Statistics for English Words of German Origin

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A place of cultivating the minds of young children (noun)	Kindergarten	84%
An clone or body double (noun)	Doppelgänger	82%
Stereotype of American cuisine, named for a port city in North Germany (noun)	Hamburger	79%
Long, skinny dogs originally bred to hunt badgers (noun)	Dachshund/Weiner	76%
American Football tactic or London bombing campaign (noun)	Blitz	74%
A cultural fad, or quite literally "the spirit of the time" (noun)	Zeitgeist	73%
Now extinct human relatives named for a German valley (noun)	Neanderthal	72%
A ballroom dance conducted in 3 (noun)	Waltz	72%
Paranormal prankster or the title of a Spielberg movie (noun)	Poltergeist	67%
To find happiness in another's pain (noun)	Schadenfreude	60%
Dense, dark bread that does not contain the round gourd with a similar name (noun)	Pumpernickel	44%
Tacky or gaudy decoration that you definitely only enjoy ironically (noun)	Kitsch	29%
In psychology, a form of existential dread. In popular usage, the driving force behind Hot Topic (noun)	Angst	22%
To be an imitation or replacement, especially a cheap or low-quality one (adjective)	Ersatz	16%
The metallic namesake of a Chevy compact now only sold in Brazil, from German for "goblin" (noun)	Cobalt	7%