Greenland A-Z

For each letter A-Z, can you guess the answer that pertains to Greenland?

Æ can be written as A or AE

Å can be written as A or AA

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Ends on "Letter"
the answer doesn't start with that letter

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First submitted	July 15, 2021
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#	Clue	Answer
A	Name in Old Norse Contains an Æ Starts with G	Grænland
B	Large bay west of Greenland	Baffin Bay
C	Missionaries of the Moravian Brethren introduced this religion to the greenlandic Inuit	Christianity
D	Former colonial power	Denmark
E	First european who founded a settlement on Greenland	Erik the Red
F	Important industry of Greenland	Fishing
G	Danish name of the capital	Godthåb
H	"Apostle of Greenland"	Hans Egede
I	#E was previously banned from this country	Iceland
J	National holiday 2009 Denmark granted Greenland further autonomous right and home rule, on this day	June 21
K	Currency	Danish krone
L	Canadian peninsula southwest of Greenland	Labrador
M	Queen	Margrethe II
N	Capital	Nuuk
O	Caprine (goat-like mammal) native to northern Greenland	Muskox
P	Black-white bird with a prominent orange and grey beak	Atlantic/ Common Puffin
Q	Fourth largest city	Qaqortoq
R	Important source of greenlandic Ivory	Walrus
S	Second largest city	Sisimiut
T	Proto-Inuits that around 1200 settled the west-, north- and east coast of Greenland Their Predecessors only settled and hunted the northern areas of Greenland	Thule people
U	Shipping-/ Lifeline of western Greenland	Arctic Umiaq Line
V	Groups of Merchants and Warriors that settled in western Greenland	Vikings
W	Important industry of colonial Greenland	Whaling
X	Westernmost point of Greenland Contains a X	Cape Alexander
Y	Valley beneath the Greenland-Iceshield Named after a ravine in the United States Contains a Y	Grand Canyon
Z	Formerly important mining product	Zinc

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4 Comments

Level 76

Jul 15, 2021

Tough but interesting quiz. The E clue is written in German, and there are a couple of German pieces in the answers too - in English, Baffin Bay is two words, and dates like 21 June are written without a full stop after the number. Also, for G, also accept Godthaab as a type-in?

Level 60

Jul 15, 2021

Thanks for the notice! Luckily #E apparently was easy enough without the question for everyone had guessed it. Fixed the things you mentioned.

Level 76

Jul 16, 2021

Cheers :) One more thing - in English, mining product is two words!

Level 60

Jul 16, 2021

Fixed