| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Between 1814-1905, this country was ceded to Sweden, and became a union for almost a century | Norway | 92%
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| Norway | 92%
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| Language and Nationality | Swedish | 88%
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| Time zones | 1 (UTC+1) | 85%
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| World-renowned Swedish furniture enterprise that has stores in more than 60 countries | IKEA | 85%
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| Capital | Stockholm | 81%
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| Famous People from the country1. Inventor of the dynamite, founder of the Nobel prize, engineer, industrialist 2. The founder of IKEA 3. Legendary tennis player; considered one of the five greatest of all time 4. World-renowned author; Pippi Extra Long-Stocking 5. One of the greatest modern football players in history 6. Scientist and astronomer; invented the 100 degree thermometer scale 7. Actress with three oscars to her name (Casablanca etc) 8. Legendary actor (Good Will Hunting, Avengers, Chernobyl Diaries) 9. The son of the latter; also an actor (True Blood, King Kong, Handmaid's Tale) 10. Renowned author and journalist; created the Millennium novel suite 11. Arguably the most renowned Youtuber in history 12. An architect who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from extermination camps 13. Female actress (Ninotchka, Queen Christina, Anna Karenina) 14. The father of modern taxonomy | Alfred Nobel | 77%
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| Main Religion | Christianity | 77%
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| Bordering Countries | Finland | 77%
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| During these two wars (1914-1918 & 1939-1945), Sweden remained neutral | World War | 77%
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| National Sport | Football / Ice Hockey | 73%
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| Pewdiepie | 69%
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| Anders Celsius | 65%
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| Björn Borg | 65%
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| Zlatan Ibrahimović | 65%
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| Temperature System | Celsius | 62%
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| Second-Largest City | Gothenburg | 62%
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| National Animal | Moose / Elk | 62%
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| Bordering Seas | Baltic sea | 58%
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| Russia | 58%
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| Astrid Lindgren | 54%
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| Currency | Krona | 50%
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| In 1986, the most famous leader (1969-76 and 1982-86) in Swedish time was assassinated on a public street in Downtown Stockholm | Olof Palme | 50%
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| National Dish | Meatballs | 46%
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| Between 1650-1663, Sweden colonised this African country, and went under the name Swedish Gold Coast) | Ghana | 42%
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| Ingrid Bergman | 38%
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| State-Condition | Monarchy | 38%
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| Stellan Skarsgård | 35%
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| Between 1630-1635, Sweden entered this war to help their German allies | 30 Years War | 27%
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| Member of this Western fiscal / Political union | European Union | 27%
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| Ingvar Kamprad | 27%
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| Highest Point / Main Mountain | Kebnekaise | 27%
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| Main Lake | Vanern | 27%
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| Greta Garbo | 23%
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| Between 1784-1878, Sweden ruled this modern-day French Caribbean island | Saint Barthelemy | 23%
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| Bordering Gulf | Gulf of Bothnia | 19%
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| Main Economic Sector | Tertiary / Service | 19%
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| Unitary | 19%
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| Founding Father | Gustav Vasa | 15%
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| Parliamentary | 15%
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| Climate | Temperate | 15%
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| Year of Independence | 1523 | 12%
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| Alexander Skarsgård | 12%
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| Carl Linnaeus | 12%
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| The Second Secretary General of United Nations (1953-1961) | Dag Hammarskjold | 12%
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| Between 1700-1721, Sweden would lose their position as the Northern leader, after coming up short against this country, in this war | Great Northern War | 12%
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| Renowned Foreign Minister who was stabbed to death in a mall , in 2003, in one of Stockholm's most prominent shopping malls | Anna Lindh | 8%
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| Type of Government | Constitutional | 8%
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| Stieg Larsson | 8%
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| Raoul Wallenberg | 4%
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