Statistics for Baden-Württemberg State Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bordering foreign countries	France	97%
Capital and largest city	Stuttgart	97%
Bordering foreign countries	Switzerland	97%
River along the western border	Rhine	96%
Forested mountain area famous for its cuckoo clocks	Black Forest	91%
Name the two major car companies based in the capital	Daimler	90%
Spa town whose casino was frequented by Dostoyevsky. (Hint: The name is twice the same word. And it's an obvious word.)	Baden-Baden	84%
Germany's oldest university is located in this city	Heidelberg	80%
Germany's largest lake, situated at the southeastern border	Lake Constance	80%
The Spanish and French names for Germany derive from this tribe	Alemanni	79%
	Porsche	75%
Karlsruhe native Karls Drais invented the velocipede, a prototype of this popular vehicle	Bicycle	69%
The minster of this city is the tallest church in the world	Ulm	67%
One of the branches of this royal house ruled Prussia and the German Empire	Hohenzollern	51%
This poet, famous for his friendship with Goethe, wrote the lyrics to the "Ode to Joy"	Friedrich Schiller	50%
Trivial question: what does the German verb "baden" mean in English?	to bathe	49%
"Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" author born in Calw	Hermann Hesse	39%