Germany A-Z

Please accept Neandertal too.

Yes please!

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.

yes please

This didn't work today oddly (although it worked in the 5-letter geography quiz)

yes please!

German physicist Max Planck pioneered this field: quantum theory / quantum physics / quantum mechanics

Accepting "Rhein" and "Preussen" would be nice. I already made a similar comment on the Russia A-Z quiz yesterday.

I tried hopps... and neandertaal

You know you're a WWII geek if you type Luftwaffe instead of Lufthansa... lol

Quite a powerful airline :D

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.

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.

There never was a "West Germany". It was Germany and East Germany. West Germany is an English thing.

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."

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.

Because we have English words for them...?

divantilya - Yeah, because that's what we call them in English, too.

Growing up in Austria, I used to say "Westdeutschland" or "BRD" and "Ostdeutschland" or "DDR". Both versions were often used and always understood.

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?

actually there was the federal(?) republic of germany and the german democratic republic

Damn. The mountain wasn't Zuckerberg.

I kept trying to type in wiener-schnitzel, please accept this!

Why?

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.

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 :)

Heidelberg HAS the oldest university in Germany

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.

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. :)

becuase its used in the us too , so youd know the spelling

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...

yalta? oh no, that was the other team.

I cannot, for the life of me, spell gusentheight.

its easy: gesundheit. almost like you say it

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 ;-)

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."

Zugspitze - separating die Männer von die Kinder - My HS German classes apparently are at least mostly intact lol