Statistics for Greenland Country Quiz

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Greenland is an autonomous part of this country	Denmark	99%
Countries which lie closest to Greenland	Canada	97%
Countries which lie closest to Greenland	Iceland	96%
Country which offered to buy Greenland for $100 million in 1946	United States	95%
Group of people who settled Greenland starting in 986 A.D.	Norse	90%
88% of Greenlanders belong to this ethnic group starting with I	Inuit	84%
Capital city	Nuuk	76%
Animal on the coat of arms	Polar bear	74%
Food product which accounts for most of Greenland's exports	Fish	70%
Person who founded that settlement	Erik the Red	64%
Sadly, Greenland has a _____ rate nearly twice that of any country in the world	Suicide	59%
Common map projection which makes Greenland appear to be nearly the size of Africa, even though Africa is 14x bigger	{Mercator} Projection	57%
What covers 81% of the area of Greenland	Greenland ice {sheet}	51%
Animal found off the coast of Greenland thought to have the longest life span of any vertebrate (300-500 years)	Greenland {Shark}	48%
Official language	Greenlandic	40%
Large bovid which lives in northern Greenland	{Musk}ox	38%