bike company |
| BMW | German car company |
| ICE | fast trains |
| 110 | 911 |
| tatütata | sound of sirens |
| ojemine | good grief! |
| oleole | cheer at sports event |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | composer from Barock period |
| Franz Beckenbauer | soccer star |
| Boris Becker | tennis star |
| Karl Benz and Gottfried Daimler | car engine inventors |
| Adi Dassler | founder of shoes Adidas |
| Albert Einstein | physics genius |
| Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit | thermometer inventor |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychiatrist |
| Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg | Inventor of the Printing Press |
| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | physicist working with light |
| Immanuel Kant | philosopher |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Nobel Prize Winner for work towards peace |
| Gustav Klimt | artist |
| Heidi Klum | modal and actress (younger) |
| Helmut Kohl | former Kanzler of Germany |
| Karl Lagerfeld | fashion designer |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Invented calculus and binary code |
| Martin Luther | religious reformer |
| Karl Marx | father of socialism |
| Angela Merkel | current German Kanzler |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | composer and child prodigy |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | composer who went deaf |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | philosopher with mustache |
| Josheph Pulitzer | owner of New York newspaper |
| Claudia Schiffer | actress and modal (older) |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Austrian/Californian body building governor |
