99 “European Geography by Letter” Questions of Increasing Difficulty

Given the first letter, can you answer these 99 European geography questions? Each question was guessed correctly a different percentage of the time in its original quiz. The farther you go, the more challenging the questions get!
Mostly from relessness's European Geography by Letter series with a few exceptions to find questions with success rates below 15%.
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Letter
Hint
Answer
99%
G
Country that has the largest economy in Europe
Germany
98%
M
Italy's economic capital
Milan
97%
M
Island nation in the Mediterranean
Malta
96%
T
Country whose territory is 3% in Europe
Turkey
95%
W
Cardiff is its capital
Wales
94%
O
Famous fall festival held in Munich
Oktoberfest
93%
M
Where Muscovites live
Moscow
92%
K
Balkan state that declared independence in 2008
Kosovo
91%
S
Country formerly joined with the Czech Republic
Slovakia
90%
B
National capital on the Danube River
Budapest
89%
K
Poland's second biggest city
Kraków
88%
T
Historical region of central Romania
Transylvania
87%
R
World's northernmost capital city
Reykjavík
86%
R
Dutch city with Europe's busiest port
Rotterdam
85%
C
Site of a 1986 nuclear disaster
Chernobyl
84%
B
Sea on which Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania lie
Baltic Sea
83%
V
Volcano that destroyed Pompeii
Vesuvius
82%
J
Peninsula forming most of Denmark
Jutland
81%
C
Largest island in Greece
Crete
80%
F
Type of inlet notably found in Norway
Fjord
79%
B
Sea to the south of Ukraine
Black Sea
78%
T
Greece's second largest city
Thessaloniki
77%
C
Peninsula that was invaded by Russia in 2014
Crimea
76%
P
Mountain range between France and Spain
Pyrenees
75%
R
Greek island formerly home to an ancient wonder of the world
Rhodes
74%
A
Majority Muslim country
Albania
73%
S
Capital of North Macedonia
Skopje
72%
C
Autonomous region of northeast Spain
Catalonia
71%
D
German city devastated by Allied firebombing in 1945
Dresden
70%
P
City that merged with Buda in 1873
Pest
69%
F
Heraldic symbol of the above
Fleur-de-Lis
68%
P
City just outside Berlin where Stalin, Truman, and Atlee met in 1945
Potsdam
67%
M
Pointy peak on the Swiss/Italian border
Matterhorn
66%
S
Second largest Mediterranean island
Sardinia
65%
F
Danish islands known for whaling
Faroe Islands
64%
C
Biggest city in southwest Ireland
Cork
63%
B
Peninsula on which the former Yugoslavia was located
Balkan
62%
I
Austrian Winter Olympics host city
Innsbruck
61%
I
"Capital" of the Scottish highlands
Inverness
60%
G
Sweden's second biggest city
Gothenburg
59%
P
Capital of Sicily
Palermo
58%
G
Capital of Liguria in NW Italy, once a city-state with a naval empire
Genoa
57%
B
Country whose first and only President was elected in 1994
Belarus
56%
K
Full name of the city of Hull
Kingston upon Hull
55%
W
German city that gave its name to the republic of 1919–1933
Weimar
54%
B
City in northern Spain home to a Guggenheim museum
Bilbao
53%
S
Town where Shakespeare was born
Stratford- upon-Avon
52%
K
Russian city formerly known as Königsberg when it was part of Prussia
Kaliningrad
51%
R
River that goes from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean
Rhône
50%
A
Largest city in Flanders
Antwerp
49%
D
Walled city of southern Croatia
Dubrovnik
48%
P
Peninsula on which the town of Sparta is located
Peloponnese
47%
T
The world's second oldest amusement park, opened in Copenhagen in 1843
Tivoli Gardens
46%
I
Sea between Greece and Italy
Ionian
45%
R
Switzerland's fourth official language
Romansh
44%
J
Sub-alpine mountain range on the Italy–Slovenia border
Julian Alps
43%
B
Historical region composing the western half of the Czech Republic
Bohemia
42%
S
French river which was the site of the bloodiest battle of WWI
Somme
41%
W
Irish city known for crystal
Waterford
40%
O
Term for a province of Russia or Ukraine
Oblast
39%
B
Most famous cathedral in Moscow
St. Basil's
38%
P
One of the Seven Hills of Rome
Palatine
37%
D
Kyiv's river
Dnieper
36%
E
Tallest mountain in Europe
Mount Elbrus
35%
H
Croatia in Croatian
Hrvatska
34%
L
German city where J.S. Bach lived for most of his adult life
Leipzig
33%
S
Destination of pilgrims in northern Spain
Santiago de Compostela
32%
R
City where Joan of Arc was executed; Monet painted its cathedral
Rouen
31%
K
Irish city founded in 1609, or the county it is part of
Kilkenny
30%
A
French city once home to the Papacy
Avignon
29%
H
Art museum in St. Petersburg
Hermitage
28%
O
River on the Poland / Germany border
Oder
27%
N
Region of northern Spain, once an independent kingdom
Navarre
26%
D
Capital of the Isle of Man
Douglas
25%
R
Circular road surrounding central Vienna
Ringstraße
24%
J
Sub-alpine mountain range on the Switzerland–France border
Jura
23%
N
Most populous city on the Volga river, formerly known as Gorky
Nizhny Novgorod
22%
O
Bridge connecting Copenhagen to Malmo
Øresund
21%
V
Bulgarian resort city on the Black Sea
Varna
20%
P
Greek island where John had his vision of the Apocalypse
Patmos
19%
Q
Official residence of the Italian president
Quirinal
18%
Y
Tiny mining town in Sweden where six chemical elements were discovered
Ytterby
17%
K
Capital of the Orkney islands
Kirkwall
16%
I
Dutch lake created by the closing of the Zuiderzee
IJsselmeer
15%
A
City on the northern coast of Iceland that is the largest in the country outside the capital region
Akureyri
14%
A
London bridge that connects Chelsea to Battersea
Albert Bridge
13%
V
City on the island of Gotland
Visby
12%
B
Longest river in Northern Ireland
Bann
11%
Z
Fourth-biggest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zenica
10%
E
Greece's second largest island by area or population
Euboea
9%
C
You might see a don punting down in this river in Oxford
Cherwell
8%
A
Eastern Romance language and ethnic group native to the Balkans
Aromanian
7%
Q
Major city near the Portuguese capital, home to a national palace
Queluz
6%
Y
Southeastern Bulgarian city which lies in the banks of river Tundzha
Yambol
5%
B
Largest city in Malta
Birkirkara
4%
C
Welsh town at which King Arthur supposedly had his court
Caerleon
3%
D
Term for Alexander the Great's successors
Diadochi
2%
D
Treaty between Rome and Pontus ending the first Mithridatic war
Treaty of Dardanos
1%
N
Crusader state established in Greece after the Fourth Crusade
Duchy of Neopatria
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