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Answer
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Which of the Shakespearean plays is about a Danish prince?
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Hamlet
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What Norse god had one eye and a long beard?
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Odin
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What country gained independence from Denmark in 1944?
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Iceland
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What theme park was opened in 1843 in Copenhagen?
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Tivoli Gardens
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What group of Vikings settled France and went on to conquer England in 1066?
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Normans
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What person was the first to discover Greenland?
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Erik the Red
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What H.C. Andersen fairy tale was adapted into an animated movie by Disney in 1989?
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The Little Mermaid
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What country did Denmark have a union with from 1537–1814?
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Norway
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What king ruled over Norway, Denmark, and England in the early 11th century?
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Cnut the Great
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What U.S. state was Vitus Bering the first European to visit?
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Alaska
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What king introduced Christianity to Denmark? (hint: technology used in wireless headsets)
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Harald Bluetooth
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What toy company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund in 1932?
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Lego
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What Danish quantum theorist won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Niels Bohr
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Which of its territories did the U.S. purchase from Denmark in 1917?
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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What historical figure did the newspaper Jyllands-Posten publish cartoons of in 2005?
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Muhammad
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In which modern-day African country was the Danish colony of Gold Coast founded?
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Ghana
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What novel was published by Karen Blixen in 1937?
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Out of Africa
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Who was crowned Queen of Denmark in 1972?
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Margrethe II
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Who is considered history's first existentialist philosopher?
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Søren Kierkegaard
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What filmmaking movement was created by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995?
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Dogme 95
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