| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Capital and largest city | Stuttgart | 98%
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| Bordering foreign countries | France | 97%
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| River along the western border | Rhine | 96%
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| Bordering foreign countries | Switzerland | 96%
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| Forested mountain area famous for its cuckoo clocks | Black Forest | 92%
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| Name the two major car companies based in the capital | Daimler | 90%
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| Spa town whose casino was frequented by Dostoyevsky. (Hint: The name is twice the same word. And it's an obvious word.) | Baden-Baden | 84%
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| Germany's largest lake, situated at the southeastern border | Lake Constance | 83%
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| Germany's oldest university is located in this city | Heidelberg | 79%
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| The Spanish and French names for Germany derive from this tribe | Alemanni | 78%
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| Porsche | 78%
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| Karlsruhe native Karls Drais invented the velocipede, a prototype of this popular vehicle | Bicycle | 69%
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| The minster of this city is the tallest church in the world | Ulm | 69%
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| One of the branches of this royal house ruled Prussia and the German Empire | Hohenzollern | 49%
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| This poet, famous for his friendship with Goethe, wrote the lyrics to the "Ode to Joy" | Friedrich Schiller | 48%
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| Trivial question: what does the German verb "baden" mean in English? | to bathe | 48%
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| "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" author born in Calw | Hermann Hesse | 38%
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