Statistics for Kirkenes Town Trivia

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Sea on which Kirkenes sits	Barents sea	100%
Thousands of Syrian refugees infamously used this mode of transport to enter Norway from Russia in 2015	Bike	100%
Road that passes through Kirkenes, Trondheim, Oslo, Gothenburg and previously Berlin and Rome	E6 (Europavei 6)	100%
Nearby military base tasked with guarding the Norway-Russia border	Garrison of Sør-Varanger	100%
Nearby international airport and site of the military base	Høybuktmoen	100%
Norwegian coastal route between Bergen and Kirkenes	Hurtigruten	100%
Smoke from this Russian sister city can be seen from Kirkenes	Nikel	100%
Municipality that Kirkenes is part of	Sør-Varanger	100%
Only legal border crossing between Norway and Russia	Storskog	100%
County that Kirkenes is part of	Troms og Finnmark	100%
English translation of the town name	Church headland	50%
Invasive species and delicacy introduced to the area by Russians	Giant king crab	50%
Hotel that is rebuilt every year	Kirkenes Snow Hotel	50%
During WWII, Kirkenes was supposedly the second-most-air-bombed place in Europe after this microstate	Malta	50%
Historical main industry	Mining	50%
Name of the Kirkenes area before the Kirkenes Church was built there	Piselvnes	50%
Town name in Northern Sami	Girkonjárga	0%