Statistics for North Rhine-Westphalia A-Z

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The average score is 18 of 29

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	Clue	Answer	% Correct
A	Westernmost city 248,878	Aachen	96%
B	Former Capital of the Federal Republic of Germany 330,579	Bonn	96%
Ü	Capital Contains an Ü 620,523	Düsseldorf	96%
E	District-free city in the center of the Ruhrgebiet 582,415	Essen	92%
N	Neighboring country	Netherlands	92%
D	District-free city, where the Ruhr flows into the Rhine 495,885	Duisburg	88%
K	Largest city German name 1,083,498	Köln	88%
U	After the second World War North Rhine-Westphalia was occupied by this country 1945-1949/91	United Kingdom	88%
W	City in the Bergisches Land known for its suspension railway (Schwebebahn) 355,004	Wuppertal	83%
Ö	Type of beer from Cologne Contains an Ö	Kölsch	75%
R	Neighboring state	Rheinland-Pfalz	75%
M	District-free city in northern Westphalia 316,403	Münster	71%
O	District-free city in the western Ruhrgebiet 209,566	Oberhausen	71%
X	Town at the lower rhine Known for its archaelogical park at the site of the roman city Colonia Ulpia Traiana 21,521	Xanten	67%
H	Traditional greeting during Carnival (Karneval) Fool's call (Narrenruf) Especially common around the capital and right of the Rhine	Helau	63%
T	Forested hill ridge in Westphalia and alleged location of the Varian Disaster (Varusschlacht) in AD 9 Formerly known as Osning	{Teutoburg} Forest	58%
C	Name of Cologne during the reign of the ancient Roman Empire	Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium	54%
L	State that became part of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1947 Represented through a flower on the state seal	Lippe	54%
Y	Major steel producer from #D und #E Contains an Y	ThyssenKrupp AG	50%
P	Traditional westphalian bread made out of dark rye berries Also called Schwarzbrot	Pumpernickel	46%
Ä	German name for the inhabitants of the Rhineland (North Rhine) Contains an Ä	Rheinländer	46%
Z	World Heritage Site in #E Mining complex	Zeche Zollverein	46%
J	United Duchies in western/ central North Rhine-Westphalia 1521-1609/66 Prussian Province in western North Rhine-Westphalia 1815-1822	Jülich-Cleves-Berg	38%
S	Duchy that the east of North Rhine-Westphalia was part of up to 1180 After the deposition of Henry the Lion it was split up	Saxony	38%
Q	The Romans built this to transport water from the Eifel to Cologne Also called Römerkanal Contains a Q	Eifel {Aqueduct}	29%
I	The western part of North Rhine-Westphalia was part of this Roman Province	Germania {Inferior}	29%
F	Dialect spoken in the northwest (Lower Rhine)	Low {Franconian}	29%
V	After the first World War this railway became a sovereign part of Belgium It separates several north rhine-westphalian exclaves (e.g. Mützenich) from the mainland	{Venn}bahn	25%
G	After the Varian Disaster (Varusschlacht) this roman general and father of Caligula led AD 14-16 several campaigns into Germania Magna through the Lippe Valley and with a fleet over the North Sea	Nero Claudius Germanicus	17%