Statistics for 10 Famous People from Iceland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bestselling Icelandic singer-songwriter of all time	Bjork	98%
American chessmaster whose US passport was revoked and who got Icelandic citizenship	Bobby Fischer	48%
Norse explorer, described as the one who founded the first settlement in Greenland	Erik the Red	48%
Footballer who played for Chelsea, Barcelona and Bolton	Eiður Guðjohnsen	35%
Female politician who is serving as prime minister of Iceland since 2017	Katrín Jakobsdóttir	20%
Strongman who played the role of Gregor Clegane in Game of Thrones	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	18%
Writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955 and is the only Icelandic Nobel Laureate	Halldór Laxness	18%
The world’s first democratically elected female president	Vigdís Finnbogadóttir	18%
Commonly recognized as the first permanent Norse settler of Iceland	Ingólfur Arnarson	10%
Actress who played in Da Vinci's Demons and Mortal Engines	Hera Hilmar	8%