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Answer
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What event was hosted by Sweden in 1912?
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Summer Olympics
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Which country used to be part of Sweden until 1809?
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Finland
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What city did Stockholm replace as the Swedish national capital in 1436?
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Uppsala
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The first of what in Northern Europe was opened in 1477 in that city?
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University
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What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?
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Dynamite
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What group of people inhabited modern-day Sweden between 793–1066?
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Vikings
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Which country was the main opponent of Sweden during the Great Northern War?
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Russia
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What Germanic people, that originated in southern Sweden, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
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Goths
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In what modern-day U.S. state was the colony of New Sweden established in 1638?
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Delaware
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In what modern-day African country was the Swedish Gold Coast located?
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Ghana
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What set of annual international awards were first awarded in 1901?
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Nobel Prize
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What political party has dominated the Swedish politics since World War II?
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Social Democrats
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Which Swedish prime minister was assassinated in 1986?
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Olof Palme
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The most widely used temperature scale worldwide was invented by and named after what Swedish astronomer?
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Anders Celcius
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What mineral did Sweden mainly export to Nazi Germany during the WWII?
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Iron
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What bridge, that connects Sweden to Denmark, was opened in 1999?
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Öresund Bridge
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Who succeeded Gustavus Adolphus as Queen of Sweden in 1632, converted to Catholicism, and was abdicated in 1654?
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Christina
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This French philosopher was invited to Sweden by that queen in 1649, but eventually died in Stockholm in 1650 because of pneumonia. Who was he?
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René Descartes
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What book series, featuring Lisbeth Salander, did Stieg Larsson first publish in 2005?
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Millennium
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With which of their song did ABBA get the first win for Sweden in Eurovision?
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Waterloo
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Which Swedish botanist is known to be the "father of modern taxonomy"?
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Carl von Linne
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