Foods: Quark (a yogurt/cottage cheese style soft dairy product, which is finally reaching the United States); Quitte (Quince fruit - which is a pear-apple type fruit)
Animals: Qualle (jellyfish)
Common Names: NONE that I could find
Cities: Quackenbrück, Querfurt, Quierscheid
Words you might recognize: none that I can think of!
Verbs: *quetschen (to squeeze); quietschen (to squeek)
German companies/brands: Quelle (a catalog retailer)
VOCAB TIDBIT
An accordion is sometimes called a "squeeze box" in English. In German, it is called a Quetschenkommode (a Kommode is a piece of furniture like a wardrobe). It is also called a Akkordeon and a Ziehharmonika (ziehen is the verb "to pull" and harmonika is harmonica.)
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