| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Home town of the above | Zurich | 96%
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| Airship named after its German inventor | Zeppelin | 83%
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| German composer of many blockbuster movie scores from 1980 (Hans) | Zimmer | 81%
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| Dalmatian city allegedly founded over 2900 years ago | Zadar (Zara) | 72%
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| His “J’accuse” made the French government plunge into a crisis (Emile) | Zola | 72%
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| Capital of the Kingdom of Aragon for almost 600 years | Zaragoza | 66%
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| Led France to the World Cup 1998, ended his career by headbutting an opponent (Zinédine) | Zidane | 64%
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| Popular Soviet WWII general (Georgy) | Zhukov | 55%
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| Failed diplomatic attempt of Germany to form a military alliance with Mexico against the US in 1917 | Zimmermann telegram | 51%
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| Greek philosopher known for his “paradoxes” | Zeno of Elea | 44%
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| German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered this chemical element in 1789 | Zirconium | 36%
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| Bavarian Joseph Naus was the first to ascend Germany’s highest mountain in 1820 | Zugspitze | 33%
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| Strategically important Ukrainian city on the Dnepr river, bombed by Russia in the 2022 war | Zaporizhzhia | 31%
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| Former bay in the Netherlands, cut off the sea by a dam in 1932, now a freshwater lake | Zuiderzee | 28%
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| Swiss reformator, got in a row with Luther (Huldrych) | Zwingli | 20%
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| Legendary Czech long-distance runner who modernized training methods (Emil) | Zatopek | 19%
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| Grand Prince and progenitor of 23 kings of Hungary | Zoltan | 14%
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| German revolutionary, communist parliamentarian and feminist (Carla, 1857-1933) | Zetkin | 9%
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| Leader of Russia’s communist party who lost all his four bids for president (Gennadi) | Zyuganov | 9%
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| Town in Western Ukraine, site of a Cossack attack in 1649, a WWI battle and a WWII massacre | Zboriv | 4%
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