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Germany A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess the answer that pertains to the country of Germany.
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Clue
Answer
A
German highway system
Autobahn
B
Capital prior to reunification
Bonn
C
City also known as Köln
Cologne
D
German name for Germany
Deutschland
E
Germany had this kind of
"miracle" after WWII
Economic
F
Financial capital of Germany
Frankfurt
G
Something to say to a sneezer
Gesundheit
H
Allowed beer ingredient
Hops
I
"___ bin ein Berliner"
Ich
J
Peninsula of northern Germany
and Denmark
Jutland
K
Title of Wilhelm II
Kaiser
L
Largest airline
Lufthansa
M
Where BMW is headquartered
Munich
 
Clue
Answer
N
Species of hominid
first discovered in Germany
Neanderthal
O
Bavarian fall festival
Oktoberfest
P
Most powerful Germanic nation, formerly
Prussia
Q
Type of physics studied by Max Planck
Quantum
R
River on Germany's western border
Rhine
S
Fermented cabbage
Sauerkraut
T
Largest source country of Germany's
foreign-born population
Turkey
U
Heidelberg is the oldest one
of these in Germany
Universities
V
Largest car company
Volkswagen
W
German for sausage
Wurst
X
What Röntgen discovered
X-rays
Y
Winter holiday for ancient Germans
Yule
Z
Highest mountain
Zugspitze
65 Comments
+3
Level 73
Nov 26, 2015
Please accept Neandertal too.
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Level 63
Jan 20, 2016
Yes please!
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Level ∞
Jul 16, 2019
Okay
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Level 81
Aug 8, 2019
I'm not sure why I kept trying it after years of not working (as evinced by my comment below), but today for the first time I discovered that Neandertaal was an acceptable type-in.
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Level 65
Jan 27, 2016
Please accept "Rhein".
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Level 73
Jan 27, 2016
yes please
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Level ∞
Jan 27, 2016
Okay
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Level 81
Aug 10, 2019
This didn't work today oddly (although it worked in the 5-letter geography quiz)
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Level 63
Jan 27, 2016
Please accept hop
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Level 79
May 8, 2021
yes please!
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2016
German physicist Max Planck pioneered this field: quantum theory / quantum physics / quantum mechanics
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Level ∞
Jul 16, 2019
Good one. Added that.
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Level 86
Oct 3, 2022
Yes, but...

Planck imagined the concept of quantum, but the main contributors are Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg. The former was Austrian but the latter was German and would be the best choice for the question.

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Level 56
Jan 27, 2016
Accepting "Rhein" and "Preussen" would be nice. I already made a similar comment on the Russia A-Z quiz yesterday.
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Level 81
Jan 27, 2016
I tried hopps... and neandertaal
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Level 91
Jan 27, 2016
You know you're a WWII geek if you type Luftwaffe instead of Lufthansa... lol
+2
Level 71
Jan 30, 2016
Quite a powerful airline :D
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Level 61
Nov 2, 2019
They should accept Luftwaffe
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Level 58
Feb 21, 2020
No they shouldn't! It's like accepting USAAF for United Airlines!
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Level 69
Oct 3, 2022
Sure, if they want to be wrong
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Level 66
Jan 27, 2016
It's kind of weird to think that the unifying Germanic kingdom no longer exists and its historic heartland is no longer part of any German state. I suppose that's the price you pay for starting a genocidal war with Stalin's Soviet Union. Pomerania and Silesia still persist as geographic regions but East Prussia has been scrubbed off the map.
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Level 62
Jan 27, 2016
Please accept Preussen....
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Level 58
Jan 31, 2016
Please accept Jylland
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Level 69
Feb 8, 2016
Haha, "Ich bin ein Berliner", how to try and make a Germany quiz Amerocentric. Jokes, jokes. For Bonn, that's rather unclear; it was the capital of West Germany, not East Germany. And, it's not as if both didn't lay claim to the name Germany. Most people will get it but it's a nit to pick.
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2016
There never was a "West Germany". It was Germany and East Germany. West Germany is an English thing.
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Level ∞
Jul 16, 2019
This is an English quiz. I also don't think that you are correct that East Germany was known as East Germany in East Germany.
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Level 80
Jul 16, 2019
If I recall correctly from growing up there in the 80s, they were known as BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and DDR (Deutsche Demokratsche Republik), or the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. I don't remember any Germans ever saying "West Germany." "East Germany" (Ostdeutschland) maybe occasionally, but it was usually referred to as the "DDR."
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Level 63
Aug 8, 2019
Yeah yeah, it's an English quiz. So I guess the answer is acceptable. :P Btw people still use East Germany "Ostdeutschland" or the East "der Osten" to refer to the former DDR region sometimes. But hey if they still get a part of the money I as a German earn after all this time to "build up the broken infrastructure" of course people will use that.
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Level 36
Apr 18, 2020
Quiz Master: I find it ironic that, while insisting that this is an English language quiz, you accept Oktoberfest and Sauerkraut as answers.
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Level 59
Aug 19, 2020
Because we have English words for them...?
+7
Level 78
Jan 5, 2021
divantilya - Yeah, because that's what we call them in English, too.
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Level 79
Jul 16, 2019
Growing up in Austria, I used to say "Westdeutschland" or "BRD" and "Ostdeutschland" or "DDR". Both versions were often used and always understood.
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Level 78
Dec 3, 2019
1) Your stance is so pre-1972. 2) Bundesrepublik Deutschland may be the official name but West Germany refers to the same concept (btw, The Republic of Korea is called Südkorea in German). 3) Doesn't this mean that Berlin should count for B, as this was East Germany's capital?
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Level 48
Aug 20, 2020
actually there was the federal(?) republic of germany and the german democratic republic
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Level 79
Dec 15, 2022
They also didn't call the Byzantine Empire the Byzantine Empire during its existence, but historians have chosen that term to avoid confusion. It's essentially the same with West Germany.
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Level 76
Jul 16, 2019
Damn. The mountain wasn't Zuckerberg.
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Level 79
Dec 15, 2022
It also wasn't Mt. Zion.
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Level 68
Jul 16, 2019
I kept trying to type in wiener-schnitzel, please accept this!
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Level 89
Jul 17, 2019
Why?
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Level 68
Jul 23, 2019
PLEASE tell me, this is sarcasm -_-
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Level 63
Aug 8, 2019
For what exactly? The W one? Schnitzel is meat, a sausage in Germany can either be the sausage itself like a Frankfurter or sausages like salami or ham, often cut into slices.
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Level 45
Aug 8, 2019
Wiener Schnitzel is only not accepted, because the correct answer is Wurst. They asked for the German word for sausage, which is Wurst. It can be served cut up into slices or as a whole, but Schnitzel is a breaded cutlet you can get in various meats (pork, turkey, veal), meaning, the meat has a covering of bread crumbs. That's why :)
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Level 71
Jul 16, 2019
Minor nitpick learned at the Neanderthal museum: A Neanderthal fossil had already been found in Gibraltar before Neanderthal, but it wasn't recognised as a different species at the time.
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Level 70
Jul 16, 2019
Heidelberg HAS the oldest university in Germany
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Level 85
Jul 21, 2019
I tried 20 to 30 reasonable spellings for gesundheit. I don't know why anyone would know the correct spelling. It seems like reasonable approximations should be accepted.
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Level 45
Aug 8, 2019
Well, Gesundheit is the only spelling for the word. In English, the word means health, and I don't think the computer would accept an incorrect spelling of health either. And I'm pretty sure more than 100 million people know how to spell this word, due to there being around 200 million speakers worldwide (this includes native speakers, people that speak German as a second language, and people that speak German as a foreign language). So there is no other reasonable spelling for Gesundheit except Gesundheit. :)
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Level 65
Aug 8, 2019
If this site followed the rule that all answers must be spelled correctly, then all misspellings would be invalid, and many misspellings are allowed on this site for many answers. Even answers that are purely English and US-centric accept various misspellings. It is up to the quiz creator's discretion. That being said, you have to at least be somewhat close to the true spelling. Not all misspellings can possibly be accounted for.
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Level 48
Aug 20, 2020
becuase its used in the us too , so youd know the spelling
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Level 33
Aug 8, 2019
I got all the answers right until I got to Y and couldn't think of a place that ancient Germans would go to for their winter holidays...
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Level 69
Aug 8, 2019
yalta? oh no, that was the other team.
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Level 36
Aug 9, 2019
You should allow "Rhein" for the river - it's the German spelling of "Rhine"
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2020
I cannot, for the life of me, spell gusentheight.
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Level 58
Feb 21, 2020
Evidently! :-)
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Level 48
Aug 20, 2020
its easy: gesundheit. almost like you say it
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Level 78
Dec 14, 2022
If you spell it like it's pronounced, it would be "gazoontite". Definitely not "almost like you say it".
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Level 62
Apr 19, 2020
Yule is not german but germanic. The word and it's derivations are used in scandinavia, iceland and estonia for christmas, but not in germany. I've never heard of it before. And I'm german and ancient ;-)
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Level 59
Mar 25, 2021
Do you say "acient germanics" or "acient germans?" Even if you speak abou germanic people instead of germans, the correct form in that sentence is still "germans."
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Level 58
Oct 4, 2022
Historians don't speak of ancient Germans, but of ancient Germanic people(s).
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Level 72
Jul 14, 2021
Zugspitze - separating die Männer von die Kinder - My HS German classes apparently are at least mostly intact lol
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Level 44
Aug 3, 2022
there is another for N
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Level 75
Oct 4, 2022
Yes, "Nudism" - very popular in Germany!
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Level 62
Dec 2, 2022
Homo heidelbergensis doesn't start with an N
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Level 78
Oct 3, 2022
30% knew that mountain? Really? Never even heard it in my life. Maybe I didn’t study enough in European geography 100
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Level 89
Oct 24, 2022
I didn't get it but was close. I vaguely recalled the answer from other quizzes on this site, but couldn't quite get the spelling right. Maybe I'll remember it correctly next time.
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Level 67
Jan 11, 2023
For the winter holiday for ancient Germans question my actual thoughts were where might older Germans have been on holiday? Yugoslavia maybe? Once that didn't work I figured out what the question actually meant :)