Statistics for History of Sweden

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Norse people organizing plundering expeditions to the west	Vikings	98%
letters used by the above	runes	87%
pop group performing "Waterloo"	ABBA	82%
the first king representing the above	Gustav I	78%
the oldest university	Uppsala University	78%
place where union with Denmark and Norway was established in 1397	Kalmar	73%
king Sigismund was also the monarch of this country from 1587	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	71%
dynasty ruling between 1523 and 1654	Vasa	71%
author of books for children, including "The Brothers Lionheart"	Astrid Lindgren	64%
queen who abdicated in 1654	Christina	58%
branch of Protestantism adopted in the 16th century	Lutheranism	51%
Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 to 1961	Dag Hammarskjöld	49%
director of "The Seventh Seal"	Ingmar Bergman	49%
17th century king called "the Lion of the North"	Gustavus Adolphus	42%
the battle in which the above died	Battle of Lützen	40%
first Christian king	Olof Skötkonung	40%
Carribean island bought from France in 1784 (and sold back in 1878)	Saint Barthélemy	38%
"father of modern taxonomy"	Carl Linnaeus	22%