Statistics for Top 30 most important and famous people from Sweden

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
One of the most popular and successful pop band of all time, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen	ABBA	88%
Rock band, the Final Countdown	Europe	88%
Engineer and chemist, inventor of dynamite	Alfred Nobel	83%
Footballer, one of the best strikers of his generation, legend of Psg, Inter Milan and AC Milan	Zlatan Ibrahimović	83%
Environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation	Greta Thunberg	79%
King, founder of modern Sweden, considered the father of the nation	Gustav I/Gustav Vasa	79%
DJ died in 2018, Wake Me Up, The Nights, Levels	Avicii	77%
Tennis player, 11 times winner of Grand Slam titles	Björn Borg	75%
King, patron and benefactor of arts and literature, founder of the Swedish Academy	Gustav III	73%
Actress, famous for her roles in Casablanca and For Whom the Bell Tolls, three times winner of Academy Award	Ingrid Bergman	73%
Director of The Seventh Seal and Persona	Ingmar Bergman	69%
Female writer author of children's books, Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	67%
Pop rock duo, The Look, Listen to Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love	Roxette	60%
Actress, one of the greatest of all time, famous for her roles in Inspiration, The Kiss and Romance	Greta Garbo	58%
Female singer, Ain’t My Fault, Symphony	Zara Larsson	58%
The second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961	Dag Hammarskjöld	54%
Writer, author of Gösta Berling's Saga. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909	Selma Lagerlöf	50%
Writer, considered the father of modern Swedish literature, author of The Red Room	August Strindberg	48%
Botanist and zoologist who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy	Carl Linnaeus	46%
Actress known for her beauty and stunning figure. She became famous for her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita	Anita Ekberg	31%
Table tennis player. Called the Mozart of table tennis, the only person to win an Olympic table tennis gold medal representing a non-Asian country	Jan-Ove Waldner	31%
Composer, musician and poet. A central figure in the Swedish song tradition, music and literature	Carl Michael Bellman	25%
Footballer, striker of the Sweden National Team in 1950s and AC Milan legend	Gunnar Nordahl	25%
Statesman who played an important role during the Thirty Years' War and was appointed Governor-General of occupied Prussia	Axel Oxenstierna	17%
One of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War. Author of Baltics, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 2011	Tomas Tranströmer	15%
Physicist and chemist, one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903	Svante Arrhenius	13%
One of the greatest writers in Swedish literature, author of Historietter	Hjalmar Söderberg	8%
Geneticist specialised in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022	Svante Pääbo	8%
Economist, known for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma, winner of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974	Gunnar Myrdal	6%
Physicist, who ho made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970	Hannes Alfvén	6%