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Hint
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Description
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Answer
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Population
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A
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Not only when it comes to elections, the "prophets" in this small town on Lake Constance are present in the media
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Allensbach
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7,084
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B
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A satirical conspiracy theory got viral that says, this city dosn't actually exist.
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Bielefeld
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334,195
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C
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Small municipality consisting of three islands in the third largest lake in Germany, which has the same name
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Chiemsee
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203
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D
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In this city, also known for a music festival, two small creeks join to start the 2nd longest river in Europe
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Donaueschingen
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22,118
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E
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This little city was the scene of the biggest accident in the history of high speed trains. 101 people died when an ICE train derailed due to a broken wheel
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Eschede
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5,739
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F
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In Germany you get points for traffic offences, stored in this city (i.e. the registration authority is located there)
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Flensburg
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90,164
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G
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This town is the scene of continuing protests against nuclear waste deposal since more than 30 years
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Gorleben
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602
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H
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This subdivision of a small municipality in southern Germany is the home of a rural soccer club that successfully moved up to the first national league after being sponsored by a citizen and founder of an internationally operating software company.
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Hoffenheim
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3,266
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I
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German city of gemstones
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Idar Oberstein
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28,520
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J
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This city gave its name to a shock- and heat-resistant glass used in scientific and technological applications, especially in chemistry.
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Jena
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111,343
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K
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A fast breeder reactor, built in this small town, made it the target of many anti-nuclear activists in the 80s, who successfully prevented it from being put into operation. Today, the site is home to an amusement park.
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Kalkar
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13,884
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L
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Birthplace of German's most successful tennis star, nickname "Bobbele".
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Leimen
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27,044
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M
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City and brand of fine chinaware
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Meißen
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28,282
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N
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It's not a city, it's a valley, finding place and name giver to an extinct species of archaic humans
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Neandertal
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n/a
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O
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This is what Houston is for the US: the location of the german space center
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Oberpfaffenhofen
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1,278
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P
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This village gained sad fame in World War II as construction site of the Nazi's V2 rocket
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Peenemünde
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345
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Q
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The scenic center of this city with medieval framework buildings is a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the major tourist spots in Germany (maybe not too famous, but hey, find a better one with Q...)
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Quedlinburg
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23,798
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R
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This town hosts the biggest fun park in Germany, the Europa-Park with a daily visitor count more than twice the number of inhabitants
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Rust
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4,258
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S
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Got a sharp knife in your kitchen or even an antique sword? It possibly was manufactured in this city
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Solingen
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159,245
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T
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Due to the most embarrassing construction faults in german history while building a new airport, this old airport had to manage more than twice the volume of its designated capacity (and it did!). Its popular name is also the district where the old airport was located.
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Tegel
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36,764
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U
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Birthplace of Albert Einstein and location of the worlds tallest church (at least until Barcelona's Sagrada Familia eventually is finished...)
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Ulm
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126,790
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V
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This city is famous for the world's only completely preserved ironworks from the heyday of industrialization, which has been part of the UNESCO world heritage as an industrial monument since 1994.
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Völklingen
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40.192
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W
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Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Liszt...
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Weimar
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65.228
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X
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Is there really a german city starting with X? Yes, there is one!
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Xanten
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21,607
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Y
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Y is a very rare letter in German and there is only one district in Chemnitz and one village in the Black Forest that begin with Y. Do you know at least one of them?
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Yorkgebiet / Yach
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9,000 / 1,034
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Z
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This is the city where the most famous (eastern) german automobile was produced: the "Trabbi".
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Zwickau
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88,690
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I recognise only a few others, b, w (I think..) and x sort of, I was close I ended it with ia instead of en.
For w, a more useful clue for some might be that it shares its name with a dogbreed.
Never heard of the train accident, but looking through the answers I saw the Name Eschede, at first I thought there might be an error (in a split second) cause the Netherlands have a city called Enschede too. And it is reasonably close to the border (haha I just looked it up on wikipedia to see if the incident I'll mention in a moment is mentioned on the english page, and noticed that the name actually means near the border, never knew!). Then I saw the different spelling, but the bizarre thing is, Enschede is the location of the biggest firework disaster (In the netherlands, but also one of the biggest worldwide*)
Also 400 homes got destroyed and 1500 buildings damaged. It turned 1250 people homeless (did not know these numbers beforehand) It could be felt 60 kilometers away.
This was early 2000 btw, so not that long after the trainincident in Eschede... not very lucky that name those years.
The train accident shocked Germany, as until then trains were considered the epitome of safety, especially the ICE. That's why this tiny village has burned itself into the German consciousness.
And for W: I think the common place of residence of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche and Liszt (and many other celebrities) is far better known, at least in Germany, than the corresponding dog breed. I think I'll leave it as it is.
But thank you nonetheless for your thoughts and the correction (fixed it)!
But this is only a minor complain, best quiz I saw in weeks :)
On every important metric, Graf was far more successful.
Grand Slam Tournaments: 22 > 6
Australian Open: 4 > 2
French Open: 6 > 0
Wimbledon: 7 > 3
US Open: 5 > 1
Total Tiles: 107 > 49
Weeks ranked No.1: 377 > 12
Year Ending No. 1: 8 > 0
Win Rate: 88.7% > 76.9%
Graf even won all 4 grand slams (and the Olympic gold medal) in the same year in 1988. And is the only player to have won each slam at least 4 times.
Boris was a great player but Steffi's achievements tower above his.
But I'm german :(