Statistics for Top 30 most important and famous people from Denmark

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Writer, author of The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid	Hans Christian Andersen	95%
Physicist, who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922	Niels Bohr	69%
Drummer of Metallica	Lars Ulrich	67%
Philosopher considered the first existentialist	Søren Kierkegaard	67%
Goalkeeper, legend of Manchester United, European champion with Denmark in 1992	Peter Schmeichel	64%
Footballer of the 1980s and 1990s, legend of Barcelona	Michael Laudrup	62%
Footballer, he played in Ajax, Tottenham, Inter Milan and Manchester United. During Euro 2020 he collapsed on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest	Christian Eriksen	56%
Actress and singer, one of the most famous icons of 1980s for his aggressive look and she married Sylvester Stallone	Brigitte Nielsen	54%
King during World War Two	Christian X	54%
Actor, famous for his roles as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series Hannibal and as Kaecilius in Marvel's Doctor Strange	Mads Mikkelsen	54%
Queen from 1972	Margrethe II/Margaret II	54%
Writer, author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast	Karen Blixen	44%
Female tennis player, winner of Australian Open in 2018	Caroline Wozniacki	41%
Director of Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	41%
Actor, famous for his role as Jaime Lannister in TV series Game of Thrones	Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	28%
King who eliminated the elective monarchy in favour of absolute monarchy, which lasted until 1848 in Denmark	Frederick III/Frederick II	26%
Sculptor, he was seen as the successor of master sculptor Antonio Canova. One of his most famous public monuments is the statue of Nicolaus Copernicus in Warsaw	Bertel Thorvaldsen	21%
Physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields	Hans Christian Ørsted	18%
Prime Minister since 2019	Mette Frederiksen	18%
Founder of Lego	Ole Kirk Christiansen	18%
Director of The Passion of Joan of Arc and Michael	Carl Theodor Dreyer	15%
One of the greatest writers of the first half of XX century. Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944, author of The Fall of the King	Johannes V. Jensen	15%
Actress, who was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's collaborator in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier and A Woman Is a Woman	Anna Karina	13%
Writer, author of Lucky Per, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	13%
Physiologist, who made fundamental discoveries in several fields, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1920 for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle	August Krogh	10%
The leading Danish architect between the late XVIII century and the mid XIX century	Christian Frederik Hansen	10%
Pastor and author, he gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of XIX century	N. F. S. Grundtvig	10%
Biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology	Henrik Dam	8%
Scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years	Nicolas Steno	5%
Painter of A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. Considered the Father of Danish painting	Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg	3%