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Viking quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 12 times
- The average score is 13 of 30
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which modern day countries did Vikings most famously come from? (name any) | Denmark, Norway, Sweden | 100%
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| Vikings were the first known Europeans to reach... (name a large island) | Greenland | 100%
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| ...and (name a continent)? | North America | 100%
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| Name one of the more commonly suggested reason for going Viking? | Riches, trade network, desire for slave labor, lack of marriageable women... | 100%
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| What did the Vikigs call this newfound land? | Vinland | 80%
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| Which year did the Viking age officially begin? (year or nearest "even century") | 793 | 70%
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| Which other modern day countries they often came from per historical records? | Finland, Estonia | 70%
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| Viking legends are called what? | Sagas | 70%
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| According to the Grænlendinga one, North America was first discovered by Bjarni Herjólfsson, by accident. It is more famously told to have been discovered by ____ _____? | Leif Erikson / Leif the Lucky | 60%
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| Unsurprisingly, the predecessors to Vikings were pirates praying on _____ Sea? | Baltic | 50%
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| What are the Viking seafaring ships known as? | Longship | 50%
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| A famous beer-like drink sweetened with honey. | mead | 50%
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| Name one of the (first) trading towns Vikings established in Ireland. Current name. | Dublin / Waterford / Wexford / Limerick / Wicklow | 40%
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| Unlike in many contemporary "civilized"/Christian societies, a Viking woman could... | Interpret gods' messages for the people, own and run her own business, represent herself in legal cases, inherit property, choose where and how to live (when unmarried), divorce | 40%
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| What place fell victims? | Lindisfarne monastery | 40%
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| What modern day French area was colonized by the Vikings? | Normandy | 40%
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| The Slavs knew them as... | Rus | 40%
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| A type of Viking jewelry was popular in the Roman and Byzantine empires. What largely yellow, golden or orange material was used for this? | amber | 30%
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| A Holy Roman Empire ruler who ran campaigns of brutal holy wars against the Vikings causing the Vikings to become more brutal in return? | Charlemagne | 30%
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| The French knew them as... | Norsemen / Northmen | 30%
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| What type of event happened that year? The first known _____ ____. | Viking raid | 30%
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| Name one of the two most famous Viking settlements in Rus. | Kyiv / Novgorod | 20%
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| Two Norwegian kings, Tryggvason and Haraldsson, hellbent to Christianize the North were named the same. What is the name? | Olav | 20%
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| The Germans knew them as... | Ashmen | 10%
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| Name the easternmost large city and a capital the Vikings went to? | Baghdad | 10%
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| Although the Viking activities continued long after, 1066 is considered the end of the Viking Age. Name either the notable king of Vikings that died in 1066 or the battle where it happened. | Harald Hardrada / Battle of Stamford Bridge | 10%
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| Byzantine emperors hired an elite force of mainly Viking warriors as bodyguards. What were they called? | Varangian Guard | 10%
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| Some of the Vikings begun to offer "peace for a fee". The extortion money, later a foundation for English taxation, was famously called _____? | Danegeld | 0%
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| While the Viking explorers went much father south, the most famous North American settlement is called? | L’Anse aux Meadows | 0%
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| The Irish knew them as... | pagans, foreigners | 0%
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