OK, here is my original guesses:
1 Baden-Wurtenburg 2 Bavaria 3 Berlin 4 Brandenburg 5 Hamburg 6 Bremen 7 HESSE? 8 Palatinate something? 9 North Rheinland Westfalia? 10 Cologne! 11 Frankfurt? 12 Saarland 13 Leipzig! 14 THURINGIA? 15 Schleswig-Holstein (they KNOW their cows) - ALMOST forgot that when I wrote others first 16 The famousest part of Germany
So, how did I do...?
1 CORRECT! 2 CORRECT! 3 CORRECT! 4 CORRECT! 5 Hamburg (swapped with Bremen, which I suspected) 6 Bremen (swapped with Hamburg, which I suspected) 7 CORRECT! (but misplaced it's capital) 8 Mecklenberg-Vorpommern (Merkelberg would be easier to remember, I think she's from there) 9 Lower Saxony (I think NRW made me think "NW") 10 North Rheinland Westphalia (swapped with Lower Saxony, largest city correct) 11 Rheinland-Palatinate (THERE'S the Palatinate! Frankfurt isn't in it, but is closest big city so 1/4 points?) 12 CORRECT! 13 Saxony (largest city correct) 14 Saxony-Anhalt (...now I Google what Anhalt means, "clue" WTF?) 15 CORRECT! 16 Thuringia (swapped with Saxony-Anhalt)
...so 7/16, or 9/16 if knowing biggest city counts. not bad for a gringo who doesn't speak german and hasn't even been to germany or europe. I knew that trying to guess without list of state names would make it harder, probably would have gotten several more with that... Still I feel lucky with Hesse, like I knew it was the name of a state, and the location felt reasonable, but wasn't really sure. (although if I had associated Frankfurt with Hesse, I probably would have screwed it up and switched them, but a win is a win...)
Last edited by mutantsushi - on 07 February 2020
