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Famous Swedes - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 567 times
- The average score is 13 of 32
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Chemist, engineer, businessman, inventor of dynamite. His foundation bestows a series of famous awards annually | Alfred Nobel | 95%
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| Pop group whose hits include "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" and "Mamma Mia" | ABBA | 84%
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| Tennis player who won 11 Grand Slam singles titles | Björn Borg | 76%
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| Children's writer known for Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 67%
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| Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986 | Olof Palme | 62%
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| Actress who won three Academy Awards, played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942) | Ingrid Bergman | 59%
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| Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland; heiress apparent to the Swedish throne | Victoria | 58%
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| Footballer, striker for Paris Saint-Germain | Zlatan Ibrahimović | 57%
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| Botanist, physician, zoologist, father of modern taxonomy, inventor of binomial nomenclature (eg. Homo sapiens) | Carl Linnaeus | 56%
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| Writer of the Millennium trilogy | Stieg Larsson | 52%
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| Nobleman who led rebellion against Denmark and was proclaimed king, ending the Kalmar Union and beginning hereditary monarchy in Sweden in 1523 | Gustav I (Gustav Vasa) | 50%
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| Astronomer who developed a temperature scale also known as centigrade | Anders Celsius | 49%
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| Director of The Seventh Seal (1957) | Ingmar Bergman | 48%
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| Businessman, philantrhopist who founded IKEA | Ingvar Kamprad | 47%
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| Actress whose credits include Anna Karenina, Mata Hari and Nintochka | Greta Garbo | 42%
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| Diplomat who, as envoy to Hungary, saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust | Raoul Wallenberg | 37%
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| Iconoclastic writer known for his novel The Red Room (1879) | August Strindberg | 32%
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| First female to receive Nobel Prize in literature (1909), author of "Gösta Berling's Saga" and "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils". | Selma Lagerlöf | 30%
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| King who led Sweden into the Thirty Years' War and died in battle | Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf) | 28%
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| 18th-century composer and poet whose drinking songs remain popular | Carl Michael Bellman | 27%
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| King of Sweden since 1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf | 27%
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| Queen who studied with Descartes, abdicated and converted to Catholicism | Christina | 25%
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| King who fought in the Great Northern War and suffered decisive defeat at Poltava (1709) | Charles XII | 23%
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| UN Secretary-General, killed in plane crash in Zambia in 1961 | Dag Hammaskjöld | 22%
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| King who was assassinated at a masked ball and became the subject of a Verdi opera | Gustav III | 21%
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| Author of the Wallander crime novels | Henning Mankell | 21%
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| Golfer who won 90 international tournaments | Annika Sörenstam | 20%
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| Actor whose roles include knight Antonius Block, Father Lankester Merrin, Jesus and Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Max von Sydow | 16%
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| Tenor known as the Swedish Caruso | Jussi Björling | 15%
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| Dramatic soprano whose most famous roles included Brünnhilde | Birgit Nilsson | 13%
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| Rock band whose albums include "Life" and "First Band on the Moon" | The Cardigans | 10%
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| Philosopher, theologian, mystic. Best known for his book Heaven and Hell (1756) | Emanuel Swedenborg | 8%
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